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Asian Journal of Andrology (2012) 14, 415-418; doi:10.1038/aja.2011.146; published online 30 April 2012
Inherited susceptibility for aggressive prostate cancer
William B Isaacs
The Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Correspondence: Dr WB Isaacs, (wisaacs@jhmi.edu)
Received 16 March 2012; Revised 30 March 2012; Accepted 30 March 2012
Advance online publication 30 April 2012.
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Whether or not there is inherited basis for prostate cancer aggressiveness is not clear, but advances in DNA analysis should provide an answer to this question in the very near future.
Keywords: aggressiveness; germline; Genome Wide Association Studies; GWAS; inherited; linkage; mutation; single nucleotide polymorphisms; SNPs; susceptibility |
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