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We evaluated whether including additional SNPs in a prostate cancer polygenic hazard score (PHS) would improve associations with clinically significant prostate cancer in multi-ancestry datasets.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In total, 299 SNPs previously associated with prostate cancer were evaluated for inclusion in a new PHS, using a LASSO-regularized Cox proportional hazards model in a training dataset of 72,181 men from the PRACTICAL Consortium. The PHS model was evaluated in four testing datasets: African ancestry, Asian ancestry, and two of European Ancestry\u2014the Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM) and the ProtecT study. Hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated to compare men with high versus low PHS for association with clinically significant, with any, and with fatal prostate cancer. The impact of genetic risk stratification on the positive predictive value (PPV) of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer was also measured.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The final model (PHS290) had 290 SNPs with non-zero coefficients. Comparing, for example, the highest and lowest quintiles of PHS290, the hazard ratios (HRs) for clinically significant prostate cancer were 13.73 [95% CI: 12.43-15.16] in ProtecT, 7.07 [6.58-7.60] in African ancestry, 10.31 [9.58-11.11] in Asian ancestry, and 11.18 [10.34-12.09] in COSM. Similar results were seen for association with any and fatal prostate cancer. Without PHS stratification, the PPV of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer in ProtecT was 0.12 (0.11-0.14). For the top 20% and top 5% of PHS290, the PPV was 0.19 (0.15-0.22) and 0.26 (0.19-0.33), respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We demonstrate better genetic risk stratification for clinically significant prostate cancer than prior versions of PHS in multi-ancestry datasets. This is promising for implementing precision-medicine approaches to prostate cancer screening decisions in diverse populations.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2021.08.14.21261931","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,18]],"date-time":"2021-08-18T15:30:10Z","timestamp":1629300610000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Prostate cancer risk stratification improved across multiple ancestries with new polygenic hazard score"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5025-4709","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Minh-Phuong","family":"Huynh-Le","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Roshan","family":"Karunamuni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Chun Chieh","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lui","family":"Asona","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wesley 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