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Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Research Group

Selected Publications

  1. Warkentin MT, Al-Sawaihey H, Lam S, Liu G, Diergaarde B, Yuan JM, Wilson DO, Atkar-Khattra S, Grant B, Brhane Y, Khodayari-Moez E, Murison KR, Tammemagi MC, Campbell KRHung RJ. Radiomics analysis to predict pulmonary nodule malignancy using machine learning approaches. Thorax 2024.doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220226. PMID: 38195644

  2. Khodayari Moez E, Warkentin MT, Brhane Y, Lam S, Field JK, Liu G, Zulueta JJ, Valencia K, Mesa-Guzman M, Nialet AP, Atkar-Khattra S, Davies MPA, Grant B, Murison K, Montuenga LM, Amos CI, Robbins HA, Johansson M, Hung RJ. Circulating proteome for pulmonary nodule malignancy. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 Sep 7;115(9):1060-1070. [Full texts]

  3. Cheng, S., McLaughlin, J. R., Brown, M. C., Al-Sawaihey, H., Rutka, J., Bouffet, E., Hawkins, C., Cairney, A. E., Ranger, A., Fleming, A. J., Johnston, D., Greenberg, M., Malkin, D., & Hung, R. J. (2023). Maternal and childhood medical history and the risk of childhood brain tumours: a case-control study in Ontario, Canada. British journal of cancer129(2), 318–324. PMID: 37165200

  4. Budhathoki S, Diergaarde B, Liu G, Olshan A, Ness A, Waterboer T, Virani S, Basta P, Bender N, Brenner N, Dudding T, Hayes N, Hope A, Huang SH, Hueniken K, Kanterewicz B, McKay JD, Pring M, Thomas S, Wisniewski K, Thomas SBrhane Y, Agudo A, Alemany L, Lagiou A, Barzan L, Canova C, Conway DI, Healy CM, Holcatova I, Lagiou P, Macfarlane GJ, Macfarlane TV, Polesel J, Richiardi L, Robinson M, Znaor A, Brennan P, Hung RJ.  A risk prediction model for head and neck cancers incorporating lifestyle factors, HPV serology and genetic markers. Int J Cancer. 2023 Jan 24. PMID: 36694401.[Full texts]

  5. Warkentin MT, Tammemägi MC, Espin-Garcia O, Budhathoki S, Liu G, Hung RJ. Lung Cancer Absolute Risk Models for Mortality in Asian Population using China Kadoorie Biobank. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022;djac176. PMID: 36083018

  6. Cheng S, McLaughlin JR, Brown MC, Al-Sawaihey H, Rutka J, Bouffet E, Hawkins C, Cairney AE, Ranger A, Fleming AJ, Johnston D, Greenberg M, Malkin D, Hung RJ. Childhood head trauma and the risk of childhood brain tumours: A case-control study in Ontario, Canada.  Int J Cancer. 2022 Mar 1;150(5):795-801. PMID: 34520575 [Full texts]

  7. Hung RJ, Khodayari Moez E, Kim S, Budhathoki S, Brooks JD. Considerations of biomarker application for cancer continuum in the era of precision medicine.  Current Epidemiology Reports. 9(3): 200-211, 2022 . PMID: 36090700

  8. Hung RJ.  Biomarker-based lung cancer screening eligibility: Implementation considerations. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarker and Prevention. 31(4):698-701. 2022. PMID: 35373266.
  9. Lye JM, Knight JA, Arneja A, Seeto RA, Wong J, Khani NA, Brooks JD, Levitan RD, Matthews SG, Lye SJ, Hung RJ. Maternal Acetaminophen Use and Cognitive Development at 4 years: the Ontario Birth Study. Pediatric Research, Jul 7: 1-5, 2022. PMID: 35794252

  10. Ssewanyana D, Knight JA, Matthews S, Wong J, Khani N. Lye J, Muphy K, Foshay K, Okeke J, Lye S. Hung RJ. Maternal prenatal psychological distress and vitamin intake with children’s neurocognitive development. Pediatric Research, 2022. PMID: 35288638

