Nearly 80 percent of white men carry a variant form of this gene, which increased risk of testicular cancer up to threefold in the study. (sciencedaily.com)
Potential advantages include prevention of mammary cancer and pyometra (a life - threatening uterine infection) in females, and prevention or reduced risk of testicular cancer, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and perineal hernias in males. (drjensdogblog.com)
Testing for these variants combined with all 21 previously identified using genetic sequencing identified men with a 10-fold higher risk of testicular cancer than the population average. (sciencedaily.com)