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The Influence of DNA Repair Genes and Prenatal Tobacco Exposure on Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia-A Gene-Environment Interaction Study Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Nov 04. . View in PubMed
Association of immunoglobulin E levels with glioma risk and survival J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Oct 24. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide analysis across the development span of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: backtracking to birth Mol Cancer. 2024 Oct 23; 23(1):238. . View in PubMed
Genetic variation near GRB10 associated with bone growth and osteosarcoma risk in canine and human populations Cancer Epidemiol. 2024 Oct; 92:102599. . View in PubMed
Association of immunoglobulin E levels with glioma risk and survival medRxiv. 2024 Sep 23. . View in PubMed
Early-life tobacco exposure is causally implicated in aberrant RAG-mediated recombination in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Leukemia. 2024 Sep 09. . View in PubMed
Folate Metabolism and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Genetic Pathway Analysis from the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Sep 03; 33(9):1248-1252. . View in PubMed
Early-life tobacco exposure is causally implicated in aberrant RAG-mediated recombination in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Res Sq. 2024 Jun 20. . View in PubMed
A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children Cell Genom. 2024 Apr 10; 4(4):100526. . View in PubMed
Association between county-level socioeconomic status and the incidence of and surgical treatment for pituitary adenoma J Neurosurg. 2024 Mar 01; 140(3):724-734. . View in PubMed
Effect of parental adverse childhood experiences on intergenerational DNA methylation signatures from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and buccal mucosa Transl Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 12; 14(1):89. . View in PubMed
High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study Lancet Planet Health. 2024 07; 8(7):e506-e514. . View in PubMed
Backtracking to the future: unraveling the origins of childhood leukemia Leukemia. 2024 02; 38(2):416-419. . View in PubMed
Evaluation of the genetic basis of familial-associated early-onset hematologic cancers in an ancestral/ethnically diverse population Haematologica. 2024 07 01; 109(7):2085-2091. . View in PubMed
A Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics Consortium (PACE) meta-analysis highlights potential relationships between birth order and neonatal blood DNA methylation Commun Biol. 2024 01 09; 7(1):66. . View in PubMed
Genome-wide assessment of genetic risk loci for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Japanese patients Haematologica. 2024 04 01; 109(4):1247-1252. . View in PubMed
Maternal Prenatal Use of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs and Associations with Childhood Cancer Subtypes Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 03 01; 33(3):347-354. . View in PubMed
Evaluating genomic polygenic risk scores for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Latinos HGG Adv. 2023 Oct 12; 4(4):100239. . View in PubMed
Birth characteristics and risk of Ewing sarcoma Cancer Causes Control. 2023 Oct; 34(10):837-843. . View in PubMed
Association between birth characteristics and incidence of pituitary adenoma and craniopharyngioma: a registry-based study in California, 2001-2015 Cancer Causes Control. 2023 Sep; 34(9):757-768. . View in PubMed
Effect of Parental Adverse Childhood Experiences on Intergenerational DNA Methylation Signatures Res Sq. 2023 Jun 26. . View in PubMed
Evaluating Genomic Polygenic Risk Scores for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Latinos medRxiv. 2023 Jun 12. . View in PubMed
High Ambient Temperature in Pregnancy and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia medRxiv. 2023 May 19. . View in PubMed
One-Carbon (Folate) Metabolism Pathway at Birth and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Biomarker Study in Newborns Cancers (Basel). 2023 Feb 05; 15(4). . View in PubMed
Mendelian randomization study of birthweight, gestational age, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 09; 5(9):101058. . View in PubMed
Meta-Analysis of DNA Methylation Datasets Shows Aberrant DNA Methylation of Thyroid Development or Function Genes in Down Syndrome Thyroid. 2023 01; 33(1):53-62. . View in PubMed
