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    Human leukocyte antigen-DQA1*04:01 and rs2040406 variants are associated with elevated risk of childhood Burkitt lymphoma

    Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is responsible for many childhood cancers in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is linked to recurrent or chronic infection by Epstein-Barr virus or Plasmodium falciparum. However, whether human l...

    Zhiwei Liu, Yang Luo, Samuel Kirimunda, Murielle Verboom in Communications Biology (2024)

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    Testing the generalizability of ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores to predict prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa

    Genome-wide association studies do not always replicate well across populations, limiting the generalizability of polygenic risk scores (PRS). Despite higher incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer in...

    Michelle S. Kim, Daphne Naidoo, Ujani Hazra, Melanie H. Quiver in Genome Biology (2022)