[Mutations of the androgen receptor gene a possible role in prostate cancer].

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[Mutations of the androgen receptor gene a possible role in prostate cancer].

Bulletin du cancer - 1 Feb 1997

Mowszowicz I, Mestayer C

Abstract excerpt

Prostate cancer is the second most frequent cancer in men, and the first after 75 years of age. It is androgen dependent and modifications of the androgen receptor (AR) could therefore be involved in its apparition, progression and evolution towards a stage of androgen independence which always o...

Topics

Adenocarcinoma
Aged
Androgens
Codon
Exons
Humans
Male
Mutation
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic
Prostatic Neoplasms
Receptors, Androgen
Risk Factors

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