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An inherited NBN mutation is associated with poor prognosis prostate cancer.
British journal of cancer - 5 Feb 2013
Cybulski C, Wokołorczyk D, Kluźniak W, Jakubowska A, Górski B, Gronwald J, Huzarski T, Kashyap A, Byrski T, Dębniak T, Gołąb A, Gliniewicz B, Sikorski A, Switała J, Borkowski T, Borkowski A, Antczak A, Wojnar L, Przybyła J, Sosnowski M, Małkiewicz B, Zdrojowy R, Sikorska-Radek P, Matych J, Wilkosz J, Różański W, Kiś J, Bar K, Bryniarski P, Paradysz A, Jersak K, Niemirowicz J, Słupski P, Jarzemski P, Skrzypczyk M, Dobruch J, Domagała P, Narod S A, Lubiński J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To establish the contribution of eight founder alleles in three DNA damage repair genes (BRCA1, CHEK2 and NBS1) to prostate cancer in Poland, and to measure the impact of these variants on survival among patients. METHODS: Three thousand seven hundred fifty men with prostate cancer and 3956 cancer-free controls were genotyped for three founder alleles in BRCA1 (5382insC, 4153delA, C61G), four alleles...
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