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Genome-wide linkage analysis of 1,233 prostate cancer pedigrees from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics using novel sumLINK and sumLOD analyses.
Christensen GB, Baffoe-Bonnie AB, George A, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Carpten JD, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Severi G, English DR, Foulkes WD, Maehle L, Moller P, Eeles R, Easton D, Badzioch MD, Whittemore AS, Oakley-Girvan I, Hsieh CL, Dimitrov L, Xu J, Stanford JL, Johanneson B, Deutsch K, McIntosh L, Ostrander EA, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Isaacs WB, Thibodeau SN, McDonnell SK, Hebbring S, Schaid DJ, Lange EM, Cooney KA, Tammela TL, Schleutker J, Paiss T, Maier C, Grnberg H, Wiklund F, Emanuelsson M, Farnham JM, Cannon-Albright LA, Camp NJ; International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics. Prostate. 2010 May 15;70(7):735-44. [PMCID: PMC2712837]

Chromosome 17q12 variants contribute to risk of early-onset prostate cancer.
Levin AM, Machiela MJ, Zuhlke KA, Ray AM, Cooney KA, Douglas JA. Cancer Res. 2008 Aug 15;68(16):6492-5. [PMCID: PMC2562290]

Chromosome 8q24 markers: risk of early-onset and familial prostate cancer.
Beebe-Dimmer JL, Levin AM, Ray AM, Zuhlke KA, Machiela MJ, Halstead-Nussloch BA, Johnson GR, Cooney KA, Douglas JA. Int J Cancer. 2008 Jun 15;122(12):2876-9. [PMCID: PMC2695763]

Common variation in the BRCA1 gene and prostate cancer risk.
Douglas JA, Levin AM, Zuhlke KA, Ray AM, Johnson GR, Lange EM, Wood DP, Cooney KA. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Jul;16(7):1510-6. Epub 2007 Jun 21. [PMCID: PMC3082399]

Fine-mapping the putative chromosome 17q21-22 prostate cancer susceptibility gene to a 10 cM region based on linkage analysis.
Lange EM, Robbins CM, Gillanders EM, Zheng SL, Xu J, Wang Y, White KA, Chang BL, Ho LA, Trent JM, Carpten JD, Isaacs WB, Cooney KA. Hum Genet. 2007 Mar;121(1):49-55. Epub 2006 Nov 21. [PMID: 17120048]

Pooled genome linkage scan of aggressive prostate cancer: results from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics.
Schaid DJ, McDonnell SK, Zarfas KE, Cunningham JM, Hebbring S, Thibodeau SN, Eeles RA, Easton DF, Foulkes WD, Simard J, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Mahle L, Moller P, Badzioch M, Bishop DT, Evans C, Edwards S, Meitz J, Bullock S, Hope Q, Guy M, Hsieh CL, Halpern J, Balise RR, Oakley-Girvan I, Whittemore AS, Xu J, Dimitrov L, Chang BL, Adams TS, Turner AR, Meyers DA, Friedrichsen DM, Deutsch K, Kolb S, Janer M, Hood L, Ostrander EA, Stanford JL, Ewing CM, Gielzak M, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Wiley KE, Isaacs WB, Lange EM, Ho LA, Beebe-Dimmer JL, Wood DP, Cooney KA, Seminara D, Ikonen T, Baffoe-Bonnie A, Fredriksson H, Matikainen MP, Tammela TL, Bailey-Wilson J, Schleutker J, Maier C, Herkommer K, Hoegel JJ, Vogel W, Paiss T, Wiklund F, Emanuelsson M, Stenman E, Jonsson BA, Grnberg H, Camp NJ, Farnham J, Cannon-Albright LA, Catalona WJ, Suarez BK, Roehl KA. Hum Genet. 2006 Nov;120(4):471-85. Epub 2006 Aug 25. [PMID:16932970]

Genome-wide linkage scan for prostate cancer susceptibility genes in men with aggressive disease: significant evidence for linkage at chromosome 15q12.
Lange EM, Ho LA, Beebe-Dimmer JL, Wang Y, Gillanders EM, Trent JM, Lange LA, Wood DP, Cooney KA. Hum Genet. 2006 May;119(4):400-7. Epub 2006 Mar 1. [PMID:16508751]

Truncating BRCA1 mutations are uncommon in a cohort of hereditary prostate cancer families with evidence of linkage to 17q markers.
Zuhlke KA, Madeoy JJ, Beebe-Dimmer J, White KA, Griffin A, Lange EM, Gruber SB, Ostrander EA, Cooney KA. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Sep 15;10(18 Pt 1):5975-80. [PMID:15447980]

Risk perception and concern among brothers of men with prostate carcinoma.
Beebe-Dimmer JL, Wood DP Jr, Gruber SB, Chilson DM, Zuhlke KA, Claeys GB, Cooney KA. Cancer. 2004 Apr 1;100(7):1537-44. [PMID:15042690]

Genome-wide scan for prostate cancer susceptibility genes using families from the University of Michigan prostate cancer genetics project finds evidence for linkage on chromosome 17 near BRCA1.
Lange EM, Gillanders EM, Davis CC, Brown WM, Campbell JK, Jones M, Gildea D, Riedesel E, Albertus J, Freas-Lutz D, Markey C, Giri V, Dimmer JB, Montie JE, Trent JM, Cooney KA. Prostate. 2003 Dec 1;57(4):326-34. [PMID:14601029]

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