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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(5):344-345; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.5.344
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 5, 344-345, March 7, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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New Gene Finding May Yield Clues to Prostate Cancer Complexity

Steve Benowitz

Geneticists’ hopes of unraveling the mysteries of prostate cancer have been buoyed by the recent announcement of evidence of a familial prostate cancer susceptibility gene, but that optimism is tempered by the fact that prostate cancer is difficult to genetically characterize and study.

Finding a single gene responsible for the lion’s share of hereditary prostate cancer cases is unlikely to happen, said Alice Whittemore, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and chief of the Division of Epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. "So far no one gene such as a BRCA1 is clearly emerging accounting for most of the familial cases of prostate cancer," she said.

In October, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Sporadic vs. Hereditary

Potential Abounds


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