Browsing by Author "Ma, Jing"

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    • Apolipoprotein(a) Size and Lipoprotein(a) Concentration and Future Risk of Angina Pectoris with Evidence of Severe Coronary Atherosclerosis in Men: The Physicians' Health Study 

      Rifai, Nader; Ma, Jing; Sacks, Frank Martin; Ridker, Paul M.; Hernandez, W; Stampfer, Meir; Marcovina, S (American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), 2004)
      The relationship of lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] concentrations with risk of coronary heart disease needs clarification, especially for threshold values for increased risk and for possible interactions with LDL-cholesterol ...

    • Blood Donation and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Men 

      Zhang, Xuehong; Ma, Jing; Wu, Kana; Chan, Andrew Tan; Fuchs, Charles Stewart; Giovannucci, Edward L. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Although blood donations may reduce body iron stores, to date, prospective data on frequent blood donation and colorectal cancer risk are limited. Methodology/Principal Findings: We tested whether frequent ...

    • Elevated circulating branched chain amino acids are an early event in pancreatic adenocarcinoma development 

      Mayers, Jared R.; Wu, Chen; Clish, Clary B.; Kraft, Peter; Torrence, Margaret E.; Fiske, Brian P.; Yuan, Chen; Bao, Ying; Townsend, Mary K.; Tworoger, Shelley S.; Davidson, Shawn M.; Papagiannakopoulos, Thales; Yang, Annan; Dayton, Talya L.; Ogino, Shuji; Stampfer, Meir J.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Qian, Zhi Rong; Rubinson, Douglas A.; Ma, Jing; Sesso, Howard D.; Gaziano, John Michael; Cochrane, Barbara B.; Liu, Simin; Wactawski–Wende, Jean; Manson, JoAnn E.; Pollak, Michael N.; Kimmelman, Alec C.; Souza, Amanda; Pierce, Kerry; Wang, Thomas J.; Gerszten, Robert E.; Fuchs, Charles S.; Heiden, Matthew G. Vander; Wolpin, Brian M. (2014)
      Most patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are diagnosed with advanced disease and survive less than 12 months1. PDAC has been linked with obesity and glucose intolerance2-4, but whether changes in circulating ...

    • Genetic Variation in the HSD17B1 Gene and Risk of Prostate Cancer 

      Kraft, Peter; Pharoah, Paul; Chanock, Stephen J; Albanes, Demetrius; Kolonel, Laurence N; Hayes, Richard B; Andriole, Gerald; Berg, Christine; Boeing, Heiner; Burtt, Noel P; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Calle, Eugenia E; Cann, Howard; Canzian, Federico; Crawford, David E; Dunning, Alison M; Feigelson, Heather S; Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto; Haiman, Christopher A; Hallmans, Goran; Henderson, Brian E; Kaaks, Rudolf; Key, Timothy; Marchand, Loic Le; Overvad, Kim; Palli, Domenico; Pike, Malcolm C; Riboli, Elio; Rodriguez, Carmen; Setiawan, Wendy V; Stram, Daniel O; Thomas, Gilles; Thun, Michael J; Travis, Ruth; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Virtamo, Jarmo; Wacholder, Sholom; Altshuler, David Matthew; Chen, Yin-Ching Iris; Freedman, Matthew Lawrence; Gaziano, John Michael; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Hirschhorn, Joel Naom; Hunter, David J.; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir (Public Library of Science, 2005)
      Steroid hormones are believed to play an important role in prostate carcinogenesis, but epidemiological evidence linking prostate cancer and steroid hormone genes has been inconclusive, in part due to small sample sizes ...

    • Joint Effects of Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Loci, Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Colorectal Cancer 

      Hiraki, Linda T.; Joshi, Amit D.; Ng, Kimmie; Fuchs, Charles S.; Ma, Jing; Hazra, Aditi; Peters, Ulrike; Karlson, Elizabeth W.; Giovannucci, Edward; Kraft, Peter; Chan, Andrew T. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Background: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several SNPs associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility. Vitamin D is also inversely associated with CRC risk. Methods: We examined main and ...

    • Magnesium intake, plasma C-peptide, and colorectal cancer incidence in US women: a 28-year follow-up study 

      Zhang, Xiaoxiao; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Wu, Kunling; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A.; Fuchs, Charles Stewart; Pollak, Martin Russell; Willett, Walter C.; Ma, Jing (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      Background: Laboratory studies suggest a possible role of magnesium intake in colorectal carcinogenesis but epidemiological evidence is inconclusive. Method: We tested magnesium–colorectal cancer hypothesis in the Nurses' ...

    • Mannose-Binding Lectin 2 Gene and Risk of Adult Glioma 

      Michaud, Dominique S.; Siddiq, Afshan; Cox, David G.; Backes, Danielle M.; Calboli, Federico C. F.; Sughrue, Michael E.; Gaziano, John Michael; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir; Tworoger, Shelley Slate; Hunter, David J.; Camargo, Carlos Arturo; Parsa, Andrew T. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background and Aims The immune system is likely to play a key role in the etiology of gliomas. Genetic polymorphisms in the mannose-binding lectin gene, a key activator in the lectin complement pathway, have been associated ...

