Browsing by author "Saunders, Edward"
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12 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer identified by genome-wide association study in Japanese population.
Takata, R; Takahashi, A; Fujita, M; Momozawa, Y; Saunders, EJ; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2019-09-27)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ~170 genetic loci associated with prostate cancer (PCa) risk, but most of them were identified in European populations. We here performed a GWAS and replication study ... -
Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci.
Schumacher, FR; Al Olama, AA; Berndt, SI; Benlloch, S; Ahmed, M; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-07-01)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and fine-mapping efforts to date have identified more than 100 prostate cancer (PrCa)-susceptibility loci. We meta-analyzed genotype data from a custom high-density array of 46,939 ... -
Clonal hematopoiesis and risk of prostate cancer in large samples of European ancestry men.
Wang, A; Xu, Y; Yu, Y; Nead, KT; Kim, T; et al. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2023-01-13)Little is known regarding the potential relationship between clonal hematopoiesis (CH) of indeterminate potential (CHIP), which is the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells with somatic mutations, and risk of prostate ... -
Evidence of Novel Susceptibility Variants for Prostate Cancer and a Multiancestry Polygenic Risk Score Associated with Aggressive Disease in Men of African Ancestry.
Chen, F; Madduri, RK; Rodriguez, AA; Darst, BF; Chou, A; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2023-02-27)BACKGROUND: Genetic factors play an important role in prostate cancer (PCa) susceptibility. OBJECTIVE: To discover common genetic variants contributing to the risk of PCa in men of African ancestry. DESIGN, SETTING, AND ... -
Fine-mapping of prostate cancer susceptibility loci in a large meta-analysis identifies candidate causal variants.
Dadaev, T; Saunders, EJ; Newcombe, PJ; Anokian, E; Leongamornlert, DA; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-06-11)Prostate cancer is a polygenic disease with a large heritable component. A number of common, low-penetrance prostate cancer risk loci have been identified through GWAS. Here we apply the Bayesian multivariate variable ... -
Gene and pathway level analyses of germline DNA-repair gene variants and prostate cancer susceptibility using the iCOGS-genotyping array.
Saunders, EJ; Dadaev, T; Leongamornlert, DA; Al Olama, AA; Benlloch, S; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-04-12)BACKGROUND: Germline mutations within DNA-repair genes are implicated in susceptibility to multiple forms of cancer. For prostate cancer (PrCa), rare mutations in BRCA2 and BRCA1 give rise to moderately elevated risk, ... -
Germline DNA Repair Gene Mutations in Young-onset Prostate Cancer Cases in the UK: Evidence for a More Extensive Genetic Panel.
Leongamornlert, DA; Saunders, EJ; Wakerell, S; Whitmore, I; Dadaev, T; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2019-09-01)BACKGROUND: Rare germline mutations in DNA repair genes are associated with prostate cancer (PCa) predisposition and prognosis. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the frequency of germline DNA repair gene mutations in UK PCa cases and ... -
Germline genetic variation in prostate susceptibility does not predict outcomes in the chemoprevention trials PCPT and SELECT.
Ahmed, M; Goh, C; Saunders, E; Cieza-Borrella, C; PRACTICAL consortium,; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2020-06-01)BACKGROUND: The development of prostate cancer can be influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Numerous germline SNPs influence prostate cancer susceptibility. The functional pathways in which these SNPs increase ... -
Germline Sequencing DNA Repair Genes in 5545 Men With Aggressive and Nonaggressive Prostate Cancer.
Darst, BF; Dadaev, T; Saunders, E; Sheng, X; Wan, P; et al. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2021-05-04)BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need to identify factors specifically associated with aggressive prostate cancer (PCa) risk. We investigated whether rare pathogenic, likely pathogenic, or deleterious (P/LP/D) germline ... -
Germline variation at 8q24 and prostate cancer risk in men of European ancestry.
Matejcic, M; Saunders, EJ; Dadaev, T; Brook, MN; Wang, K; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-11-05)Chromosome 8q24 is a susceptibility locus for multiple cancers, including prostate cancer. Here we combine genetic data across the 8q24 susceptibility region from 71,535 prostate cancer cases and 52,935 controls of European ... -
Identification of Genes with Rare Loss of Function Variants Associated with Aggressive Prostate Cancer and Survival.
