Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research

     Selected Publications (2017 -- )

  1. Giannakeas V, Apostol AI, Diella C, et al. Projected Benefit of Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy by Age in BRCA Carriers. JAMA Surg. Published online September 23, 2026. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2026.4356

  2. Rochon PA, Austin PC, Gurwitz JH, Wu W, Matai L, Zhang T, Li Z, Savage RD, Gruneir A, Li J, O’Mahony D, Petrovic M, Cherubini A, Onder G, Sternberg SA, McCarthy LM, Dalton K, Reppas-Rindlisbacher CE, Stall NM, Normand SLT, Giannakeas V. Exploring high priority potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades in older adults: population level retrospective cohort study. BMJ [Internet]. 2026 Sep 10;394:e100499. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2026-100499

  3. C Xu, L Briollais, IL Andrulis, SB Bull. Accommodating the Analysis Model in Multiple Imputation for the Weibull Mixture Cure Model: Performance under Penalized Likelihood, Statistics in Medicine, 2026;45(6-7): e70437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.70437 PMID: 41840351 

  4. Retnakaran R, Shen J, Hanley AJ, Zinman B. Impact of an additional pregnancy on the natural history of insulin sensitivity, beta-cell function and glycemia in parous women. Diabetes Care 2026; 49(4):664-67. doi: 10.2337/dc25-2354. PMID: 41706446
  5. Aro, R. P., Lam, S., Warkentin, M. T., Liu, G., Diergaarde, B., Wilson, D. O., Yuan, J. M., Al-Sawaihey, H., Murison, K., Khodayari Moez, E., Brhane, Y., Meza, R., Myers, R., & Hung, R. J. Integrating deep learning of low-dose computed tomography with clinical data for lung cancer risk prediction. Chest. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2026.02.022 PMID: 41833807

  6. Murison KR, Warkentin MT, Khodayari Moez E, Brhane Y, Liu G, Hung RJ. Respiratory Function as a Prognostic Factor for Lung Cancer in Screening and General Populations. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025;22(4):591-597. doi:10.1513/AnnalsATS.202404-428OC. PMID: 39589279

  7. M Brossard, D Roshandel, K Luo, F Yavartanoo, AD Paterson, YJ Yoo, SB Bull. RegionScan: An R package for genome-wide region-based association for region detection and integration with single-variant analysis, Bioinformatics Advances, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2025, vbaf052.  PMID: 40160476  [full texts]   

  8. Cheng S, McLaughlin JR, Brown MC, Rutka J, Bouffet E, Hawkins C, Cairney AE, Ranger A, Fleming AJ, Johnston DL, Greenberg M, Malkin D, Hung RJ. Birth characteristics and the risk of childhood brain tumors: A case-control study in Ontario, Canada. Int J Cancer. 2025 doi:10.1002/ijc.35287 PMID: 39670564 [full texts]

  9. Yavartanoo F., Brossard M., Bull SB. Dimension Reduction using Local Principal Components for Regression-based Multi-SNP Analysis in 1000 Genomes and the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), Genetic Epidemiology, 2025, 49(3): e70005. PMID: 40022577

  10. Retnakaran R, Pu J, Shen J, Hanley AJ, Zinman B. The central role of beta-cell function in the remission of prediabetes: a prospective cohort study in Canada. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2025; 13(10):829-837 doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(25)00163-9. Epub 2025 Aug 11. PMID: 40812331
  11. Sarma S, Hodzic-Santor B, Raissi A, Colacci M, Verma AA, Razak F, Højbjerg Lassen MC, Fralick M. Association of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors with risk of diabetic ketoacidosis among hospitalized patients: A multicentre cohort study. J Diabetes Complications. 2024 Sep;38(9):108827. doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2024.108827. PMID: 39096768.