Impact of pinworm infection on the development of murine B-cell leukemia/lymphoma in the presence and absence of ETV6::RUNX1 Haematologica. 2023 12 01; 108(12):3480-3484. . View in PubMed
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 4069 children with glioma identifies 9p213 risk locus. Neuro Oncol. 2023 09 05; 25(9):1709-1720. . View in PubMed
Outdoor artificial light at night, air pollution, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the California Linkage Study of Early-Onset Cancers Sci Rep. 2023 01 11; 13(1):583. . View in PubMed
Evaluation of Maternal Infection During Pregnancy and Childhood Leukemia Among Offspring in Denmark JAMA Netw Open. 2023 02 01; 6(2):e230133. . View in PubMed
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 03 06; 32(3):292-294. . View in PubMed
Gene-Environment Analyses Reveal Novel Genetic Candidates with Prenatal Tobacco Exposure in Relation to Risk for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 12 01; 32(12):1707-1715. . View in PubMed
Does Cytomegalovirus Play a Role in Pediatric Lymphoblastic Leukemogenesis? JAMA Netw Open. 2023 01 03; 6(1):e2250226.. View in PubMed
Antibodies to varicella-zoster virus and three other herpesviruses and survival in adults with glioma Neuro Oncol. 2023 06 02; 25(6):1047-1057. . View in PubMed
Systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans is associated with transposable elements and under strong genetic control Genome Biol. 2023 01 12; 24(1):2. . View in PubMed
Analysis of DNA methylation at birth and in childhood reveals changes associated with season of birth and latitude Clin Epigenetics. 2023 09 11; 15(1):148. . View in PubMed
Associations between early-life and in utero infections and cytomegalovirus-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children Int J Cancer. 2023 03 01; 152(5):845-853. . View in PubMed
Correction to: Common maternal infections during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia in the offspring: findings from six international birth cohorts Int J Epidemiol. 2022 Jun 13; 51(3):1037. . View in PubMed
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation bioRxiv. 2022 Jan 24. . View in PubMed
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation Nat Biotechnol. 2022 11; 40(11):1644-1653. . View in PubMed
Localized variation in ancestral admixture identifies pilocytic astrocytoma risk loci among Latino children PLoS Genet. 2022 09; 18(9):e1010388. . View in PubMed
Accelerated epigenetic aging in newborns with Down syndrome Aging Cell. 2022 07; 21(7):e13652. . View in PubMed
Development of a Droplet Digital™ PCR DNA methylation detection and quantification assay of prenatal tobacco exposure Biotechniques. 2022 04; 72(4):121-133. . View in PubMed
Genome-wide trans-ethnic meta-analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Leukemia. 2022 03; 36(3):865-868. . View in PubMed
Proximity to endocrine-disrupting pesticides and risk of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) among adolescents: A population-based case-control study in California Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2022 01; 239:113881. . View in PubMed
Investigating DNA methylation as a mediator of genetic risk in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Hum Mol Genet. 2022 10 28; 31(21):3741-3756. . View in PubMed
Decreased IL-10 accelerates B-cell leukemia/lymphoma in a mouse model of pediatric lymphoid leukemia Blood Adv. 2022 01 08; 6(3):854-865. . View in PubMed
Mitochondrial 1555 G>A variant as a potential risk factor for childhood glioblastoma Neurooncol Adv. 2022 Jan-Dec; 4(1):vdac045. . View in PubMed
Clinical characteristics of cytomegalovirus-positive pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia at diagnosis Am J Hematol. 2022 06 01; 97(6):E198-E201. . View in PubMed
Pleiotropic MLLT10 variation confers risk of meningioma and estrogen-mediated cancers Neurooncol Adv. 2022 Jan-Dec; 4(1):vdac044. . View in PubMed
Epigenetic dysregulation in meningiomas Neurooncol Adv. 2022 Jan-Dec; 4(1):vdac084. . View in PubMed
Common maternal infections during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia in the offspring: findings from six international birth cohorts Int J Epidemiol. 2022 06 13; 51(3):769-777. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide association study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children with Down syndrome Blood Adv. 2022 07 26; 6(14):4132-4136. . View in PubMed
Interaction between maternal killer immunoglobulin-like receptors and offspring HLAs and susceptibility of childhood ALL Blood Adv. 2022 06 28; 6(12):3756-3766. . View in PubMed
