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Association of prostate cancer risk Loci with disease aggressiveness and prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1 May 2011
Pomerantz Mark M, Werner Lillian, Xie Wanling, Regan Meredith M, Lee Gwo-Shu Mary, Sun Tong, Evan Carolyn, Petrozziello Gillian, Nakabayashi Mari, Oh William K, Kantoff Philip W, Freedman Matthew L
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have detected more than 30 inherited prostate cancer risk variants. While clearly associated with risk, their relationship with clinical outcome, particularly prostate cancer-specific mortality, is less well known. We investigated whether the risk variants are associated with various measures of disease aggressiveness and prostate cancer-specific mortality. In a cohort of 3,945 men...
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