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Nature Clinical Practice Urology (2007) 4, 677-687
doi:10.1038/ncpuro0946  
Received 29 June 2007 | Accepted 24 August 2007

Mechanisms of Disease: biomarkers and molecular targets from microarray gene expression studies in prostate cancer

Colin S Cooper*, Colin Campbell and Sameer Jhavar

Correspondence *Male Urological Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK

Email
 colin.cooper@icr.ac.uk

Current tests for the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer have limited sensitivity and specificity, and new biomarkers are being investigated. This Review discusses the use of molecular techniques for research into gene expression in prostate cancer and the biomarkers identified that could prove to be useful in the diagnosis and categorization of prostate cancer.

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