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Kate Nathanson, MD, an assistant professor in the division of Medical
Genetics, is quoted in a Forbes article about her new Nature Genetics
study in which she and co-author Peter Kanetsky, PhD, MPH, an
assistant professor of Epidemiology, uncovered variation around two genes that
are associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer. Testicular cancer is
the most common cancer among young men, and its incidence among non-Hispanic
Caucasian men has doubled in the last 40 years. "Despite being quite heritable,
there really have not been any clear genetic risk factors that can account for
most cases of testicular cancer. These variants are the first striking genetic
risk factors found for this disease to date," Nathanson says. NBC 10 also
covered the story... Read More
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Forbes Article
NBC 10 Article
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