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Publications

In recent years, the Francis Lab has published research in a variety of academic journals, including Genome Medicine, Epidemiology, and Cell. Please see a featured selection of publications below.

 

Inherited polymorphisms in the Human Leukocyte Antigen Region modify the association between varicella-zoster virus antibody reactivity and glioma prognosis

Francis SS, Guerra G, Hansen HM, Wendt G, Kachuri L, Wiencke JK, Wrensch M.

Neuro Oncol. 2023 Oct 3; 25 (10): 1910-1912. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad122.
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Antibodies to varicella-zoster virus and three other herpesviruses and survival in adults with glioma

Guerra G, McCoy L, Hansen HM, Rice T, Molinaro AM, Wiemels JL, Wiencke JK, Wrensch M, Francis SS.

Neuro Oncol. 2023 Jun 2; 25 (6): 1047-1057. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noac283.
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The immunogenetics of viral antigen response is associated with subtype-specific glioma risk and survival

Guerra G, Kachuri L, Wendt G, Hansen HM, Mack SJ, Molinaro AM, Rice T, Bracci P, Wiencke JK, Kasahara N, Eckel-Passow JE, Jenkins RB, Wrensch M, Francis SS. 

Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Jun 2; 109 (6): 1105-1116. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.04.011. Epub 2022 May 11.
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Pediatric glioma and medulloblastoma risk and population demographics: a Poisson regression analysis

Muskens IS, Feng Q, Francis SS, Walsh KM, Mckean-Cowdin R, Gauderman WJ, de Smith AJ, Wiemels JL.

Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jul 22; 2 (1): vdaa089. doi: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaa089. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.
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Adult Diffuse Glioma GWAS by Molecular Subtype Identifies Variants in D2HGDH and FAM20C

Eckel-Passow JE, Drucker KL, Kollmeyer TM, Kosel ML, Decker PA, Molinaro AM, Rice T, Praska CE, Clark L, Caron A, Abyzov A, Batzler A, Song JS, Pekmezci M, Hansen HM, McCoy LS, Bracci PM, Wiemels J, Wiencke JK, Francis S, Burns TC, Giannini C, Lachance DH, Wrensch M, Jenkins RB.

Neuro Oncol. 2020 May 9; noaa117. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa117. Online ahead of print.
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ClustR: A Space-Time Cluster Analysis R Package for Individual-level Data

Enders C, Hyde RJ, Selvin S, Metayer C, Francis SS.

Epidemiology. 2020 Mar 31; 31 (2): 224-228. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001122.
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Spatial-Temporal Cluster Analysis of Childhood Cancer in California

Francis SS, Enders C, Hyde R, Gao X, Wang R, Ma X, Wiemels JL, Selvin S, Metayer C.

Epidemiology. 2020 Mar 31; 31 (2): 214-223. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001121.
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Maternal Infection in Pregnancy and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

He JR, Ramakrishnan R, Hirst JE, Bonaventure A, Francis SS, Paltiel O, Håberg SE, Lemeshow S, Olsen S, Tikellis G, Magnus P, Murphy MFG, Wiemels JL, Linet MS, Dwyer T.

J Pediatr. 2020 Feb 1; 217: 98-109.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.10.046. Epub 2019 Dec 4.
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Heritable variation at the chromosome 21 gene ERG is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in children with and without Down syndrome

de Smith AJ, Walsh KM, Morimoto LM, Francis SS, Hansen HM, Jeon S, Gonseth S, Chen M, Sun H, Luna-Fineman S, Antillón F, Girón V, Kang AY, Smirnov I, Shao X, Whitehead TP, Barcellos LF, Jolly KW, Healy J, Laverdière C, Sinnett D, Taub JW, Birch JM, Thompson PD, Pombo-de-Oliveira MS, Spector LG, DeWan AT, Mueller BA, Chiang C, Metayer C, Ma X, Wiemels JL.

Leukemia. 2019 Jul 11; 33 (11): 2746-2751. doi: 10.1038/s41375-019-0514-9. Epub 2019 Jul 11.
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Early Infection with Cytomegalovirus and Risk of Childhood Hematologic Malignancies

Wiemels JL, Talbäck M, Francis S, Feychting M.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Jun 1; 28 (6): 1024-1027. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-0044. Epub 2019 Apr 17.
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The Authors Respond

Francis SS, Shaw GM.

Epidemiology. 2019 Jan 1; 30 (1): e2-e3. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000935.
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BMI1 enhancer polymorphism underlies chromosome 10p12.31 association with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

de Smith AJ, Walsh KM, Francis SS, Zhang C, Hansen HM, Smirnov I, Morimoto L, Whitehead TP, Kang A, Shao X, Barcellos LF, McKean-Cowdin R, Zhang L, Fu C, Wang R, Yu H, Hoh J, Dewan AT, Metayer C, Ma X, Wiemels JL.

Int J Cancer. 2018 Dec 1; 143 (11): 2647-2658. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31622. Epub 2018 Oct 3.
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Genomic Analyses from Non-invasive Prenatal Testing Reveal Genetic Associations, Patterns of Viral Infections, and Chinese Population History

Liu S, Huang S, Chen F, Zhao L, Yuan Y, Francis SS, Fang L, Li Z, Lin L, Liu R, Zhang Y, Xu H, Li S, Zhou Y, Davies RW, Liu Q, Walters RG, Lin K, Ju J, Korneliussen T, Yang MA, Fu Q, Wang J, Zhou L, Krogh A, Zhang H, Wang W, Chen Z, Cai Z, Yin Y, Yang H, Mao M, Shendure J, Wang J, Albrechtsen A, Jin X, Nielsen R, Xu X.

Cell. 2018 Oct 4; 175 (2): 347-359.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.016.
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Allergies and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case-Control Study and Meta-analysis

Wallace AD, Francis SS, Ma X, McKean-Cowdin R, Selvin S, Whitehead TP, Barcellos LF, Kang AY, Morimoto L, Moore TB, Wiemels JL, Metayer C.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 Oct 1; 27 (10): 1142-1150. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0584. Epub 2018 Aug 1.
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To ERV Is Human: A Phenotype-Wide Scan Linking Polymorphic Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K Insertions to Complex Phenotypes

Wallace AD, Wendt GA, Barcellos LF, de Smith AJ, Walsh KM, Metayer C, Costello JF, Wiemels JL, Francis SS.

Front Genet. 2018 Aug 14; 9: 298. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00298. eCollection 2018.
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