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Article: Major Genetic Risk Factor Found for Prostate Cancer With Highest Impact in Younger African Americans; Study Validates Power of New Method in Hunt for Genetic Causes of Complex Disease.
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- August 21, 2006
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Byline: Harvard University Medical School
BOSTON, Aug. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School researchers have identified a DNA segment on chromosome 8 that is a major risk factor for prostate cancer, especially in African American men. The paper appears in the August 21 electronic edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (also see PNAS's news tip below).
"This paper identifies a genetic risk factor that about doubles the likelihood of prostate cancer in younger African American men," says principal investigator David Reich, PhD, Harvard Medical School assistant professor of genetics with the HMS Department of Genetics and ...