  11. Hung RJ, Warkentin MT, Brhane Y, Chatterjee N, Christiani DC, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Liu G, Johansson M, Albanes D, Le Marchand L, Tardon A, Rennert G, Bojesen SE, Chen C, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Andrew AS, Arnold SM, Aldrich MC, Bickeböller H, Risch A, Schabath MB, McKay JD, Brennan P, Amos CI. Assessing Lung Cancer Absolute Risk Trajectory based on a Polygenic Risk Model. Cancer Research 2021, 81(6):1607-1615. PMID: 33472890.
  12. Baumeister SE, Baurecht H, Nolde M, Alayash Z, Gläser S, Johansson M, Amos CI, Johnson EC, Hung RJ. Cannabis use, pulmonary function, and lung cancer susceptibility: A Mendelian randomization study. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2021 S1556-0864(21)02105-5. PMID: 33852959

  13. Hung RJ, Gazdar AF (2020). Lung Cancer - Continues to be the leading cause of cancer death. In: Wild CP, Weiderpass E, Stewart BW, editors. World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer. [Full Text]

  14. Thomas S, Carroll JC, Brown MC, Chen Z, Mirshams M, Patel D, Boyd K, Pierre A, Goldstein DP, Giuliani ME, Xu W, Eng L, Khodayari Moez E, Liu G, Hung RJ. Nicotine dependence as a risk factor for upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancers: A mediation analysis. PLoS One. 2020 Aug 28;15(8):e0237723. PMID: 32857771

  15. Lee SM, Mitchell R, Knight JA, Mazzulli T, Relton C, Khodayari-Moez E, Hung RJ. Early Childhood Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Children’s Neurocognitive Development.  International Journal of Epidemiololgy, 2021, 50(2):538-549. PMID: 33306803.

  16. Brhane Y, Yang P, Christiani DC, Liu G, McLaughlin JR, Brennan P, Shete S, Field JK, Tardón A, Kohno T, Shiraishi K, Matsuo K, Bosse Y, Amos CI, Hung RJ. Genetic determinants of lung cancer prognosis in never smokers: A pooled analysis in the International Lung Cancer Consortium. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarker and Prevention. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Jul 22. PMID: 32699080

  17. Kachuri L, Johansson M, Rashkin SR, Graff RE, Bossé Y, Manem V, Caporaso NE, Landi MT, Christiani DC, Vineis P, Liu G, Scelo G, Zaridze D, Shete SS, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardón A, Rennert G, Chen C, Goodman GE, Doherty JA, Bickeböller H, Field JK, Davies MP, Dawn Teare M, Kiemeney LA, Bojesen SE, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Le Marchand L, Cheng I, Schabath MB, Duell EJ, Andrew AS, Manjer J, Lazarus P, Arnold S, McKay JD, Emami NC, Warkentin MT, Brhane Y, Obeidat M, Martin RM, Relton C, Davey Smith G, Haycock PC, Amos CI, Brennan P, Witte JS*, Hung RJ*. Immune-mediated genetic pathways resulting in pulmonary function impairment increase lung cancer susceptibility. Nature Communications. 2020, 11(1):27. 2.– Selected as Editor’s Highlights of the month. PMID: 31911640

  18. Arneja J, Hung RJ, Seeto RA, Knight JA, Hewko SL, Bocking A, Lye SJ, Brooks JD. Association between maternal acetaminophen use and adverse birth outcomes in a pregnancy and birth cohort.  Pediatr Res. 2019 Dec 18. PMID: 31852009