Cytomegalovirus proteins, maternal pregnancy cytokines, and their impact on neonatal immune cytokine profiles and acute lymphoblastic leukemogenesis in children Haematologica. 2022 09 01; 107(9):2266-2270. . View in PubMed
Hispanic Ethnicity Differences in Birth Characteristics, Maternal Birthplace, and Risk of Early-Onset Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Population-Based Case-Control Study Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 09 02; 31(9):1788-1795. . View in PubMed
Periconceptional folate intake influences DNA methylation at birth based on dietary source in an analysis of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia cases and controls Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 12 19; 116(6):1553-1564. . View in PubMed
DNA methylation at birth in monozygotic twins discordant for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia Nat Commun. 2022 10 14; 13(1):6077. . View in PubMed
Incorporation of DNA methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) in epigenome-wide association analysis: application to birthweight effects in neonatal whole blood Clin Epigenetics. 2022 12 01; 14(1):158. . View in PubMed
Birth characteristics and risk of meningioma in a population-based study in California Neurooncol Adv. 2022 Jan-Dec; 4(1):vdac173. . View in PubMed
Medulloblastoma uses GABA transaminase to survive in the cerebrospinal fluid microenvironment and promote leptomeningeal dissemination Cell Rep. 2021 Jul 27; 36(4):109475. . View in PubMed
Mode of Delivery, Birth Characteristics, and Early-Onset Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in a Population-Based Case-Control Study Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 12; 30(12):2286-2293. . View in PubMed
Low CtBP2 expression is associated with a stem cell-like signature and adverse clinical outcome in childhood B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia Leukemia. 2021 09; 35(9):2684-2687. . View in PubMed
Epigenetic Biomarkers of Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Exposure Are Associated with Gene Deletions in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 08; 30(8):1517-1525. . View in PubMed
Cytokine Levels at Birth in Children Who Developed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 08; 30(8):1526-1535. . View in PubMed
Birth Characteristics and Risk of Pediatric Thyroid Cancer: A Population-Based Record-Linkage Study in California Thyroid. 2021 04; 31(4):596-606. . View in PubMed
Socioeconomic status and childhood central nervous system tumors in California Cancer Causes Control. 2021 Jan; 32(1):27-39. . View in PubMed
The genome-wide impact of trisomy 21 on DNA methylation and its implications for hematopoiesis Nat Commun. 2021 02 05; 12(1):821. . View in PubMed
Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: Epidemiology, Molecular Features, and Importance of GST-Theta 1 in Chemotherapy Response and Outcome Front Oncol. 2021; 11:642744. . View in PubMed
Genetic determinants of blood-cell traits influence susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Am J Hum Genet. 2021 10 07; 108(10):1823-1835. . View in PubMed
Medulloblastoma uses GABA transaminase to survive in the cerebrospinal fluid microenvironment and promote leptomeningeal dissemination Cell Rep. 2021 06 29; 35(13):109302. . View in PubMed
In utero and early-life exposure to thirdhand smoke causes profound changes to the immune system Clin Sci (Lond). 2021 04 30; 135(8):1053-1063. . View in PubMed
Increased burden of familial-associated early-onset cancer risk among minority Americans compared to non-Latino Whites Elife. 2021 06 22; 10. . View in PubMed
Trends in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Incidence in the United States by Race/Ethnicity From 2000 to 2016 Am J Epidemiol. 2021 04 06; 190(4):519-527. . View in PubMed
Outdoor artificial light at night and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among women in the California Teachers Study cohort Cancer Epidemiol. 2020 12; 69:101811. . View in PubMed
The proliferative history shapes the DNA methylome of B-cell tumors and predicts clinical outcome Nat Cancer. 2020 11; 1(11):1066-1081. . View in PubMed
Birth Characteristics and Risk of Early-Onset Synovial Sarcoma Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 06; 29(6):1162-1167. . View in PubMed
Spatial-Temporal Cluster Analysis of Childhood Cancer in California Epidemiology. 2020 03; 31(2):214-223. . View in PubMed
Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisJ Pediatr. 2020 02; 217:98-109. e8. . View in PubMed
