When David Reich’s op-ed came out some discussion ensued about his focus on prostate cancer risk in African Americans. This is the research which put Reich on my personal radar (if you care, start with this 2006 paper, Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men). I had a back-and-forth … Continue reading The genetic risk of prostate cancer is probably higher in people of West African descent