{"id":147679,"date":"2022-10-06T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ancestral-heritage-and-cancer-new-connection-discovered"},"modified":"2022-10-06T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:22:59","slug":"ancestral-heritage-and-cancer-new-connection-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ancestral-heritage-and-cancer-new-connection-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Heritage and Cancer: New Connection Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancestral-heritage-and-cancer-new-connection-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two groundbreaking studies recently published in the journals <em>Nature<\/em> and <em>Genome Medicine<\/em> found genetic signatures that explain ethnic disparities in the severity of prostate cancer, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>By genetically analyzing prostate cancer tumors from Australian, Brazilian, and South African donors, the team developed a new prostate cancer taxonomy (classification scheme) and cancer drivers that not only distinguish patients based on their genetic ancestry but also predict which cancers are likely to become life-threatening, a task that is currently difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur understanding of prostate cancer has been severely limited by a research focus on Western populations,\u201d said senior author Professor Vanessa Hayes, genomicist and Petre Chair of Prostate Cancer Research at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-sydney\/>University of Sydney\u2019s<\/a> Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Medicine and Health in Australia. \u201cBeing of African descent, or from Africa, more than doubles a man\u2019s risk for lethal prostate cancer. While genomics holds a critical key to unraveling contributing genetic and non-genetic factors, data for Africa has till now, been lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two groundbreaking studies recently published in the journals Nature and Genome Medicine found genetic signatures that explain ethnic disparities in the severity of prostate cancer, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. By genetically analyzing prostate cancer tumors from Australian, Brazilian, and South African donors, the team developed a new prostate cancer taxonomy (classification scheme) and cancer drivers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}