Selected Publications
For a complete list of publications, please see Dr. Kraft’s CV.
Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci.
Garcia-Closas M, Couch FJ, Lindstrom S, Michailidou K, Schmidt MK, other authors, Willett WC, Hunter DJ, Simard J, Benitez J, Dunning AM, Sherman ME, Chenevix-Trench G, Chanock SJ, Hall P, Pharoah PD, Vachon C, Easton DF, Haiman CA, Kraft P.
Nat Genet. 2013 Apr;45(4):392-8.
Gene-environment interactions in genome-wide association studies: A comparative study of tests applied to empirical studies of type 2 diabetes.
Cornelis MC, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Liang L, Qi L, Chatterjee N, Hu FB, Kraft P.
Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Feb 1;175(3):191-202.
Gene-Environment Interplay in Common Complex Diseases: Forging an Integrative Model–Recommendations from an NIH Workshop.
Bookman EB, McAllister K, Gillanders E, Wanke K, Balshaw D, Rutter J, Reedy J, Shaughnessy D, Agurs-Collins T, Paltoo D, Atienza A, Bierut L, Kraft P, Fallin MD, Perera F, Turkheimer E, Boardman J, Marazita ML, Rappaport SM, Boerwinkle E, Suomi SJ, Caporaso NE, Hertz-Picciotto I, Jacobson KC, Lowe WL, Goldman LR, Duggal P, Gunnar MR, Manolio TA, Green ED, Olster DH, Birnbaum LS.
Genet Epidemiol. 2011 Feb 9. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20571. [Epub ahead of print]
On the Robustness of Tests of Genetic Associations Incorporating Gene-environment Interactions when the Environmental Exposure is Misspecified.
Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Kraft P.
Epidemiology. 2011 Mar;22(2): 257-61.
Genome-wide meta-analysis of joint tests for genetic and gene-environment interaction effects.
Aschard H, Hancock DB, London SJ, Kraft P.
Hum Hered. 2010;70(4):292-300.
Genome-wide association scans for secondary traits using case-control samples.
Monsees GM, Tamimi RM, Kraft P.
Genet Epidemiol. 2009 Dec;33(8):717-28.
Replication in genome-wide association studies.
Kraft P, Zeggini E, Ioannidis JP.
Stat Sci. 2009 Nov 1;24(4):561-573.
Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer.
Amundadottir L, Kraft P, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Fuchs CS, Petersen GM, Arslan AA, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Gross M, Helzlsouer K, Jacobs EJ, LaCroix A, Zheng W, Albanes D, Bamlet W, Berg CD, Berrino F, Bingham S, Buring JE, Bracci PM, Canzian F, Clavel-Chapelon F, Clipp S, Cotterchio M, de Andrade M, Duell EJ, Fox JW Jr, Gallinger S, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci EL, Goggins M, Gonzalez CA, Hallmans G, Hankinson SE, Hassan M, Holly EA, Hunter DJ, Hutchinson A, Jackson R, Jacobs KB, Jenab M, Kaaks R, Klein AP, Kooperberg C, Kurtz RC, Li D, Lynch SM, Mandelson M, McWilliams RR, Mendelsohn JB, Michaud DS, Olson SH, Overvad K, Patel AV, Peeters PH, Rajkovic A, Riboli E, Risch HA, Shu XO, Thomas G, Tobias GS, Trichopoulos D, Van Den Eeden SK, Virtamo J, Wactawski-Wende J, Wolpin BM, Yu H, Yu K, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Chanock SJ, Hartge P, Hoover RN.
Nat Genet. 2009 Sep;41(9):986-90.
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;41:724-728.
The impact of gene-environment dependence and misclassification in genetic association studies incorporating gene-environment interactions.
Lindstrom S, Yen YC, Spiegelman D, Kraft P.
Hum Hered, 2009. 68(3): p. 171-81.
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;33(8):717-728.
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;33(8):700-709.
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
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.
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;39:870-874.
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
