2011

2011- Selected Publications

 

Price AL, Helgason A, Thorleifsson G, McCarroll SA, Kong A, Stefansson K.
Single-tissue and cross-tissue heritability of gene expression via identity-by-descent in related or unrelated individuals
PLoS Genet. 2011 Feb; 7(2): e1001317.  Epub 2011 Feb 24.  PMID: 21383966.

 

Lin W, Qureshi AA, Kraft P, Nan H, Guo Q, Hu FB, Jensen M, Han J.
ASIP genetic variants and the number of non-melanoma skin cancers.
Cancer Causes and Control. 2011 Mar;22(3): 495-501.  Epub 2011 Jan 9.  PMCID: PMC3042546.

 

Lindstrom S, Vachon CM, Li J, Varghese J, Thompson D, Warren R, Brown J, Leyland J, Audley T, Wareham NJ, Loos R, Paterson AD, Rommens J, Waggott D, Martin LJ, Scott CG, Pankratz VS, Hankinson SE, Hazra A, Hunter DJ, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Chanock SJ, d-s-Silva I, Liu JJ, Eriksson L, Fergus JC, Stone J, Apicella C, Czene K, Kraft P, Hall P, Easton DF, Boyd NF, Tamimi RM.
Common variants in ZNF365 are associated with both mammographic density and breast cancer risk.
Nature Genetics. 2011 Mar;43(3): 185-187.  Epub 2011 Jan 30.  PMCID: PMC3076615.

 

Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Kraft P.
On the robustness of tests of genetic associations incorporating gene-environment interaction when the environmental exposure is misspecified.
Epidemiology. 2011 Mar;22(2):257-61. 

 

Han J, Qureshi AA, Nan H, Zhang J, Song Y, Guo Q, Hunter DJ.
A germline variant in the interferon regulatory factor 4 gene as a novel skin cancer risk locus.
Cancer Res. 2011 Mar 1;71(5): 1533-1539.  Epub 2011 Jan 26.  PMCID: PMC3079226.

 

Schernhammer ES, Razavi P, Li TY, Qureshi AA, Han J.
Rotating night shifts and risk of skin cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2011 Apr 6;103(7): 602-606. Epub 2011 Feb 18.  PMCID: PMC3071354.

 

Pasaniuc B, Zaitlen N, Lettre G, Chen CK, Tandon A, Kao WH, Ruczinski I, Fornage M, Siscovick DS, Zhu X, Larkin E, Lange L, Cupples A, Yang Q, Akylbekova M, Musani S, Divers J, Mychaleckyi J, Li M, Papanicolaou G, Millikan RC, Ambrosene CB, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Hu JJ, Ziegler RG, Nyante SJ, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Press MF, Chanock SJ, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Palmer CD, Buxbaum S, Ekunwe L, Hirschhorn J, Henderson BE, Myers S, Haiman CA, Reich D, Patterson N, Wilson JG, Price AL.
Enhanced statistical tests for GWAS in admixed populations: assessment using African Americans from CARe and a Breast Cancer Consortium.
PLoS Genet. 2011 April 21;7(4): e1001371. 

 

Karageorgi S, McGrath M, Lee IM, Buring J, Kraft P, De Vivo I.
Polymorphisms in genes hydroxysteroid-dehydrogenase-17b type 2 and type 4 and endometrial cancer risk.
Gynecol Oncol. 2011 Apr;121(1):54-8. 

 

Prescott J, Kraft P, Chasman DI, Savage SA, Mirabello L, Berndt SI, Weissfeld JL, Han J, Hayes RB, Chanock SJ, Hunter DJ, De Vivo I.
Genome-wide association study of relative telomere length.
PLoS One. 2011 May 10;6(5):e19635. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019635.

 

Kraft P.
Population stratification bias: more widespread than previously thought.
Epidemiology. 2011 May;22(3):408-9. 

 

Nan H,* Xu M*, Zhang J, Zhang M, Kraft P, Qureshi AA, Chen C, Guo Q, Hu FB, Rimm EB, Curhan G, Song  Y, Amos C, Wang L, Lee JE, Wei Q, Hunter DJ, Han J.
Genome-wide association study identifies nidogen 1 (NID1) as a susceptibility locus to cutaneous nevi and melanoma risk.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Jul 1;20(13): 2673-2679.  Epub 2011 Apr 9.  (* equal contribution)

 

Seldin MF, Pasaniuc B, Price AL. 
New approaches to disease mapping in admixed populations.
Nat Rev Genet. 2011 June 28;12(8):523-8.  doi: 10.1038/nrg3002. 

 

Nan H, Xu M, Kraft P, Qureshi AA, Chen C, Guo Q, Hu FB, Curhan G, Amos CI, Wang LE, Lee JE, Wei Q, Hunter DJ, Han J.
Genome-wide association study identifies novel alleles associated with risk of cutaneous basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Sept 15; 20(18): 3718-24.

