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Variation in selenoenzyme genes and prostate cancer risk and survival.
The Prostate - 1 May 2013
Geybels Milan S, Hutter Carolyn M, Kwon Erika M, Ostrander Elaine A, Fu Rong, Feng Ziding, Stanford Janet L, Peters Ulrike
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: While several studies showed that selenium may prevent prostate cancer (PCa), few studies have evaluated variation in selenoenzyme genes in relation to PCa risk and survival. METHODS: We studied common variants in seven selenoenzymes genes in relation to risk of PCa and PCa-specific mortality (PCSM). In a population-based case-control study of men of European ancestry (1,309 cases, 1,266 controls), we...
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