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Genomewide linkage analysis of familial prostate cancer in the Japanese population.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2004
Matsui Hiroshi, Suzuki Kazuhiro, Ohtake Nobuaki, Nakata Seiji, Takeuchi Toshiyuki, Yamanaka Hidetoshi, Inoue Ituro
Abstract excerpt
Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most common causes of cancer mortality in Western countries, and familial aggregation of PC is well known. Multiple PC susceptibility loci have been reported in Western countries, but attempts to confirm the loci in independent data sets have proven to be inconsistent. We performed a genomewide linkage analysis with 53 affected sib pairs to identify genetic loci related to PC in...
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