Common genetic variation and risk of osteosarcoma in a multi-ethnic pediatric and adolescent population Bone. 2020 01; 130:115070. . View in PubMed
Germline variants in predisposition genes in children with Down syndrome and acute lymphoblastic leukemia Blood Adv. 2020 02 25; 4(4):672-675. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age Genome Med. 2020 03 02; 12(1):25. . View in PubMed
Germline cancer predisposition variants and pediatric glioma: a population-based study in California Neuro Oncol. 2020 06 09; 22(6):864-874. . View in PubMed
European genetic ancestry associated with risk of childhood ependymoma Neuro Oncol. 2020 11 26; 22(11):1637-1646. . View in PubMed
Adult diffuse glioma GWAS by molecular subtype identifies variants in D2HGDH and FAM20C Neuro Oncol. 2020 11 26; 22(11):1602-1613. . View in PubMed
Genetic predisposition to longer telomere length and risk of childhood, adolescent and adult-onset ependymoma Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2020 10 28; 8(1):173. . View in PubMed
Pediatric glioma and medulloblastoma risk and population demographics: a Poisson regression analysis Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec; 2(1):vdaa089. . View in PubMed
History of Early Childhood Infections and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Risk Among Children in a US Integrated Health-Care System Am J Epidemiol. 2020 10 01; 189(10):1076-1085. . View in PubMed
Brain tumor disparities: From biology to social determinants - The 2019 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium meeting report Clin Neuropathol. 2019 Nov/Dec; 38(6):297-305. . View in PubMed
Longer genotypically-estimated leukocyte telomere length is associated with increased meningioma risk J Neurooncol. 2019 May; 142(3):479-487. . View in PubMed
Immune factors preceding diagnosis of glioma: a Prostate Lung Colorectal Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial nested case-control study Neurooncol Adv. 2019 May-Dec; 1(1):vdz031. . View in PubMed
Increased neonatal level of arginase 2 in cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia implicates immunosuppression in the etiology Haematologica. 2019 11; 104(11):e514-e516. . View in PubMed
Heritable variation at the chromosome 21 gene ERG is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in children with and without Down syndrome Leukemia. 2019 11; 33(11):2746-2751. . View in PubMed
Predisposing germline mutations in high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2019 10; 58(10):723-730. . View in PubMed
Early Infection with Cytomegalovirus and Risk of Childhood Hematologic Malignancies Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 06; 28(6):1024-1027. . View in PubMed
Epigenomic profiling of newborns with isolated orofacial clefts reveals widespread DNA methylation changes and implicates metastable epiallele regions in disease risk Epigenetics. 2019 02; 14(2):198-213. . View in PubMed
Mendelian randomization provides support for obesity as a risk factor for meningioma Sci Rep. 2019 01 22; 9(1):309. . View in PubMed
Body mass index, comorbidities, and hormonal factors in relation to meningioma in an ethnically diverse population: the Multiethnic Cohort Neuro Oncol. 2019 03 18; 21(4):498-507. . View in PubMed
Inherited genetic susceptibility to acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Down syndrome Blood. 2019 10 10; 134(15):1227-1237. . View in PubMed
Using germline variants to estimate glioma and subtype risks Neuro Oncol. 2019 03 18; 21(4):451-461. . View in PubMed
Germline genetic landscape of pediatric central nervous system tumors Neuro Oncol. 2019 11 04; 21(11):1376-1388. . View in PubMed
Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in neonates reveals widespread differential DNA methylation associated with birthweight Nat Commun. 2019 04 23; 10(1):1893. . View in PubMed
Advancing brain tumor epidemiology - multi-level integration and international collaboration: The 2018 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium meeting report Clin Neuropathol. 2018 Nov/Dec; 37(6):254-261. . View in PubMed
An overview of disparities in childhood cancer: Report on the Inaugural Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities, Houston, Texas, 2016 Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2018 Mar; 35(2):95-110. . View in PubMed
Two HLA Class II Gene Variants Are Independently Associated with Pediatric Osteosarcoma Risk Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 10; 27(10):1151-1158. . View in PubMed
