Genome-Wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer-Specific Survival

R Szulkin, R Karlsson, T Whitington, M Aly, H Gronberg, R A Eeles, D F Easton, Z Kote-Jarai, A A Al Olama, S Benlloch, K Muir, G G Giles, M C Southey, L M FitzGerald, B E Henderson, F R Schumacher, C A Haiman, C Sipeky, T L Tammela, B G NordestgaardT J Key, R C Travis, D E Neal, J L Donovan, F C Hamdy, P D Pharoah, N Pashayan, K T Khaw, J L Stanford, S N Thibodeau, S K McDonnell, D J Schaid, C Maier, W Vogel, M Luedeke, K Herkommer, A S Kibel, C Cybulski, J Lubinski, W Kluzniak, L Cannon-Albright, H Brenner, V Herrmann, B Holleczek, J Y Park, T A Sellers, H Y Lim, C Slavov, R P Kaneva, V I Mitev, A Spurdle, M R Teixeira, P Paulo, S Maia, H Pandha, A Michael, A Kierzek, J Batra, J A Clements, D Albanes, G L Andriole, S I Berndt, S Chanock, S M Gapstur, E L Giovannucci, D J Hunter, P Kraft, L Le Marchand, J Ma, A M Mondul, K L Penney, M J Stampfer, V L Stevens, S J Weinstein, A Trichopoulou, B H Bueno-de-Mesquita, A Tjonneland, D G Cox, L Maehle, J Schleutker, S Lindstrom, F Wiklund

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    Abstract

    BACKGROUND: Unnecessary intervention and overtreatment of indolent disease are common challenges in clinical management of prostate cancer. Improved tools to distinguish lethal from indolent disease are critical. METHODS: We performed a genome-wide survival analysis of cause-specific death in 24,023 prostate cancer patients (3,513 disease-specific deaths) from the PRACTICAL and BPC3 consortia. Top findings were assessed for replication in a Norwegian cohort (CONOR). RESULTS: We observed no significant association between genetic variants and prostate cancer survival. CONCLUSIONS: Common genetic variants with large impact on prostate cancer survival were not observed in this study. IMPACT: Future studies should be designed for identification of rare variants with large effect sizes or common variants with small effect sizes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 24(11); 1796-800. (c)2015 AACR.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1796-800
    Number of pages995
    JournalCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume24
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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