The hope is to use the gene to create diagnostic tests for prostrate cancer susceptibility and eventually develop new therapeutic drugs.
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It is now known that genetic variability accounts for 25% of susceptibility to the disease, but that variations in the sickle-cell gene contribute to only a fraction of that.
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