The role of HOX transcription factors in cancer predisposition and progression

B Li, Q Huang, GH Wei - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Homeobox (HOX) transcription factors, encoded by a subset of homeodomain superfamily
genes, play pivotal roles in many aspects of cellular physiology, embryonic development …

Phytochemicals in prostate cancer: from bioactive molecules to upcoming therapeutic agents

B Salehi, PVT Fokou, LRT Yamthe, BT Tali… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, the second deadliest malignancy in men and
the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men. Traditional plants have been applied to …

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

JR Huyghe, SA Bien, TA Harrison, HM Kang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-
genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence …

Genome-wide germline correlates of the epigenetic landscape of prostate cancer

KE Houlahan, YJ Shiah, A Gusev, J Yuan, M Ahmed… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Oncogenesis is driven by germline, environmental and stochastic factors. It is unknown how
these interact to produce the molecular phenotypes of tumors. We therefore quantified the …

The long and the short of it: the MDM4 tail so far

S Haupt, JO Mejía-Hernández… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The mouse double minute 4 (MDM4) is emerging from the shadow of its more famous
relative MDM2 and is starting to steal the limelight, largely due to its therapeutic possibilities …

First-degree family history of breast cancer is associated with prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ZJ Ren, DH Cao, Q Zhang, PW Ren, LR Liu, Q Wei… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background The relationship between first-degree family history of female breast cancer and
prostate cancer risk in the general population remains unclear. We performed a meta …

A new era of prostate cancer precision medicine

A Malik, S Srinivasan, J Batra - Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Prostate cancer is the second most common male cancer affecting Western society. Despite
substantial advances in the exploration of prostate cancer biomarkers and treatment …

Genome-wide associations reveal human-mouse genetic convergence and modifiers of myogenesis, CPNE1 and STC2

AIH Cordero, NM Gonzales, CC Parker… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Muscle bulk in adult healthy humans is highly variable even after height, age, and sex are
accounted for. Low muscle mass, due to fewer and/or smaller constituent muscle fibers …

Hereditary prostate cancer–Primetime for genetic testing?

I Heidegger, I Tsaur, H Borgmann, C Surcel… - Cancer treatment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) remains the most common cancer in men. The proportion of all PCa
attributable to high-risk hereditary factors has been estimated to 5–15%. Recent landmark …

12 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer identified by genome-wide association study in Japanese population

R Takata, A Takahashi, M Fujita, Y Momozawa… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified~ 170 genetic loci associated with
prostate cancer (PCa) risk, but most of them were identified in European populations. We …