Adam B. Murphy

TL;DR: These findings provide new regions for investigation into the pathogenesis of prostate cancer and demonstrate the usefulness of combining ancestrally diverse populations to discover risk loci for disease.

TL;DR: This work builds a genetic map measuring the probability of crossing over at each position in the genome, based on about 2.1 million crossovers in 30,000 unrelated African Americans, and identifies about 2,500 recombination hotspots that are active in people of West African ancestry but nearly inactive in Europeans.

TL;DR: Targeted antimicrobial prophylaxis was associated with a notable decrease in the incidence of infectious complications after transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy caused by fluoroquinolone resistant organisms as well as a decreases in the overall cost of care.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis to examine the association of >3.2 million SNPs with BMI in 39,144 men and women of African ancestry and followed up the most significant associations in an additional 32,268 individuals ofAfrican ancestry provides strong support for shared BMI loci across populations, as well as for the utility of studying ancestrally diverse populations.

TL;DR: A new risk variant on chromosome 17q21 is identified, ∼5% in men of African descent, whereas it is rare in other populations (<1%).