  19. Warkentin MT, Lam S, Hung RJ. Determinants of impaired lung function and lung cancer prediction among never-smokers in the UK Biobank cohort. EBioMedicine-published by Lancet. 47:58-64. 2019 PMID: 31495719
  20. Shepshelovich D, Xu W, Lu L, Fares A, Yang P, Christiani D, Zhang J, Shiraishi K, Ryan BM, Chen C, Schwartz AG, Tardon A, Wu X, Schabath MB, Teare MD, Le Marchand L, Zhang ZF, Field JK, Brenner H, Diao N, Xie J, Kohno T, Harris CC, Wenzlaff AS, Fernandez-Tardon G, Ye Y, Taylor F, Wilkens LR, Davies M, Liu Y, Barnett MJ, Goodman GE, Morgenstern H, Holleczek B, Brown MC, Liu G*, Hung RJ*. Body mass index (BMI), BMI change, and overall survival in small cell and non-small cell lung cancer patients: a pooled analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium.  J. Thoracic Oncology, 14(9):1594-1607, 2019. PMID: 31163278

  21. Hung RJ, Spitz MR, Houlston RS, Schwartz AG, Field JK, Ying J, Li Y, Han Y, Ji X, Chen W, Wu X, Gorlov IP, Na J, de Andrade M, Liu G, Brhane Y, Diao N, Wenzlaff A, Davies MP, Liloglou T, Timofeeva M, Muley T,  Rennert H, Saliba W, Ryan BM, Bowman E, Barros-Dios J, Pérez-Ríos M, Morgenstern H, Zienolddiny S, Skaug V, Ugolini D, Bonassi S, van der Heijden EHFM, Tardon A, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Bickeböller H, Arnold S, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Andrew A, Grankvist K, Caporaso N, Teare MD, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Kiemeney LA, Wichmann HE, Lazarus P, Mayordomo J, Neri M, Haugen A, Zhang ZF, Ruano-Raviña A, Brenner H, Harris CC, I Orlow, Rennert G, Risch A, Brennan P, Christiani DC, Amos CI, Yang P, Gorlova OY. Lung cancer risk in never smokers of European descents is associated with genetic variation in the 5p15.33 TERT-CLPTM1L region. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 14(8):1360-1369 2019. PMID: 31009812

  22. Kachuri L, Helby J, Bojesen SE, Christiani DC, Su L, Wu X, Tardón A, Fernández-Tardón G, Field JK, Davies MP, Chen C, Goodman GE, Shepherd FA, Leighl NB, Tsao MS , Brhane Y, Brown MC, Boyd K, Shepshelovich D, Sun L, Amos CI, Liu G, Hung RJ. Investigation of leukocyte telomere length and genetic variants in chromosome 5p15.33 as prognostic markers in lung cancer.  Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarker and Prevention.  2019, 28(7):1228-1237 PMID: 31263055

  23. Shen SY*, Singhania R*, Fehringer G*, Chakravarthy A*, Roehrl MHA, Chadwick D, Zuzarte PC, Borgida A, Wang TT, Li T, Kis O, Zhao Z, Spreafico A, Medina TDS, Wang Y, Roulois D, Ettayebi I, Chen Z, Chow S, Murphy T, Arruda A, O'Kane GM, Liu J, Mansour M, McPherson JD, O'Brien C, Leighl N, Bedard PL, Fleshner N, Liu G, Minden MD, Gallinger S, Goldenberg A, Pugh TJ, Hoffman MM, Bratman SV, Hung RJ*, De Carvalho DD*. Sensitive tumour detection and classification using plasma cell-free DNA methylomes. Nature. 2018 Nov 14. PMID: 30429608

  24. Kachuri, L; Saarela, O; Bojesen, SE; Davey Smith, G; Liu, G; Landi, MT; Caporaso, NE; Christiani, DC; Johansson, M; Panico, S; Overvad, K; Trichopoulou, A; Vineis, P; Scelo, G; Zaridze, D; Wu, X; Albanes, D; Diergaarde, B; Lagiou, P; Macfarlane, GJ; Aldrich, MC; Tardón, A; Rennert, G; Olshan, AF; Weissler, MC; Chen, C; Goodman, GE; Doherty, JA; Ness, AR; Bickeböller, H; Wichmann, HE; Risch, A; Field, JK; Teare, MD; Kiemeney, LA; van der Heijden, EHFM; Carroll, JC; Haugen, A; Zienolddiny, S; Skaug, V; Wünsch-Filho, V; Tajara, EH; Ayoub Moysés, R; Daumas Nunes, F; Lam, S; Eluf-Neto, J; Lacko, M; Peters, WHM; Le Marchand, L; Duell, EJ; Andrew, AS; Franceschi, S; Schabath, MB; Manjer, J; Arnold, S; Lazarus, P; Mukeriya, A; Swiatkowska, B; Janout, V; Holcatova, I; Stojsic, J; Mates, D; Lissowska, J; Boccia, S; Lesseur, C; Zong, X; McKay, JD; Brennan, P; Amos, CI; Hung, RJ. Mendelian Randomization and mediation analysis of leukocyte telomere length and risk of lung and head and neck cancers. Int J Epidemiol. 2018 Jul 28. PMID: 30059977

