Prostate cancer risk variant found to be in a functional DNA sequence linked with disease

Recent genetic association studies have uncovered a number of DNA variants associated with prostate cancer. However, some of these risk variants lie outside of genes, posing a challenge to researchers working to understand the biology of cancer. In a report published online today in Genome Research (http://www.genome.org), researchers have characterised a functional DNA element associated with prostate cancer, lending new insight into the molecular mechanisms of the disease...

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