A population-based analysis of clustering identifies a strong genetic contribution to lethal prostate cancer

Background: Prostate cancer is a common and often deadly cancer. Decades of study have yet to identify genes that explain much familial prostate cancer. Traditional linkage analysis of pedigrees has yielded results that are rarely validated. We hypothesize that there are rare segregating variants re...

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Main Authors: Nelson, Quentin, Agarwal, Neeraj, Stephenson, Robert, Cannon-Albright, Lisa A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747326/