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Hereditary prostate cancer in African American families: linkage analysis using markers that map to five candidate susceptibility loci.
British journal of cancer - 26 Jan 2004
Brown W M, Lange E M, Chen H, Zheng S L, Chang B, Wiley K E, Isaacs S D, Walsh P C, Isaacs W B, Xu J, Cooney K A
Abstract excerpt
African American men have the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the world. Despite this statistic, linkage studies designed to localise prostate cancer susceptibility alleles have included primarily men of Caucasian descent. In this report, we performed a linkage analysis using 33 African American prostate cancer families from two independent research groups. In total, 126 individuals (including 89 men with...
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