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SUBMITTER: Kwon EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3140053 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwon Erika M EM Salinas Claudia A CA Kolb Suzanne S Fu Rong R Feng Ziding Z Stanford Janet L JL Ostrander Elaine A EA
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20110323 5
<h4>Background</h4>Chronic inflammation is an important mechanism for the development and progression of prostate cancer (PC). To better understand the potential relationship between genes in the inflammation pathway and PC risk, we evaluated variants in 16 candidate genes.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 143 tagging and amino acid altering single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in Caucasian and African American men participating in one of two population-based, case-control studies (n = ...[more]