  12. Lassen MCH, Colacci M, Pareek M, Lee SG, Gislason G, Fralick M, Biering-Sørensen T. Association Between SGLT2 Inhibitor Use and Change in Hemoglobin Among Adults with Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Aug;39(10):1945-1947. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-08640-x. PMID: 38594550

  13. E Garg, P Arguello-Pascualli, O Vishnyakova, AR Halevy, S Yoo, JD Brooks, SB Bull, F Gagnon, CMT Greenwood, RJ Hung, JF Lawless, J Lerner-Ellis, JK Dennis, RJS Abraham, J-M Garant, B Thiruvahindrapuram, SJM Jones, HostSeq Implementation Committee, LJ Strug, AD Paterson, L Sun, LT Elliott. Canadian COVID-19 host genetics cohort replicates known severity associations, PLoS Genetics, 20(3), 22 March 2024, e1011192. [full texts]

  14. Wainberg, M., Forde, N.J., Mansour, S. et al. Genetic architecture of the structural connectome. Nat Commun 15, 1962 (2024). [full texts]
  15. Maan, H., Zhang, L., Yu, C, Geuenich M, Campbell K., Wang, B. Characterizing the impacts of dataset imbalance on single-cell data integration. Nat Biotechnol (2024). [full texts]  

  16. Soliman Y, Everett K, Shulman R... Weisman, A. Persistent disparities in insulin pump uptake despite a universal pump programme for type 1 diabetes in Ontario, Canada. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2024;26(10):4450-4459. [full texts] 

  17. Fang, C., Selega, A. & Campbell, K.R. Beyond benchmarking and towards predictive models of dataset-specific single-cell RNA-seq pipeline performance. Genome Biol 25, 159 (2024). [full texts]  

  18. 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 KR, Hung RJ. Radiomics analysis to predict pulmonary nodule malignancy using machine learning approaches. Thorax 2024.doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220226. PMID: 38195644
  19. Geuenich, M.J., Gong, Dw. & Campbell, K.R. The impacts of active and self-supervised learning on efficient annotation of single-cell expression data. Nat Commun 15, 1014 (2024). [full texts] 

  20. Weisman A, Booth GL, Everett K, Tomlinson GA. Recent Improvements in Attainment of the Hemoglobin A1c Target of ≤7.0% Among Adults with Type 1 Diabetes in Ontario: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2024;26(9):607-617. https://doi.org/10.1089/dia.2024.0017

  21. Finegold KE, Knight JA, Hung RJ, Ssewanyana D, Wong J, Bertoni, K, Adel Khani N, Watson H, Levitan, R, Jenkins J, Matthews, S, Wade, M.. Cognitive and Emotional Well-Being of Preschool Children Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(11):e2343814. [full texts]

  22. 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]
  23. Xu, J., Xu, W., Choi, J., Brhane, Y., Christiani, D. C., Kothari, J., McKay, J., Field, J. K., Davies, M. P. A., Liu, G., Amos, C. I., Hung, R. J., & Briollais, L. (2023). Large-scale whole exome sequencing studies identify two genes,CTSL and APOE, associated with lung cancer. PLoS genetics, 19(9), e1010902.[Full texts] 

  24. C Xu, SB Bull. Penalized maximum likelihood inference under the mixture cure model in sparse data, Statistics in Medicine, 2023 Jun 15;42(13):2134-2161. PMID: 36964996
  25. Cheng, S., McLaughlin, J. R., Brown, M. C., Al-Sawaihey, H., Rutka, J., Bouffet, E., Hawkins C, Cairney AE, Ranger A, Fleming AJ, 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 Cancer, 1–7. [Full texts]

  26. Retnakaran R, Pu J, Emery A, Harris SB, Reichert SM, Gerstein HC, McInnis N, Kramer CK, Zinman B. Determinants of sustained stabilization of beta-cell function following short-term insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes. Nat Commun 2023; 14(1):4514.[Full texts]

  27. M Brossard, AD Paterson, O Espin-Garcia, RV Craiu, SB Bull. Characterization of direct and/or indirect genetic associations for multiple traits in longitudinal studies of disease progression,Genetics, 225(1), September 2023, iyad119. PMID: 37369448

