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Education & Training
  MD Shanghai Medical University-China 1984
  MSc Shanghai Medical University-China 1987
  MPH Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health 1992
  DrPH Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health 1997
Memberships
American Society of Human Genetics
Research Interests
cancer/oncogenesis , epidemiology , genetics/genome , health services, research/outc , men?s health issues
Recent Publications
Szulkin R, Holmberg E, Stattin P, Xu J, Zheng S, Palmgren J, Gronberg H, Wiklund F. Prostate cancer risk variants are not associated with disease progression. Prostate. 2012; 72(1):30-39.

Feng J, Kim S-T, Liu W, Kim JW, Zhang Z, Zhu Y, Berens M, Sun J, Xu J. An integrated analysis of germline and somatic, genetic and epigenetic alterations at 9p21.3 in glioblastoma. Cancer. 2012; 118(1):232-240.

Lu Y, Sun J, Kader AK, Kim S-T, Kim J-W, Liu W, Sun J, Lu D, Feng J, Zhu Y, Jin T, Zhang Z, Dimitrov L, Lowey J, Campbell K, Suh E, Duggan D, Carpten J, Trent JM, Gronberg H, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J. Association of prostate cancer risk with SNPs in regions containing androgen receptor binding sites captured by ChIP-On-chip analyses. Prostate. 2012; 72(4):376-385.

Lu L, Cancel-Tassin G, Valeri A, Cussenot O, Lange EM, Cooney KA, Farnham JM, Camp NJ, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Chromosomes 4 and 8 implicated in a genome wide SNP linkage scan of 762 prostate cancer families collected by the ICPCG. Prostate. 2012; 72(4):410-426.

Shao Q, Ouyang J, Fan Y, Xie J, Zhou J, Wu J, Kader AK, Xu J, Liu G, Shan Y, Wen D, Zhang Y. Prostate cancer in the senior men from rural areas in east district of China: contemporary management and 5-year outcomes at multi-institutional collaboration. Cancer Lett. 2012; 315(2):170-177.

Wang M, Liu F, Hsing AW, Wang X, Shao Q, Zhang Y, Jin G, Sun J, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Replication and cumulative effects of GWAS-identified genetic variations for prostate cancer in Asians: a case-control study in the ChinaPCa consortium. Carcinogenesis. 2012; 33(2):356-360.

Hester JM, Wing MR, Li J, Palmer ND, Xu J, Hicks PJ, Roh BH, Norris JM, Wagenknecht LE, Langefeld CD, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Ng MCY. Implication of European-derived adiposity loci in African Americans. Int J Obes (Lond). 2012; 36(3):465-473.

Palmer N, Turner A, Xu J, Avis N. African-American prostate cancer survivors' treatment decision-making and quality of life [abstract]. Psychooncology. 2012; 21(Suppl 1):18-19.

Tao S, Wang Z, Feng J, Hsu F-C, Jin G, Kim S-T, Zhang Z, Gronberg H, Zheng LS [sic] [Zheng SL], Isaacs WB, Xu J, Sun J. A genome-wide search for loci interacting with known prostate cancer risk-associated genetic variants. Carcinogenesis. 2012; 33(3):598-603.

Wen W, Cho Y-S, Zheng W, Dorajoo R, Kato N, Qi L, Chen C-H, Delahanty RJ, Okada Y, Xu J, et al. Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians. Nat Genet. 2012; 44(3):307-311.

Zheng J, Liu F, Lin X, Wang X, Ding Q, Jiang H, Chen H, Lu D, Jin G, Hsing AW, Shao Q, Qi J, Ye Y, Wang Z, Gao X, Wang G, Chu LW, OuYang J, Huang Y, Chen Y, Gao Y, Shi R, Wu Q, Wang M, Zhang Z, Hu Y, Sun J, Zheng SL, Gao X, Xu C. Predictive performance of prostate cancer risk in Chinese men using 33 reported prostate cancer risk-associated SNPs. Prostate. 2012; 72(5):577-583.

Sun J, Kader AK, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Turner AR, Jin T, Zhang Z, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Inherited genetic markers discovered to date are able to identify a significant number of men at considerably elevated risk for prostate cancer. Prostate. 2011; 71(4):421-430.

