Largest study of prostate cancer genomics in Black Americans ids targets for therapies

(University of California - San Francisco) Black men in the United States are known to suffer disproportionately from prostate cancer, but few studies have investigated whether genetic differences in prostate tumors could have anything to do with these health disparities. Now, in the largest study of its kind to date, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Northwestern University have identified genes that are more frequently altered in prostate tumors from men of African ancestry compared to other racial groups.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news