Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome is associated with prostate cancer risk

RL Kelly, W Zhou, KM Barnao, CD Young, AK Hubbard… - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY), a type of clonal hematopoiesis, is the most
frequent chromosomal alteration observed in leukocytes of aging men. mLOY is a putative …

Mosaic Y loss is moderately associated with solid tumor risk

E Loftfield, W Zhou, M Yeager, SJ Chanock… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) in peripheral leukocytes is a somatic event in
which a fraction of leukocytes have lost the entire Y chromosome. The frequency of mLOY …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic association of mosaic loss of chromosome Y with prostate cancer in men of European and East Asian ancestries: a Mendelian randomization study

T Kobayashi, T Hachiya, Y Ikehata, S Horie - Frontiers in Aging, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Genomic instability is a significant hallmark of aging and has a major impact on
aging biology. Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) in blood cells is a common …

Mosaic chromosome Y loss is associated with alterations in blood cell counts in UK Biobank men

SH Lin, E Loftfield, JN Sampson, W Zhou, M Yeager… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of Y chromosome (mLOY) is the most frequently detected somatic copy number
alteration in leukocytes of men. In this study, we investigate blood cell counts as a potential …

Predictors of mosaic chromosome Y loss and associations with mortality in the UK Biobank

E Loftfield, W Zhou, BI Graubard, M Yeager… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) is the most commonly reported large structural
somatic event. Previous studies have indicated age and cigarette smoking increase the risk …

Loss of chromosome Y in regulatory T cells

J Mattisson, J Halvardson, H Davies… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in leukocytes is the most prevalent somatic
aneuploidy in aging humans. Men with LOY have increased risks of all-cause mortality and …

Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood is associated with genomic instability in other tissues and susceptibility to non-haematological cancers

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

Loss of Y chromosome in peripheral blood of colorectal and prostate cancer patients

P Noveski, S Madjunkova, E Sukarova Stefanovska… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Although age-related loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in normal hematopoietic
cells is a well-known phenomenon, the phenotypic consequences of LOY have been …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood. Nature, 575, 652–657. https://doi. org/10.1038/s41586-019-1765-3

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, S Kar, J Perry - research-information.bris.ac.uk
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood is associated with shorter survival and higher risk of cancer

LA Forsberg, C Rasi, N Malmqvist, H Davies… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Incidence and mortality for sex-unspecific cancers are higher among men, a fact that is
largely unexplained,. Furthermore, age-related loss of chromosome Y (LOY) is frequent in …