Alison Johnson

TL;DR: In an analysis of 31,717 cancer cases and 26,136 cancer-free controls from 13 genome-wide association studies, this paper observed large chromosomal abnormalities in a subset of clones in DNA obtained from blood or buccal samples.

TL;DR: Large chromosomal abnormalities in a subset of clones in DNA obtained from blood or buccal samples underscore the time-dependent nature of somatic events in the etiology of cancer and potentially other late-onset diseases.

TL;DR: Two new regions associated with bladder cancer on chromosomes 22q13.1, 19q12 and 2q37.1 are identified and previous candidate associations for the GSTM1 deletion and a tag SNP for NAT2 acetylation status are validated, and interactions with smoking in both regions are found.

TL;DR: Correlation analysis indicates that the genetic architecture of lung cancer differs between a smoking population of European ancestry and a nonsmoking Asian population, allowing for the possibility that the Genetic etiology for the same disease can vary by population and environmental exposures.

TL;DR: Smoking-related risks of bladder cancer appear to have increased in New Hampshire since the mid-1990s, and based on modeling of pack-years and intensity, smoking fewer cigarettes over a long time appears more harmful than smoking more cigarette over a shorter time, for equal total pack- years of cigarettes smoked.