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Height, selected genetic markers and prostate cancer risk: results from the PRACTICAL consortium.
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Background
Evidence on height and prostate cancer risk is mixed, however, recent studies with large data sets support a possible role for its association with the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
Methods
We analysed data from the PRACTICAL consortium consisting of 6207 prostate cancer cases and 6016 controls and a subset of high grade cases (2480 cases). We explored height, polymorphisms in genes related to growth processes as main effects and their possible in...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/bjc.2017.231
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Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Journal of Cancer Journal website
- Volume:
- 117
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 734-743
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-23
- DOI:
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1532-1827
- ISSN:
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0007-0920
- Pmid:
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28765617
- Source identifiers:
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713213
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- English
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pubs:713213
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- pubs:713213
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-31
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- Hamdy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) named above. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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