Gong-Hong Wei, Jussi Taipale and colleagues show that a prostate cancer risk allele at 6q22 enhances HOXB13 chromatin binding at this locus, leading to increased allele-specific expression of RFX6. They further show that RFX6 suppression reduces the proliferation, migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells and that RFX6 expression in clinical samples correlates with tumor progression and metastasis.
- Qilai Huang
- Thomas Whitington
- Gong-Hong Wei