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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.

 

Herpesvirus Infection in Infants with Gastroschisis

Francis SS, Wiemels JL, Yang W, Shaw GM.

Epidemiology. 2018 Jul 1; 29 (4): 571-573. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000844.
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GWAS in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia reveals novel genetic associations at chromosomes 17q12 and 8q24.21

Wiemels JL, Walsh KM, de Smith AJ, Metayer C, Gonseth S, Hansen HM, Francis SS, Ojha J, Smirnov I, Barcellos L, Xiao X, Morimoto L, McKean-Cowdin R, Wang R, Yu H, Hoh J, DeWan AT, Ma X.

Nat Commun. 2018 Jan 18; 9 (1): 286. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02596-9.
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A germ-line deletion of APOBEC3B does not contribute to subtype-specific childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia etiology

Wallace AD, Francis SS, Shao X, de Smith AJ, Walsh KM, Mckean-Cowdin R, Ma X, Dahl G, Barcellos LF, Wiemels JL, Metayer C.

Haematologica. 2018 Jan 1; 103 (1): e29-e31. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2017.179317. Epub 2017 Oct 12.
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In utero cytomegalovirus infection and development of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Francis SS, Wallace AD, Wendt GA, Li L, Liu F, Riley LW, Kogan S, Walsh KM, de Smith AJ, Dahl GV, Ma X, Delwart E, Metayer C, Wiemels JL.

Blood. 2017 Mar 23; 129 (12): 1680-1684. doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-07-723148. Epub 2016 Dec 15.
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Cesarean Section and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Population-Based, Record-Linkage Study in California

Wang R, Wiemels JL, Metayer C, Morimoto L, Francis SS, Kadan-Lottick N, DeWan AT, Zhang Y, Ma X.

Am J Epidemiol. 2017 Jan 15; 185 (2): 96-105. doi: 10.1093/aje/kww153. Epub 2016 Dec 16.
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Cesarean Section and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Population-Based, Record-Linkage Study in California

Wang R, Wiemels JL, Metayer C, Morimoto L, Francis SS, Kadan-Lottick N, DeWan AT, Zhang Y, Ma X.

Am J Epidemiol. 2017 Jan 15; 185 (2): 96-105. doi: 10.1093/aje/kww153. Epub 2016 Dec 16.
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Clonal and microclonal mutational heterogeneity in high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia

de Smith AJ, Ojha J, Francis SS, Sanders E, Endicott AA, Hansen HM, Smirnov I, Termuhlen AM, Walsh KM, Metayer C, Wiemels JL.

Oncotarget. 2016 Nov 8; 7 (45): 72733-72745. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12238.
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Genotyping Oral Commensal Bacteria to Predict Social Contact and Structure

Francis SS, Plucinski MM, Wallace AD, Riley LW.

PLoS One. 2016 Sep 29; 11 (9): e0160201. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160201. eCollection 2016.
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Bacterial microbiome of breast milk and child saliva from low-income Mexican-American women and children

Davé V, Street K, Francis S, Bradman A, Riley L, Eskenazi B, Holland N.

Pediatr Res. 2016 Jun 1; 79 (6): 846-54. doi: 10.1038/pr.2016.9. Epub 2016 Jan 12.
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Common genetic variants associated with telomere length confer risk for neuroblastoma and other childhood cancers

Walsh KM, Whitehead TP, de Smith AJ, Smirnov IV, Park M, Endicott AA, Francis SS, Codd V; ENGAGE Consortium Telomere Group, Samani NJ, Metayer C, Wiemels JL.

Carcinogenesis. 2016 Jun 1; 37 (6): 576-582. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgw037. Epub 2016 Apr 1.
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Caesarean delivery and risk of childhood leukaemia: a pooled analysis from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC)

Marcotte EL, Thomopoulos TP, Infante-Rivard C, Clavel J, Petridou ET, Schüz J, Ezzat S, Dockerty JD, Metayer C, Magnani C, Scheurer ME, Mueller BA, Mora AM, Wesseling C, Skalkidou A, Rashed WM, Francis SS, Ajrouche R, Erdmann F, Orsi L, Spector LG

Lancet Haematol. 2016 Apr 1; 3 (4): e176-85. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(16)00002-8. Epub 2016 Feb 27.
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Understanding inherited genetic risk of adult glioma - a review.

Rice T, Lachance DH, Molinaro AM, Eckel-Passow JE, Walsh KM, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Ostrom QT, Francis SS, Wiemels J, Jenkins RB, Wiencke JK, Wrensch MR.

Neurooncol Pract. 2016 Mar 1; 3 (1): 10-16. doi: 10.1093/nop/npv026. Epub 2015 Aug 25.
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Longer genotypically-estimated leukocyte telomere length is associated with increased adult glioma risk

Walsh KM, Codd V, Rice T, Nelson CP, Smirnov IV, McCoy LS, Hansen HM, Elhauge E, Ojha J, Francis SS, Madsen NR, Bracci PM, Pico AR, Molinaro AM, Tihan T, Berger MS, Chang SM, Prados MD, Jenkins RB, Wiemels JL; ENGAGE Consortium Telomere Group, Samani NJ, Wiencke JK, Wrensch MR.

Oncotarget. 2015 Dec 15; 6 (4): 42468-77. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.6468.
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A real-time PCR signature to discriminate between tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases

Laux da Costa L, Delcroix M, Dalla Costa ER, Prestes IV, Milano M, Francis SS, Unis G, Silva DR, Riley LW, Rossetti ML.

Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2015 Jul 1; 95 (4): 421-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2015.04.008. Epub 2015 May 14.
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Metagenomic epidemiology: a new frontier

Francis SS, Riley LW.

J Epidemiol Community Health. 2015 Apr 1; 69 (4): 306-8. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-203997. Epub 2014 Sep 23.
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