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Population-Based Estimate of Prostate Cancer Risk for Carriers of the HOXB13 Missense Mutation G84E
15 Feb 2013
Abstract excerpt
The HOXB13 missense mutation G84E (rs138213197) is associated with increased risk of prostate cancer, but the current estimate of increased risk has a wide confidence interval (width of 95% confidence interval (CI) >200-fold) so the point estimate of 20-fold increased risk could be misleading. Population-based family studies can be more informative for estimating risks for rare variants, therefore, we screened...
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