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Androgen receptor length polymorphism associated with prostate cancer risk in Hispanic men.
The Journal of urology - 1 Nov 2002
Balic Ivana, Graham Stanley T, Troyer Dean A, Higgins Betsy A, Pollock Brad H, Johnson-Pais Teresa L, Thompson Ian M, Leach Robin J
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PURPOSE: The transcriptional activation domain of the androgen receptor gene includes a CAG repeat length polymorphism. A smaller number of repeats is reported to increase the risk of prostate cancer. We investigated the association of CAG repeat length and the risk of prostate cancer in a case-control study of Hispanic men. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To estimate the magnitude of the association of repeat length with...
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