SNPs linked with prostate cancer confirmed in Japanese men too

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 19:35 in Health & Medicine

A third of the previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, associated with prostate cancer in men of European or African ancestry were also associated with prostate cancer in a Japanese population, according to a new study published online September 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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