Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

VA Zavala, PM Bracci, JM Carethers… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Racial disparities in B lack men with prostate cancer: A literature review

JW Lillard Jr, KA Moses, BA Mahal, DJ George - Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Black men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer (PCa), with earlier
presentation, more aggressive disease, and higher mortality rates versus White men …

[图书][B] Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

D Reich - 2018 - books.google.com
The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

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 …

MYC deregulation in primary human cancers

M Kalkat, J De Melo, KA Hickman, C Lourenco… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
MYC regulates a complex biological program by transcriptionally activating and repressing
its numerous target genes. As such, MYC is a master regulator of many processes, including …

International variation in prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates

MM Center, A Jemal, J Lortet-Tieulent, E Ward, J Ferlay… - European urology, 2012 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: Wide variation exists internationally for prostate cancer (PCa) rates due to
differences in detection practices, treatment, and lifestyle and genetic factors. OBJECTIVE …

Prostate cancer genetics: variation by race, ethnicity, and geography

TR Rebbeck - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer rates vary substantially by race, ethnicity, and geography. These disparities
can be explained by variation in access to screening and treatment, variation in exposure to …

Identifying causal variants at loci with multiple signals of association

F Hormozdiari, E Kostem, EY Kang… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Although genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of risk
loci for complex traits, only a handful of the biologically causal variants, responsible for …

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

TA Manolio, FS Collins, NJ Cox, DB Goldstein… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated
with complex human diseases and traits, and have provided valuable insights into their …

Advancing personalized medicine through the application of whole exome sequencing and big data analytics

P Suwinski, CK Ong, MHT Ling, YM Poh… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing attention toward personalized medicine. This is led by a fundamental
shift from the 'one size fits all'paradigm for treatment of patients with conditions or …