Researchers have for the first time found inherited genetic factors which raise the risk of testicular cancer.
A UK team found many testicular cancer patients shared common DNA variants on chromosomes five, six and 12 that healthy men did not have.
This finding was echoed in a separate US study in the same journal, Nature Genetics, which highlighted two of the same variations.
Both studies raise hopes of better treatments and diagnostic tests.
The UK team, from the Institute of Cancer Research, compared the profile of 730 testicular cancer patients with those of healthy men.
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