A rare variant of African ancestry activates 8q24 lncRNA hub by modulating cancer associated enhancer

Autor: Kaivalya Walavalkar, Bharath Saravanan, Anurag Kumar Singh, Ranveer Singh Jayani, Ashwin Nair, Umer Farooq, Zubairul Islam, Deepanshu Soota, Rajat Mann, Padubidri V. Shivaprasad, Matthew L. Freedman, Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan, Christopher A. Haiman, Dimple Notani
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17325-y
Popis: Genetic variants on chromosome 8q24 are associated with prostate cancer risk in men of African ancestry. Here the authors show that one of these variants, rs72725854 alters the enhancer activity in its region, which upon androgen stimulation, activates multiple oncogenic lncRNAs and c-myc.
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