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Genome linkage screen for prostate cancer susceptibility loci: results from the Mayo Clinic Familial Prostate Cancer Study.
The Prostate - 1 Dec 2003
Cunningham Julie M, McDonnell Shannon K, Marks Angela, Hebbring Scott, Anderson Sarah A, Peterson Brett J, Slager Susan, French Amy, Blute Michael L, Schaid Daniel J, Thibodeau Stephen N
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Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men and has long been recognized to occur in familial clusters. Brothers and sons of affected men have a twofold to threefold increased risk of developing prostate cancer. However, identification of genetic susceptibility loci for prostate cancer has been extremely difficult. Several putative loci identified by genetic linkage have been reported to exist on...
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