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Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men in many western countries and the second leading cause of cancer in men for death. The exact cause of prostate cancer is unclear. Several risk factors have been identified for the development of prostate cancer, such as diet and lifestyle, family history, age, and genetic factors, but it is not entirely clear which of these risk factors causes prostate cells to become cancer. Prostate cancer cells can spread by breaking prostate tumors. They can travel through blood vessels or lymph nodes to other parts of the body, attach to other tissues and grow into new tumors, causing new damage where they attach.
A number of genes are known to be involved in inherited susceptibility to prostate cancer. Individuals with deleterious mutations in BRCA1/2 are at increased risk in prostate cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have the function associated with DNA double-strand break repairment and transcription coupled repairment, and the protein encoded by CHEK2 is also involved in DNA damage signaling pathways. Both of them in an ATM-dependent fashion to participate. Then, several independent studies have demonstrated that mutations in ATM increase risk of prostate cancer. In addition, other pathogenic variants, such as mutations in MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 genes, are also related to prostate cancer.
To support clinical researches related to prostate cancer, our custom prostate cancer panel platform offers a comprehensive prostate cancer library, from which you can choose for genetic testing of prostate cancer. Amplicon sequencing technology that enables deep sequencing at high coverage levels is provided. Our customized prostate cancer panel can be applied to efficiently discover, validate and screen genetic variants among the prostate cancer genes to help develop targeted drugs and decode the complexities of prostate cancer biology.
ATM | BRCA1 | BRCA2 |
BRIP1 | CHEK2 | DLX1 |
EPCAM | HOXB13 | HOXC6 |
MLH1 | MSH2 | MSH6 |
NBN | PALB2 | PMS2 |
RAD51C | RAD51D | TDRD1 |
TP53 |
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