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Influence of age on predictiveness of genetic risk score for prostate cancer in a Chinese hospital-based biopsy cohort.
Oncotarget - 8 Sept 2015
Zhu Yao, Han Cheng-Tao, Chen Hai-Tao, Liu Fang, Zhang Gui-Ming, Yang Wei-Yi, Xu Jian-Feng, Ye Ding-Wei
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BACKGROUND: We investigated whether age influences the predictiveness of genetic risk score (GRS) for prostate cancer (PCa) in a Chinese hospital-based biopsy cohort. METHODS: We included consecutive patients who underwent prostate biopsies in two tertiary centers between 2012 and 2014. GRS was calculated using 24 PCa-associated genetic variants and its predictiveness was assessed by area under curve (AUC)....
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