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Prostate cancer aggressiveness locus on chromosome 7q32-q33 identified by linkage and allelic imbalance studies.
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2000
Neville Phillippa J, Conti David V, Paris Pamela L, Levin Howard, Catalona William J, Suarez Brian K, Witte John S, Casey Graham
Abstract excerpt
The biologic aggressiveness of prostate tumors is an important indicator of prognosis. Chromosome 7q32-q33 was recently reported to show linkage to more aggressive prostate cancer, based on Gleason score, in a large sibling pair study. We report confirmation and narrowing of the linked region using finer-scale genotyping. We also report a high frequency of allelic imbalance (AI) defined within this locus in a...
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