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List of works by Heather H. Nelson

2-Phenethyl Isothiocyanate, Glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 Polymorphisms, and Detoxification of Volatile Organic Carcinogens and Toxicants in Tobacco Smoke

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

A case-control study of mesothelioma in Minnesota iron ore (taconite) miners

journal article published in 2016

A coding variant in TMC8 (EVER2) is associated with high risk HPV infection and head and neck cancer risk

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A computationally efficient hypothesis testing method for epistasis analysis using multifactor dimensionality reduction

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A genome-wide association study of upper aerodigestive tract cancers conducted within the INHANCE consortium

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A population-based case-control study of marijuana use and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

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A population-based study of immunohistochemical detection of p53 alteration in bladder cancer.

scientific article published on April 2004

A robust multifactor dimensionality reduction method for detecting gene-gene interactions with application to the genetic analysis of bladder cancer susceptibility

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A role for ultraviolet radiation immunosuppression in non-melanoma skin cancer as evidenced by gene-environment interactions

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A simple and computationally efficient sampling approach to covariate adjustment for multifactor dimensionality reduction analysis of epistasis

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Aberrant promoter methylation of CDH13 and MGMT genes is associated with clinicopathologic characteristics of primary non-small-cell lung carcinoma

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Aging and environmental exposures alter tissue-specific DNA methylation dependent upon CpG island context

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Allelic loss at Drosophila patched gene is highly prevalent in Basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin

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Allergies and risk of head and neck cancer

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Alterations of 9p in squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the lung: association with smoking, TP53, and survival

scientific article published in October 2005

Analgesic and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory use in relation to nonmelanoma skin cancer: a population-based case-control study

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Analysis of High-throughput DNA Methylation Bead Arrays Utilizing Bayesian Genotyping Algorithms

Asbestos burden predicts survival in pleural mesothelioma

scientific article published on June 2008

Asbestos exposure predicts cell cycle control gene promoter methylation in pleural mesothelioma

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Association Between Indoor Tanning and Melanoma in Younger Men and Women

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Biomarkers of HPV in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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Breast cancer DNA methylation profiles are associated with tumor size and alcohol and folate intake.

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CTLA4 variants, UV-induced tolerance, and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer

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CYP2A6 genetic polymorphisms and biomarkers of tobacco smoke constituents in relation to risk of lung cancer in the Singapore Chinese Health Study

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Cancer incidence among Minnesota taconite mining industry workers

journal article published in 2015

Carcinogen exposure and gene promoter hypermethylation in bladder cancer

scientific article published on 29 June 2005

Characterization of phthalate exposure among pregnant women assessed by repeat air and urine samples

journal article published in 2008

Circulating beta-2 microglobulin and risk of cancer: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)

journal article published in 2016

Clinical Trial of 2-Phenethyl Isothiocyanate as an Inhibitor of Metabolic Activation of a Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen in Cigarette Smokers

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Comparison of quality of life among long-term melanoma survivors and non-melanoma controls: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Concordance of multiple analytical approaches demonstrates a complex relationship between DNA repair gene SNPs, smoking and bladder cancer susceptibility

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Copy number variation has little impact on bead-array-based measures of DNA methylation.

scientific article published on 19 June 2009

Cutaneous alpha, beta and gamma human papillomaviruses in relation to squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: a population-based study

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Cutaneous human papillomavirus infection, the EVER2 gene and incidence of squamous cell carcinoma: a case-control study

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Cytotoxic T Cells and Granzyme B Associated with Improved Colorectal Cancer Survival in a Prospective Cohort of Older Women

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DNA hypermethylation profiles associated with glioma subtypes and EZH2 and IGFBP2 mRNA expression.

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DNA methylation analysis reveals distinct methylation signatures in pediatric germ cell tumors

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DNA methylation arrays as surrogate measures of cell mixture distribution

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DNA methylation, isocitrate dehydrogenase mutation, and survival in glioma

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DNA repair genotype interacts with arsenic exposure to increase bladder cancer risk

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DNA repair polymorphisms modify bladder cancer risk: a multi-factor analytic strategy

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Decreased NK cells in patients with head and neck cancer determined in archival DNA.

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Dietary Protein Intake and Lean Muscle Mass in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Report From the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Dietary folate is associated withp16INK4A methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Differentiation of lung adenocarcinoma, pleural mesothelioma, and nonmalignant pulmonary tissues using DNA methylation profiles

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Distinct Histologic Subtypes and Risk Factors for Early Onset Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-Based Case Control Study from New Hampshire

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Duration but not intensity of alcohol and tobacco exposure predicts p16INK4A homozygous deletion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published in April 2006

Early-onset basal cell carcinoma and indoor tanning: a population-based study

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Effects of terminal nonhomology and homeology on double-strand-break-induced gene conversion tract directionality.

scientific article published on June 1996

Environmental tobacco smoke in relation to bladder cancer risk--the Shanghai bladder cancer study [corrected].

