Abstract:The greater incidence of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry remains one of the most important unanswered health disparities globally. No established environmental/lifestyle risk factors have been identified, with the only established risk factors being age, race/ethnicity and family history, all of which implicate genetic susceptibility. GWAS have clearly validated the importance of genetic susceptibility in prostate cancer, with ~100 common risk loci identified to date which in aggregate explain 33% o… Show more
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