Allergies and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case-Control Study and Meta-analysis Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 10; 27(10):1142-1150. . View in PubMed
Herpesvirus Infection in Infants with Gastroschisis Epidemiology. 2018 07; 29(4):571-573. . View in PubMed
Neonatal Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors (TGCT) Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 04; 27(4):488-495. . View in PubMed
A germ-line deletion of APOBEC3B does not contribute to subtype-specific childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia etiology Haematologica. 2018 01; 103(1):e29-e31. . View in PubMed
Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma Cancer. 2018 Jan 01; 124(1):161-166. . View in PubMed
Genetic determinants of childhood and adult height associated with osteosarcoma risk Cancer. 2018 09 15; 124(18):3742-3752. . View in PubMed
Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium Int J Epidemiol. 2018 02 01; 47(1):22-23u. . View in PubMed
BMI1 enhancer polymorphism underlies chromosome 10p1231 association with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Int J Cancer. 2018 12 01; 143(11):2647-2658. . View in PubMed
Genome-wide association analysis identifies a meningioma risk locus at 11p155. Neuro Oncol. 2018 10 09; 20(11):1485-1493. . View in PubMed
Genomic characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in radiation-exposed Chornobyl cleanup workers Environ Health. 2018 05 02; 17(1):43. . View in PubMed
Neonatal Inflammatory Markers Are Associated with Childhood B-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Res. 2018 09 15; 78(18):5458-5463. . View in PubMed
To ERV Is Human: A Phenotype-Wide Scan Linking Polymorphic Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K Insertions to Complex Phenotypes Front Genet. 2018; 9:298. . View in PubMed
GWAS in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia reveals novel genetic associations at chromosomes 17q12 and 8q2421. Nat Commun. 2018 01 18; 9(1):286. . View in PubMed
Roadmap for investigating epigenome deregulation and environmental origins of cancer Int J Cancer. 2018 03 01; 142(5):874-882. . View in PubMed
Brain tumor epidemiology in the era of precision medicine: The 2017 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium meeting report Clin Neuropathol. 2017 Nov/Dec; 36(6):255-263. . View in PubMed
Non-additive and epistatic effects of HLA polymorphisms contributing to risk of adult glioma J Neurooncol. 2017 Nov; 135(2):237-244. . View in PubMed
Parental Age and Risk of Pediatric Cancer in the Offspring: A Population-Based Record-Linkage Study in California Am J Epidemiol. 2017 Oct 01; 186(7):843-856. . View in PubMed
Trends in childhood leukemia incidence over two decades from 1992 to 2013 Int J Cancer. 2017 Mar 01; 140(5):1000-1008. . View in PubMed
Adult infiltrating gliomas with WHO 2016 integrated diagnosis: additional prognostic roles of ATRX and TERT Acta Neuropathol. 2017 06; 133(6):1001-1016. . View in PubMed
Perinatal factors associated with clinical presentation of osteosarcoma in children and adolescents Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 06; 64(6). . View in PubMed
Small-Magnitude Effect Sizes in Epigenetic End Points are Important in Children's Environmental Health Studies: The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center's Epigenetics Working Group Environ Health Perspect. 2017 04; 125(4):511-526. . View in PubMed
Immunomethylomic approach to explore the blood neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in glioma survival Clin Epigenetics. 2017; 9:10. . View in PubMed
Cesarean Section and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Population-Based, Record-Linkage Study in California Am J Epidemiol. 2017 01 15; 185(2):96-105. . View in PubMed
Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium Hum Mol Genet. 2017 10 15; 26(20):4067-4085. . View in PubMed
In utero cytomegalovirus infection and development of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Blood. 2017 03 23; 129(12):1680-1684. . View in PubMed
Correlates of Prenatal and Early-Life Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Frequency of Common Gene Deletions in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cancer Res. 2017 04 01; 77(7):1674-1683. . View in PubMed
Buccal mucosa micronuclei counts in relation to exposure to low dose-rate radiation from the Chornobyl nuclear accident and other medical and occupational radiation exposures Environ Health. 2017 06 23; 16(1):70. . View in PubMed
