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List of works by Melinda C. Aldrich

A Call to Action: Dismantling Racial Injustices in Preclinical Research and Clinical Care of Black Patients Living with Small Cell Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

A Germline Variant at 8q24 Contributes to Familial Clustering of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

A Phenome-Wide Association Study Uncovers a Role for Autoimmunity in the Development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

scientific article published in June 2018

A Social Determinant of Health May Modify Genetic Associations for Blood Pressure: Evidence From a SNP by Education Interaction in an African American Population

A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry

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A small number of candidate gene SNPs reveal continental ancestry in African Americans.

scientific article published on January 2013

A study of transportability of an existing smoking status detection module across institutions.

scientific article published on 3 November 2012

Abstract 817: Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis of 5p15.33, telomere length and lung cancer risk

Accuracy of FDG-PET to diagnose lung cancer in areas with infectious lung disease: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on September 2014

Accuracy of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography within the clinical practice of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z4031 trial to diagnose clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer

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Addressing Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility and Healthcare Access. An Official American Thoracic Society Statement

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Admixture mapping of pelvic organ prolapse in African Americans from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial

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African-specific improvement of a polygenic hazard score for age at diagnosis of prostate cancer

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Analysis of biogeographic ancestry reveals complex genetic histories for indigenous communities of St. Vincent and Trinidad

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Association analysis of driver-gene related genetic variants identified novel lung cancer susceptibility loci with 20,871 lung cancer cases and 15,971 controls

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Base excision repair genes and risk of lung cancer among San Francisco Bay Area Latinos and African-Americans

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CYP1A1/2 haplotypes and lung cancer and assessment of confounding by population stratification

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CYP2A6 reduced activity gene variants confer reduction in lung cancer risk in African American smokers--findings from two independent populations

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Cancer screening: the journey from epidemiology to policy

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Cardiovascular disease risk factors in Ghana during the rural-to-urban transition: A cross-sectional study

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Causal Relationships between Body Mass Index, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Univariable and Multivariable Mendelian Randomization

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Characterization of large structural genetic mosaicism in human autosome

journal article published in 2015

Characterizing the clinical and genetic spectrum of polycystic ovary syndrome in electronic health records

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and subsequent overall and lung cancer mortality in low-income adults

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Comparison of statistical methods for estimating genetic admixture in a lung cancer study of African Americans and Latinos

scientific article published on 12 September 2008

Comprehensive functional annotation of susceptibility variants identifies genetic heterogeneity between lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

Cosmopolitan and ethnic-specific replication of genetic risk factors for asthma in 2 Latino populations

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Cost-effectiveness of initial diagnostic strategies for pulmonary nodules presenting to thoracic surgeons

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Cross-Cancer Pleiotropic Associations with Lung Cancer Risk in African Americans

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Cytogenetics of Hispanic and White children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in California

scientific article published in March 2006

DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF TEXT-MINING ALGORITHMS TO EXTRACT SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS FROM DE-IDENTIFIED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS.

scientific article published on January 2016

Deciphering Signaling Pathway Networks to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Metformin Action

scientific article (publication date: June 2015)

Defining Equity in Eligibility for Cancer Screening-Reply

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

journal article published in 2012

Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening: A Review

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Elevated platelet count appears to be causally associated with increased risk of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization analysis

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Establishing a Cohort and a Biorepository to Identify Biomarkers for Early Detection of Lung Cancer: The Nashville Lung Cancer Screening Cohort

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Evaluation of USPSTF Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Among African American Adult Smokers

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Female chromosome X mosaicism is age-related and preferentially affects the inactivated X chromosome

journal article published in 2016

Fine mapping of MHC region in lung cancer highlights independent susceptibility loci by ethnicity

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Gender equity in epidemiology: a policy brief

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Genetic Effects on the Correlation Structure of CVD Risk Factors: Exome-Wide Data From a Ghanaian Population

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Genetic ancestry in lung-function predictions

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Genetic ancestry-smoking interactions and lung function in African Americans: a cohort study

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Genetic interaction analysis among oncogenesis-related genes revealed novel genes and networks in lung cancer development

Genetic modifiers of radon-induced lung cancer risk: a genome-wide interaction study in former uranium miners

journal article published in 2018

Genetic polymorphisms in adaptive immunity genes and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on 17 August 2010

Genetic variants in the folate pathway and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Genetic variation in the eicosanoid pathway is associated with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survival.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Of Lung Function Among African-Americans In 5 National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (NHLBI) Cohorts. The Candidate-Gene Association Resource (CARE)

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Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function.

