Marker Signals High Prostate Cancer Risk

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NEW YORK - Scientists have identified a common genetic marker that signals a 60 percent heightened risk of prostate cancer in men who carry it, and it might help explain why black men are unusually prone to the disease, a new study says.

The DNA variant might play a role in about 8 percent of prostate cancers in men of European extraction and 16 percent of the cancers in blacks, researchers said.

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Marker Signals High Prostate Cancer Risk

The study was published online Sunday by Nature Genetics and will appear ...

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