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Epigenetic Inactivation of SFRP Genes and TP53 Alteration Act Jointly as Markers of Invasive Bladder Cancer

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Epigenetic biomarkers of T-cells in human glioma.

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Epigenetic epidemiology as a tool to understand the role of immunity in chronic disease

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Epigenetic profiles distinguish pleural mesothelioma from normal pleura and predict lung asbestos burden and clinical outcome

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Epigenetic profiling reveals etiologically distinct patterns of DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 06 January 2009

Examination of a CpG island methylator phenotype and implications of methylation profiles in solid tumors

scientific article published on November 2006

Exposure profiles and human papillomavirus infection in skin cancer: an analysis of 25 genus beta-types in a population-based study

scientific article published on 12 June 2008

Exposure to indoor tanning without burning and melanoma risk by sunburn history

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Exposure to indoor tanning without burning and melanoma risk by sunburn history

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Extensive somatic L1 retrotransposition in colorectal tumors

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Gastric reflux is an independent risk factor for laryngopharyngeal carcinoma

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Gender, smoking, glutathione-S-transferase variants and bladder cancer incidence: a population-based study

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Gene-environment interactions of novel variants associated with head and neck cancer

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Genetic and epigenetic somatic alterations in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas are globally coordinated but not locally targeted.

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Genetic determinants of UV-susceptibility in non-melanoma skin cancer

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Genetic determinants of cytochrome P450 2A6 activity and biomarkers of tobacco smoke exposure in relation to risk of lung cancer development in the Shanghai cohort study

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Genetic susceptibility in the workplace: a scientific and ethical challenge

Genetic variation in the vitamin C transporter, SLC23A2, modifies the risk of HPV16-associated head and neck cancer

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Gene–Drug Interaction at the Glucocorticoid Receptor Increases Risk of Squamous Cell Skin Cancer

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Genus beta human papillomaviruses and incidence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of skin: population based case-control study

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Global methylation in exposure biology and translational medical science

scientific article published on 13 June 2011

Glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene polymorphisms, cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer risk among Chinese in Singapore

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HLA-C -35kb expression SNP is associated with differential control of β-HPV infection in squamous cell carcinoma cases and controls

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High-risk HPV types and head and neck cancer

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History of Parvovirus B19 infection is associated with a DNA methylation signature in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on December 2011

Human papillomavirus 16 and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

journal article published in 2007

Human papillomavirus 6 seropositivity is associated with risk of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, independent of tobacco and alcohol use.

scientific article published on 15 December 2008

Human papillomavirus infection and incidence of squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas of the skin

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Human papillomavirus serology and tobacco smoking in a community control group

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Human polyomaviruses and incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in the New Hampshire skin cancer study

scientific article published on 21 February 2016

Hypermethylation of RASSF1A and BLU tumor suppressor genes in non-small cell lung cancer: implications for tobacco smoking during adolescence

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Identification of an epigenetic profile classifier that is associated with survival in head and neck cancer

scientific article published on 16 April 2012

Identification of methylated genes associated with aggressive bladder cancer

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Immune Response to HPV16 E6 and E7 Proteins and Patient Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Implications of LINE1 methylation for bladder cancer risk in women

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Inactivation of the Fanconi anemia/BRCA pathway in lung and oral cancers: implications for treatment and survival

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 2004)

Integrated profiling reveals a global correlation between epigenetic and genetic alterations in mesothelioma

scientific article published on 29 June 2010

Interaction between the bone morphogenetic proteins and Ras/MAP-kinase signalling pathways in lung cancer.

scientific article published on October 2005

KRAS mutation, KRAS-LCS6 polymorphism, and non-small cell lung cancer.

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Key epigenetic changes associated with lung cancer development: results from dense methylation array profiling

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LINE-1 DNA methylation, smoking and risk of Parkinson's disease

journal article published in 2012

LINE-1 hypomethylation is associated with bladder cancer risk among nonsmoking Chinese

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Leukocyte-adjusted epigenome-wide association studies of blood from solid tumor patients

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Loss of Heterozygosity of Chromosome 3p21 Is Associated with MutantTP53and Better Patient Survival in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 9q and p53 alterations in human bladder cancer

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Low dose exposure to sodium arsenite synergistically interacts with UV radiation to induce mutations and alter DNA repair in human cells

scientific article published in March 2004

Maternal urinary metabolites of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in relation to the timing of labor in a US multicenter pregnancy cohort study

journal article published in 2009

Mature microRNA sequence polymorphism in MIR196A2 is associated with risk and prognosis of head and neck cancer

