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Prospectively Identified Incident Testicular Cancer Risk in a Familial Testicular Cancer Cohort.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Oct 2015
Pathak Anand, Adams Charleen D, Loud Jennifer T, Nichols Kathryn, Stewart Douglas R, Greene Mark H
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BACKGROUND: Human testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) have a strong genetic component and a high familial relative risk. However, linkage analyses have not identified a rare, highly penetrant familial TGCT (FTGCT) susceptibility locus. Currently, multiple low-penetrance genes are hypothesized to underlie the familial multiple-case phenotype. The observation that two is the most common number of affected...
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