Search Results - "WILEY, Kathy E"
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Telomere length as a risk factor for hereditary prostate cancer
Published in The Prostate (01-04-2014)“…BACKGROUND Telomeres are repetitive nucleotide sequences that stabilize the ends of chromosomes. Critically short telomeres are thought to contribute to cancer…”
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Associations between hOGG1 sequence variants and prostate cancer susceptibility
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-04-2002)“…8-Hydroxyguanine is a mutagenic base lesion produced by reactive oxygen species. The hOGG1 gene encodes a DNA glycosylase/AP lyase that can suppress the…”
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A polymorphism in the CDKN1B gene is associated with increased risk of hereditary prostate cancer
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-03-2004)“…The loss of cell cycle control is believed to be an important mechanism in the promotion of carcinogenesis. CDKN1B (p27) belongs to the Cip/Kip family and…”
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Germ-line mutation of NKX3.1 cosegregates with hereditary prostate cancer and alters the homeodomain structure and function
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (2006)“…NKX3.1, a gene mapped to 8p21, is a member of the NK class of homeodomain proteins and is expressed primarily in the prostate. NKX3.1 exerts a…”
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Polymorphisms in the CYP1A1 gene are associated with prostate cancer risk
Published in International journal of cancer (01-09-2003)“…CYP1A1 is likely to play an important role in the etiology of CaP through its function in activating environmental procarcinogens and catalyzing the oxidative…”
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Genome-wide scan for prostate cancer susceptibility genes in the Johns Hopkins hereditary prostate cancer families
Published in The Prostate (01-12-2003)“…BACKGROUND Although the subject of intensive study, the genetic influences responsible for familial clustering of prostate cancer remain largely unidentified…”
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Genome-wide screen for prostate cancer susceptibility genes in men with clinically significant disease
Published in The Prostate (01-09-2005)“…BACKGROUND One of the difficulties confronting genetic studies of prostate cancer is the complex and heterogeneous etiology. Given the high population…”
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Sequence variants of α-methylacyl-CoA racemase are associated with prostate cancer risk
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-11-2002)“…The enzyme alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) plays an important role in peroxisomal beta-oxidation of branched-chain fatty acid and therefore is relevant…”
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Polymorphic GGC repeats in the androgen receptor gene are associated with hereditary and sporadic prostate cancer risk
Published in Human genetics (01-02-2002)“…Androgen receptor (AR) has long been hypothesized to play an important role in prostate cancer etiology. Two trinucleotide repeat polymorphisms (CAG and GGC…”
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Linkage of prostate cancer susceptibility loci to chromosome 1
Published in Human genetics (01-04-2001)“…Three prostate cancer susceptibility genes have been reported to be linked to different regions on chromosome 1: HPC1 at 1q24-25, PCAP at 1q42-43, and CAPB at…”
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Linkage and association of CYP17 gene in hereditary and sporadic prostate cancer
Published in International journal of cancer (20-11-2001)“…Androgens are essential for prostate development, growth and maintenance and the association between androgen levels and prostate cancer is well established…”
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Interaction effect of PTEN and CDKN1B chromosomal regions on prostate cancer linkage
Published in Human genetics (01-08-2004)“…The tumor suppressor functions of PTEN and CDKN1B have been extensively characterized. Recent data from mouse models suggest that, for some organs, the…”
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Sequence variants in the human 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 1-α-hydroxylase (CYP27B1) gene are not associated with prostate cancer risk
Published in The Prostate (01-11-2002)“…BACKGROUND 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D3 has been shown to have antiproliferative properties on normal and neoplastic prostatic cells. 25‐hydroxyvitamin D3…”
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Evaluation of DLC1 as a prostate cancer susceptibility gene: mutation screen and association study
Published in Mutation research (25-07-2003)“…A gene or genes on chromosome 8p22-23 have been implicated in prostate carcinogenesis by the observation of frequent deletions of this region in prostate…”
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Evidence for a general cancer susceptibility locus at 3p24 in families with hereditary prostate cancer
Published in Cancer letters (10-03-2005)“…To identify genes that generally increase the risk of cancer, we performed a systematic search throughout the genome in 188 families primarily ascertained for…”
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Joint effect of HSD3B1 and HSD3B2 genes is associated with hereditary and sporadic prostate cancer susceptibility
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-03-2002)“…3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (HSD3Bs), encoded by the HSD3B gene family at 1p13, have long been hypothesized to have a major role in prostate cancer…”
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Sequence variants in the human 25‐hydroxyvitamin D 3 1‐α‐hydroxylase (CYP27B1) gene are not associated with prostate cancer risk
Published in The Prostate (01-11-2002)“…Abstract BACKGROUND 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D 3 has been shown to have antiproliferative properties on normal and neoplastic prostatic cells. 25‐hydroxyvitamin D…”
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Sequence variants in the human 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 I-α-hydroxylase (CYP27BI) gene are not associated with prostate cancer risk
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