Scientists find second site for prostate cancer gene

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 12:56 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues who are studying a prostate cancer gene called HNF1B have found a second independent site within the HNF1B gene on chromosome 17 (17q12) - increasing the number of genetic variants that may contribute to risk of developing the disease.

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