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Segregation analysis of prostate cancer in France: evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance and residual brother-brother dependence.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Valeri A, Briollais L, Azzouzi R, Fournier G, Mangin P, Berthon P, Cussenot O, Demenais F
Abstract excerpt
Four segregation analyses concerning prostate cancer (CaP), three conducted in the United States and one in Northern Europe, have shown evidence for a dominant major gene but with different parameter estimates. A recent segregation analysis of Australian pedigrees has found a better fit of a two-locus model than single-locus models. This model included a dominantly inherited increased risk that was greater at...
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