SUPR
WGS of high-risk prostate cancer
Dnr:

sens2024051

Type:

NAISS SENS

Principal Investigator:

Annika Lindblom

Affiliation:

Karolinska Institutet

Start Date:

2024-12-11

End Date:

2026-01-01

Primary Classification:

30107: Medical Genetics

Allocation

Abstract

Prostate cancer patients with a family history of at least one other close relative with the same disease are considered high-risk or familial prostate cancer. Today variants in the gene BRCA2 and the DNA mismatch repair genes are known to be associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. This project will use WGS to search for variants in these patients and the project will use available knowledge from GnomAD for comparison of frequencies of variants in these high-risk prostate cancer cases.