Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival

Abstract

Pan-cancer studies of somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) have demonstrated common SCNA patterns across cancer types, but despite demonstrable differences in aggressiveness of some cancers by race, pan-cancer SCNA variation by race has not been explored. This study investigated a) racial differences in SCNAs in both breast and prostate cancer, b) the degree to which they are shared across cancers, and c) the impact of these shared, race-differentiated SCNAs on cancer survival.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 20, 2020
Source ID
10.1186/s12920-020-00765-2

Entities

People

  • Albert M Levin
  • Benjamin A. Rybicki
  • Craig G. Rogers
  • Dhananjay A Chitale
  • Indrani Datta
  • Jia Li
  • Kanika Taneja
  • Lisa A. Newman
  • Melissa B. Davis
  • Nilesh Gupta
  • Pamela L. Paris
  • Ruicong She
  • Sudha M. Sadasivan
  • Yalei Chen

Organizations

  • National Institutes of Health
  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Electrochemical Surface Science
  • Molecular and genetic basis of cancer.
  • Prostate Cancer Biology.