Health & Medicine UNC scientists collaborate to find first major genetic mutation associated with hereditary prostate
| UNC scientists collaborate to find first major genetic mutation associated with hereditary prostate |
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| Thursday, January 12, 2012 | |
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After a 20-year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk of the disease. A report on the discovery was published in the January 12, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. UNC-Chapel Hill scientist Ethan Lange, PhD, was part of the team of investigators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University of Michigan Health System, Wake Forest University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute. For full release |