CIDR: Elucidating Epigenetic Mechanisms of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pancreatic Cancer
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Project description:CIDR: Elucidating Epigenetic Mechanisms of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pancreatic Cancer
| PRJNA1145494 | ENA
Project description:In the US, the majority of cancer samples analyzed are from white people, leading to biases in racial and ethnic treatment outcomes. Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality rates are high in Alabama African Americans (AAs) and Oklahoma American Indians (AIs). We hypothesized that differences between racial groups may partially explain these disparities. Thus, we compared transcriptomic profiles of CRCs of Alabama AAs, Oklahoma AIs, and white people from both states. Compared to CRCs of white people, CRCs of AAs showed (a) higher expression of cytokines and vesicle trafficking toward modulated antitumor-immune activity, and (b) lower expression of the ID1/BMP/SMAD axis, IL22RA1, APOBEC3, and Mucins; and AIs had (c) higher expression of PTGS2/COX2 (an NSAID target/pro-oncogenic inflammation) and splicing regulators, and (d) lower tumor suppressor activities (e.g., TOB2, PCGF2, BAP1). Therefore, targeting strategies designed for white CRC patients may be less effective for AAs/AIs. These findings illustrate needs to develop optimized interventions to overcome racial CRC disparities.
2023-08-23 | GSE237684 | GEO
Project description:African Americans (AA) are 70% more likely than Caucasian Americans (CA) to die from heart failure (HF) even after adjusting for known causes. Although the causal factors responsible for this racial disparity remain unknown, it is theorized that environmental stressors This alarming health disparity represents an important challenge to U.S. healthcare as global prevalence of heart failure has already exceeded epidemic levels with a disease burden that disproportionately impacts members of ethnic and racial minorities. The current multicohort study of cardiac DNA methylation identifies the cardiac epigenome as a previously unrecognized syntax that encodes race-based environmental differences in the failing human heart.
2021-03-11 | GSE164195 | GEO
Project description:African Americans (AA) are 70% more likely than Caucasian Americans (CA) to die from heart failure (HF) even after adjusting for known causes. Although the causal factors responsible for this racial disparity remain unknown, it is theorized that environmental stressors This alarming health disparity represents an important challenge to U.S. healthcare as global prevalence of heart failure has already exceeded epidemic levels with a disease burden that disproportionately impacts members of ethnic and racial minorities. The current multicohort study of cardiac DNA methylation identifies the cardiac epigenome as a previously unrecognized syntax that encodes race-based environmental differences in the failing human heart.
2021-03-11 | GSE164196 | GEO
Project description:Here, we present the first study showing race and side-specific differences in the trajectories of epigenetic aging in normal colonic mucosa. The cohort conisted of matched biopsies of left/right colon from healthy individuals (n=129). The majority of individuals were African American (n=89). Methylation arrays (Illumina EPIC) were performed on DNA extracted from fresh frozen biopsies taken at the time of colonoscopy. Our results provide novel insight of epigenetic aging underlying racial disparities in CRC. Side-specific colonic epigenetic aging may be a promising marker to guide interventions to reduce CRC burden.
2020-10-16 | GSE151732 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the Genetic Risk Underlying Racial Disparities in Uterine Fibroids
| PRJNA393913 | ENA
Project description:Racial Disparities in Epigenetic Aging of the Right versus the Left Colon
| PRJNA637075 | ENA
Project description:This clinical trial studies disparities involving colorectal cancer prevention and screening in Black and underserved communities in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Black community is disproportionately impacted by colorectal cancer, with the highest rate of any racial/ethnic group in the United States. There are complex reasons behind these disparities, largely related to socioeconomic factors and healthcare access. Providing access to free, home-based fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), colorectal screening education, and appropriate follow-up to predominantly Black community-based organizations and underserved communities may help to close this gap.
| 2740179 | ecrin-mdr-crc
Project description:ObjectiveTo develop a conceptual framework for investigating the role of racial/ethnic residential segregation on health care disparities.Data sources and settingsReview of the MEDLINE and the Web of Science databases for articles published from 1998 to 2011.Study designThe extant research was evaluated to describe mechanisms that shape health care access, utilization, and quality of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, and end-of-life services across the life course.Principal findingsThe framework describes the influence of racial/ethnic segregation operating through neighborhood-, health care system-, provider-, and individual-level factors. Conceptual and methodological issues arising from limitations of the research and complex relationships between various levels were identified.ConclusionsIncreasing evidence indicates that racial/ethnic residential segregation is a key factor driving place-based health care inequalities. Closer attention to address research gaps has implications for advancing and strengthening the literature to better inform effective interventions and policy-based solutions.
| S-EPMC3417310 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Background: An increasing body of evidence has linked fructose intake to colorectal cancer (CRC). African Americans (AAs) consume greater quantities of fructose and are more likely to develop right-side colon cancer than European Americans. Objective: We examined the hypothesis that fructose consumption leads to genomic differences associated with CRC tumor biology. Methods: DNA methylation data from this study was obtained using the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC kit (GSE151732). Right and left colon differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified using DMRcate through analysis of fructose consumption in normal AA colon biopsies (n=79) undergoing screening colonoscopy. Secondary analysis of CRC tumors was carried out using data derived from TCGA-COAD, GSE101764 and GSE193535. Right colon organoids derived from AA normal colon tissues were exposed to 4.4mM of fructose for 72 hours. Fructose-associated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using DESeq2. This package was also used to identify DEGs in CRC tumors from TCGA-COAD. Results: We identified 4,263 right colon fructose-associated DMRs (FDR<0.05). In contrast, only 24 DMRs survived multiple testing corrections (FDR<0.05) in matched, left colon. Almost 50% of right colon fructose-associated DMRs overlapped regions implicated in CRC in at least one of three datasets. A highly significant enrichment was also observed between genes corresponding to right colon fructose-associated DMRs and DEGs associated with fructose exposure in AA right colon organoids (P=3.28E-30). Further, overlapping and significant enrichments for a number of fatty acid metabolism, glycolysis and cell proliferation pathways were also found. By further examining the overlap of genes within these pathways that were also differentially expressed in TCGA-COAD, our analysis reveals potential role for PFKP and ANKRD23 in fructose-mediated CRC risk. Conclusions: Our data support that dietary fructose exerts a greater CRC risk-related effect in right than left colon among AAs, alluding to its potential role in contributing to racial disparities in CRC.
2025-03-15 | GSE261717 | GEO