A genetic link between type 2 diabetes and prostate cancer

T. M. Frayling; H. Colhoun; J. C. Florez

doi:10.1007/s00125-008-1114-9

A genetic link between type 2 diabetes and prostate cancer

T. M. Frayling
, H. Colhoun
, J. C. Florez

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Abstract

Epidemiological studies suggest that men with type 2 diabetes are less likely than non-diabetic men to develop prostate cancer. The cause of this association is not known. Recent genetic studies have highlighted a potential genetic link between the two diseases. Two studies have identified a version (allele) of a variant in the HNF1B (also known as TCF2) gene that predisposes to type 2 diabetes, and one of them showed that the same allele protects men from prostate cancer. Other, separate, studies have identified different variants in the JAZF1 gene, one associated with type 2 diabetes, another associated with prostate cancer. These findings are unlikely to completely explain the epidemiological association between the two diseases but they provide new insight into a possible direct causal link, rather than one that is confounded or biased in some way.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1757-1760
Number of pages	4
Journal	Diabetologia
Volume	51
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-008-1114-9
Publication status	Published - Oct 2008

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Keywords

Epidemiology
Genes
Genome-wide association study
Pleiotropy
Prostate cancer
Transcription factors
Type 2 diabetes
Genome-wide association
Metabolic syndrome
Reduced risk
US men
Variants
Mellitus
Mutations
Multiple
Loci
Susceptibility

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A genetic link between type 2 diabetes and prostate cancer

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