Early Prostate Cancer Deaths Among Men With Higher vs Lower Genetic Risk

A Plym, Y Zhang, KH Stopsack… - JAMA network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Prostate cancer, a leading cause of cancer death among men, urgently requires
new prevention strategies, which may involve targeting men with an underlying genetic …

Genetics of prostate cancer: a review of latest evidence

R Hall, E Bancroft, N Pashayan, Z Kote-Jarai… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmg.bmj.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is a largely heritable and polygenic disease. It is the most common
cancer in people with prostates (PwPs) in Europe and the USA, including in PwPs of African …

Understanding and Addressing Prostate Cancer Disparities in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes Among Black Men

A Murphy, CC Cottrell-Daniels, S Awasthi… - Cancer …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite advances in screening, diagnosis, and treatment for prostate cancer (PCa), Black
men tend to be diagnosed at younger ages, have higher mortality rates, and are at …

Integrating muti-omics data to identify tissue-specific DNA methylation biomarkers for cancer risk

Y Yang, Y Chen, S Xu, X Guo, G Jia, J Ping… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The relationship between tissue-specific DNA methylation and cancer risk remains
inadequately elucidated. Leveraging resources from the Genotype-Tissue Expression …

Hierarchical joint analysis of marginal summary statistics—Part I: Multipopulation fine mapping and credible set construction

J Shen, L Jiang, K Wang, A Wang, F Chen… - Genetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advancement in genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) comes from not only
increasingly larger sample sizes but also the shift in focus towards underrepresented …

Are We Losing the Final Fight against Cancer?

G Storme - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary From a scientific perspective, we are beginning to comprehend the
evolution of cancer better, but much remains unknown. The quantity of medications has …

A west African ancestry‐associated SNP on 8q24 predicts a positive biopsy in African American men with suspected prostate cancer following PSA screening

J Gu, L Chery, GMN González, C Huff, S Strom… - The …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background African American (AA) men have the highest incidence and mortality
rates of prostate cancer (PCa) among all racial groups in the United States. While race is a …

Association of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists with risk of cancers-evidence from a drug target Mendelian randomization and clinical trials

Y Sun, Y Liu, Y Dian, F Zeng, G Deng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP1R) agonists have been approved by
Food and Drug Administration for management of obesity. However, the causal relationship …

Using gene and gene-set association tests to identify lethal prostate cancer genes

BJ Feng, JL Boyle, J Wei, C Carroll… - Prostate Cancer and …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Recent advances in the detection and treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) have
reduced morbidity and mortality from this common cancer. Despite these improvements …

An Inherited Allele Confers Prostate Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance via RFX6/HOXA10‐Orchestrated TGFβ Signaling

M Zhong, W Xu, P Tian, Q Zhang, Z Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic and epigenetic alterations are cancer hallmark characteristics. However, the role of
inherited cancer predisposition alleles in co‐opting lineage factor epigenetic reprogramming …