  28. Warkentin, M. T., Tammemägi, M. C., Espin-Garcia, O., Budhathoki, S., Liu, G., & Hung, R. J. (2022). Lung Cancer Absolute Risk Models for Mortality in an Asian Population using the China Kadoorie Biobank. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 114(12), 1665–1673. PMID: 36083018
  29. Selega, A., Campbell, K.R., (2022) Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization with Heuristic Objectives for Biomedical and Molecular Data Analysis Workflows. bioRxiv 2022.06.08.495370 [Full texts]

  30. Retnakaran, R., Ye, C., Emery, A., Kramer, C. K., & Zinman, B. (2022). The metabolic effects of adding exenatide to basal insulin therapy when targeting remission in early type 2 diabetes in a randomized clinical trial. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6109. PMID: 36244997

  31. Goodwin, P.J, Chen b., Gelmon K. A., Whelan, T.J,. Ennis, M., Lemieux, J., Ligibel J.A., Hershman D.L., Mayer I.A., Hobday T.J., Bliss J.M., Rastogi P.,Rabaglio-Poretti M., Mukherjee S.D., Mackey J.R., Abramson V.G., Oja C., Wesolowski R., Thompson A.M., Rea, D.W., Stos P.M., Shepherd L.E., Stambolic V., Parulekar, W.R. (2022). Effect of metformin vs placebo on invasive disease-free survival in breast cancer: the MA.32 randomized clinical trial: the MA.32 randomized clinical trial. JAMA 327: 1963-1973. PMID: 35608580

  32. Lye, J. M., Knight, J. A., Arneja, J., Seeto, R. A., Wong, J., Adel Khani, N., Brooks, J. D., Levitan, R. D., Matthews, S. G., Lye, S. J., & Hung, R. J. (2022). Maternal acetaminophen use and cognitive development at 4 years: the Ontario Birth Study. Pediatric Research, 1–5. Advance online publication. PMID: 35794252

  33. Horwitz, J., Wen, S. W., Tan, H., Zhou, S., Ye, C., Shen, M., & Retnakaran, R. (2022). Analysis of Preconception Paternal Smoking and Neonatal Outcomes. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2144527. PMID: 35061043

  34. 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. (2022). Childhood head trauma and the risk of childhood brain tumours: A case-control study in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Cancer, 150(5), 795–801. PMID: 34520575

  35. Zhang, C. X. W., Okeke, J. C., Levitan, R. D., Murphy, K. E., Foshay, K., Lye, S. J., Knight, J. A., & Matthews, S. G. (2022). Evaluating depression and anxiety throughout pregnancy and after birth: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, 4(3), 100605. PMID: 35257937

  36. Retnakaran, R., Ye, C., Hanley, A. J., Connelly, P. W., Sermer, M., Zinman, B., & Hamilton, J. K. (2022). Treating Gestational Diabetes Reduces Birth Weight but Does Not Affect Infant Adiposity Across the 1st Year of Life. Diabetes Care, 45(5), 1230–1238.  PMID: 35259243.

  37. Briollais, L., Rustand, D., Allard, C., Wu, Y., Xu, J., Rajan, S. G., Hivert, M. F., Doyon, M., Bouchard, L., McGowan, P. O., Matthews, S., & Lye, S. (2021). DNA methylation mediates the association between breastfeeding and early-life growth trajectories. Clinical Epigenetics, 13(1), 231. PMID: 34937578

  38. Geuenich, M. J., Hou, J., Lee, S., Ayub, S., Jackson, H. W., & Campbell, K. R. (2021). Automated assignment of cell identity from single-cell multiplexed imaging and proteomic data. Cell Systems, 12(12), 1173–1186.e5. PMID: 34536381.

