Enhancer of prostate cancer risk located in gene desert
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 18:28
in Health & Medicine
A genetic variant implicated in several cancers by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been found to drive increased expression of a known oncogene in the prostate.
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