Selected Publications:
Genetics of Breast Cancer in Hispanic/Latina Women:
Fejerman L, Ahmadiyeh N, Hu D, Huntsman S, Beckman KB, Caswell JL, Tsung K, John EM, Torres-Mejia G, Carvajal-Carmona L, Echeverry MM, Tuazon AM, Ramirez C; COLUMBUS Consortium; Gignoux CR, Eng C, Gonzalez-Burchard E, Henderson B, Le Marchand L, Kooperberg C, Hou L, Agalliu I, Kraft P, Lindström S, Perez-Stable EJ, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Genome-wide association study of breast cancer in Latinas identifies novel protective variants on 6q25. Nat Commun. 2014 Oct 20;5:5260. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6260. PMID:
Fejerman L, Chen GK, Eng C, Huntsman S, Hu D, Williams A, Pasaniuc B, John EM, Via M, Gignoux C, Ingles S, Monroe KR, Kolonel LN, Torres-Mejia G, Perez-Stable EJ, Burchard EG, Henderson BE, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Admixture mapping identifies a locus on 6q25 associated with breast cancer risk in US Latinas. Human molecular genetics. 2012;21(8):1907-17. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddr617. PubMed PMID: 22228098; PMCID: 3313799.
Genetics of Tumor Immune Reponse and Response to Immunotherapy:
Other Breast Cancer:
Shieh Y, Hu D, Ma L, Huntsman S, Gard CC, Leung JWT, Tice JA, Ziv E, Kerlikowske K, Cummings SR. Joint relative risks for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer from a clinical model, polygenic risk score, and sex hormones. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2017;166(2):603-12. doi: 10.1007/s10549-017-4430-2. PubMed PMID: 28791495; PMCID: PMC5669824.
Ziv E, Tice JA, Sprague B, Vachon CM, Cummings SR, Kerlikowske K. Using Breast Cancer Risk Associated Polymorphisms to Identify Women for Breast Cancer Chemoprevention. PloS one. 2017;12(1):e0168601. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168601. PubMed PMID: 28107349; PMCID: PMC5249071.
Shieh Y, Hu D, Ma L, Huntsman S, Gard CC, Leung JW, Tice JA, Vachon CM, Cummings SR, Kerlikowske K, Ziv E. Breast cancer risk prediction using a clinical risk model and polygenic risk score. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2016;159(3):513-25. doi: 10.1007/s10549-016-3953-2. PubMed PMID: 27565998; PMCID: PMC5033764.
Hoffman JD, Graff RE, Emami NC, et al. Cis-eQTL-based trans-ethnic meta-analysis reveals novel genes associated with breast cancer risk. PLoS Genet. 2017;13(3):e1006690.
Caswell JL, Camarda R, Zhou AY, Huntsman S, Hu D, Brenner SE, Zaitlen N, Goga A, Ziv E. Multiple breast cancer risk variants are associated with differential transcript isoform expression in tumors. Human molecular genetics. 2015;24(25):7421-31. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddv432. PubMed PMID: 26472073; PMCID: 4664170
Caswell JL, Kerlikowske K, Shepherd JA, Cummings SR, Hu D, Huntsman S, Ziv E. High mammographic density in women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Breast cancer research : BCR. 2013;15(3):R40. doi: 10.1186/bcr3424. PubMed PMID: 23668689.