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Relationship of oestrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms with risk for benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer in Chinese men.
Medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Han Zihua, Zhang Lingzhi, Zhu Rujian, Luo Lifei, Zhu Min, Fan Lilong, Wang Guanfu
Abstract excerpt
The relationship of oestrogen receptor with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer (PC) is not clear at present. This study aimed to investigate the molecular mechanism underlying the occurrence and development of BPH and prostate.Two hundred forty-four PC cases, 260 BPH patients, and 222 healthy men were recruited from Han people in China, and the oestrogen receptor alpha (ESRα) gene polymorphism...
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