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Prostate ; 79(10): 1191-1196, 2019 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31090091

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: The androgen-regulated gene TMPRSS2 to the ETS transcription factor gene ERG fusion is the most common genomic alteration acquired during prostate tumorigenesis and biased toward men of European ancestry. In contrast, African American men present with more advanced disease, yet their tumors are less likely to acquire TMPRSS2-ERG. Data for Africa is scarce. METHODS: RNA was made available for genomic analyses from 181 prostate tissue biopsy cores from Black South African men, 94 with and 87 without pathological evidence for prostate cancer. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction was used to screen for the TMPRSS2-ERG fusion, while transcript junction coordinates and isoform frequencies, including novel gene fusions, were determined using targeted RNA sequencing. RESULTS: Here we report a frequency of 13% for TMPRSS2-ERG in tumors from Black South Africans. Present in 12/94 positive versus 1/87 cancer negative prostate tissue cores, this suggests a 92.62% predictivity for a positive cancer diagnosis (P = 0.0031). At a frequency of almost half that reported for African Americans and roughly a quarter of that reported for men of European ancestry, acquisition of TMPRSS2-ERG appears to be inversely associated with aggressive prostate cancer. Further support was provided by linking the presence of TMPRSS2-ERG to low-grade disease in younger patients (P = 0.0466), with higher expressing distal ERG fusion junction coordinates. CONCLUSIONS: Only the second study of its kind for the African continent, we support a link between TMPRSS2-ERG status and prostate cancer racial health disparity beyond the borders of the United States. We call for urgent evaluation of androgen deprivation therapy within Africa.


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Oncogene Fusion/genetics , Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics , Serine Endopeptidases/genetics , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Black People , Genomic Instability , Health Status Disparities , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prostate/pathology , Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology , South Africa , Transcriptional Regulator ERG/genetics , White People
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Prostate ; 76(4): 349-58, 2016 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26660354

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BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates are significantly increased in African-American men, but limited studies have been performed within Sub-Saharan African populations. As mitochondria control energy metabolism and apoptosis we speculate that somatic mutations within mitochondrial genomes are candidate drivers of aggressive prostate carcinogenesis. METHODS: We used matched blood and prostate tissue samples from 87 South African men (77 with African ancestry) to perform deep sequencing of complete mitochondrial genomes. Clinical presentation was biased toward aggressive disease (Gleason score >7, 64%), and compared with men without prostate cancer either with or without benign prostatic hyperplasia. RESULTS: We identified 144 somatic mtDNA single nucleotide variants (SNVs), of which 80 were observed in 39 men presenting with aggressive disease. Both the number and frequency of somatic mtDNA SNVs were associated with higher pathological stage. CONCLUSIONS: Besides doubling the total number of somatic PCa-associated mitochondrial genome mutations identified to date, we associate mutational load with aggressive prostate cancer status in men of African ancestry.


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DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics , Genetic Variation/genetics , Genome, Mitochondrial/genetics , Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Black People , DNA, Mitochondrial/chemistry , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Genotype , Humans , Kallikreins/blood , Male , Middle Aged , Mutation/genetics , Neoplasm Grading , Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics , Prostate-Specific Antigen/blood , Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology , South Africa , White People
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