Prostate Cancer

Researchers Focus on Gene Location for Inherited Cancer

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 29th, 1999

Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, and the University of Washington have mapped the region of a gene associated with prostate cancer that runs in families. The gene also may trigger an inherited susceptibility to primary brain cancer.

The study results appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

The researchers, who worked three and a half years to map the gene, have named it CAPB, short for "cancer of the prostate and brain." The gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 1 in a region called 1p36.

"Finding genes such as CAPB may provide clues that will eventually help...

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