  25. McKay JD*, Hung RJ*, Han Y, Zong X, Carreras-Torres R, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Johansson M, Xiao X, Li Y, Byun J, Dunning A, Pooley KA, Qian DC, Ji X, Liu G, Timofeeva MN, Bojesen SE, Wu X, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Teare MD, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Shen H, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Ye Y, Diao N, Su L, Zhang R, Brhane Y, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Mellemgaard A, Saliba W, Haiman CA, Wilkens LR, Fernandez-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, van der Heijden HFM, Kim JH, Dai J, Hu Z, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Doherty JA, Barnett MP, Chen C, Goodman GE, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Brüske I, Wichmann HE, Manz J, Muley TR, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd FA, Tsao MS, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Zienolddiny S, Duell EJ, Butler LM, Koh WP, Gao YT, Houlston RS, McLaughlin J, Stevens VL, Joubert P, Lamontagne M, Nickle DC, Obeidat M, Timens W, Zhu B, Song L, Kachuri L, Artigas MS, Tobin MD, Wain LV; SpiroMeta Consortium, Rafnar T, Thorgeirsson TE, Reginsson GW, Stefansson K, Hancock DB, Bierut LJ, Spitz MR, Gaddis NC, Lutz SM, Gu F, Johnson EO, Kamal A, Pikielny C, Zhu D, Lindströem S, Jiang X, Tyndale RF, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Bossé Y, Chanock S, Brennan P, Landi MT, Amos CI. Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes. Nat Genet. 2017 Jul;49(7):1126-1132. PMID: 28604730.

  26. Hung RJ, Fehringer G, Casey F, Gruber SB, Peters U, Goode EL, Sellers TA, Haiman CA, Hunter DJ, Kraft P, Amos CI, Freedman ML, Wilson MD. Cross-Cancer Analysis Reveals Novel Pleiotropic Associations – Reply. Cancer Res. 2017 Nov 1;77(21):6045-6046 PMID: 29066515

  27. Zong X, Pole JD, Grundy PE, Mahmud, SM, Parker L, Hung RJ. Second Malignant Neoplasms after Childhood Non-CNS Embryonal Tumors in North America: a population-based study. European Journal of Cancer, 2017 84C:173-183. PMID: 28822326

  28. Fehringer G, Brenner DR, Zhang ZF, Lee YA, Matsuo K, Ito H, Lan Q, Vineis P, Johansson M, Overvad K, Riboli E, Trichopoulou A, Sacerdote C, Stucker I, Boffetta P, Brennan P, Christiani DC, Hong YC, Landi MT, Morgenstern H, Schwartz AG, Wenzlaff AS, Rennert G, McLaughlin JR, Harris CC, Olivo-Marston S, Orlow I, Park BJ, Zauderer M, Barros Dios JM, Ruano Raviña A, Siemiatycki J, Koushik A, Lazarus P, Fernández-Somoano A, Tardon A, Le Marchand L, Brenner H, Saum KU, Duell EJ, Andrew AS, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Zaridze D, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Foretova L, Janout V, Bencko V, Holcatova I, Pesatori AC, Consonni D, Olsson A, Straif K, Hung RJ.  Alcohol and Lung Cancer Risk Among Never Smokers: A Pooled Analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium and the SYNERGY Study.  International J. Cancer, 2017 PMID: 28120396

