Family history of prostate cancer (PCa) is a well-known risk factor, and both common and rare genetic variants are associated with the disease.
To detect new genetic variants associated with PCa, capitalizing on the role of family history and more aggressive PCa.
A two-stage design was used. In stage one, whole-exome sequencing was used to identify potential risk alleles among affected men with a strong family history of disease or with more aggressive disease (491 cases and 429 controls). Aggressive disease was based on a sum of scores for Gleason score, node status, metastasis, tumor stage, prostate-specific antigen at diagnosis, systemic recurrence, and time to PCa death. Genes identified in stage one were screened in stage two using a custom-capture design in an independent set of 2917 cases and 1899 controls.
Frequencies of genetic variants (singly or jointly in a gene) were compared between cases and controls.
Eleven genes previously reported to be associated with PCa were detected (ATM, BRCA2, HOXB13, FAM111A, EMSY, HNF1B, KLK3, MSMB, PCAT1, PRSS3, and TERT), as well as an additional 10 novel genes (PABPC1, QK1, FAM114A1, MUC6, MYCBP2, RAPGEF4, RNASEH2B, ULK4, XPO7, and THAP3). Of these 10 novel genes, all but PABPC1 and ULK4 were primarily associated with the risk of aggressive PCa.
Our approach demonstrates the advantage of gene sequencing in the search for genetic variants associated with PCa and the benefits of sampling patients with a strong family history of disease or an aggressive form of disease.
Multiple genes are associated with prostate cancer (PCa) among men with a strong family history of this disease or among men with an aggressive form of PCa.
European urology. 2020 Aug 13 [Epub ahead of print]
Daniel J Schaid, Shannon K McDonnell, Liesel M FitzGerald, Lissa DeRycke, Zachary Fogarty, Graham G Giles, Robert J MacInnis, Melissa C Southey, Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Oliver Cussenot, Alice S Whittemore, Weiva Sieh, Nilah Monnier Ioannidis, Chih-Lin Hsieh, Janet L Stanford, Johanna Schleutker, Cheryl D Cropp, John Carpten, Josef Hoegel, Rosalind Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Michael J Ackerman, Christopher J Klein, Diptasri Mandal, Kathleen A Cooney, Joan E Bailey-Wilson, Brian Helfand, William J Catalona, Fredrick Wiklund, Shaun Riska, Saurabh Bahetti, Melissa C Larson, Lisa Cannon Albright, Craig Teerlink, Jianfeng Xu, William Isaacs, Elaine A Ostrander, Stephen N Thibodeau
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