2022 update on prostate cancer epidemiology and risk factors—a systematic review

O Bergengren, KR Pekala, K Matsoukas, J Fainberg… - European urology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common cancers worldwide.
Understanding the epidemiology and risk factors of the disease is paramount to improve …

Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

AR Martin, M Kanai, Y Kamatani, Y Okada, BM Neale… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are poised to improve biomedical outcomes via precision
medicine. However, the major ethical and scientific challenge surrounding clinical …

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

Y Long, L Tang, Y Zhou, S Zhao, H Zhu - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence from observational studies and clinical trials suggests that the gut
microbiota is associated with cancer. However, the causal association between gut …

[HTML][HTML] Prostate cancer incidence and mortality: global status and temporal trends in 89 countries from 2000 to 2019

L Wang, B Lu, M He, Y Wang, Z Wang… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aims To evaluate current status of prostate cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, and
compare the global trends of incidence and mortality in the past two decades and in the …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …

Deciphering colorectal cancer genetics through multi-omic analysis of 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of European and east Asian ancestries

C Fernandez-Rozadilla, M Timofeeva, Z Chen, P Law… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. We conducted a genome-
wide association study meta-analysis of 100,204 CRC cases and 154,587 controls of …

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 …

Development of a clinical polygenic risk score assay and reporting workflow

L Hao, P Kraft, GF Berriz, ED Hynes, C Koch… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Implementation of polygenic risk scores (PRS) may improve disease prevention and
management but poses several challenges: the construction of clinically valid assays …

Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants

A Wang, J Shen, AA Rodriguez, EJ Saunders, F Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations
remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse …

LDpred2: better, faster, stronger

F Privé, J Arbel, BJ Vilhjálmsson - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Polygenic scores have become a central tool in human genetics research.
LDpred is a popular method for deriving polygenic scores based on summary statistics and …