Associations between an obesity related genetic variant (FTO rs9939609) and prostate cancer risk.

Associations between an obesity related genetic variant (FTO rs9939609) and prostate cancer risk.

<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Observational studies suggest that obese men have a lower risk of incident prostate cancer, but an increased risk of advanced and fatal cancers. These observations could be due to confounding, detection bias, or a biological effect of obesity. Genetic studies are less...

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Main Authors: Sarah J Lewis, Ali Murad, Lina Chen, George Davey Smith, Jenny Donovan, Tom Palmer, Freddie Hamdy, David Neal, J Athene Lane, Michael Davis, Angela Cox, Richard M Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013485&type=printable
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