A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer.
Nat Genet
; 46(10): 1103-9, 2014 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-25217961
ABSTRACT
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify additional susceptibility loci for this common cancer, we conducted a meta-analysis of > 10 million SNPs in 43,303 prostate cancer cases and 43,737 controls from studies in populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry. Twenty-three new susceptibility loci were identified at association P < 5 × 10(-8); 15 variants were identified among men of European ancestry, 7 were identified in multi-ancestry analyses and 1 was associated with early-onset prostate cancer. These 23 variants, in combination with known prostate cancer risk variants, explain 33% of the familial risk for this disease in European-ancestry populations. These findings provide new regions for investigation into the pathogenesis of prostate cancer and demonstrate the usefulness of combining ancestrally diverse populations to discover risk loci for disease.
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01-internacional
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Próstata
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Predisposição Genética para Doença
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Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único
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Loci Gênicos
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2014
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Article