abstract |
A method for diagnosing prostate cancer, the method comprising the step of detecting in a sample of the patient the level of an expression product of a human endogenous retrovirus (PCAV) located in megabase 20,428 of chromosome 22 in which the product of Expression is a transcript of mRNA or a polypeptide and in which the level of expression product in the patient sample is compared with a control sample. |