• Absolute Risk of Oropharyngeal Cancer After an HPV16-E6 Serology Test and Potential Implications for Screening: Results From the Human Papillomavirus Cancer Cohort Consortium 

      Robbins, Hilary A.; Ferreiro-Iglesias, Aida; Waterboer, Tim; Brenner, Nicole; Nygård, Mari; Bender, Noemi; Schroeder, Lea; Hildesheim, Allan; Pawlita, Michael; D'Souza, Gypsyamber; Visvanathan, Kala; Langseth, Hilde; Schlecht, Nicolas F.; Tinker, Lesley F.; Agalliu, Ilir; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Ness-Jensen, Eivind; Hveem, Kristian; Grioni, Sara; Kaaks, Rudolf; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Giles, Graham G.; Milne, Roger L.; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Zheng, Wei; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Huang, Wen-Yi; Freedman, Neal D.; Kreimer, Aimée R; Johansson, Mattias; Brennan, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      PURPOSE Seropositivity for the HPV16-E6 oncoprotein is a promising marker for early detection of oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), but the absolute risk of OPC after a positive or negative test is unknown. METHODS We ...
    • The blood proteome of imminent lung cancer diagnosis 

      Albanes, Demetrius; Alcala, Karine; Alcala, Nicolas; Amos, Christopher I.; Arslan, Alan A.; Bassett, Julie K.; Brennan, Paul; Cai, Qiuyin; Chen, Chu; Feng, Xiaoshuang; Freedman, Neal D.; Guida, Florence; Hung, Rayjean J.; Hveem, Kristian; Johansson, Mikael; Johansson, Mattias; Koh, Woon-Puay; Langhammer, Arnulf; Milne, Roger L.; Muller, David; Onwuka, Justina; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Robbins, Hilary A.; Sesso, Howard D.; Severi, Gianluca; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Sieri, Sabina; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Stevens, Victoria; Tinker, Lesley; Tjønneland, Anne; Visvanathan, Kala; Wang, Ying; Wang, Renwei; Weinstein, Stephanie; Yuan, Jian-Min; Zahed, Hana; Zhang, Xuehong; Zheng, Wei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Identification of risk biomarkers may enhance early detection of smoking-related lung cancer. We measured between 392 and 1,162 proteins in blood samples drawn at most three years before diagnosis in 731 smoking-matched ...
    • Circulating concentrations of biomarkers and metabolites related to Vitamin status, one-carbon and the kynurenine pathways in US, Nordic, Asian, and Australian populations 

      Midttun, Øivind; Theofylaktopoulou, Despoina; Mccann, Adrian; Fanidi, Anouar; Muller, David C.; Meyer, Klaus; Ulvik, Arve; Zheng, Wei; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Prentice, Ross; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Pettinger, Mary; Giles, Graham G.; Hodge, Allison; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Wu, Jie; Johansson, Mikael; Hultdin, Johan; Grankvist, Kjell; Stevens, Victoria L.; McCullough, Marjorie L.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hveem, Kristian; Næss, Marit; Sesso, Howard D.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Buring, Julie E.; Lee, I-Min; Severi, Gianluca; Zhang, Xuehong; Han, Jiali; Stampfer, Meir J.; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Le Marchand, Loic; Yuan, Jian-Min; Butler, Lesley M.; Koh, Woon-Puay; Wang, Renwei; Gao, Yu-Tang; Ericson, Ulrika; Sonestedt, Emily; Ziegler, Regina G.; Freedman, Neal D.; Visvanathan, Kala; Jones, Miranda R.; Relton, Caroline; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias; Ueland, Per Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background: Circulating concentrations of biomarkers that are related to vitamin status vary by factors such as diet, fortification, and supplement use. Published biomarker concentrations have also been influenced by the ...
    • Circulating cotinine concentrations and lung cancer risk in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3) 