  39. Brossard M., Paterson A.D. , Espin-Garcia, O., , Craiu R.V., Bull, S.B, . (2021) Characterization of direct and/or indirect genetic associations for multiple traits in longitudinal studies of disease progression. medRxiv 2021.05.10.21256880 [Full texts]

  40. Choi, Y. H., Terry, M. B., Daly, M. B., MacInnis, R. J., Hopper, J. L., Colonna, S., Buys, S. S., Andrulis, I. L., John, E. M., Kurian, A. W., & Briollais, L. (2021). Association of Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Risk in Women With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants. JAMA Oncology, 7(4), 585–592. PMID: 33630024

  41. Hung, R. J., Warkentin, M. T., Brhane, Y., Chatterjee, N., Christiani, D. C., Landi, M. T., Caporaso, N. E., Liu, G., Johansson, M., Albanes, D., Marchand, L. L., Tardon, A., Rennert, G., Bojesen, S. E., Chen, C., Field, J. K., Kiemeney, L. A., Lazarus, P., Zienolddiny, S., Lam, S., … Amos, C. I. (2021). Assessing Lung Cancer Absolute Risk Trajectory Based on a Polygenic Risk Model. Cancer Research, 81(6), 1607–1615 1.  PMID: 33472890.

  42. Choi, Y. H., Terry, M. B., & Briollais, L. (2021). Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk in Women With Germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants-Caution Needed-Reply. JAMA Oncology, 7(9), 1402. PMID: 34196652

  43. Choi, Y. H., Jung, H., Buys, S., Daly, M., John, E. M., Hopper, J., Andrulis, I., Terry, M. B., & Briollais, L. (2021). A competing risks model with binary time varying covariates for estimation of breast cancer risks in BRCA1 families. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 30(9), 2165–2183. PMID: 34232831

  44. Knight, J. A., Kehm, R. D., Schwartz, L., Frost, C. J., Chung, W. K., Colonna, S., Keegan, T. H. M., Goldberg, M., Houghton, L. C., Hanna, D., Glendon, G., Daly, M. B., Buys, S. S., Andrulis, I. L., John, E. M., Bradbury, A. R., & Terry, M. B. (2021). Prepubertal Internalizing Symptoms and Timing of Puberty Onset in Girls. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(3), 431–438. PMID: 33057572

  45. Espin-Garcia, O., Craiu, R. V., & Bull, S. B. (2021). Two-phase sample selection strategies for design and analysis in post-genome-wide association fine-mapping studies. Statistics in Medicine, 40(30), 6792–6817. PMID: 34596256

  46. Goodwin P. J. (2021). Extended Aromatase Inhibitors in Hormone-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine, 385(5), 462–463. 1. PMID: 34320293.

  47. Lye JM, Knight JA, Arneja J, Seeto RA, Wong J, Adel Khani N, Brooks JD, Levitan RD, Matthews SG, Lye SJ, Hung RJ. Maternal acetaminophen use and cognitive development at 4 years: the Ontario Birth Study. Pediatr Res. 2023 Mar;93(4):959-963. doi: 10.1038/s41390-022-02182-w. PMID: 35794252

  48. Goodwin P.J., Dowling R.J.O., Ennis M., Chen B.E., Parulekar W.R., Shepherd L.E., Burnell M.J., Vandermeer R., Molckovsky A., Gurjal A., Gelmon K.A., Ligibel J.A., Hershman D., Mayer I.A., Whelan TJ, Hobday TJ, Rastogi P, Rabaglio-Poretti M, Lemieux J, Thompson AM, Rea DW, Stambolic V. (2021).  Effect of metformin on metabolic factors in MA.32 – A randomized trial in Early-Stage Breast Cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer 7, 74. [Full texts]

  49. Lohmann, A. E., Soldera, S. V., Pimentel, I., Ribnikar, D., Ennis, M., Amir, E., & Goodwin, P. J. (2021). Association of Obesity With Breast Cancer Outcome in Relation to Cancer Subtypes: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 113(11), 1465–1475. PMID: 33620467

  50. MacInnis, R. J., Knight, J. A., Chung, W. K., Milne, R. L., Whittemore, A. S., Buchsbaum, R., Liao, Y., Zeinomar, N., Dite, G. S., Southey, M. C., Goldgar, D., Giles, G. G., Kurian, A. W., kConFab Investigators, Andrulis, I. L., John, E. M., Daly, M. B., Buys, S. S., Phillips, K. A., Hopper, J. L., … Terry, M. B. (2021). Comparing 5-Year and Lifetime Risks of Breast Cancer using the Prospective Family Study Cohort. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 113(6), 785–791. PMID: 33301022

