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PVT1 Exon 9: A Potential Biomarker of Aggressive Prostate Cancer?
International journal of environmental research and public health - 22 Dec 2015
Ilboudo Adeodat, Chouhan Jyoti, McNeil Brian K, Osborne Joseph R, Ogunwobi Olorunseun O
Abstract excerpt
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer as well as the greatest source of cancer-related mortality in males of African ancestry (MoAA). Interestingly, this has been shown to be associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms around regions 2 and 3 of the 8q24 human chromosomal region. The non-protein coding gene locus Plasmacytoma Variant Translocation 1 (PVT1) is located at 8q24 and is...
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