the tp53 gene is one of the most frequently mutated genes amongst human malignancies, particularly tp53 codon 72 polymorphism. furthermore, an association between the tp53 codon 72 variants and prostate cancer has been reported in several studies. although some studies have indicated an association between the tp53 arg/arg variant and an increased risk for prostate cancer, other studies have sh...

results in a total of 40 sporadic prostate cancer and 80 benign prostatic hyperplasia cases, no xmrv was detected by real-time pcr and nested-pcr. rnase l r462q polymorphism analysis reveals that although there was an increase in the risk of prostate cancer correlated with the q/q allele of rnase l at position 462, the frequencies of the rnase l r462q alleles were not statistically significant ...

background : a single nucleotide variation within  atechol-o-methyl transferase (comt) gene may alter the comt enzyme activity level. polymorphism of val158met in the comt gene has been related to malignancy. in this regard, a study was carried out to find a possible association between the comt gene polymorphism in patients with sporadic prostate cancer (pca) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether a significant difference in chromogranin A (CgA) levels exist between patients with familial and sporadic cancer. METHODS The study included 146 patients with clinically localized prostate adenocarcinoma (Stage T2N0M0), who underwent radical prostatectomy between June 1999 and June 2004. Patients were considered to have a positive family history for prostate can...

background: today, cancer is one of the major health problems worldwide, and the importance of this disease in our country is growing. this cancer is the third cause of death and accounts for the second largest group of non-transmissible chronic diseases. colorectal cancer is the most common gastrointestinal cancer and includes 10%  of deaths from cancer around the world. different genetic and ...

Background: Distinguishing between sub-clinical and aggressive forms of prostate cancer is difficult due to the heterogeneity of the disease. It is, however, important to identify aggressive forms to guide proper treatment. This study compared gene expression profiles in cancer cells from hereditary and sporadic prostate cancer cases and attempted to correlate differentially regulated genes wit...

BACKGROUND To assess if the variants of (R)-alpha-methyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) gene would be associated with the risk of sporadic prostate cancer in ethnically homogenous Koreans. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled 194 patients with prostate cancer and 169 healthy controls. A total of 17 single nucleotide polymorphisms of the AMACR gene were selected. The distribution of each genotype and haplo...

The EphB2 gene has been implicated as a tumor suppressor gene somatically altered in both prostate cancer (PC) and colorectal cancer. We have previously shown an association between an EphB2 germline nonsense variant and risk of familial prostate cancer among African American Men (AAM). Here we set out to test the hypothesis that common variation within the EphB2 locus is associated with increa...

MUC1 is expressed on the apical surface of glandular epithelium. With functions including protection, adhesion and signaling, MUC1 has been implicated in prostate cancer. There are many splice variants, the best characterized of which are MUC1/1 and MUC1/2 which are determined by a SNP (rs4072037, 3506G>A).Blood DNA from the general population, BPH, sporadic and hereditary prostate cancer subje...

Sporadic prostate carcinoma is the most common male cancer in the Western world, yet many of the major genetic events involved in the progression of this often fatal cancer remain to be elucidated. Numerous cytogenetic and allelotype studies have reported frequent loss of heterozygosity on chromosomal arm 10q in sporadic prostate cancer. Deletion mapping studies have unambiguously identified a ...