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Deletion of a small consensus region at 6q15, including the MAP3K7 gene, is significantly associated with high-grade prostate cancers.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Sept 2007
Liu Wennuan, Chang Bao-Li, Cramer Scott, Koty Patrick P, Li Tao, Sun Jishan, Turner Aubrey R, Von Kap-Herr Chris, Bobby Peggy, Rao Jianyu, Zheng S Lilly, Isaacs William B, Xu Jianfeng
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PURPOSE: Chromosome 6q14-21 is commonly deleted in prostate cancers, occurring in approximately 22% of all tumors and approximately 40% of metastatic tumors. However, candidate prostate tumor suppressor genes in this region have not been identified, in part due to the large and broad nature of the deleted region implicated in previous studies. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We first used high-resolution Affymetrix single...
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