Saunders, EJ; Dadaev, T; Brook, MN; Wakerell, S; Govindasami, K; et al. (Elsevier BV, 2024-03-07)BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer (PrCa) is a substantial cause of mortality among men globally. Rare germline mutations in BRCA2 have been validated robustly as increasing risk of aggressive forms with a poorer prognosis; ... -
Identification of Germline Genetic Variants that Increase Prostate Cancer Risk and Influence Development of Aggressive Disease.
Saunders, EJ; Kote-Jarai, Z; Eeles, RA (MDPI, 2021-02-12)Prostate cancer (PrCa) is a heterogeneous disease, which presents in individual patients across a diverse phenotypic spectrum ranging from indolent to fatal forms. No robust biomarkers are currently available to enable ... -
LocusExplorer: a user-friendly tool for integrated visualization of human genetic association data and biological annotations.
Dadaev, T; Leongamornlert, DA; Saunders, EJ; Eeles, R; Kote-Jarai, Z (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2016-03-15)UNLABELLED: : In this article, we present LocusExplorer, a data visualization and exploration tool for genetic association data. LocusExplorer is written in R using the Shiny library, providing access to powerful R-based ... -
Prostate cancer risk in men of differing genetic ancestry and approaches to disease screening and management in these groups.
McHugh, J; Saunders, EJ; Dadaev, T; McGrowder, E; Bancroft, E; et al. (SPRINGERNATURE, 2022-06-01)Prostate cancer is the second most common solid tumour in men worldwide and it is also the most common cancer affecting men of African descent. Prostate cancer incidence and mortality vary across regions and populations. ... -
Rare Germline Variants Are Associated with Rapid Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostate Cancer Treatment: A Pan Prostate Cancer Group Study.
Burns, D; Anokian, E; Saunders, EJ; Bristow, RG; Fraser, M; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2022-08-01)BACKGROUND: Germline variants explain more than a third of prostate cancer (PrCa) risk, but very few associations have been identified between heritable factors and clinical progression. OBJECTIVE: To find rare germline ... -
Rare Germline Variants in ATM Predispose to Prostate Cancer: A PRACTICAL Consortium Study.
Karlsson, Q; Brook, MN; Dadaev, T; Wakerell, S; Saunders, EJ; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2021-01-09)BACKGROUND: Germline ATM mutations are suggested to contribute to predisposition to prostate cancer (PrCa). Previous studies have had inadequate power to estimate variant effect sizes. OBJECTIVE: To precisely estimate the ... -
Rare germline variants in DNA repair genes and the angiogenesis pathway predispose prostate cancer patients to develop metastatic disease.
Mijuskovic, M; Saunders, EJ; Leongamornlert, DA; Wakerell, S; Whitmore, I; et al. (SPRINGERNATURE, 2018-07-03)BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer (PrCa) demonstrates a heterogeneous clinical presentation ranging from largely indolent to lethal. We sought to identify a signature of rare inherited variants that distinguishes between these ... -
Serum testosterone and prostate cancer in men with germline BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants.
Dias, A; Brook, MN; Bancroft, EK; Page, EC; Chamberlain, A; et al. (WILEY, 2023-05-01)OBJECTIVES: The relation of serum androgens and the development of prostate cancer (PCa) is subject of debate. Lower total testosterone (TT) levels have been associated with increased PCa detection and worse pathological ... -
The BARCODE1 Pilot: a feasibility study of using germline single nucleotide polymorphisms to target prostate cancer screening.
Benafif, S; Ni Raghallaigh, H; McGrowder, E; Saunders, EJ; Brook, MN; et al. (WILEY, 2021-07-02)OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility and uptake of a community-based prostate cancer (PCa) screening programme selecting men according to their genetic risk of PCa. To assess the uptake of PCa screening investigations by ... -
The PROFILE Feasibility Study: Targeted Screening of Men With a Family History of Prostate Cancer.
Castro, E; Mikropoulos, C; Bancroft, EK; Dadaev, T; Goh, C; et al. (WILEY, 2016-06-01)BACKGROUND: A better assessment of individualized prostate cancer (PrCa) risk is needed to improve screening. The use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level for screening in the general population has limitations and ...