Clonal and microclonal mutational heterogeneity in high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia Oncotarget. 2016 Nov 08; 7(45):72733-72745. . View in PubMed
Childhood Leukemia: A Preventable Disease Pediatrics. 2016 Nov; 138(Suppl 1):S45-S55. . View in PubMed
Childhood Leukemia and Primary Prevention Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2016 Oct; 46(10):317-352. . View in PubMed
Immune factors and viral interactions in brain cancer etiology and outcomes, The 2016 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium Meeting report Clin Neuropathol. 2016 Sep-Oct; 35(5):280-6. . View in PubMed
Association of common genetic variation in the protein C pathway genes with clinical outcomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome Crit Care. 2016 May 23; 20(1):151. . View in PubMed
Stressful exit from the womb and risk of childhood leukaemia Lancet Haematol. 2016 Apr; 3(4):e155-6. . View in PubMed
Understanding inherited genetic risk of adult glioma - a review Neurooncol Pract. 2016 Mar; 3(1):10-16. . View in PubMed
Genome-wide CpG island methylation and intergenic demethylation propensities vary among different tumor sites Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Feb 18; 44(3):1105-17. . View in PubMed
Birth weight, fetal growth, and risk of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma: an updated record linkage study in California Ann Epidemiol. 2016 Feb; 26(2):141-145. . View in PubMed
Birth weight and risk of paediatric Hodgkin lymphoma: Findings from a population-based record linkage study in California Eur J Cancer. 2016 12; 69:19-27. . View in PubMed
Tobacco Smoke and Ras Mutations Among Latino and Non-Latino Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Arch Med Res. 2016 11; 47(8):677-683. . View in PubMed
Genetic contribution to variation in DNA methylation at maternal smoking-sensitive loci in exposed neonates Epigenetics. 2016 09; 11(9):664-673. . View in PubMed
Genetic Variation Associated with Longer Telomere Length Increases Risk of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 07; 25(7):1043-9. . View in PubMed
Common genetic variants associated with telomere length confer risk for neuroblastoma and other childhood cancers Carcinogenesis. 2016 06; 37(6):576-582. . View in PubMed
A functional polymorphism in the CEBPE gene promoter influences acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk through interaction with the hematopoietic transcription factor Ikaros Leukemia. 2016 05; 30(5):1194-7. . View in PubMed
Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Association Study in Childhood Leukemia among Hispanics Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 05; 25(5):815-22. . View in PubMed
Evolving evidence on tumor and germline genetic classification of gliomas: implications for etiology and survival studies Clin Neuropathol. 2016 Jan-Feb; 35(1):31-8. . View in PubMed
Longer genotypically-estimated leukocyte telomere length is associated with increased adult glioma risk Oncotarget. 2015 Dec 15; 6(40):42468-77. . View in PubMed
New insights into childhood leukemia etiology Eur J Epidemiol. 2015 Dec; 30(12):1225-7. . View in PubMed
A Heritable Missense Polymorphism in CDKN2A Confers Strong Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Is Preferentially Selected during Clonal Evolution Cancer Res. 2015 Nov 15; 75(22):4884-94. . View in PubMed
Telomere maintenance and the etiology of adult glioma Neuro Oncol. 2015 Nov; 17(11):1445-52. . View in PubMed
Serum macrophage-derived chemokine/CCL22 levels are associated with glioma risk, CD4 T cell lymphopenia and survival time Int J Cancer. 2015 Aug 15; 137(4):826-36. . View in PubMed
Whole-genome fingerprint of the DNA methylome during human B cell differentiation Nat Genet. 2015 Jul; 47(7):746-56. . View in PubMed
What causes leukemia? Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Jul; 62(7):1123-4.. View in PubMed
Glioma Groups Based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT Promoter Mutations in Tumors N Engl J Med. 2015 Jun 25; 372(26):2499-508. . View in PubMed
Rising rates of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hispanic children: trends in incidence from 1992 to 2011 Blood. 2015 May 07; 125(19):3033-4. . View in PubMed
Association of genetic variation in IKZF1, ARID5B, and CEBPE and surrogates for early-life infections with the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hispanic children Cancer Causes Control. 2015 Apr; 26(4):609-19. . View in PubMed
Epigenetic remodeling in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurs in two tracks and employs embryonic stem cell-like signatures Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Mar 11; 43(5):2590-602. . View in PubMed
