Browsing by Author "Ablorh, Akweley"
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Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer susceptibility regions in 4611 women across four different ethnicities
Lindström, Sara; Ablorh, Akweley; Chapman, Brad; Gusev, Alexander; Chen, Gary; Turman, Constance; Eliassen, A. Heather; Price, Alkes L.; Henderson, Brian E.; Le Marchand, Loic; Hofmann, Oliver; Haiman, Christopher A.; Kraft, Peter (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of disease susceptibility regions, the underlying causal mechanism in these regions is not fully known. It is likely that the GWAS ... -
Meta-Analysis of a Multi-Ethnic, Breast Cancer Case-Control Targeted Sequencing Study
Ablorh, Akweley (2015-05-01)Breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American women, is a heritable disease with nearly one hundred known genetic risk factors. Using next generation sequencing, we explored the contribution of genetics at ... -
Predicting Subnational Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic Dynamics from Sociodemographic Indicators
Valeri, Linda; Patterson-Lomba, Oscar; Gurmu, Yared; Ablorh, Akweley Dzomoh; Bobb, Jennifer; Townes, Frederick William; Harling, Guy Duncan (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016)Background The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has spread wider than any previous human EVD epidemic. While individual-level risk factors that contribute to the spread of EVD have been studied, ...