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Hereditary bladder cancer.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum - 1 Sept 2008
Kiemeney Lambertus A L M
Abstract excerpt
First degree relatives of patients with bladder cancer have a two-fold increased risk of bladder cancer but high-risk bladder cancer families are extremely rare. There is no clear Mendelian inheritance pattern that can explain the increased familial risk. This makes classical linkage studies for the mapping of susceptibility genes impossible. The disease is probably caused by a combination of exposure to...
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