 

Zhang M, Liang L, Xu M, Qureshi AA, Han J.
Pathway analysis for genome-wide association study of basal cell carcinoma of the skin.
PLoS One.  2011;6(7): e22760. Epub 2011 Jul 28.  

 

Liang G, Schernhammer ES, Qi L, Gao X, De Vivo I, Han J.
Associations between rotating night shifts, sleep duration, and telomere length in women.
PLoS One.  2011;6(8): e23462. Epub 2011 Aug 10.

 

Machiela MJ, Chen CY, Chen C, Chanock SJ, Hunter DJ, Kraft P.
Evaluation of polygenic risk scores for predicting breast and prostate cancer risk.
Genet Epidemiol. 2011 Sep;35(6):506-14. 

 

Bhatia G, Patterson N, Pasaniuc B, Zaitlen N, Genovese G, Pollack S, Mallick S, Myers S, Tandon A, Spencer C, Palmer CD, Adeyemo AA, Akylbekova EL, Cupples LA, Divers J, Fornage M, Kao WHL, Lange L, Li M, Musani S, Mychaleckyj JC, Ogunniyi A, Papanicolaou G, Rotimi CN, Rotter JI, Ruczinski I, Salako B, Siscovick DS, Tayo BO, Yang Q, McCarroll S, Sabeti P, Lettre G, De Jager P, Hirschhorn J, Zhu X, Cooper R, Reich D, Wilson JG, Price AL. 
Genome-wide Comparison of African-Ancestry Populations from CARe and Other Cohorts Reveals Signals of Natural Selection
AJHG.  2011 Sept 9; 89 (3): 368-381.

 

Schumacher FR, Berndt SI, Siddiq A, Jacobs KB, Wang Z, Lindstrom S, Stevens VL, Chen C, Mondul AM, Travis RC, Stram DO, Eeles RA, Easton DF, Giles G, Hopper JL, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Muir K, Al Olama AA, Kote-Jarai Z, Guy M, Severi G, Grönberg H, Isaacs WB, Karlsson R, Wiklund F, Xu J, Allen NE, Andriole GL, Barricarte A, Boeing H, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Crawford ED, Diver WR, Gonzalez CA, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci EL, Johansson M, Le Marchand L, Ma J, Sieri S, Stattin P, Stampfer MJ, Tjonneland A, Vineis P, Virtamo J, Vogel U, Weinstein SJ, Yeager M, Thun MJ, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Albanes D, Hayes RB, Feigelson HS, Riboli E, Hunter DJ, Chanock SJ, Haiman CA, Kraft P.
Genome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer susceptibility loci.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Oct 1;20(19):3867-75. 

 

Major JM, Yu K, Wheeler W, Zhang H, Cornelis MC, Wright ME, Yeager M, Snyder K, Weinstein SJ, Mondul A, Eliassen H, Purdue M, Hazra A, McCarty CA, Hendrickson S, Virtamo J, Hunter D, Chanock S, Kraft P, Albanes D.
Genome-wide association study identifies common variants associated with circulating vitamin E levels.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Oct 1;20(19):3876-83. 

 

Lindström S, Kraft P.
Average or stratified measures of risk profile discrimination: horses for courses.
Epidemiology. 2011 Nov;22(6):813-4.

 

Nan H*, Du M*, De Vivo I, Manson J, Liu S, McTiernan A, Curb JD, Lessin L, Bonner MR, Guo Q, Qureshi AA, Hunter DJ, Han J.
Shorter telomeres associated with a reduced risk of melanoma development.
Cancer Res.  2011 Nov 1;71(21):6758-6763. (*equal contribution)

 

Mondul AM, Yu K, Wheeler W, Zhang H, Weinstein SJ, Major JM, Cornelis MC, Männistö S, Hazra A, Hsing AW, Jacobs KB, Eliassen H, Tanaka T, Reding DJ, Hendrickson S, Ferrucci L, Virtamo J, Hunter DJ, Chanock SJ, Kraft P, Albanes D.
Genome-wide association study of circulating retinol levels.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Dec 1;20(23):4724-31. 

 

Amos CI, Li-E Wang, Lee JE, Gershenwald JE, Chen WV, Fang S, Kosoy R, Zhang M, Qureshi AA, Vattathil S, Schacherer CW, Gardner JM, Wang Y, Bishop DT, Barrett JH, MacGregor S, Hayward NK, Martin NG, Duffy DL, Q-Mega Investigators, Mann GJ, AMFS Investigators, Brown KM, Grimm EA, Xu Y, Han Y, Jing K, McHugh C, Laurie C, Doheny KF, Pugh EW, Seldin MF §,  Han J §, Wei Q § (co-senior authors).
Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci predisposing to cutaneous melanoma.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Dec 15;20(24):5012-5023.