  29. Fehringer G, Kraft P, Pharoah PD, Eeles RA, Chatterjee N, Schumacher FR, Schildkraut JM, Lindstrom S, Brennan P, Bickeböller H, Houlston RS, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Risch A, Amin Al Olama A, Berndt SI, Giovannucci E, Gronberg H, Kote-Jarai Z, Ma J, Muir K, Stampfer MJ, Stevens VL, Wiklund F, Willett WC, Goode EL, Permuth JB, Risch HA, Reid BM, Bezieau S, Brenner H, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Hudson TJ, Kocarnik J, Newcomb PA, Schoen RE, Slattery ML, White E, Adank MA, Ahsan H, Aittomaki K, Baglietto L, Blomquist C, Canzian F, Czene K, Dos Santos Silva I, Eliassen AH, Figueroa JD, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Garcia-Closas M, Gaudet MM, Johnson N, Hall P, Hazra A, Hein R, Hofman A, Hopper JL, Irwanto A, Johansson M, Kaaks R, Kibriya MG, Lichtner P, Liu JJ, Lund E, Makalic E, Meindl A, Müller-Myhsok B, Muranen TA, Nevanlinna H, Peeters PH, Peto J, Prentice RL, Rahman N, Sanchez MJ, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Southey MC, Tamimi RM, Travis RC, Turnbull C, Uitterlinden AG, Wang Z, Whittemore AS, Yang XR, Zheng W, Rafnar T, Gudmundsson J, Stacey SN, Stefansson K, Sulem P, Chen YA, Tyrer JP, Christiani DC, Wei Y, Shen H, Hu Z, Shu XO, Shiraishi K, Takahashi A, Bossé Y, Obeidat M, Nickle D, Timens W, Freedman ML, Li Q, Seminara D, Chanock SJ, Gong J, Peters U, Gruber SB, Amos CI, Sellers TA, Easton DF, Hunter DJ, Haiman CA, Henderson BE, Hung RJ. Cross-cancer genome-wide association analysis of lung, ovary, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer reveals novel pleiotropic associations. Cancer Research, 2016, 76(17):5103-14. PMID: 27197191

  30. Kachuri L, Latifovic L, Liu G, Hung RJ. Systematic review of genetic variation in chromosome 5p15.33 and telomere length as predictive and prognostic biomarkers for lung cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 25(12):1537-1549. PMID: 27566420

  31. Kachuri L, Amos CI, McKay JD, Johansson M, Vineis P, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Boutron-Ruault M, Johansson M, Quirós JR, Sieri S, Travis RC, Weiderpass E, Le Marchand L, Henderson BE, Wilkens L,  Goodman G, Chen C, Doherty JA, Christiani DC, Wei Y, Su L, Tworoger S, Kraft P, Zaridze D, Field JK, Marcus MW, Davies MPA, Hyde R, Caporaso NE, Landi MT, Severi G, Giles GG, Liu G, McLaughlin JR, Li Y, Xiao X, Fehringer G, Zong X, Denroche RE, Zuzarte PC, McPherson JD, Brennan P, Hung RJ. Fine-mapping of chromosome 5p15.33 based on a targeted deep sequencing and high density genotyping identifies novel lung cancer susceptibility loci. Carcinogenesis. 2016, 37(1):96-105. PMID: 26590902

  32. Hung RJ, Ulrich CM, Goode EL, Brhane Y, Muir K, Chan AT, Le Marchand L, Schildkraut J, Witte J S., Eeles R, Boffetta P., Spitz MR, Poirier JG, Rider DN, Fridley BL, Chen Z, Haiman C, Schumacher F, Easton DF, Landi MT, Brennan P, Houlston R, Christiani D., Field JK, Bickeboller H., Risch A, Kote-Jarai Z., Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Chanock S, Berndt SI, Kraft P, Lindstrom S, Al Olama AA, Song H, Phelan C, Wentzensen N, Peters U, Slattery ML, Sellers TA, Gruber SB, Hunter DJ, Amos CI & Henderson B. Cross Cancer Genomic Investigation of Inflammation Pathway Based on Five Common Cancers: Lung, Ovary, Prostate, Breast and Colorectal Cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2015 107 (11): djv246. PMID: 26319099

