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W. Ryan Diver

American Cancer Society
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Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations

MC Turner, ZJ Andersen, A Baccarelli… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Outdoor air pollution is a major contributor to the burden of disease worldwide. Most of the
global population resides in places where air pollution levels, because of emissions from …

Active smoking and breast cancer risk: original cohort data and meta-analysis

MM Gaudet, SM Gapstur, J Sun… - Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background The relationship between active cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk
remains controversial because of unresolved issues of confounding and dose response …

Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

R Burnett, H Chen, M Szyszkowicz… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) is a major global health concern.
Quantitative estimates of attributable mortality are based on disease-specific hazard ratio …

An integrated risk function for estimating the global burden of disease attributable to ambient fine particulate matter exposure

RT Burnett, CA Pope III, M Ezzati… - Environmental …, 2014 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Estimating the burden of disease attributable to long-term exposure to fine
particulate matter (PM2. 5) in ambient air requires knowledge of both the shape and …

The landscape of recombination in African Americans

…, L Adrienne Cupples, SL Deming, W Ryan Diver… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Recombination, together with mutation, gives rise to genetic variation in populations. Here
we leverage the recent mixture of people of African and European ancestry in the Americas …

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

RA Eeles, AAA Olama, S Benlloch, EJ Saunders… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To
identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

K Michailidou, J Beesley, S Lindstrom, S Canisius… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have
identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining∼ 14% of the …

Long-term ozone exposure and mortality in a large prospective study

MC Turner, M Jerrett, CA Pope III… - American journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Tropospheric ozone (O3) is potentially associated with cardiovascular disease
risk and premature death. Results from long-term epidemiological studies on O3 are scarce …

A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

AA Al Olama, Z Kote-Jarai, SI Berndt, DV Conti… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with
prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify …

Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23. 2

S Ahmed, G Thomas, M Ghoussaini, CS Healey… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified seven breast cancer susceptibility
loci, but these explain only a small fraction of the familial risk of the disease. Five of these …