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Publications from the Ghana Prostate Study

Cook MB, Wang Z,Yeboah ED, et al. A genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in West African men. Hum Genet 2014 May;133:509-521

Chung CC, Hsing AW, Edward Yeboah, et al. A comprehensive resequence-analysis of 250 kb region of 8q24.21 in men of African ancestry. Prostate 2014 May;74:579-589.

Wang Z, Zhu B, Zhang M, et al. Imputation and subset-based association analysis across different cancer types identifies multiple independent risk loci in the TERT-CLPTM1L region on chromosome 5p15.33. Hum Mol Genet 2014 Jul 15. pii: ddu363. [Epub ahead of print]

Al Olama AA, Kote-Jarai Z, Berndt SI, et al. A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer. Nat Genet 2014 Oct;46:1103-1109. doi: 10.1038/ng.3094. Epub ahead of print.

Hsing AW, Yeboah E, Biritwum R, et al. High prevalence of screen detected prostate cancer in west africans: implications for racial disparity of prostate cancer. J Urol 2014 Sep;192:730-736. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.04.017.

Chokkalingam AP, Yeboah ED, Demarzo A, et al. Prevalence of BPH and lower urinary tract symptoms in West Africans. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2012 Jun;15:170-176. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2011.43.