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. 2021 Feb 23;12(1):1236.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21287-0.

Polygenic hazard score is associated with prostate cancer in multi-ethnic populations

Minh-Phuong Huynh-Le  1   2 Chun Chieh Fan  2 Roshan Karunamuni  1   2 Wesley K Thompson  3   4 Maria Elena Martinez  5 Rosalind A Eeles  6   7 Zsofia Kote-Jarai  6 Kenneth Muir  8   9 Johanna Schleutker  10   11 Nora Pashayan  12   13   14 Jyotsna Batra  15   16 Henrik Grönberg  17 David E Neal  18   19   20 Jenny L Donovan  21 Freddie C Hamdy  22   23 Richard M Martin  21   24   25 Sune F Nielsen  26   27 Børge G Nordestgaard  26   27 Fredrik Wiklund  17 Catherine M Tangen  28 Graham G Giles  29   30   31 Alicja Wolk  32   33 Demetrius Albanes  34 Ruth C Travis  35 William J Blot  36   37 Wei Zheng  36 Maureen Sanderson  38 Janet L Stanford  39   40 Lorelei A Mucci  41 Catharine M L West  42 Adam S Kibel  43 Olivier Cussenot  44   45 Sonja I Berndt  34 Stella Koutros  34 Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen  46   47 Cezary Cybulski  48 Eli Marie Grindedal  49 Florence Menegaux  50   51 Kay-Tee Khaw  52 Jong Y Park  53 Sue A Ingles  54 Christiane Maier  55 Robert J Hamilton  56   57 Stephen N Thibodeau  58 Barry S Rosenstein  59   60 Yong-Jie Lu  61 Stephen Watya  62 Ana Vega  63   64   65 Manolis Kogevinas  66   67   68 Kathryn L Penney  69 Chad Huff  70 Manuel R Teixeira  71   72 Luc Multigner  73 Robin J Leach  74 Lisa Cannon-Albright  75   76 Hermann Brenner  77   78   79 Esther M John  80 Radka Kaneva  81 Christopher J Logothetis  82 Susan L Neuhausen  83 Kim De Ruyck  84 Hardev Pandha  85 Azad Razack  86 Lisa F Newcomb  39   87 Jay H Fowke  88   89 Marija Gamulin  90 Nawaid Usmani  91   92 Frank Claessens  93 Manuela Gago-Dominguez  94   95 Paul A Townsend  96 William S Bush  97 Monique J Roobol  98 Marie-Élise Parent  99   100 Jennifer J Hu  101 Ian G Mills  22 Ole A Andreassen  102 Anders M Dale  2   103 Tyler M Seibert  104   105   106   107 UKGPCS collaboratorsAPCB (Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource)NC-LA PCaP InvestigatorsIMPACT Study Steering Committee and CollaboratorsCanary PASS InvestigatorsProfile Study Steering CommitteePRACTICAL Consortium
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Polygenic hazard score is associated with prostate cancer in multi-ethnic populations

Minh-Phuong Huynh-Le et al. Nat Commun. .

Abstract

Genetic models for cancer have been evaluated using almost exclusively European data, which could exacerbate health disparities. A polygenic hazard score (PHS1) is associated with age at prostate cancer diagnosis and improves screening accuracy in Europeans. Here, we evaluate performance of PHS2 (PHS1, adapted for OncoArray) in a multi-ethnic dataset of 80,491 men (49,916 cases, 30,575 controls). PHS2 is associated with age at diagnosis of any and aggressive (Gleason score ≥ 7, stage T3-T4, PSA ≥ 10 ng/mL, or nodal/distant metastasis) cancer and prostate-cancer-specific death. Associations with cancer are significant within European (n = 71,856), Asian (n = 2,382), and African (n = 6,253) genetic ancestries (p < 10-180). Comparing the 80th/20th PHS2 percentiles, hazard ratios for prostate cancer, aggressive cancer, and prostate-cancer-specific death are 5.32, 5.88, and 5.68, respectively. Within European, Asian, and African ancestries, hazard ratios for prostate cancer are: 5.54, 4.49, and 2.54, respectively. PHS2 risk-stratifies men for any, aggressive, and fatal prostate cancer in a multi-ethnic dataset.

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Conflict of interest statement

A.M. Dale and T.M. Seibert report a research grant from the US Department of Defense. O.A. Andreassen reports research grants from K.G. Jebsen Stiftelsen, Research Council of Norway, and South East Norway Health Authority. N. Usmani reports grants from Astra Zeneca and Astellas, research collaboration, and financial in-kind support from Best Medical Canada and Concure Oncology. R.M. Martin reports grants from Cancer Research UK, during the conduct of the study. K.D. Sørensen reports grants from Danish Cancer Society, grants from Velux Foundation, during the conduct of the study. T.M. Seibert reports honoraria from Multimodal Imaging Services Corporation for imaging segmentation and honoraria from Varian Medical Systems and WebMD, Inc. for educational content. A.S. Kibel reports advisory board memberships for Sanofi-Aventis, Dendreon, and Profound. R.A. Eeles reports honoraria from GU-ASCO, honoraria/speaker fees from Janssen, honoraria from an invited talk to the University of Chicago, and educational honoraria from Bayer&Ipsen. K.D. Sørensen reports personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Sanofi, outside the submitted work. N. Usmani reports honoraria from Janssen Canada and Bayer, outside the submitted work. M. Gamulin reports speaker/advisor board/travel fees for BMS, Pfizer, Novartis, Astellas, Sanofi, Janssen, Roche, Sandoz, Amgen, Bayer, PharmaSwiss, MSD, Alvogen. M. Gamuli also reports non-financial report for drugs from BMS, Roche, Janssen. A.M. Dale has additional disclosures outside the present work: founder, equity holder, and advisory board member for CorTechs Labs, Inc.; advisory board member of Human Longevity, Inc.; recipient of nonfinancial research support from General Electric Healthcare. K.D. Sørensen is co-inventor on an issued patent (“Biomarkers for prostate cancer”/# US10106854B2, # AU2013275761B2, # JP6242388B2) licensed to Qiagen, on an issued patent (“A microRNA-based method for early detection of prostate cancer in urine samples”/# US10400288B2, # EP3256602B1, # ES2749651T3) licensed to Qiagen, and on an issued patent (“A microRNA-based method for assessing the prognosis of a prostate cancer patient”/# US10358681B2, # EP3262186B1, # ES2724404T3, #JP6769979B2), licensed to Qiagen. N. Usmani has a patent (US Provisional Patent Application No. 62/688,481: “Theranostic radiophotodynamic therapy nanoparticles”) pending, and a patent (US Patent Application No. 15/978,996: “Hand-held device and computer-implemented system and method for assisted steering of a percutaneously inserted needle”) pending. The remaining authors declare no competing interests. Additional acknowledgments for the PRACTICAL consortium and contributing studies are described in the Supplemental Material.

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