      Larose, Tricia L; Guida, Florence; Anouar, Fanidi; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hveem, Kristian; Stevens, Victoria L.; Jacobs, Eric J.; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A.; Giovannucci, Edward; Albanes, Demetrius; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Freedman, Neal D.; Prentice, Ross; Pettinger, Mary; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Cai, Qiuyin; Wu, Jie; Blot, William J; Arslan, Alan A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Le Marchand, Loic; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Zhang, Xuehong; Stampfer, Meir J; Hodge, Allison M.; Giles, Graham G.; Severi, Gianluca; Johansson, Mikael; Grankvist, Kjell; Wang, Renwei; Yuan, Jian-Min; Gao, Yu-Tang; Koh, Woon-Puay; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zheng, Wei; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Li, Honglan; Lan, Qing; Visvanathan, Kala; Hoffman Bolton, Judith; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Caporaso, Neil; Purdue, Mark; Sesso, Howard D.; Buring, Julie E.; Lee, I-Min; Gaziano, J. Michael; Manjer, Jonas; Brunnström, Hans; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Self-reported smoking is the principal measure used to assess lung cancer risk in epidemiological studies. We evaluated if circulating cotinine—a nicotine metabolite and biomarker of recent tobacco exposure—provides ...
    • Circulating free testosterone and risk of aggressive prostate cancer: Prospective and Mendelian randomisation analyses in international consortia 

      Watts, Eleanor L.; Perez-Cornago, Aurora; Fensom, Georgina K.; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Noor, Urwah; Andrews, Colm D.; Gunter, Marc J.; Holmes, Michael V.; Martin, Richard M.; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Albanes, Demetrius; Barricarte, Aurelio; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Chen, Chu; Cohn, Barbara A.; Dimou, Niki L.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Flicker, Leon; Freedman, Neal D.; Giles, Graham G.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Goodman, Gary E.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hankey, Graeme J.; Huang, Jiaqi; Huang, Wen-Yi; Hurwitz, Lauren M.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Knekt, Paul; Kubo, Tatsuhiko; Langseth, Hilde; Laughlin, Gail; Le Marchand, Loic; Luostarinen, Tapio; MacInnis, Robert J.; Mäenpää, Hanna O.; Männistö, Satu; Metter, E. Jeffrey; Mikami, Kazuya; Mucci, Lorelei A.; Olsen, Anja; Ozasa, Kotaro; Palli, Domenico; Penney, Kathryn L.; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Rissanen, Harri; Sawada, Norie; Schenk, Jeannette M.; Stattin, Pär; Tamakoshi, Akiko; Thysell, Elin; Tsai, Chiaojung Jillian; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Vatten, Lars Johan; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Yeap, Bu B.; Allen, Naomi E.; Key, Timothy J.; Travis, Ruth C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Previous studies had limited power to assess the associations of testosterone with aggressive disease as a primary endpoint. Further, the association of genetically predicted testosterone with aggressive disease is not ...
    • Circulating high sensitivity C reactive protein concentrations and risk of lung cancer: Nested case-control study within Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium 

      Muller, David C.; Larose, Tricia L; Hodge, Allison; Guida, Florence; Langhammer, Arnulf; Grankvist, Kjell; Meyer, Klaus; Cai, Qiuyin; Arslan, Alan A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Albanes, Demetrius; Giles, Graham G.; Sesso, Howard D.; Lee, I-Min; Gaziano, J. Michael; Yuan, Jian-Min; Hoffman Bolton, Judith; Buring, Julie E.; Visvanathan, Kala; Le Marchand, Loic; Purdue, Mark P.; Caporaso, Neil E.; Midttun, Øivind; Ueland, Per Magne; Prentice, Ross L.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Stevens, Victoria L.; Zheng, Wei; Blot, William J.; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zhang, Xuehong; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Koh, Woon-Puay; Hveem, Kristian; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Pettinger, Mary; Engström, Gunnar; Brunnström, Hans; Milne, Roger L.; Stampfer, Meir J.; Han, Jiali; Johansson, Mikael; Brennan, Paul; Severi, Gianluca; Johansson, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objectives: Inflammation may play an important role in lung cancer pathogenesis. Previous studies have suggested an association between C-reactive protein (CRP) as a marker of inflammation, and risk of lung cancer, but ...
    • Circulating markers of cellular immune activation in pre-diagnostic blood sample and lung cancer risk in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3) 

