{"id":165170,"date":"2023-06-05T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/improving-prostate-cancer-screening-accounting-for-genetic-determinants-of-psa-variation"},"modified":"2023-06-05T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:24:51","slug":"improving-prostate-cancer-screening-accounting-for-genetic-determinants-of-psa-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/improving-prostate-cancer-screening-accounting-for-genetic-determinants-of-psa-variation","title":{"rendered":"Improving prostate cancer screening: accounting for genetic determinants of PSA variation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/improving-prostate-cancer-screening-accounting-for-genetic-determinants-of-psa-variation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-023-02277-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature Medicine<\/em><\/a>, researchers conducted a genome-wide analysis of prostate-specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/What-is-an-Antigen.aspx\" class=\"\">antigen<\/a> (PSA) levels of men without prostate cancer to understand the non-cancer-related variation in PSA levels to improve decision-making during the diagnosis of prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Study: Genetically adjusted PSA levels for prostate cancer screening. Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/luchschenF\/Shutterstock.com\">luchschenF\/Shutterstock.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers conducted a genome-wide analysis of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels of men without prostate cancer to understand the non-cancer-related variation in PSA levels to improve decision-making during the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Study: Genetically adjusted PSA levels for prostate cancer screening. Image Credit: luchschenF\/Shutterstock.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165170","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}