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No association between common chemokine and chemokine receptor gene variants and prostate cancer risk.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Dec 2008
Petersen Desiree C, Severi Gianluca, Hoang Hoa N, Padilla Emma J D, Southey Melissa C, English Dallas R, Hopper John L, Giles Graham G, Hayes Vanessa M
Abstract excerpt
There is growing evidence that inflammation and infection play important roles in the etiology of prostate cancer. As the chemokine network is directly involved in inflammation and infectious diseases, we tested for an association between six common putative functional variants and prostate cance...
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