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Re: Prostate Cancer in Fathers With Fewer Male Offspring: the Jerusalem Perinatal Study Cohort
Affiliations of authors: Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany (JLB, KH); Center for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (JS, KH)
Correspondence to: Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, PhD, Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany (e-mail: j.lorenzo@dkfz.de).
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We read with interest the recent article by Harlap et al. (1). The authors reported that, among 712 men with prostate cancer, those with only daughters had an increased risk of prostate cancer, compared with men with at least one son (adjusted relative risk = 1.40, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.20 to 1.64, P<.0001). The results prompted
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