Chang B-L, Spangler E, Gallagher S, Haiman CA, Henderson B, Isaacs W, Benford ML, Kidd LR, Cooney K, Xu J, et al. Validation of genome-wide prostate cancer associations in men of African descent. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011; 20(1):23-32.

Reed SD, Scales CD Jr, Stewart SB, Sun J, Moul JW, Schulman KA, Xu J. Effects of family history and genetic polymorphism on the cost-effectiveness of chemoprevention with finasteride for prostate cancer. J Urol. 2011; 185(3):841-847.

Chen H, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Fan W, Zhou K, Liu Y, Zhou L, Mao Y, Wei Q, Xu J, Lu D. Association of sequence variants on chromosomes 20, 11, and 5 (20q13.33, 11q23.3, and 5p15.33) with glioma susceptibility in a Chinese population. Am J Epidemiol. 2011; 173(8):915-922.

Yu G, Zhang B, Bova GS, Xu J, Shih I-M, Wang Y. BACOM: in silico detection of genomic deletion types and correction of normal cell contamination in copy number data. Bioinformatics. 2011; 27(11):1473-1480.

Haiman CA, Chen GK, Blot WJ, Strom SS, Berndt SI, Kittles RA, Rybicki BA, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry identifies a susceptibility locus at 17q21. Nat Genet. 2011; 43(6):570-573.

Lu Y, Zhang Z, Yu H, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Sun J. Functional annotation of risk loci identified through genome-wide association studies for prostate cancer. Prostate. 2011; 71(9):955-963.

Aly M, Wiklund F, Xu J, Isaacs WB, Eklund M, D'Amato M, Adolfsson J, Gronberg H. Polygenic risk score improves prostate cancer risk prediction: results from the Stockholm-1 cohort study. Eur Urol. 2011; 60(1):21-28.

Chung CC, Ciampa J, Yeager M, Jacobs KB, Berndt SI, Hayes RB, Gonzalez-Bosquet J, Kraft P, Wacholder S, Xu J, et al. Fine mapping of a region of chromosome 11q13 reveals multiple independent loci associated with risk of prostate cancer. Hum Mol Genet. 2011; 20(14):2869-2878.

Jin G, Sun J, Liu W, Zhang Z, Chu LW, Kim S-T, Sun J, Feng J, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Genome-wide copy-number variation analysis identifies common genetic variants at 20p13 associated with aggressiveness of prostate cancer. Carcinogenesis. 2011; 32(7):1057-1062.

Berndt SI, Sampson J, Yeager M, Jacobs KB, Wang Z, Hutchinson A, Chung C, Xu J, Zheng SL, Sun J, et al. Large-scale fine mapping of the HNF1B locus and prostate cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2011; 20(16):3322-3329.

Xie CC, Lu L, Sun J, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Gronberg H, Xu J. Germ-line sequence variants of PTEN do not have an important role in hereditary and non-hereditary prostate cancer susceptibility. J Hum Genet. 2011; 56(7):496-502.

Wang M, Chu H, Yan F, Qin C, Li P, Yuan L, Yin C, Xu J, Zhang Z. Chromosome 4p16.3 variant modify bladder cancer risk in a Chinese population. Carcinogenesis. 2011; 32(6):872-875.

Humphreys K, Grankvist A, Leu M, Hall P, Liu J, Ripatti S, Rehnstrom K, Groop L, Klareskog L, Xu J, et al. The genetic structure of the Swedish population. PLoS ONE. 2011; 6(8):e22547.

Lin DW, FitzGerald LM, Fu R, Kwon EM, Zheng SL, Kolb S, Wiklund F, Stattin P, Isaacs WB, Xu J, et al. Genetic variants in the LEPR, CRY1, RNASEL, IL4, and ARVCF genes are prognostic markers of prostate cancer-specific mortality. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011; 20(9):1928-1936.

Cheng Y, Liu W, Kim S-T, Sun J, Lu L, Sun J, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J. Evaluation of PPP2R2A as a prostate cancer susceptibility gene: a comprehensive germline and somatic study. Cancer Genet. 2011; 204(7):375-381.

Schumacher FR, Berndt SI, Siddiq A, Jacobs KB, Wang Z, Lindstrom S, Stevens VL, Chen C, Mondul AM, Xu J, et al. Genome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer susceptibility loci. Hum Mol Genet. 2011; 20(19):3867-3875.

