Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10979
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.