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

      Al Olama, Ali Amin; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia; Berndt, Sonja I.; Conti, David V.; Schumacher, Fredrick; Han, Ying; Benlloch, Sara; Hazelett, Dennis J.; Wang, Zhaoming; Saunders, Ed; Leongamornlert, Daniel; Lindstrom, Sara; Jugurnauth-Little, Sara; Dadaev, Tokhir; Tymrakiewicz, Malgorzata; Stram, Daniel O.; Rand, Kristin; Wan, Peggy; Stram, Alex; Sheng, Xin; Pooler, Loreall C.; Park, Karen; Xia, Lucy; Tyrer, Jonathan; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Le Marchand, Loic; Hoover, Robert N.; Machiela, Mitchell J.; Yeager, Merideth; Burdette, Laurie; Chung, Charles C.; Hutchinson, Amy; Yu, Kai; Goh, Chee; Ahmed, Mahbubl; Govindasami, Koveela; Guy, Michelle; Tammela, Teuvo L.J.; Auvinen, Anssi; Wahlfors, Tiina; Schleutker, Johanna; Visakorpi, Tapio; Leinonen, Katri A.; Xu, Jianfeng; Aly, Markus; Donovan, Jenny; Travis, Ruth C.; Key, Tim J.; Siddiq, Afshan; Canzian, Federico; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Takahashi, Atsushi; Kubo, Michiaki; Pharoah, Paul; Pashayan, Nora; Weischer, Maren; Nordestgaard, Borge G.; Nielsen, Sune F.; Klarskov, Peter; Røder, Martin Andreas; Iversen, Peter; Thibodeau, Stephen N.; McDonnell, Shannon K; Schaid, Daniel J; Stanford, Janet L.; Kolb, Suzanne; Holt, Sarah; Knudsen, Beatrice; Coll, Antonio Hurtado; Gapstur, Susan M.; Diver, W. Ryan; Stevens, Victoria L.; Maier, Christiane; Luedeke, Manuel; Herkommer, Kathleen; Rinckleb, Antje E.; Strom, Sara S.; Pettaway, Curtis; Yeboah, Edward D.; Tettey, Yao; Biritwum, Richard B.; Adjei, Andrew A.; Tay, Evelyn; Truelove, Ann; Niwa, Shelley; Chokkalingam, Anand P.; Cannon-Albright, Lisa; Cybulski, Cezary; Wokołorczyk, Dominika; Kluźniak, Wojciech; Park, Jong; Sellers, Thomas; Lin, Hui-Yi; Isaacs, William B.; Partin, Alan W.; Brenner, Hermann; Dieffenbach, Aida Karina; Stegmaier, Christa; Chen, Constance; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir; Penney, Kathryn L.; Mucci, Lorelei; John, Esther M.; Ingles, Sue A.; Kittles, Rick A.; Murphy, Adam B.; Pandha, Hardev; Michael, Agnieszka; Kierzek, Andrzej M.; Blot, William; Signorello, Lisa B.; Zheng, Wei; Albanes, Demetrius; Virtamo, Jarmo; Weinstein, Stephanie; Nemesure, Barbara; Carpten, John; Leske, Cristina; Wu, Suh-Yuh; Hennis, Anselm; Kibel, Adam S.; Rybicki, Benjamin A.; Neslund-Dudas, Christine; Hsing, Ann W.; Chu, Lisa; Goodman, Phyllis J.; Klein, Eric A; Zheng, S. Lilly; Batra, Jyotsna; Clements, Judith; Spurdle, Amanda; Teixeira, Manuel R.; Paulo, Paula; Maia, Sofia; Slavov, Chavdar; Kaneva, Radka; Mitev, Vanio; Witte, John S.; Casey, Graham; Gillanders, Elizabeth M.; Seminara, Daniella; Riboli, Elio; Hamdy, Freddie C.; Coetzee, Gerhard A.; Li, Qiyuan; Freedman, Matthew L.; Hunter, David J.; Muir, Kenneth; Gronberg, Henrik; Neal, David E.; Southey, Melissa; Giles, Graham G.; Severi, Gianluca; Cook, Michael B.; Nakagawa, Hidewaki; Wiklund, Fredrik; Kraft, Peter; Chanock, Stephen J.; Henderson, Brian E.; Easton, Douglas F.; Eeles, Rosalind A.; Haiman, Christopher A. (2014)
      Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify additional susceptibility loci for this common cancer, ...

    • A Prospective Study of Plasma Vitamin D Metabolites, Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms, and Prostate Cancer 

      Li, Haojie; Stampfer, Meir; Hollis, J. Bruce W.; Mucci, Lorelei Ann; Gaziano, John Michael; Hunter, David; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Ma, Jing (Public Library of Science, 2007)
      Background: Vitamin D insufficiency is a common public health problem nationwide. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25[OH]D), the most commonly used index of vitamin D status, is converted to the active hormone 1,25 ...

    • Y Chromosome Haplogroups and Prostate Cancer in Populations of European and Ashkenazi Jewish Ancestry 

      Wang, Zhaoming; Parikh, Hemang; Jia, Jinping; Yeager, Meredith; Jacobs, Kevin B.; Hutchinson, Amy; Burdett, Laurie; Ghosh, Arpita; Thun, Michael J.; Gapstur, Susan M.; Virtamo, Jarmo; Albanes, Demetrius; Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine; Valeri, Antoine; Cussenot, Olivier; Offit, Kenneth; Dutra-Clarke, Ana; Kirchhoff, Tomas; Alavanja, Michael; Freeman, Laura B.; Koutros, Stella; Hoover, Robert; Berndt, Sonja I.; Hayes, Richard B.; Agalliu, Ilir; Burk, Robert D.; Wacholder, Sholom; Thomas, Gilles; Amundadottir, Laufey; Myers, Timothy; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir; Gaziano, John Michael; Hunter, David J.; Diver, W. Ryan (Springer-Verlag, 2012)
      Genetic variation on the Y chromosome has not been convincingly implicated in prostate cancer risk. To comprehensively analyze the role of inherited Y chromosome variation in prostate cancer risk in individuals of European ...