Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

8q24 genetic variation and comprehensive haplotypes altering familial risk of prostate cancer

  • William D. Dupont,
  • Joan P. Breyer,
  • W. Dale Plummer,
  • Sam S. Chang,
  • Michael S. Cookson,
  • Joseph A. Smith,
  • University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics,
  • Elizabeth E. Blue,
  • Michael J. Bamshad,
  • Jeffrey R. Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15122-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Inherited alterations of the 8q24 genomic locus are linked to cancer etiology. Here, the authors investigate hereditary prostate cancer to reveal ancestral risk-altering haplotypes, the sentinel genetic variants optimally predicting risk, and causal mutation candidates.