NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Hum Genet
NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Hum Genet. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 May 01. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptPublished NIH-PA Author Manuscript in final edited NIH-PA Author Manuscript form as: Hum Genet. 2014 May ; 133(5): 509–521. doi:10.1007/s00439-013-1387-z. A genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in West African men Michael B. Cook1,*, Zhaoming Wang1,2,*, Edward D. Yeboah3,4,*, Yao Tettey3,4, Richard B. Biritwum3,4, Andrew A. Adjei3,4, Evelyn Tay3,4, Ann Truelove5, Shelley Niwa5, Charles C. Chung1, Annand P. Chokkalingam6, Lisa W. Chu7, Meredith Yeager1,2, Amy Hutchinson1,2, Kai Yu1, Kristin A. Rand8, Christopher A. Haiman8, African Ancestry Prostate Cancer GWAS Consortium, Robert N. Hoover1, Ann W. Hsing6,9,#, and Stephen J. Chanock1,# 1Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA 2Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, NCI-DCEG, SAIC-Frederick Inc., Frederick, MD, USA 3Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, PO BOX 77, Accra, Ghana 4University of Ghana Medical School, PO Box 4236, Accra, Ghana 5Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850-3129, USA 6School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 7Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA 8Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA 9Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, 875 Blake Wilbur Drive Stanford, CA 94305 Abstract Background—Age-adjusted mortality rates for prostate cancer are higher for African American men compared with those of European ancestry. Recent data suggest that West African men also have elevated risk for prostate cancer relative to European men.
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