      Huang, Joyce Yongxu; Larose, Tricia L; Luu, Hung N; Wang, Renwei; Fanidi, Anouar; Alcala, Karine; Stevens, Victoria L.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Caporaso, Neil E.; Purdue, Mark P.; Ziegler, Regina G.; Freedman, Neal D.; Lan, Qing; Prentice, Ross L.; Pettinger, Mary; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Cai, Qiuyin; Wu, Jie; Blot, William J.; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zheng, Wei; Arslan, Alan A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Le Marchand, Loïc; Wilkens, Lynn R; Haiman, Christopher A.; Zhang, Xuehong; Stampfer, Meir J.; Han, Jiali; Giles, Graham G.; Hodge, Allison M.; Severi, Gianluca; Johansson, Mikael; Grankvist, Kjell; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hveem, Kristian; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Li, Hong-Lan; Gao, Yu-Tang; Visvanathan, Kala; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Ulvik, Arve; Buring, Julie E.; Lee, I-Min; Sesso, Howard D.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Manjer, Jonas; Relton, Caroline; Koh, Woon-Puay; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias; Yuan, Jian-Min (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Cell‐mediated immune suppression may play an important role in lung carcinogenesis. We investigated the associations for circulating levels of tryptophan, kynurenine, kynurenine:tryptophan ratio (KTR), quinolinic acid (QA) ...
    • Circulating sex hormones in relation to anthropometric, sociodemographic and behavioural factors in an international dataset of 12,300 men 

      Watts, Eleanor L.; Appleby, Paul N.; Albanes, Demetrius; Black, Amanda; Chan, June M.; Chen, Chu; Cirillo, Piera M.; Cohn, Barbara A.; Cook, Michael B.; Donovan, Jenny L.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Garland, Cedric F.; Giles, Graham G.; Goodman, Phyllis J.; Habel, Laurel A.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Holly, Jeff M.P.; Hoover, Robert N.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Knekt, Paul; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Kubo, Tatsuhiko; Le Marchand, Loïc; Luostarinen, Tapio; MacInnis, Robert J.; Mäenpää, Hanna O.; Männistö, Satu; Metter, E. Jeffrey; Milne, Roger L.; Nomura, Abraham M.Y.; Oliver, Steven E.; Parsons, J. Kellogg; Peeters, Petra H.; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Riboli, Elio; Ricceri, Fulvio; Rinaldi, Sabina; Rissanen, Harri; Sawada, Norie; Schaefer, Catherine A.; Schenk, Jeannette M.; Stanczyk, Frank Z.; Stampfer, Meir; Stattin, Pär; Stenman, Ulf-Håkan; Tjønneland, Anne; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Thompson, Ian M.; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Vatten, Lars Johan; Whittemore, Alice S.; Ziegler, Regina G.; Allen, Naomi E.; Key, Timothy J.; Travis, Ruth C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Introduction Sex hormones have been implicated in the etiology of a number of diseases. To better understand disease etiology and the mechanisms of disease-risk factor associations, this analysis aimed to investigate the ...
    • Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults 

      Zahed, Hana; Johansson, Mattias; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Milne, Roger L.; Giles, Graham G.; Manjer, Jonas; Sandsveden, Malte; Langhammer, Arnulf; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael; Freedman, Neal D.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Chen, Chu; Prentice, Ross; Stevens, Victoria L.; Wang, Ying; Le Marchand, Loic; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Arslan, Alan A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zheng, Wei; Yuan, Jian-Min; Koh, Woon-Puay; Visvanathan, Kala; Sesso, Howard D.; Zhang, Xuehong; Gaziano, J. Michael; Fanidi, Anouar; Muller, David; Brennan, Paul; Guida, Florence; Robbins, Hilary A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin ...
    • Fine mapping the KLK3 locus on chromosome 19q13.33 associated with prostate cancer susceptibility and PSA levels 

