Prostate Cancer Epidemiology
New findings reported from University of Texas, Health Science Center describe advances in prostate cancer epidemiology
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 11th, 2009
Current study results from the report, 'Association of chromosome 8q variants with prostate cancer risk in Caucasian and Hispanic men,' have been published. "Genotyping of a 615 kb region within 8q24 with 49 haplotype-tagged single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 2109 samples (797 cases and 1312 controls) of two ethnic/racial groups found SNPs that are significantly associated with the risk for prostate cancer (PCa). The highest significance in Caucasian men was found for rs6983267; the AA genotype reduced the risk for PCa [odds ratio (OR)=0.48, 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.35-0.65, p=2.74 x 10(-6)]," researchers in the United States report.
"This SNP also had a...
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