Discovery of Inherited-Genetic Variations May Help Assess a Patient’s Risk of Life-Threatening Disease Before it Strikes
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2012. An international research team led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have discovered two inherited-genetic deletions in the human genome linked to development of aggressive prostate cancer. The findings, published online yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), indicate a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer either triples or quadruples, depending…
