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 …

[HTML][HTML] The role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in prostate cancer

E Castro, R Eeles - Asian journal of andrology, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One of the strongest risk factors for prostate cancer is a family history of the disease.
Germline mutations in the breast cancer predisposition gene 2 (BRCA2) are the genetic …

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 …

A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

AA Al Olama, Z Kote-Jarai, SI Berndt, DV Conti… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with
prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify …

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 …

Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study

Z Kote-Jarai, AAA Olama, GG Giles, G Severi… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is the most frequently diagnosed male cancer in developed
countries. We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study for PrCa and …

Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

JD French, M Ghoussaini, SL Edwards… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Analysis of 4,405 variants in 89,050 European subjects from 41 case-control studies
identified three independent association signals for estrogen-receptor-positive tumors at …

Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for diffuse large B cell lymphoma

JR Cerhan, SI Berndt, J Vijai, H Ghesquières… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common lymphoma subtype and is
clinically aggressive. To identify genetic susceptibility loci for DLBCL, we conducted a meta …

The contribution of rare variation to prostate cancer heritability

N Mancuso, N Rohland, KA Rand, A Tandon, A Allen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report targeted sequencing of 63 known prostate cancer risk regions in a multi-ancestry
study of 9,237 men and use the data to explore the contribution of low-frequency variation to …

Comprehensive functional annotation of 77 prostate cancer risk loci

DJ Hazelett, SK Rhie, M Gaddis, C Yan… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revolutionized the field of cancer genetics,
but the causal links between increased genetic risk and onset/progression of disease …