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The prostate cancer susceptibility variant rs2735839 near KLK3 gene is associated with aggressive prostate cancer and can stratify gleason score 7 patients.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Oct 2014
He Yonggang, Gu Jian, Strom Sara, Logothetis Christopher J, Kim Jeri, Wu Xifeng
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PURPOSE: Gleason score (GS) 7 prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different clinical behavior. We sought to identify genetic biomarkers that may predict the aggressiveness of GS 7 diseases. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We genotyped 72 prostate cancer susceptibility SNPs identified in genome-wide association studies in 1,827 white men with histologically confirmed prostate adenocarcinoma. SNPs associated with...
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