Epidemiology and prevention of prostate cancer

G Gandaglia, R Leni, F Bray, N Fleshner… - European urology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Worldwide, prostate cancer (PCa) represents the second most common
solid tumor in men. Objective To assess the geographical distribution of PCa …

Prostate Cancer Foundation screening guidelines for Black men in the United States

IP Garraway, SV Carlsson, YA Nyame, JL Vassy… - NEJM …, 2024 - evidence.nejm.org
Abstract Background In the United States, Black men are at highest risk for being diagnosed
with and dying from prostate cancer. Given this disparity, we examined relevant data to …

Cancer statistics for African American/black people 2022

AN Giaquinto, KD Miller, KY Tossas… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract African American/Black individuals have a disproportionate cancer burden,
including the highest mortality and the lowest survival of any racial/ethnic group for most …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer

J Byun, Y Han, Y Li, J **a, E Long, J Choi, X **ao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To identify new susceptibility loci to lung cancer among diverse populations, we performed
cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies in European, East Asian and African …

[HTML][HTML] Disparities and trends in genitourinary cancer incidence and mortality in the USA

EJ Schafer, A Jemal, D Wiese, H Sung, TB Kratzer… - European urology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Previous studies have reported on incidence and mortality patterns for
individual genitourinary cancers in the USA. However, these studies addressed individual …

Plasma metabolites and risk of seven cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study among European descendants

Y Chen, Y **e, H Ci, Z Cheng, Y Kuang, S Li, G Wang… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background While circulating metabolites have been increasingly linked to cancer risk, the
causality underlying these associations remains largely uninterrogated. Methods We …

Pan-UK Biobank GWAS improves discovery, analysis of genetic architecture, and resolution into ancestry-enriched effects

KJ Karczewski, R Gupta, M Kanai, W Lu, K Tsuo… - MedRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Large biobanks, such as the UK Biobank (UKB), enable massive phenome by genome-wide
association studies that elucidate genetic etiology of complex traits. However, individuals …