  33. Brenner DB, Amos CI, Brhane Y, Timofeeva MN, Caporaso N, Wang Y, Christiani DC, Bickeböller H, Yang P, Albanes D, Stevens VL, Gapstur S, McKay J, Boffetta P, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Krokan HE, Skorpen F, Gabrielsen ME, Vatten L, Njølstad I, Chen C, Goodman G, Lathrop M, Vooder T, Välk K, Nelis M, Metspalu A, Broderick P, Eisen T, Wu X, Zhang D, Chen W, Spitz MR, Wei Y, Su L, Xie D, She J, Matsuo K, Matsuda F, Ito H, Risch A, Heinrich J, A Rosenberger, Muley T, Dienemann H, Field JK, Raji O, Chen Y, Gosney J, Liloglou T, Davies MPA, Marcus M ,McLaughlin J, Orlow I, Han Y, Li Y,  Zong Z, Johansson M and EPIC Investigators, Liu G, Tworoger SS, Le Marchand L, Henderson BE, Wilkens LR, Dai J, Shen H, Houlston RS, Landi MT, Brennan P, Hung RJ. Identification of lung cancer histology-specific variants applying Bayeisan framework variant prioritization approaches within the TRICL and ILCCO consortia.  Carcinogenesis,  2015. 36(11):1314-26. PMID: 25644374
  34. Poirier JG, Brennan P, McKay JD, Spitz MR, Bickeböller H, Risch A, Liu G, Le Marchand L, Tworoger S, McLaughlin J, Rosenberger A, Heinrich J, Brüske I, Muley, Henderson BE, Wilkens LR, Zong X,  Li Y, Hao K, Timens W, Bossé Y, Sin DD, Obeidat M,  Amos CI, Hung RJ. Informed genome-wide association analysis with family history as a secondary phenotype identifies novel loci of lung cancer.  Genetic Epidemiology, 2015, 39(3):197-206 PMID: 25644374

  35. Chen LS, Hung RJ, Baker T, Horton A, Culverhouse R, Saccone N, Cheng I, Deng B, Han Y, Hansen HM, Horsman J,  Kim C, Lutz S, Rosenberger A, Aben KK, Chang SC, Dieffenbach AK, Dienemann H, Brittni Fredericksen H, Han J, Pande M, Wrensch MR, McLaughlin J, Skaug V, van der Heijden HF, Wamplfer J, Wenzlaff A, Woll P,  Zienolddiny S, Bickeböller H, Brenner H, Haugen A,  Heinrich J, Hokanson J,  Hunter D, Kiemeney LA, Le Marchand L,  Liu G,  Mayordomo J, Risch A. Schwartz A, Teare D, Wu X, Wiencke JK, Yang P, Zhang ZF, Spitz M, Kraft P,  Amos CI, Bierut LJ. CHRNA5 risk variant predicts earlier age at lung cancer diagnosis and delayed smoking cessation- a meta-analysis. JNCI, 107(5), 2014. PMID: 25873736

  36. Kim CH, Lee YC, Hung RJ, McNallan SR, Cote ML, Lim WY, Chang SC, Kim JH, Ugolini D, Chen Y, Liloglou T, Andrew AS, Onega T, Duell EJ, Field JK, Lazarus P, Le Marchand L, Neri M, Vineis P, Kiyohara C, Hong YC, Morgenstern H, Matsuo K, Tajima K, Christiani DC, McLaughlin JR, Bencko V, Holcatova I, Boffetta P, Brennan P, Fabianova E, Foretova L, Janout V, Lissowska J, Mates D, Rudnai P, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Mukeria A, Zaridze D, Seow A, Schwartz AG, Yang P, Zhang ZF, et al.  Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and lung cancer by histological subtype: a pooled analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO). IJC, 2014, 135(8):1918-30. PMID: 24615328

