Article
Mendelian inheritance of familial prostate cancer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Apr 1992
Carter B S, Beaty T H, Steinberg G D, Childs B, Walsh P C
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have demonstrated familial clustering of prostate cancer. To define the nature of this familial aggregation and to assess whether Mendelian inheritance can explain prostate cancer clustering, proportional hazards and segregation analyses were performed on 691 families ascertained through a single prostate cancer proband. The proportional hazards analyses revealed that two factors, early age at...
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