{"671033":{"#nid":"671033","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse populations. The researchers here conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 156,319 prostate cancer cases and 788,443 controls of European, African, Asian and Hispanic men, reflecting a 57% increase in the number of non-European cases over previous prostate cancer genome-wide association studies. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E researchers involved in the study include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-lachance\u0022\u003EJoe Lachance\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/rohini-janivara\u0022\u003ERohini Janivara\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. Bioinformatics student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse populations. The researchers here conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 156,319 prostate cancer cases and 788,443 controls of European, African, Asian and Hispanic men, reflecting a 57% increase in the number of non-European cases over previous prostate cancer genome-wide association studies. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E researchers involved in the study include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-lachance\u0022\u003EJoe Lachance\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/rohini-janivara\u0022\u003ERohini Janivara\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. Bioinformatics student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-11-13 15:56:36","changed_gmt":"2023-11-13 15:56:36","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Genetics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-023-01534-4","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166881","name":"Joseph Lachance"},{"id":"193257","name":"Rohini Janivara"},{"id":"5718","name":"Genetics"},{"id":"2364","name":"prostate cancer"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}