  37. Zhang LR, Morgenstern H, Greenland S, Chang SC, Lazarus P, Teare MD, Woll PJ, Orlow I, Cox B, Brhane Y, Liu G, Hung RJ.  Cannabis smoking and lung cancer risk: pooled analysis in the International Lung Cancer Consortium. International Journal of Cancer, 2015 136(4):894-903 PMID: 24947688

  38. Brenner DR, Scherer D, Muir K, Schildkraut J, Boffetta P, Spitz M, LeMarchand L, Chan AT, Goode EL, Ulrich CM, Hung RJ.  A review of the application of inflammatory biomarkers in epidemiologic cancer research. CEBP, 23(9):1729-1751.  2014 PMID: 24962838

  39. Fehringer G, Gallinger S, Borgida A, Zhang LR, Adams L, Liu G, Hung RJ.  The association of family history of cancer and medical history with pancreatic cancer risk.  Journal of Pancreas.  43(5):812-4. 2014. PMID: 24921205
  40. Zuzarte PC, Denroche RE, Fehringer G, Katzov-Eckert H, Hung RJ, McPherson JD. A two-dimensional pooling strategy for rare variant detection on next-generation sequencing platforms. PLoS ONE. 2014 Apr 11;9(4):e93455. PMID: 24728235

  41. Brenner DR, Brennan P, Boffetta P, Amos C, Spitz M, Chen C, Goodman G, Wichmann E, Bickeboller H, Risch A, McLaughlin JR, Benhamou S, Lewinger JP, Witte JS, Chen G, Bull S, Hung RJ. Hierarchical modeling identifies novel lung cancer susceptibility variants in inflammation pathways among 10,140 cases and 11,012 controls. Human Genetics, 132(5):579-89, 2013.(EGRP Top 10 Research Highlights in 2013) PMID: 23370545
     
  42. Zhang LR, Sawka AM, Adams L, Hatfield N. Hung RJ.  Vitamin and mineral supplements and thyroid cancer: a systematic review.  European Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2013, 22(2):158-68. PMID: 22926510
     
  43. Brenner DR, Boffetta P, Duell EJ, Bickeböller H, Rosenberger A, McCormack V, Muscat JE, Yang P, Wichmann HE, Brueske-Hohlfeld I, Schwartz AG, Cote ML, Tjønneland A, Friis S, Le Marchand L, Zhang ZF, Morgenstern H, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Zaridze D, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Foretova L, Janout V, Bencko V, Schejbalova M, Brennan P, Mates IN, Lazarus P, Field JK, Raji O, McLaughlin JR, Liu G, Wiencke J, Neri M, Ugolini D, Andrew AS, Lan Q, Hu W, Orlow I, Park BJ, Hung RJ. Previous lung disease and lung cancer risk: a pooled analysis from the international lung cancer consortium.  AJE, 2012 176 (7): 573-85 PMID: 22986146
  44. Timofeeva MN, Hung RJ, Rafnar T, Christiani DC, Field JK, Bickeboller H, Risch A, McKay JD, Wang Y, Dai J, Gaborieau V, McLaughlin J, Brenner D, Narod S, Caporaso NE, Albanes D, Thun M, Eisen T, Wichmann HE, Rosenberger A, Han Y, Chen W, Zhu D, Spitz M, Wu X, Pande M, Zhao Y, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Krokan HE, Gabrielsen ME, Skorpen F, Vatten L, Njølstad I, Chen C, Goodman G, Lathrop M, Benhamou S, Vooder T, Välk K, Nelis M, Metspalu A, Raji O, Chen Y, Gosney J, Liloglou T, Muley T, Dienemann H, Thorleifsson G, Shen H, Stefansson K, Brennan P, Amos CI, Houlston R, Landi MT; for TRICL Research Team.  Influence of Common Genetic Variation on Lung Cancer Risk: Meta-Analysis of 14,900 Cases and 29,485 Controls.  Human Molecular Genetics, 2012, 21(22):4980-95. PMID: 22899653

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