Prostate Cancer, Hereditary, 5

For a general discussion of hereditary prostate cancer, see 176807.

Mapping

Rokman et al. (2005) performed linkage analysis using 17 fine-mapping markers in 16 multiplex Finnish families with hereditary prostate cancer and found evidence for linkage at 3p26, with a multipoint heterogeneity adjusted lod of 3.39. The highest lod scores were around markers D3S1270 and D3S4559 (alpha = 0.89), narrowing the peak region to approximately 2 cM. Rokman et al. (2005) concluded that 3p26 is likely to contain a predisposing gene for Finnish hereditary prostate cancer, although no disease-segregating variants were found in 2 candidate genes in the region.