A rare variant, which destroys a FoxA1 site at 8q24, is associated with prostate cancer risk

An enhancer from the 8q24 prostate cancer risk region is sufficient to direct reporter gene expression to a subset of prostate stem-like epithelial cells in transgenic mice

(2012) M.-C. Ting et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

A study based on whole-genome sequencing yields a rare variant at 8q24 associated with prostate cancer

(2012) Julius Gudmundsson et al.   NATURE GENETICS

FunciSNP: an R/bioconductor tool integrating functional non-coding data sets with genetic association studies to identify candidate regulatory SNPs

(2012) Simon G. Coetzee et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Reprogramming transcription by distinct classes of enhancers functionally defined by eRNA

(2011) Dong Wang et al.   NATURE

Transcriptome sequencing across a prostate cancer cohort identifies PCAT-1, an unannotated lincRNA implicated in disease progression

(2011) John R Prensner et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The 8q24 cancer risk variant rs6983267 shows long-range interaction with MYC in colorectal cancer

(2009) Mark M Pomerantz et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Functional Enhancers at the Gene-Poor 8q24 Cancer-Linked Locus

(2009) Li Jia et al.   PLoS Genetics