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HOXB13 mutation and prostate cancer: studies of siblings and aggressive disease.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Apr 2013
Witte John S, Mefford Joel, Plummer Sarah J, Liu Jinghua, Cheng Iona, Klein Eric A, Rybicki Benjamin A, Casey Graham
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BACKGROUND: Recent work detected for the first time a high-risk prostate cancer mutation, in homeobox B13 (HOXB13) among European-Americans. METHODS: We further evaluated this G84E missense mutation (rs138213197) in two genetic association studies of prostate cancer: a family-based study of brothers and a case-control study of more aggressive disease (N = 2,665 total). We then calculated overall impact of this...
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