Epidemiology and risk factors for ovarian cancer

AT Ali, O Al-Ani, F Al-Ani - Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny, 2023 - termedia.pl
Ovarian cancer is a complex disease, mostly observed in postmenopausal women, and is
associated with poor survival rates. It is the sixth most common cancer and the fifth most …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic risk factors for cervical cancer

D Ramachandran, T Dörk - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cervical cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in
females worldwide. Despite an active immunisation strategy in many countries, high-risk …

A new method for multiancestry polygenic prediction improves performance across diverse populations

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) increasingly predict complex traits; however, suboptimal
performance in non-European populations raise concerns about clinical applications and …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis demonstrates that integrating polygenic risk scores with modifiable risk factors improves risk prediction

L Kachuri, RE Graff, K Smith-Byrne, TJ Meyers… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer risk is determined by a complex interplay of environmental and heritable factors.
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) provide a personalized genetic susceptibility profile that may be …

Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types

S Byrne, T Boyle, M Ahmed, SH Lee… - International Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Genetic and lifestyle factors are associated with cancer risk. We investigated
the benefits of adhering to lifestyle advice by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) with …

[HTML][HTML] Can polygenic risk scores contribute to cost-effective cancer screening? A systematic review

P Dixon, E Keeney, JC Taylor, S Wordsworth… - Genetics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Polygenic risk influences susceptibility to cancer. We assessed whether polygenic
risk scores could be used in conjunction with other predictors of future disease status in cost …

[HTML][HTML] Prostate cancer polygenic risk score and prediction of lethal prostate cancer

RJ Klein, E Vertosick, D Sjoberg, D Ulmert… - NPJ precision …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for prostate cancer incidence have been proposed to optimize
prostate cancer screening. Prediction of lethal prostate cancer is key to any stratified …

[HTML][HTML] Multiethnic polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations through transfer learning

P Tian, TH Chan, YF Wang, W Yang, G Yin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) leverage the genetic contribution of an individual's genotype to
a complex trait by estimating disease risk. Traditional PRS prediction methods are …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores for disease risk prediction in Africa: current challenges and future directions

S Fatumo, D Sathan, C Samtal, I Isewon, T Tamuhla… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Early identification of genetic risk factors for complex diseases can enable timely
interventions and prevent serious outcomes, including mortality. While the genetics …

[HTML][HTML] 10 Years of GWAS discovery in endometrial cancer: Aetiology, function and translation

X Wang, DM Glubb, TA O'Mara - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Endometrial cancer is a common gynaecological cancer with increasing incidence and
mortality. In the last decade, endometrial cancer genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …