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 …

Genome-wide association studies and beyond

JS Witte - Annual review of public health, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an important avenue for undertaking an
agnostic evaluation of the association between common genetic variants and risk of …

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

RA Eeles, AAA Olama, S Benlloch, EJ Saunders… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To
identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

GRASP: analysis of genotype–phenotype results from 1390 genome-wide association studies and corresponding open access database

R Leslie, CJ O'Donnell, AD Johnson - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We created a deeply extracted and annotated database of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) results. GRASP v1. 0 contains> 6.2 million SNP-phenotype association from among …

Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study

RA Eeles, Z Kote-Jarai, AA Al Olama, GG Giles… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed
countries. To identify common PrCa susceptibility alleles, we previously conducted a …

Genome-wide association and replication studies identify four variants associated with prostate cancer susceptibility

J Gudmundsson, P Sulem, DF Gudbjartsson… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
We report a prostate cancer genome-wide association follow-on study. We discovered four
variants associated with susceptibility to prostate cancer in several European populations …

Cohort profile: the Melbourne collaborative cohort study (health 2020)

RL Milne, AS Fletcher, RJ MacInnis… - International journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS), also known as Health 2020, was
planned in the late 1980s and established in the early 1990s as an omnibus cohort to …

Cancer prevention: obstacles, challenges, and the road ahead

FL Meyskens Jr, H Mukhtar, CL Rock… - Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Approaches to reduce the global burden of cancer include two major strategies: screening
and early detection and active preventive intervention. The latter is the topic of this …

Characterizing genetic risk at known prostate cancer susceptibility loci in African Americans

CA Haiman, GK Chen, WJ Blot, SS Strom… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
GWAS of prostate cancer have been remarkably successful in revealing common genetic
variants and novel biological pathways that are linked with its etiology. A more complete …

The effects of height and BMI on prostate cancer incidence and mortality: a Mendelian randomization study in 20,848 cases and 20,214 controls from the PRACTICAL …

NM Davies, TR Gaunt, SJ Lewis, J Holly… - Cancer Causes & …, 2015 - Springer
Background Epidemiological studies suggest a potential role for obesity and determinants of
adult stature in prostate cancer risk and mortality, but the relationships described in the …