Margaret R. Karagas

TL;DR: Limited evidence is provided that infection with certain PyVs may be related to the occurrence of SCC in the general population of the United States.

TL;DR: A hybrid algorithm, MIN-guided RF (MINGRF), which overlays the neighborhood structure of MIN onto the growth of trees and concludes that MINGRF produces trees with a better accuracy at a smaller computational cost.

TL;DR: The aims were to pilot placental biopsy specimen preparation techniques that could be integrated into an ongoing epidemiology birth cohort study without harming rates of sample acquisition and investigate a thaw-fixation protocol for archived specimens stored at −80 °C.

TL;DR: A novel approach that combines elements of screening-testing and hierarchical penalized regression is proposed that addresses the challenges of both poor power and omitted variable bias encountered with traditional G × E interaction detection methods.

TL;DR: This pooled analysis shows that long duration/low intensity smoking is associated with a greater increase in bladder cancer risk than short duration/high intensity smoking within equal pack–year categories, thus confirming studies in other smoking-related cancers and demonstrating that reducing exposure history to a single metric such as pack–years was too restrictive.