Association of type 2 diabetes susceptibility variants with advanced prostate cancer risk in the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium.

Observational studies have found an inverse association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prostate cancer (PCa), and genome-wide association studies have found common variants near 3 loci associated with both diseases. The authors examined whether a genetic background that favors T2D is associated w...

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Main Authors: Machiela, M, Lindström, S, Allen, N, Haiman, C, Albanes, D, Barricarte, A, Berndt, S, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H, Chanock, S, Gaziano, J, Gapstur, S, Giovannucci, E, Henderson, B, Jacobs, E, Kolonel, L, Krogh, V, Ma, J, Stampfer, M, Stevens, V, Stram, DO, Tjønneland, A, Travis, R, Willett, W, Hunter, D, Le Marchand, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012