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