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Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation

Authors :
Alexander Gusev
Huwenbo Shi
Gleb Kichaev
Mark Pomerantz
Fugen Li
Henry W. Long
Sue A. Ingles
Rick A. Kittles
Sara S. Strom
Benjamin A. Rybicki
Barbara Nemesure
William B. Isaacs
Wei Zheng
Curtis A. Pettaway
Edward D. Yeboah
Yao Tettey
Richard B. Biritwum
Andrew A. Adjei
Evelyn Tay
Ann Truelove
Shelley Niwa
Anand P. Chokkalingam
Esther M. John
Adam B. Murphy
Lisa B. Signorello
John Carpten
M. Cristina Leske
Suh-Yuh Wu
Anslem J. M. Hennis
Christine Neslund-Dudas
Ann W. Hsing
Lisa Chu
Phyllis J. Goodman
Eric A. Klein
John S. Witte
Graham Casey
Sam Kaggwa
Michael B. Cook
Daniel O. Stram
William J. Blot
Rosalind A. Eeles
Douglas Easton
ZSofia Kote-Jarai
Ali Amin Al Olama
Sara Benlloch
Kenneth Muir
Graham G. Giles
Melissa C. Southey
Liesel M. Fitzgerald
Henrik Gronberg
Fredrik Wiklund
Markus Aly
Brian E. Henderson
Johanna Schleutker
Tiina Wahlfors
Teuvo L. J. Tammela
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Tim J. Key
Ruth C. Travis
David E. Neal
Jenny L. Donovan
Freddie C. Hamdy
Paul Pharoah
Nora Pashayan
Kay-Tee Khaw
Janet L. Stanford
Stephen N. Thibodeau
Shannon K. McDonnell
Daniel J. Schaid
Christiane Maier
Walther Vogel
Manuel Luedeke
Kathleen Herkommer
Adam S. Kibel
Cezary Cybulski
Dominika Wokolorczyk
Wojciech Kluzniak
Lisa Cannon-Albright
Craig Teerlink
Hermann Brenner
Aida K. Dieffenbach
Volker Arndt
Jong Y. Park
Thomas A. Sellers
Hui-Yi Lin
Chavdar Slavov
Radka Kaneva
Vanio Mitev
Jyotsna Batra
Amanda Spurdle
Judith A. Clements
Manuel R. Teixeira
Hardev Pandha
Agnieszka Michael
Paula Paulo
Sofia Maia
Andrzej Kierzek
The PRACTICAL consortium
David V. Conti
Demetrius Albanes
Christine Berg
Sonja I. Berndt
Daniele Campa
E. David Crawford
W. Ryan Diver
Susan M. Gapstur
J. Michael Gaziano
Edward Giovannucci
Robert Hoover
David J. Hunter
Mattias Johansson
Peter Kraft
Loic Le Marchand
Sara Lindström
Carmen Navarro
Kim Overvad
Elio Riboli
Afshan Siddiq
Victoria L. Stevens
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Paolo Vineis
Meredith Yeager
Gosia Trynka
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Frederick R. Schumacher
Alkes L. Price
Matthew L. Freedman
Christopher A. Haiman
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2016.

Abstract

Over one hundred loci have been identified to be associated with the familial risk of prostate cancer but the functional effects are poorly understood. Here the authors use single-nucleotide variant and epigentic data to show an underlying genetic architecture marked by histone modification.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
7
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.4bbdf2c86b748b69179c08e3173c667
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10979