- Berndt, Sonja I;
- Wang, Zhaoming;
- Yeager, Meredith;
- Alavanja, Michael C;
- Albanes, Demetrius;
- Amundadottir, Laufey;
- Andriole, Gerald;
- Beane Freeman, Laura;
- Campa, Daniele;
- Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine;
- Canzian, Federico;
- Cornu, Jean-Nicolas;
- Cussenot, Olivier;
- Diver, W Ryan;
- Gapstur, Susan M;
- Grönberg, Henrik;
- Haiman, Christopher A;
- Henderson, Brian;
- Hutchinson, Amy;
- Hunter, David J;
- Key, Timothy J;
- Kolb, Suzanne;
- Koutros, Stella;
- Kraft, Peter;
- Le Marchand, Loic;
- Lindström, Sara;
- Machiela, Mitchell J;
- Ostrander, Elaine A;
- Riboli, Elio;
- Schumacher, Fred;
- Siddiq, Afshan;
- Stanford, Janet L;
- Stevens, Victoria L;
- Travis, Ruth C;
- Tsilidis, Konstantinos K;
- Virtamo, Jarmo;
- Weinstein, Stephanie;
- Wilkund, Fredrik;
- Xu, Jianfeng;
- Lilly Zheng, S;
- Yu, Kai;
- Wheeler, William;
- Zhang, Han;
- Sampson, Joshua;
- Black, Amanda;
- Jacobs, Kevin;
- Hoover, Robert N;
- Tucker, Margaret;
- Chanock, Stephen J
Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer will experience indolent disease; hence, discovering genetic variants that distinguish aggressive from nonaggressive prostate cancer is of critical clinical importance for disease prevention and treatment. In a multistage, case-only genome-wide association study of 12,518 prostate cancer cases, we identify two loci associated with Gleason score, a pathological measure of disease aggressiveness: rs35148638 at 5q14.3 (RASA1, P=6.49 × 10(-9)) and rs78943174 at 3q26.31 (NAALADL2, P=4.18 × 10(-8)). In a stratified case-control analysis, the SNP at 5q14.3 appears specific for aggressive prostate cancer (P=8.85 × 10(-5)) with no association for nonaggressive prostate cancer compared with controls (P=0.57). The proximity of these loci to genes involved in vascular disease suggests potential biological mechanisms worthy of further investigation.