prostate cancer exists in many populations but the estimate of the population attributable risks (the proportion of cases that would not occur if this risk factor were not present) ranges from 32% in whites to 45% in Native Hawaiians, 46% in Latinos, 60% in Japanese Americans and 68% in blacks.155 Importantly, in both of these examples, although the genetic variant of interest is differentially distributed by race, racial group membership is an unreliable predictor of its presence.
