title: Assessing the Cumulative Contribution of New and Established Common Genetic Risk Factors to Early-Onset Prostate Cancer.
abstract: We assessed the evidence for association between 23 recently reported prostate cancer variants and early-onset prostate cancer and the aggregate value of 63 prostate cancer variants for predicting early-onset disease using 931 unrelated men diagnosed with prostate cancer prior to age 56 years and 1,126 male controls.
  
  
  
  Logistic regression models were used to test the evidence for association between the 23 new variants and early-onset prostate cancer. Weighted and unweighted sums of total risk alleles across these 23 variants and 40 established variants were constructed. Weights were based on previously reported effect size estimates. Receiver operating characteristic curves and forest plots, using defined cut-points, were constructed to assess the predictive value of the burden of risk alleles on early-onset disease.
  
  
  
  Ten of the 23 new variants demonstrated evidence (P < 0.05) for association with early-onset prostate cancer, including four that were significant after multiple test correction. The aggregate burden of risk alleles across the 63 variants was predictive of early-onset prostate cancer (AUC = 0.71 using weighted sums), especially in men with a high burden of total risk alleles.
  
  
  
  A high burden of risk alleles is strongly associated with early-onset prostate cancer.
  
  
  
  Our results provide the first formal replication for several of these 23 new variants and demonstrate that a high burden of common-variant risk alleles is a major risk factor for early-onset prostate cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 25(5); 766-72. ©2015 AACR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. elange@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Ethan M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Jessica V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Ribado
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Zuhlke
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Gregory R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Keele
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Center for Translational Science, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
authors.forename: Yunfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Zhengrong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Jianfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: S Lilly
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Kathleen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Cooney
mesh_terms: D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D012307:Risk Factors