Global characteristics of childhood acute promyelocytic leukemia Blood Rev. 2015 Mar; 29(2):101-25. . View in PubMed
Brain Tumor Epidemiology - A Hub within Multidisciplinary Neuro-oncologyReport on the 15th Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC) Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2014. Clin Neuropathol. 2015 Jan-Feb; 34(1):40-6. . View in PubMed
Excess winter deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases are associated with both mild winter temperature and socio-economic inequalities in the US. Int J Cardiol. 2015; 187:642-4. . View in PubMed
Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information Neurosurg Focus. 2015 Jan; 38(1):E6. . View in PubMed
Periconceptional folate consumption is associated with neonatal DNA methylation modifications in neural crest regulatory and cancer development genes Epigenetics. 2015; 10(12):1166-76. . View in PubMed
Somatic Mutation Allelic Ratio Test Using ddPCR (SMART-ddPCR): An Accurate Method for Assessment of Preferential Allelic Imbalance in Tumor DNA PLoS One. 2015; 10(11):e0143343. . View in PubMed
Integrative Bayesian variable selection with gene-based informative priors for genome-wide association studies BMC Genet. 2014 Dec 10; 15:130. . View in PubMed
PTPRG inhibition by DNA methylation and cooperation with RAS gene activation in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Int J Cancer. 2014 Sep 01; 135(5):1101-9. . View in PubMed
Genomic ancestry and somatic alterations correlate with age at diagnosis in Hispanic children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia Am J Hematol. 2014 Jul; 89(7):721-5. . View in PubMed
Serum immunoglobulin e and risk of pancreatic cancer in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Jul; 23(7):1414-20. . View in PubMed
Variants near TERT and TERC influencing telomere length are associated with high-grade glioma risk Nat Genet. 2014 Jul; 46(7):731-5. . View in PubMed
Interaction of allergy history and antibodies to specific varicella-zoster virus proteins on glioma risk Int J Cancer. 2014 May 01; 134(9):2199-210. . View in PubMed
Mode of delivery and risk of childhood leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 May; 23(5):876-81. . View in PubMed
The role of KIR genes and their cognate HLA class I ligands in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Blood. 2014 Apr 17; 123(16):2497-503. . View in PubMed
Endogenous and exogenous hormone exposure and the risk of meningioma in men J Neurosurg. 2014 Apr; 120(4):820-6. . View in PubMed
Cancer cluster investigations: review of the past and proposals for the future Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Jan 28; 11(2):1479-99. . View in PubMed
Direct and indirect targets of the E2A-PBX1 leukemia-specific fusion protein PLoS One. 2014; 9(2):e87602. . View in PubMed
Associations between genome-wide Native American ancestry, known risk alleles and B-cell ALL risk in Hispanic children Leukemia. 2013 Dec; 27(12):2416-9. . View in PubMed
GATA3 risk alleles are associated with ancestral components in Hispanic children with ALL Blood. 2013 Nov 07; 122(19):3385-7. . View in PubMed
Genetic variants in ARID5B and CEBPE are childhood ALL susceptibility loci in Hispanics Cancer Causes Control. 2013 Oct; 24(10):1789-95. . View in PubMed
Tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias by cytogenetic subtype Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Sep; 22(9):1600-11. . View in PubMed
Novel childhood ALL susceptibility locus BMI1-PIP4K2A is specifically associated with the hyperdiploid subtype Blood. 2013 Jun 06; 121(23):4808-9. . View in PubMed
Blood levels of folate at birth and risk of childhood leukemia Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Jun; 22(6):1088-94. . View in PubMed
Inherited variant on chromosome 11q23 increases susceptibility to IDH-mutated but not IDH-normal gliomas regardless of grade or histology Neuro Oncol. 2013 May; 15(5):535-41. . View in PubMed
Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females J Neurosurg. 2013 Mar; 118(3):649-56. . View in PubMed
Analysis of 60 reported glioma risk SNPs replicates published GWAS findings but fails to replicate associations from published candidate-gene studies Genet Epidemiol. 2013 Feb; 37(2):222-8. . View in PubMed
Dental x-rays and risk of meningioma: response to DrsCalnon, Jorgensen, and White. Cancer. 2013 Jan 15; 119(2):465-6. . View in PubMed
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