      Parikh, Hemang; Wang, Zhaoming; Pettigrew, Kerry A.; Jia, Jinping; Daugherty, Sarah; Yeager, Meredith; Jacobs, Kevin B.; Hutchinson, Amy; Burdett, Laura; Cullen, Michael; Qi, Liqun; Boland, Joseph; Collins, Irene; Albert, Thomas J.; Vatten, Lars J.; Hveem, Kristian; Njølstad, Inger; Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine; Cussenot, Olivier; Valeri, Antoine; Virtamo, Jarmo; Thun, Michael J.; Feigelson, Heather Spencer; Diver, W. Ryan; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Thomas, Gilles; Albanes, Demetrius; Chanock, Stephen J.; Hunter, David J.; Hoover, Robert; Hayes, Richard B.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Sampson, Joshua; Amundadottir, Laufey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
    • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma 

      Scelo, Ghislaine; Purdue, Mark P.; Brown, Kevin M.; Johansson, Mattias; Wang, Zhaoming; Eckel-Passow, Jeanette E.; Ye, Yuanqing; Hofmann, Jonathan N.; Choi, Jiyeon; Foll, Matthieu; Gaborieau, Valerie; Machiela, Mitchell J.; Colli, Leandro M.; Li, Peng; Sampson, Joshua N.; Abedi-Ardekani, Behnoush; Besse, Celine; Blanche, Helene; Boland, Anne; Burdette, Laurie; Chabrier, Amelie; Durand, Geoffroy; Le Calvez-Kelm, Florence; Prokhortchouk, Egor; Robinot, Nivonirina; Skryabin, Konstantin G.; Wozniak, Magdalena B.; Yeager, Meredith; Basta-Jovanovic, Gordana; Dzamic, Zoran; Foretova, Lenka; Holcatova, Ivana; Janout, Vladimir; Mates, Dana; Mukeriya, Anush; Rascu, Stefan; Zaridze, David; Bencko, Vladimir; Cybulski, Cezary; Fabianova, Eleonora; Jinga, Viorel; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lubinski, Jan; Navratilova, Marie; Rudnai, Peter; Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonila; Benhamou, Simone; Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine; Cussenot, Olivier; Baglietto, Laura; Boeing, Heiner; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Ljungberg, Börje; Sitaram, Raviprakash T.; Bruinsma, Fiona; Jordan, Susan J.; Severi, Gianluca; Winship, Ingrid; Hveem, Kristian; Vatten, Lars Johan; Fletcher, Tony; Koppova, Kvetoslava; Larsson, Susanna C.; Wolk, Alicja; Banks, Rosamonde E.; Selby, Peter J.; Easton, Douglas F.; Pharoah, Paul; Andreotti, Gabriella; Freeman, Laura E Beane; Koutros, Stella; Albanes, Demetrius; Männistö, Satu; Weinstein, Stephanie; Clark, Peter E.; Edwards, Todd L.; Lipworth, Loren; Gapstur, Susan M.; Stevens, Victoria L.; Carol, Hallie; Freedman, Matthew L.; Pomerantz, Mark M.; Cho, Eunyoung; Kraft, Peter; Preston, Mark A.; Wilson, Kathryn M.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Sesso, Howard D.; Black, Amanda; Freedman, Neal D.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Anema, John G.; Kahnoski, Richard J.; Lane, Brian R.; Noyes, Sabrina L.; Petillo, David; Teh, Bin Tean; Peters, Ulrike; White, Emily; Anderson, Garnet L.; Johnson, Lisa; Luo, Juhua; Buring, Julie; Lee, I-Min; Chow, Wong-Ho; Moore, Lee E.; Wood, Christopher; Eisen, Timothy; Henrion, Marc; Larkin, James; Barman, Poulami; Leibovich, Bradley C.; Choueiri, Toni K.; Lathrop, G. Mark; Rothman, Nathaniel; Deleuze, Jean-Francois; McKay, James D.; Parker, Alexander S.; Wu, Xifeng; Houlston, Richard S.; Brennan, Paul; Chanock, Stephen J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified six risk loci for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We conducted a meta-analysis of two new scans of 5,198 cases and 7,331 controls together with four existing ...
    • No association between circulating concentrations of vitamin D and risk of lung cancer: An analysis in 20 prospective studies in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3) 