  51. Ong, S. W., Jassal, S. V., Porter, E. C., Min, K. K., Uddin, A., Cafazzo, J. A., Rac, V. E., Tomlinson, G., & Logan, A. G. (2021). Digital Applications Targeting Medication Safety in Ambulatory High-Risk CKD Patients: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 16(4), 532–542. PMID: 33737321

  52. Pimentel I., Chen B.E, Lohmann A.E, Ennis M, Ligibel J., Shepherd L., Hershman D.L., Whelan T., Stambolic V., Mayer I., Hobday T., Lemieux J., Thompaon A., Rastogi P., Gelmon K., Rae D., Rabaglio M., Ellard S., Mates M., Bedard P., Pitre L., Vandenberg T., Dowling R.J.O., Parulekar W., Goodwin P.J. (2021). The effect of metformin on sex hormones Canadian Cancer Trials Group MA.32. J Natl Cancer Inst, 113 (2), 192-198. PMID: 33527137

  53. Retnakaran, R., Wen, S. W., Tan, H., Zhou, S., Ye, C., Shen, M., Smith, G. N., & Walker, M. C. (2021). Spousal Concordance of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Newly Married Couples in China. JAMA Network Open, 4(12), e2140578. PMID: 34935919

  54. Retnakaran, R., Emery, A., Ye, C., Harris, S. B., Reichert, S. M., McInnes, N., Gerstein, H. C., Thorpe, K. E., Kramer, C. K., & Zinman, B. (2021). Short-term intensive insulin as induction and maintenance therapy for the preservation of beta-cell function in early type 2 diabetes (RESET-IT Main): A 2-year randomized controlled trial. Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, 23(8), 1926–1935. PMID: 33956387

  55. Xu, J., Xu, W., & Briollais, L. (2021). A Bayes factor approach with informative prior for rare genetic variant analysis from next generation sequencing data. Biometrics, 77(1), 316–328. [Full texts]

  56. 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*. (2020). Immune-mediated genetic pathways resulting in pulmonary function impairment increase lung cancer susceptibility. Nature Communications 11(1):27. PMID: 31911640

  57. Zhang, A. W., & Campbell, K. R. (2020). Computational modelling in single-cell cancer genomics: methods and future directions. Physical Biology, 17(6), 061001. 1. PMID: 32759485.

  58. Romanescu, R. G., Green, J., Andrulis, I. L., & Bull, S. B. (2020). Gene-based and pathway-based testing for rare-variant association in affected sib pairs. Genetic Epidemiology, 44(4), 368–381 PMID: 32237178

  59. Casas-Guzik, L., Ye, C., & Retnakaran, R. (2020). Association of Time With Reliability of Maternal Recall of Infant Birth Weight. JAMA Pediatrics, 174(12), 1208–1210. PMID: 32364580

  60. Goodwin, P. J., Segal, R. J., Vallis, M., Ligibel, J. A., Pond, G. R., Robidoux, A., Findlay, B., Gralow, J. R., Mukherjee, S. D., Levine, M., & Pritchard, K. I. (2020). The LISA randomized trial of a weight loss intervention in postmenopausal breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer, 6, 6. PMID: 32133391

  61. Lakhal-Chaieb, L., Simard, J., & Bull, S. (2020). Sequence kernel association test for survival outcomes in the presence of a non-susceptible fraction. Biostatistics (Oxford, England), 21(3), 518–530. 1. PMID: 30590388.

