DNA methylation markers for risk of metastasis in a cohort of men with localized prostate cancer

TS Habeshian, KL Cannavale, JM Slezak, YH Shu… - Epigenetics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Accurately identifying life-threatening prostate cancer (PCa) at time of diagnosis remains an
unsolved problem. We evaluated whether DNA methylation status of selected candidate …

Association of imputed prostate cancer transcriptome with disease risk reveals novel mechanisms

NC Emami, L Kachuri, TJ Meyers, R Das… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Here we train cis-regulatory models of prostate tissue gene expression and impute
expression transcriptome-wide for 233,955 European ancestry men (14,616 prostate cancer …

Genomic DNA methylation-derived algorithm enables accurate detection of malignant prostate tissues

E Aref-Eshghi, LC Schenkel, P Ainsworth, H Lin… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The current methodology involving diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) relies on
the pathology examination of prostate needle biopsies, a method with high false negative …

Random forest-based modelling to detect biomarkers for prostate cancer progression

R Toth, H Schiffmann, C Hube-Magg, F Büscheck… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Background The clinical course of prostate cancer (PCa) is highly variable, demanding an
individualized approach to therapy. Overtreatment of indolent PCa cases, which likely do not …

DNA methylome changes by estradiol benzoate and bisphenol A links early-life environmental exposures to prostate cancer risk

A Cheong, X Zhang, YY Cheung, W Tang, J Chen… - Epigenetics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Developmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), 17β-estradiol-3-
benzoate (EB) and bisphenol A (BPA), increases susceptibility to prostate cancer (PCa) in …

Genome-wide methylation analysis identifies involvement of TNF-α mediated cancer pathways in prostate cancer

SJ Kim, WK Kelly, A Fu, K Haines, A Hoffman, T Zheng… - Cancer letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Altered signaling pathways resulting from aberrant changes in epigenetic parameters may
play a pivotal role in carcinogenesis. To identify biological pathways likely to be affected by …

Genome-wide DNA methylation model for the diagnosis of prostate cancer

JB Nikas, EG Nikas - ACS omega, 2019 - ACS Publications
Prostate cancer is the most prevalent and the second most lethal malignancy among males
in the United States of America. Its diagnosis is almost entirely predicated upon …

The genomic impact of DNA CpG methylation on gene expression; relationships in prostate cancer

MD Long, DJ Smiraglia, MJ Campbell - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
The process of DNA CpG methylation has been extensively investigated for over 50 years
and revealed associations between changing methylation status of CpG islands and gene …

Prostate cancer genomics, biology, and risk assessment through genome‐wide association studies

H Nakagawa, S Akamatsu, R Takata… - Cancer …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common malignancy observed in men. It is evident that
genetic factors play some important roles in PC etiology. Recently, genome‐wide …

Functional annotation of risk loci identified through genome‐wide association studies for prostate cancer

Y Lu, Z Zhang, H Yu, SL Zheng, WB Isaacs, J Xu… - The …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The majority of established prostate cancer (PCa) risk‐associated single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified from genome‐wide association studies do not …