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Multiple prostate cancer risk variants on 8q24

Nature Genetics volume 39, pages 579–580 (2007)Cite this article

Three new reports leverage genome-wide studies to localize and replicate multiple independent variants strongly associated with prostate cancer on chromosome 8q24. These findings provide a significant advance toward deciphering the genetic basis of this disease, although further work is needed to clarify the biological mechanisms underlying these associations.

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Figure 1: Associations between variants in three neighboring regions of chromosome 8q24 and prostate cancer5,6,7.

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  1. John S. Witte is in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0794, USA. jwitte@ucsf.edu,

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