Results of this study by Haojie Li and colleagues suggest that vitamin D deficiency is common among men in the US, and that vitamin D status and genetic variation in the VDR gene affect prostate cancer risk.
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Citation: Citation: Li H, Stampfer MJ, Hollis JBW, Mucci LA, Gaziano JM, et al. (2007) A prospective study of plasma vitamin D metabolites, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms, and prostate cancer. PLoS Med 4(3): e103.
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