Mendelian inheritance of familial prostate cancer.

doi:10.1073/pnas.89.8.3367

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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

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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...

Topics

Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Alleles
Genes, Dominant
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Genetic
Proportional Hazards Models
Prostatic Neoplasms
Risk Factors

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