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Selected Publications

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please see Peter Kraft's CV

Genome-wide association studies identify loci associated with age at menarche and age at natural menopause [Abstract].
He C, Kraft P, Chen C, Buring JE, Paré G, Hankinson SE, Chanock SJ, Ridker PM, Hunter DJ, Chasman DI. 
Nat Genet. 2009 May 17. [Epub ahead of print]


Complex diseases, complex genes: keeping pathways on the right track.
Kraft P, Raychaudhuri S.
Epidemiology. 2009 Jul;20(4):508-11. Review.


Genetic risk prediction--are we there yet [Excerpt]?
Kraft P, Hunter DJ.
N Engl J Med. 2009 Apr 23;360(17):1701-3. Epub 2009 Apr 15


Genome-wide association scans for secondary traits using case-control samples [Abstract].
Monsees GM, Tamimi RM, Kraft P
Genet Epidemiol. 2009 Apr 13. [Epub ahead of print]


Pathway analysis by adaptive combination of P-values [Abstract].
Yu K, Li Q, Bergen AW, Pfeiffer RM, Rosenberg PS, Caporaso N, Kraft P, Chatterjee N. 
Genet Epidemiol. 2009 Mar 30. [Epub ahead of print]


A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1) [Abstract].
Thomas G, Jacobs KB, Kraft P, Yeager M, Wacholder S, Cox DG, Hankinson SE, Hutchinson A, Wang Z, Yu K, Chatterjee N, Garcia-Closas M, Gonzalez-Bosquet J, Prokunina-Olsson L, Orr N, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Ziegler RG, Berg CD, Buys SS, McCarty CA, Feigelson HS, Calle EE, Thun MJ, Diver R, Prentice R, Jackson R, Kooperberg C, Chlebowski R, Lissowska J, Peplonska B, Brinton LA, Sigurdson A, Doody M, Bhatti P, Alexander BH, Buring J, Lee IM, Vatten LJ, Hveem K, Kumle M, Hayes RB, Tucker M, Gerhard DS, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover RN, Chanock SJ, Hunter DJ. 
Nat Genet. 2009 May;41(5):579-84. Epub 2009 Mar 29


ABO blood group and the risk of pancreatic cancer [Abstract].
Wolpin BM, Chan AT, Hartge P, Chanock SJ, Kraft P, Hunter DJ, Giovannucci EL, Fuchs CS. 
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009 Mar 18;101(6):424-31. Epub 2009 Mar 10. PMCID: PMC2657095 [Available on 2010/03/18]


Genome-wide and candidate gene association study of cigarette smoking behaviors.
Caporaso N, Gu F, Chatterjee N, Sheng-Chih J, Yu K, Yeager M, Chen C, Jacobs K, Wheeler W, Landi MT, Ziegler RG, Hunter DJ, Chanock S, Hankinson S, Bergen AW, Kraft P
PLoS ONE. 2009;4(2):e4653. Epub 2009 Feb 27. PMCID: PMC2644817


Beyond odds ratios - communicating disease risk based on genetic profiles [Abstract].
Kraft P, Wacholder S, Cornelis MC, Hu FB, Hayes RB, Thomas G, Hoover R, Hunter DJ, Chanock S. 
Nat Rev Genet. 2009 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]


Curses - winner's and otherwise - in genetic epidemiology.
Kraft P
Epidemiology. 2008 Sep;19(5):649-51; discussion 657-8. Review


Common variants of FUT2 are associated with plasma vitamin B12 levels [Abstract].
Hazra A, Kraft P, Selhub J, Giovannucci EL, Thomas G, Hoover RN, Chanock SJ, Hunter DJ. 
Nat Genet. 2008 Oct;40(10):1160-2. Epub 2008 Sep 7


A genome-wide association study identifies novel alleles associated with hair color and skin pigmentation.
Han J, Kraft P, Nan H, Guo Q, Chen C, Qureshi A, Hankinson SE, Hu FB, Duffy DL, Zhao ZZ, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Hayward NK, Thomas G, Hoover RN, Chanock S, Hunter DJ. 
PLoS Genet. 2008 May 16;4(5):e1000074. PMCID: PMC2367449


Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer [Abstract].
Thomas G, Jacobs KB, Yeager M, Kraft P, Wacholder S, Orr N, Yu K, Chatterjee N, Welch R, Hutchinson A, Crenshaw A, Cancel-Tassin G, Staats BJ, Wang Z, Gonzalez-Bosquet J, Fang J, Deng X, Berndt SI, Calle EE, Feigelson HS, Thun MJ, Rodriguez C, Albanes D, Virtamo J, Weinstein S, Schumacher FR, Giovannucci E, Willett WC, Cussenot O, Valeri A, Andriole GL, Crawford ED, Tucker M, Gerhard DS, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover R, Hayes RB, Hunter DJ, Chanock SJ. 
Nat Genet. 2008 Mar;40(3):310-5. Epub 2008 Feb 10


Drinking from the fire hose--statistical issues in genomewide association studies [Excerpt].
Hunter DJ, Kraft P
N Engl J Med. 2007 Aug 2;357(5):436-9


A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer [Abstract].
Hunter DJ, Kraft P, Jacobs KB, Cox DG, Yeager M, Hankinson SE, Wacholder S, Wang Z, Welch R, Hutchinson A, Wang J, Yu K, Chatterjee N, Orr N, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Ziegler RG, Berg CD, Buys SS, McCarty CA, Feigelson HS, Calle EE, Thun MJ, Hayes RB, Tucker M, Gerhard DS, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover RN, Thomas G, Chanock SJ. 
Nat Genet. 2007 May 27


Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24 [Abstract].
Yeager M, Orr N, Hayes RB, Jacobs KB, Kraft P, Wacholder S, Minichiello MJ, Fearnhead P, Yu K, Chatterjee N, Wang Z, Welch R, Staats BJ, Calle EE, Feigelson HS, Thun MJ, Rodriguez C, Albanes D, Virtamo J, Weinstein S, Schumacher FR, Giovannucci E, Willett WC, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Valeri A, Andriole GL, Gelmann EP, Tucker M, Gerhard DS, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover R, Hunter DJ, Chanock SJ, Thomas G. 
Nat Genet. 2007 Apr 1; 39(5):645-649


Exploiting gene-environment interaction to detect disease susceptibility loci.
Kraft P, Yen YC, Stram DO, Morrison J, Gauderman WJ. 
Human Heredity. 2007 Feb 2;63(2):111-119


Accounting for haplotype uncertainty in matched association studies: a comparison of simple and flexible techniques [Abstract].
Kraft P, Cox DG, Paynter RA, Hunter D and De Vivo I. 
Genet Epidemiol 2005b; 28: 261-72


A conditional-on-exchangeable-parental-genotypes likelihood that remains unbiased at the causal locus under multiple-affected-sibling ascertainment [No abstract available].
Kraft P, Hsieh HJ, Cordell HJ and Sinsheimer J. 
Genet Epidemiol 2005a; 29: 87-90


RHD maternal-fetal genotype incompatibility and schizophrenia: extending the MFG test to include multiple siblings and birth order.
Kraft P, Palmer CG, Woodward AJ, Turunen JA, Minassian S, Paunio T, Lonnqvist J, Peltonen L and Sinsheimer JS.
Eur J Hum Genet 2004; 12: 192-8


A family-based test for correlation between gene expression and trait values.
Kraft P, Schadt E, Aten J and Horvath S. 
Am J Hum Genet 2003b; 72: 1323-30


A robust score test for linkage disequilibrium in general pedigrees [Abstract].
Kraft P
Genet Epidemiol 2001; 21 Suppl 1: S447-52


Bias and efficiency in family-based gene-characterization studies: conditional, prospective, retrospective, and joint likelihoods.
Kraft P and Thomas DC. 
Am J Hum Genet 2000; 66: 1119-31