      Muller, David C.; Hodge, Allison M.; Fanidi, Anouar; Albanes, Demetrius; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Shu, Xiao Ou; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Larose, Tricia L; Zhang, Xuehong; Han, Jingquan; Stampfer, Meir J.; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A.; Ma, Jing; Gaziano, John Michael; Sesso, Howard D.; Stevens, Victoria L.; McCullough, Marjorie L.; Layne, Tracy M.; Prentice, Ross; Pettinger, Mary; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Zheng, Wei; Gao, Yutang; Rothman, Nathaniel; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Cai, Hui; Wang, Rui; Yuan, Jian-Min; Koh, Woon-Puay; Butler, Lesley M.; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William James; Wu, Jie; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hveem, Kristian; Johansson, Mikael B.; Hultdin, Johan; Grankvist, Kjell; Arslan, Alan A.; Le Marchand, Loïc; Severi, Gianluca; Johansson, Mattias; Brennan, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background There is observational evidence suggesting that high vitamin D concentrations may protect against lung cancer. To investigate this hypothesis in detail, we measured circulating vitamin D concentrations in ...
    • Timing of HPV16-E6 antibody seroconversion before OPSCC: Findings from the HPVC3 consortium 

      Kreimer, Aimée R.; Ferreiro-Iglesias, Aida; Nygård, Mari; Bender, Noemi; Schroeder, Lea; Hildesheim, Alan; Robbins, Hilary A.; Pawlita, Michael; Langseth, Hilde; Schlecht, Nicolas F.; Tinker, Lesley Fels; Agalliu, Ilir; Smoller, Sylvia W.; Ness-Jensen, Eivind; Hveem, Kristian; D'Souza, Gypsyamber; Visvanathan, Kala; May, Betty; Ursin, Giske; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Giles, Graham G.; Milne, Roger L.; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Zheng, Wei; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Brenner, Nicole; Hoffman-Bolton, Judith; Kaaks, Rudolf; Barricarte, Aurelio; Tjønneland, Anne; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Vermeulen, Roel C.H.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Freedman, Neal D.; Brennan, Paul J.; Waterboer, Tim; Johansson, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16)-E6 antibodies are detectable in peripheral blood before diagnosis in the majority of HPV16-driven oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), but the timing of seroconversion ...
    • Vitamin B6 catabolism and lung cancer risk: Results from the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3) 

      Zuo, Hui; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Tell, Grethe S.; Fanidi, Anouar; Zheng, Wei; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Wu, Jie; Prentice, Ross L.; Pettinger, Mary; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Giles, Graham G.; Hodge, Allison M.; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Johansson, Mikael B.; Hultdin, Johan; Grankvist, Kjell; Stevens, Victoria L.; McCullough, Marjorie L.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Ziegler, Regina G.; Freedman, Neal David; Caporaso, Neil E.; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hveem, Kristian; Næss, Marit; Buring, Julie E.; Lee, I-Min; Gaziano, John Michael; Severi, Gianluca; Zhang, Xuehong; Stampfer, Meir Jonathan; Han, Jiali; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Marchand, Loïc Le; Yuan, Jian-Min; Wang, Renwei; Koh, Woon-Puay; Gao, Yutang; Ericson, Ulrika C.; Visvanathan, Kala; Jones, Michael R.; Relton, Caroline Laura; Brennan, Paul J.; Johansson, Mattias; Ulvik, Arve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background Increased vitamin B6 catabolism related to inflammation, as measured by the PAr index (the ratio of 4-pyridoxic acid over the sum of pyridoxal and pyridoxal-5'-phosphate), has been positively associated with ...