LMTK2 and benign prostatic hyperplasia: We measured the abundance of each LMTK2 allele of rs6465657 in 17 heterozygous individuals, and determined that transcripts bearing the rs3801294 'A' allele, which is in perfect linkage disequilibrium (r2 = 1; D' = 1) with the protective 'T' allele at rs6465657, were significantly less abundant in heterozygous BPH tissues than were those carrying the 'G' allele, linked to the 'C' allele of rs6465657.