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Genome-wide association studies identify CHRNA5/3 and HTR4 in the development of airflow obstruction

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Genome-wide association study confirms lung cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 5p15 and 15q25 in an African-American population

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Genome-wide association study of INDELs identified four novel susceptibility loci associated with lung cancer risk

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Genome-wide interaction study of smoking behavior and non-small cell lung cancer risk in Caucasian population

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Genome-wide joint meta-analysis of SNP and SNP-by-smoking interaction identifies novel loci for pulmonary function

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Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of directional selection since admixture

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Germline Genetic Variants and Lung Cancer Survival in African Americans

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Haplotypes of DNA repair and cell cycle control genes, X-ray exposure, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

Household exposure to paint and petroleum solvents, chromosomal translocations, and the risk of childhood leukemia

scientific article published on 10 October 2008

Identification of susceptibility pathways for the role of chromosome 15q25.1 in modifying lung cancer risk

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Immune-mediated genetic pathways resulting in pulmonary function impairment increase lung cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Immunotherapy-Mediated Thyroid Dysfunction: Genetic Risk and Impact on Outcomes with PD-1 Blockade in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 08 July 2021

Imputation and subset-based association analysis across different cancer types identifies multiple independent risk loci in the TERT-CLPTM1L region on chromosome 5p15.33

journal article published in 2014

Integration of multiomic annotation data to prioritize and characterize inflammation and immune-related risk variants in squamous cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Interleukin-9 induces mucous cell metaplasia independent of inflammation

scientific article published in June 2003

Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Large-scale genome-wide association studies and meta-analyses of longitudinal change in adult lung function ⬇️

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Lung Cancer Risk in Never-Smokers of European Descent is Associated With Genetic Variation in the 5p15.33 TERT-CLPTM1Ll Region

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Lung Cancer: One Disease or Many

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Lung cancer risk among smokers of menthol cigarettes

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Lung cancer screening and smoking cessation: a teachable moment?

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Mapping Histoplasma capsulatum Exposure, United States

scholarly article by Amelia W Maiga et al published October 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Matching on Race and Ethnicity in Case-Control Studies as a Means of Control for Population Stratification

scientific article published on September 2011

Minority Underrepresentation in Academia: Factors Impacting Careers of Surgery Residents

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Neighbourhood deprivation and lung cancer risk: a nested case-control study in the USA

Nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of lung cancer among San Francisco Bay Area Latinos and African Americans

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Obesity increases operating room time for lobectomy in the society of thoracic surgeons database

scientific article published on 04 October 2012

Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

scientific article published on 8 June 2017

Outcome-related, auxiliary variable sampling designs for longitudinal binary data

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Pathogenesis of mucous cell metaplasia in a murine asthma model

scientific article published on June 2003

Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 and Diagnosis of the Metabolic Syndrome in a West African Population.

scientific article published on 03 October 2016

Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Poor survival for veterans with pathologic stage I non-small-cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 18 August 2012

Predicting DNA methylation from genetic data lacking racial diversity using shared classified random effects

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Predicting lung cancer prior to surgical resection in patients with lung nodules

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Promoting innovation and creativity in epidemiology for the 21st century

scientific article published in July 2013

Protein-altering germline mutations implicate novel genes related to lung cancer development

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Publisher Correction: Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Survival: The Contribution of Stage, Treatment, and Ancestry

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Reliability of maternal-reports regarding the use of household pesticides: experience from a case-control study of childhood leukemia.

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STRATEGIES FOR EQUITABLE PHARMACOGENOMIC-GUIDED WARFARIN DOSING AMONG EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS IN A CLINICAL POPULATION

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Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Socioeconomic status and lung cancer: unraveling the contribution of genetic admixture

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Stage-adjusted lung cancer survival does not differ between low-income Blacks and Whites

scientific article published on October 2013

Systematic analyses of regulatory variants in DNase I hypersensitive sites identified two novel lung cancer susceptibility loci

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity

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The State of Molecular Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Lung Cancer ⬇️

scientific article published on June 11, 2012

The landscape of recombination in African Americans

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The role of epidemiology in evidence-based policy making: a case study of tobacco use in youth

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Tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias by cytogenetic subtype

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Transcriptome-wide association study reveals candidate causal genes for lung cancer

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Transdisciplinary approaches enhance the production of translational knowledge

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Two Novel Susceptibility Loci for Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry.

scientific article published in August 2017

Validating drug repurposing signals using electronic health records: a case study of metformin associated with reduced cancer mortality

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Variation in xenobiotic transport and metabolism genes, household chemical exposures, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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