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Segregation analysis of prostate cancer in 1,719 white, African-American and Asian-American families in the United States and Canada.

Gong G, Oakley-Girvan I, Wu AH, Kolonel LN, John EM, West DW, Felberg A, Gallagher RP, Whittemore AS. Cancer Causes Control. 2002; 13 (5): 471-82

Some data suggest that brothers of prostate cancer patients have higher disease risk than their fathers, supporting an X-linked or recessive mode of inheritance. However, higher observed frequencies in brothers than fathers may merely reflect the strong temporal changes in US incidence rates.

PubMedID: 12146852