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Record W4410521470 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59144-z

The clinical and molecular landscape of breast cancer in women of African and South Asian ancestry

2025· article· en· W4410521470 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Graeme J. Thorn, Emanuela Gadaleta, Abu Z M Dayem Ullah, Lucas M. James, Maryam Abdollahyan, Rachel Barrow‐McGee, J. Louise Jones, Claude Chelala

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDepartment of Health and Social CareNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchBarts Health NHS TrustCancer Research UKWellcome TrustMcMaster UniversityMedical Research CouncilBarts CharitySt George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustQueen Mary University of London
KeywordsBreast cancerGermline mutationGermlineGenetic genealogyMedicineCohortDiseaseCancerGenetic testingDemographyOncologyGeneticsBiologyMutationInternal medicineEnvironmental healthGenePopulation

Abstract

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Addressing existing racial disparity in breast cancer is crucial to ensure equitable benefit across diverse communities. We evaluate the molecular and clinical effects of genetic ancestry in African and South Asian women compared to European using a combined cohort of 7136 breast cancer patients. We find that non-European patients present significantly earlier and die at a younger age. The African group has an increased prevalence of higher grade and hormone receptor negative disease. The South Asian group shows tendency towards lower stage at diagnosis and tumour mutational burden. We observe differences and similarities in the somatic mutational landscape, and differences in germline mutation rates relevant to genetic testing and breast cancer predisposition. Potential therapeutic candidates are identified, with a higher propensity for homologous recombination deficiency serving as a therapy response indicator. We harness breast cancer multimodal data to improve understanding of ancestry-associated differences and highlight opportunities to advance health equity.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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