© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org 1 A distinct ERCC1 haplotype is associated with mRNA expression levels in prostate cancer patients Andreas Woelfelschneider 1 , Odilia Popanda 1* , Carmen Lilla 2 , Jakob Linseisen 2 , Claudia Mayer 1 , Oktay Celebi 3 , Jürgen Debus 3 , Helmut Bartsch 1 , Jenny Chang-Claude 2 , Peter Schmezer 1 Departments of Toxicology and Cancer Risk Factors 1 and Cancer Epidemiology 2 , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology 3 , University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany Running title: ERCC1 haplotype and mRNA expression *Correspondence to: O. Popanda, Division of Toxicology and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; E-mail: o.popanda@dkfz.de Carcinogenesis Advance Access published March 10, 2008 by guest on December 3, 2015 http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from