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The HPFS study is supported by NIH grants CA CA55075 and 5U01CA098233-04. The ACS study is supported by U01 CA098710. The ATBC study is supported by NIH contracts N01-CN-45165, N01-RC-45035 and N01-RC-37004. F.R.S. is supported by an NRSA training grant (T32 CA 09001). P.F. is supported by a UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grant (GR/S18786). M.M. is supported by the Wellcome Trust. N.O., R.B.H., S.W., K.Y., N.C., M.T., J.F.F., R.H., S.J.C. and G.T. are supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute (US National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services).

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1. SAIC-Frederick, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, 21702, Maryland, USA
   Meredith Yeager, Zhaoming Wang, Robert Welch & Brian J Staats
2. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Center for Cancer Research, NCI, US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA
   Meredith Yeager, Richard B Hayes, Sholom Wacholder, Kai Yu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Zhaoming Wang, Robert Welch, Brian J Staats, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie Weinstein, Margaret Tucker, Joseph F Fraumeni Jr, Robert Hoover, David J Hunter, Stephen J Chanock & Gilles Thomas
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Yeager, M., Orr, N., Hayes, R. et al. Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24.Nat Genet 39, 645–649 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng2022

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• Received: 16 January 2006
• Accepted: 07 March 2007
• Published: 01 April 2007
• Issue Date: May 2007
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng2022