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Measures of Cumulative Exposure from a Standardized Sun Exposure History Questionnaire: A Comparison with Histologic Assessment of Solar Skin Damage

scientific article published on 04 January 2007

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) variants and bladder cancer: a population-based case-control study

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Microsatellite instability at tetranucleotide repeats in skin and bladder cancer

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with breast cancer risk

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Model-based clustering of DNA methylation array data: a recursive-partitioning algorithm for high-dimensional data arising as a mixture of beta distributions

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New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

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Notch signaling at later stages of NK cell development enhances KIR expression and functional maturation

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Obesity and head and neck cancer risk and survival by human papillomavirus serology

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Occupational asphalt is not associated with head and neck cancer

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Occupational dust exposure and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma risk in a population-based case-control study conducted in the greater Boston area

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Occupational exposures and lung cancer risk among Minnesota taconite mining workers

journal article published in 2015

Oral contraceptives: a risk factor for squamous cell carcinoma?

journal article published in 2009

PTEN expression in non–small-cell lung cancer: evaluating its relation to tumor characteristics, allelic loss, and epigenetic alteration

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Patterns of gene promoter methylation in squamous cell cancer of the head and neck

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Peripheral blood DNA methylation profiles are indicative of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: an epigenome-wide association study

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Peripheral blood immune cell methylation profiles are associated with nonhematopoietic cancers

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Placental biomarkers of phthalate effects on mRNA transcription: application in epidemiologic research

journal article published in 2009

Plasma S-adenosylmethionine, DNMT polymorphisms, and peripheral blood LINE-1 methylation among healthy Chinese adults in Singapore

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Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes, smoking, and bladder cancer risk: findings from the international consortium of bladder cancer

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes, arsenic exposure, and non-melanoma skin cancer in New Hampshire

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Prospective Study of Human Polyomaviruses and Risk of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the United States

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Quantitative reconstruction of leukocyte subsets using DNA methylation

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RNASEL and MIR146A SNP-SNP interaction as a susceptibility factor for non-melanoma skin cancer

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ROBO1, a tumor suppressor and critical molecular barrier for localized tumor cells to acquire invasive phenotype: study in African-American and Caucasian prostate cancer models

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Reported use of photosensitizing medications and basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: results of a population-based case-control study

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Risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin in relation to IgE: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

SLC39A2 and FSIP1 polymorphisms as potential modifiers of arsenic-related bladder cancer

scientific article published on 25 September 2011

Self-reported Tobacco use does not correlate with carcinogen exposure in smokers with head and neck cancer

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Seroepidemiology of Human Polyomaviruses in a US Population

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Sex hormones and the risk of keratinocyte cancers among women in the United States: A population-based case-control study

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Similar DNA methylation levels in specific imprinting control regions in children conceived with and without assisted reproductive technology: a cross-sectional study

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Skin Cancer Risk Is Modified by KIR/HLA Interactions That Influence the Activation of Natural Killer Immune Cells

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Smoking modifies the relationship between XRCC1 haplotypes and HPV16-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

journal article published in 2009

Soluble MICA is elevated in pancreatic cancer: Results from a population based case-control study

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma of the skin in relation to radiation therapy and potential modification of risk by sun exposure

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Sun Exposure and Protection Behaviors among Long-term Melanoma Survivors and Population Controls

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

TP53 alterations and patterns of carcinogen exposure in a U.S. population-based study of bladder cancer

scientific article published in November 2005

TP53 mutation, allelism and survival in non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 19 May 2005

The XPC poly-AT polymorphism in non-melanoma skin cancer

scientific article published on 7 January 2005

The influence of aging, environmental exposures and local sequence features on the variation of DNA methylation in blood

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The molecular epidemiology of asbestos and tobacco in lung cancer

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The role of TP53 and MDM2 polymorphisms in TP53 mutagenesis and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer

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Tobacco smoke biomarkers and cancer risk among male smokers in the Shanghai cohort study

scientific article published on 20 July 2012

Tumor eosinophil infiltration and improved survival of colorectal cancer patients: Iowa Women's Health Study

journal article published in 2016

Understanding the Role of the Immune System in the Development of Cancer: New Opportunities for Population-Based Research

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Urinary levels of N-nitroso compounds in relation to risk of gastric cancer: findings from the shanghai cohort study

scientific article published in 2015

Urinary levels of cigarette smoke constituent metabolites are prospectively associated with lung cancer development in smokers

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Urinary metabolites of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and volatile organic compounds in relation to lung cancer development in lifelong never smokers in the Shanghai Cohort Study

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Variants at the OCA2/HERC2 locus affect time to first cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in solid organ transplant recipients collected using two different study designs

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

XPA, haplotypes, and risk of basal and squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 2 March 2006