Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Germline mutation landscape of DNA damage repair genes in African Americans with prostate cancer highlights potentially targetable RAD genes

  • Indu Kohaar,
  • Xijun Zhang,
  • Shyh-Han Tan,
  • Darryl Nousome,
  • Kevin Babcock,
  • Lakshmi Ravindranath,
  • Gauthaman Sukumar,
  • Elisa Mcgrath-Martinez,
  • John Rosenberger,
  • Camille Alba,
  • Amina Ali,
  • Denise Young,
  • Yongmei Chen,
  • Jennifer Cullen,
  • Inger L. Rosner,
  • Isabell A. Sesterhenn,
  • Albert Dobi,
  • Gregory Chesnut,
  • Clesson Turner,
  • Clifton Dalgard,
  • Matthew D. Wilkerson,
  • Harvey B. Pollard,
  • Shiv Srivastava,
  • Gyorgy Petrovics

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28945-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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DNA damage repair genes have been linked with increased aggressiveness of prostate cancer, however, the extent of mutation of these genes has not been analyzed within a cohort of African American patients. Here, the authors identify increased mutation rates in specific DNA repair genes, compared with prostate cancer patients with European Ancestry.