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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Genet.
Sec. Applied Genetic Epidemiology
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2024.1387588
Preliminary effects of risk-adapted PSA screening for prostate cancer after integrating PRSspecific and age-specific variation
Provisionally accepted- 1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- 2 Health Management Center, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
- 3 Beijing Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Background: Although the risk of prostate cancer (PCa) varies across different ages and genetic risks, it's unclear about the effects of genetic-specific and age-specific prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for PCa.Weighed and unweighted polygenic risk scores (PRS) were constructed to classify the participants from the PLCO trial into low-or high-PRS groups. The age-specific and PRS-specific cutoff values of PSA for PCa screening were determined with time-dependent receiver-operatingcharacteristic curves and area-under-curves (tdAUCs). Improved screening strategies integrating PRSspecific and age-specific cut-off values of PSA were compared to traditional PSA screening on accuracy, detection rates of high-grade PCa (Gleason score ≥7), and false positive rate.Results: Weighted PRS with 80 SNPs significantly associated with PCa was determined as the optimal PRS, with an AUC of 0.631. After stratifying by PRS, the tdAUCs of PSA with a 10-year risk of PCa were 0.818 and 0.816 for low-and high-PRS groups, whereas the cut-off values were 1.42 and 1.62 ng/ml, respectively. After further stratifying by age, the age-specific cut-off values of PSA were relatively lower for low PRS (1.42, 1.65, 1.60, and 2.24 ng/ml for aged <60, 60-64, 65-69, and ≥70 years) than high PRS (1.48, 1.47, 1.89 and 2.72 ng/ml). Further analyses showed an obvious interaction of positive PSA and high PRS on PCa incidence and mortality. Very small difference in PCa risk were observed among subgroups with PSA(-) across different age and PRS, and PCa incidence and mortality with PSA(+) significantly increased as age and PRS, with highest risk for high-PRS/PSA(+) in participants aged ≥70 years [HRs(95%CI): 16.00 (12.62-20.29) and 19.48(9.26-40.96)]. The recommended screening strategy reduced 12.8% of missed PCa, ensured high specificity, but not caused excessive false positives than traditional PSA screening.Conclusions: Risk-adapted screening integrating PRS-specific and age-specific cut-off values of PSA would be more effective than traditional PSA screening.
Keywords: prostate cancer, PRs, PSA, screening, age-specific
Received: 18 Feb 2024; Accepted: 15 Jul 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Liu, Duan, Zhang, Ji, Zhang, Feng, Li, Liu, Gao, Wang, Zhang, Yang, Dai, Lyu, Song, Song and Huang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Yubei Huang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, 300070, Tianjin, China
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