Familial testicular cancer: lack of evidence for trinucleotide repeat expansions and association with PKD1 in one family

[...]these findings are interesting and have not been described before. Besides chance coincidence, a common aetiology for both conditions cannot be ruled out, especially in view of the fact that the kidney and testis share the same embryological origin, the urogenital ridge. [...]we failed to find any evidence of excess CAG/CTG expansions in our series as compared with the general white population.