The personal and clinical utility of polygenic risk scores

A Torkamani, NE Wineinger, EJ Topol - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Initial expectations for genome-wide association studies were high, as such studies
promised to rapidly transform personalized medicine with individualized disease risk …

From genome-wide associations to candidate causal variants by statistical fine-mapping

DJ Schaid, W Chen, NB Larson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Advancing from statistical associations of complex traits with genetic markers to
understanding the functional genetic variants that influence traits is often a complex process …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of germline testing for prostate cancer: Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference 2019

VN Giri, KE Knudsen, WK Kelly, HH Cheng… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE Germline testing (GT) is a central feature of prostate cancer (PCA) treatment,
management, and hereditary cancer assessment. Critical needs include optimized …

[PDF][PDF] The epidemiology of prostate cancer

CH Pernar, EM Ebot, KM Wilson… - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer is a major cause of disease and mortality among men, and each year 1.6
million men are diagnosed with and 366,000 men die of prostate cancer. In this review, we …

Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

FR Schumacher, AA Al Olama, SI Berndt, S Benlloch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and fine-mapping efforts to date have identified
more than 100 prostate cancer (PrCa)-susceptibility loci. We meta-analyzed genotype data …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

A Abeshouse, J Ahn, R Akbani, A Ally, S Amin… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

Familial risk and heritability of cancer among twins in Nordic countries

LA Mucci, JB Hjelmborg, JR Harris, K Czene… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Estimates of familial cancer risk from population-based studies are essential
components of cancer risk prediction. Objective To estimate familial risk and heritability of …

Genome-wide association studies of cancer: current insights and future perspectives

A Sud, B Kinnersley, RS Houlston - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an agnostic approach for investigating
the genetic basis of complex diseases. In oncology, GWAS of nearly all common …