Genetics of Prostate Cancer (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (11/30/2016)

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Identifying Genes and Inherited Variants Associated With Prostate Cancer Risk

The Clinical application of genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings subsection was comprehensively reviewed and extensively revised.

Added text to state that other GWAS approaches include evaluating single nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in a phenotype other than prostate cancer (cited Stegeman et al. and Panagiotou et al. as references 213 and 214, respectively).

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