African-American men have a higher risk for prostate cancer, and genomic risk scores show enrichment of risk-associated SNPs in Black men and younger prostate cancer diagnoses.

“African-American men at a higher risk why no one knows um I like to think there's a great paper published by this scientist at USC Chris Heyman and they looked at genomic risk you know through Snips for individuals who did or did not develop prostate cancer was like 235 000 guys ton a ton of individuals how did they know what Snips to look at well they did they they there's a there's been lots of work in in in in single nucleotide polymorphisms and risks for prostate cancer and then this paper was a refreshed look at saying how many Snips are actually out there associated with risk of developing prostate cancer and it's somewhere around 250 or 260 I don't know the exact number but there's a certain amount so what they did was they developed a genomic risk score based on how many Snips you had and your likelihood or probability of developing prostate cancer and what they showed was that that although there's no difference between snip profiles in men of African ancestry because they could look genomically where their ancestry was and Caucasians are non-black men there was an enrichment for that same group of of snips in Black Men and an enrichment in men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer at a young age”