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PGS Sample Set (PSS): PSS000923

Phenotype Cases numbers refer to 'any prostate cancer'. Of those, 716 had aggressive prostate cancer (Gleason score ≥7, PSA ≥ 10 ng/mL, T3–T4 stage, nodal metastases, or distant metastases) and 57 had fatal prostate cancer. Death was determined by the investigators of each contributing study using cancer registries and/or medical records. Age shows the age of diagnosis. 1028 individuals had a family history of prostate cancer (≥1 first degree relative affected).
Sample Ancestry Asian unspecified, NR

Sample Numbers

Total number
2,382 individuals
Detailed numbers
1,197 cases (50.25%)
1,185 controls
100.0% Male samples
Age of Study Participants
  • Mean : 68.0 years
  • Iqr : [62.0, 74.0] years
Number of Cohort(s) 60
Sample distribution
Sample gender distribution

Cohort(s)

Cohort Short Name Cohort Full Name Previous/other/additional names (e.g. sub-cohorts)
Aarhus Aarhus
AHS Agricultural Health Study
ATBC Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study
BioVU BioVU, the Vanderbilt DNA Databank project
CCI CCI
CeRePP French Prostate Cancer Case-Control Study
CHIPGECS Chinese Prostate Cancer Genetic and Environmental Correlation Study
COH City of Hope Cancer Centre
CONOR Cohort of Adults in Norway
COSM Cohort of Swedish Men
CPCS Copenhagen Prostate Cancer Study
CPDR Center for Prostate Disease Research
EPIC European Prospective Investigation into Cancer
EPICAP Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer
ERSPC European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer
ESTHER Epidemiological investigations on chances of preventing, recognizing early and optimally treating chronic diseases in an elderly population / Epidemiologische Studie zu Chancen der Verhütung, Früherkennung und optimierten Therapie chronischer Erkrankungen in der älteren Bevölkerung, Verlauf der diagnotischen Abklärung bei Krebspatienten Epidemiological investigations of the chances of preventing, recognizing early and optimally treating chronic diseases in an elderly population (ESTHER_ELDERLY), Epidemiologische Studie zu Chancen der Verhütung, Früherkennung und optimierten Therapie chronischer Erkrankungen in der älteren Bevölkerung, Verlauf der diagnotischen Abklärung bei Krebspatienten (ESTHER-VERDI)
FHCRC Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle US
Gene-PARE Genetic Predictors of Adverse Radiotherapy Effects
HPFS Health Professional Follow-up Study
IMPACT Identification of Men with a genetic predisposition to ProstAte Cancer
IPO-Porto IPO-Porto Prostate Cancer study
KARUPROSTATE French West Indies Prostate cancer Study (from Karukera, the original Caribbean name of Guadeloupe)
KULEUVEN Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
LAAPC Los Angeles Study of Aggressive Prostate Cancer
MCCS Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
MCC-Spain Multi-case Control Study, Spain
MDACCS MD Anderson Cancer Center Study
MEC Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Health
MOFFITT The Moffitt Group
NMHS Nashville Men's Health Study
PASS Prostate Active Surveillance Study
PCaP North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project Consortium
PCMUS Prostate Cancer study Medical University Sofia
PCPT Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial SWOG-PCPT
PHS Physicians Health Study
PLCO Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial
PRAGGA Prostate Cancer Genetics in Galacia
PROCAP PROgression in Cancer of the Prostate
PROFILE Genetic Prostate cancer risk stratification for targeted screening
PROGReSS_PrCa Prostate Cancer Group, Santiago, Spain
ProMPT Prostate cancer : Mechanisms of progression and Treatment (UK)
ProtecT Prostate testing for cancer and Treatment study
PROtEuS Prostate Cancer and Environment Study
QLD Queensland Study
RAPPER Radiogenomics: Assessment of Polymorphisms for Predicting the effects of radiotherapy
SABOR San Antonio Center of Biomarkers of Risk for Prostate Cancer
SCCS NBHS/Southern Community Cohort
SCPCS South Carolina Prostate Cancer Study
SEARCH Study of Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Cancer Heredity
SELECT Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial
SFPCS San Francisco Prostate Cancer Study
SNP_Prostate_Ghent SNP Prostate Ghent (Belgium)
SPAG Serum Proteomic analysis for biomarkers of Aggressive prostate disease in the Guernsey population
STHM The Stockholm Study STHM1, STHM2, Stockholm-1, Stockholm-2, STHLM, STHLM2
TAMPERE Tampere University Hospital
Toronto Toronto
UKGPCS UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study
ULM Center of Excellence-Baden-Wuerttemberg Type 2 Diabetes Cohort
WFPCS Wake Forest Prostate Cancer Study
WUGS Washington University Genetics Study