  62. Michalsky, C.A., Hung, R.J., Seeto R. A, Dennis, C-L, Brooks JD, Henderson J, Levitan R, Lye SJ, Matthews S, Knight, J.A. (2020).Maternal cannabis use and adverse birth outcomes. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20(1):771. PMID: 33308186

  63. Wu, Y., Lye, S., Dennis, C. L., & Briollais, L. (2020). Exclusive breastfeeding can attenuate body-mass-index increase among genetically susceptible children: A longitudinal study from the ALSPAC cohort. PLoS Genetics, 16(6), e1008790. PMID: 32525877

  64. Retnakaran, R., & Shah, B. R. (2020). Divergent Trajectories of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Years Before Pregnancy in Women With and Without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Study. Diabetes Care, 43(10), 2500–2508. PMID: 32796027

  65. Zhang, A. W., O'Flanagan, C., Chavez, E. A., Lim, J. L. P., Ceglia, N., McPherson, A., Wiens, M., Walters, P., Chan, T., Hewitson, B., Lai, D., Mottok, A., Sarkozy, C., Chong, L., Aoki, T., Wang, X., Weng, A. P., McAlpine, J. N., Aparicio, S., Steidl, C., Campbell, K.R., Shah, S. P. (2019). Probabilistic cell-type assignment of single-cell RNA-seq for tumor microenvironment profiling. Nature Methods, 16(10), 1007–1015. PMID: 31501550

  66. Campbell, K. R., Steif, A., Laks, E., Zahn, H., Lai, D., McPherson, A., Farahani, H., Kabeer, F., O'Flanagan, C., Biele, J., Brimhall, J., Wang, B., Walters, P., IMAXT Consortium, Bouchard-Côté, A., Aparicio, S., & Shah, S. P. (2019). clonealign: statistical integration of independent single-cell RNA and DNA sequencing data from human cancers. Genome Biology, 20(1), 54. PMID: 30866997

  67. Warkentin, M. T., Lam, S., & Hung, R. J. (2019). Determinants of impaired lung function and lung cancer prediction among never-smokers in the UK Biobank cohort. EBioMedicine, 47, 58–64. PMID: 31495719

  68. Choi, Y. H., Lakhal-Chaieb, L., Kröl, A., Yu, B., Buchanan, D., Ahnen, D., Le Marchand, L., Newcomb, P. A., Win, A. K., Jenkins, M., Lindor, N. M., & Briollais, L. (2019). Risks of Colorectal Cancer and Cancer-Related Mortality in Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X and Lynch Syndrome Families. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 111(7), 675–683. 8. PMID: 30380125

  69. Dowling, R.J.O., Kalinsky, K., Hayes, D.F., Bidard, F-C., Cescon, D.W., Chandarlapaty, S., Deasy, J.O., Dowsett, M., Gray, R.J., Henry, N.L., Meric-Bernstam, F., Perlmutter, J., Sledge, G.W., Bratman, S.V., Carey, L.A., Chang, M.C., DeMichele, A., Ennis, M., Jerzak, K.J., Korde, L.A., Lohmann, A.E., Mamounas E.P., Parulekar, W.R., Regan, M.M., Schramek, D., Stambolic, V., Thorat, M.A., Whelan, T.J., Wolff, AC., Woodgett, J.R., Sparano, J.A., Goodwin, P.J. (2019). Toronto workshop on late recurrence in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer Part 1: Late recurrence – current understanding, clinical considerations. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Spectrum 3(4), pkz050.  PMID: 32337479

  70. Houghton, L. C., Knight, J. A., Wei, Y., Romeo, R. D., Goldberg, M., Andrulis, I. L., Bradbury, A. R., Buys, S. S., Daly, M. B., John, E. M., Chung, W. K., Santella, R. M., Stanczyk, F. Z., & Terry, M. B. (2019). Association of Prepubertal and Adolescent Androgen Concentrations With Timing of Breast Development and Family History of Breast Cancer. JAMA Network Open, 2(2), e190083. PMID: 30794303 PMID: 30794303

  71. Kim, S. A., Brossard, M., Roshandel, D., Paterson, A. D., Bull, S. B., & Yoo, Y. J. (2019). gpart: human genome partitioning and visualization of high-density SNP data by identifying haplotype blocks. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 35(21), 4419–4421.  PMID: 31070701

  72. Retnakaran, R., & Shah, B. R. (2019). Glucose screening in pregnancy and future risk of cardiovascular disease in women: a retrospective, population-based cohort study. The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology, 7(5), 378–384. PMID: 30928459

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