A review of prostate cancer genome-wide association studies (GWAS)

S Benafif, Z Kote-Jarai, RA Eeles - Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2018 - AACR
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in Europe and the United States. The
genetic heritability of prostate cancer is contributed to by both rarely occurring genetic …

The genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer and its clinical implications

R Eeles, C Goh, E Castro, E Bancroft, M Guy… - Nature reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Worldwide, familial and epidemiological studies have generated considerable evidence of
an inherited component to prostate cancer. Indeed, rare highly penetrant genetic mutations …

A systematic review of replication studies of prostate cancer susceptibility genetic variants in high-risk men originally identified from genome-wide association studies

MB Ishak, VN Giri - Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 2011 - AACR
Background: Several prostate cancer genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have
identified risk-associated genetic variants primarily in populations of European descent …

Post-GWAS in prostate cancer: from genetic association to biological contribution

S Farashi, T Kryza, J Clements, J Batra - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successful in deciphering the genetic
component of predisposition to many human complex diseases including prostate cancer …

A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

AA Al Olama, Z Kote-Jarai, SI Berndt, DV Conti… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with
prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify …

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to identify prostate cancer susceptibility loci associated with aggressive and non-aggressive disease

A Amin Al Olama, Z Kote-Jarai… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple common genetic variants
associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer (PrCa), but these explain less than one …

Genome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

FR Schumacher, SI Berndt, A Siddiq… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is the most common non-skin cancer diagnosed among males in
developed countries and the second leading cause of cancer mortality, yet little is known …

Genome-wide association study identifies a genetic variant associated with risk for more aggressive prostate cancer

LM FitzGerald, EM Kwon, MP Conomos, S Kolb… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2011 - AACR
Abstract Background: Of the 200,000 US men annually diagnosed with prostate cancer,
approximately 20% to 30% will have clinically aggressive disease. Although factors such as …

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

DV Conti, BF Darst, LC Moss, EJ Saunders, X Sheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a highly heritable disease with large disparities in incidence rates across
ancestry populations. We conducted a multiancestry meta-analysis of prostate cancer …

Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants

A Wang, J Shen, AA Rodriguez, EJ Saunders, F Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations
remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse …