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Genetic variants of DNA repair genes and prostate cancer: a population-based study.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Jul 2005
Ritchey Jamie D, Huang Wen-Yi, Chokkalingam Anand P, Gao Yu-Tang, Deng Jie, Levine Paul, Stanczyk Frank Z, Hsing Ann W
Abstract excerpt
As part of a population-based case-control study in Shanghai, China, we investigated whether variants in several DNA repair genes, either alone or in conjunction with other risk factors, are associated with prostate cancer risk. Genomic DNA from 162 patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and 251 healthy men randomly selected from the population were typed for five nonsynonymous DNA repair markers. We found...
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