Prostate Cancer

New findings from K.M. Waters and co-authors describe advances in prostate cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 2nd, 2009

"Genome-wide association studies have identified multiple common alleles associated with prostate cancer risk in populations of European ancestry. Testing these variants in other populations is needed to assess the generalizability of the associations and may guide fine-mapping efforts," scientists in the United States report.

"We examined 13 of these risk variants in a multiethnic sample of 2,768 incident prostate cancer cases and 2,359 controls from the Multiethnic Cohort (African Americans, European Americans, Latinos, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians). We estimated ethnic-specific and pooled odds ratios and tested for ethnic heterogeneity of effects using...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-02)

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