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Association of 17 prostate cancer susceptibility loci with prostate cancer risk in Chinese men.
The Prostate - 1 Mar 2010
Zheng Siqun Lilly, Hsing Ann W, Sun Jielin, Chu Lisa W, Yu Kai, Li Ge, Gao Zhengrong, Kim Seong-Tae, Isaacs William B, Shen Ming-Chang, Gao Yu-Tang, Hoover Robert N, Xu Jianfeng
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BACKGROUND: Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in populations of European descent have identified more than a dozen common genetic variants that are associated with prostate cancer risk. METHODS: To determine whether these variants are also associated with prostate cancer risk in the Chinese population, we evaluated 17 prostate cancer susceptibility loci in a population-based case-control study from...
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