Cox AJ, Wing MR, Carr JJ, Hightower RC, Smith SC, Xu J, Wagenknecht LE, Bowden DW, Freedman BI. Association of PNPLA3 SNP rs738409 with liver density in African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Metab. 2011; 37(5):452-455.

Cooke J, Ng M, Lu L, Li J, An S, Hester J, Xu J, Freedman B, Langefeld C, Bowden D, Palmer N. Genetic risk assessment of type 2 diabetes associated polymorphisms in African-Americans [abstract]. In: Abstracts of the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics; 2011 Oct 11-15; Montreal (Canada). 2011; ():.

Liu F, Hsing AW, Wang X, Shao Q, Qi J, Ye Y, Jin G, Sun J, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Systematic confirmation study of reported prostate cancer risk-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in Chinese men. Cancer Sci. 2011; 102(10):1916-1920.

Feng J, Sun J, Kim S-T, Lu Y, Wang Z, Zhang Z, Gronberg H, Isaacs WB, Zheng SL, Xu J. A genome-wide survey over the ChIP-on-chip identified androgen receptor-binding genomic regions identifies a novel prostate cancer susceptibility locus at 12q13.13. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011; 20(11):2396-2403.

Jin G, Sun J, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Kim S-T, Chu LW, Zhang Z, Zhao H, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J. Human polymorphisms at long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and association with prostate cancer risk. Carcinogenesis. 2011; 32(11):1655-1659.

Lotan TL, Gurel B, Sutcliffe S, Esopi D, Liu W, Xu J, Hicks JL, Park BH, Humphreys E, Partin AW, et al. PTEN protein loss by immunostaining: analytic validation and prognostic indicator for a high risk surgical cohort of prostate cancer patients. Clin Cancer Res. 2011; 17(20):6563-6573.

Lindstrom S, Hunter DJ, Gronberg H, Stattin P, Wiklund F, Xu J, Chanock SJ, Hayes R, Kraft P. Sequence variants in the TLR4 and TLR6-1-10 genes and prostate cancer risk. Results based on pooled analysis from three independent studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010; 19(3):873-876.


Xu J, Zheng SL, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Sun J, Kader AK, Li G, Purcell LD, Kim S-T, Hsu F-C, et al. Inherited genetic variant predisposes to aggressive but not indolent prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010; 107(5):2136-2140.

Zheng SL, Hsing AW, Sun J, Chu LW, Yu K, Li G, Gao Z, Kim S-T, Isaacs WB, Xu J, et al. Association of 17 prostate cancer susceptibility loci with prostate cancer risk in Chinese men. Prostate. 2010; 70(4):425-432.

Hsu F-C, Sun J, Zhu Y, Kim S-T, Jin T, Zhang Z, Wiklund F, Kader AK, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Comparison of two methods for estimating absolute risk of prostate cancer based on single nucleotide polymorphisms and family history. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010; 19(4):1083-1088.

Klein RJ, Hallden C, Cronin AM, Ploner A, Wiklund F, Bjartell AS, Stattin P, Xu J, Scardino PT, Offit K, et al. Blood biomarker levels to aid discovery of cancer-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms: kallikreins and prostate cancer. Cancer Prev Res (Phila Pa). 2010; 3(5):611-619.

Prokunina-Olsson L, Fu Y-P, Tang W, Jacobs KB, Hayes RB, Kraft P, Berndt SI, Wacholder S, Yu K, Xu J, et al. Refining the prostate cancer genetic association within the JAZF1 gene on chromosome 7p15.2. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010; 19(5):1349-1355.

Ohar JA, Hamilton RF Jr, Zheng S, Sadeghnejad A, Sterling DA, Xu J, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER, Holian A. COPD is associated with a macrophage scavenger receptor-1 gene sequence variation. Chest. 2010; 137(5):1098-1107.

Christensen GB, Baffoe-Bonnie AB, George A, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Carpten JD, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Dimitrov L, Xu J, et al. Genome-wide linkage analysis of 1,233 prostate cancer pedigrees from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics using novel sumLINK and sumLOD analyses. Prostate. 2010; 70(7):735-744.

Cao P, Deng Z, Wan M, Huang W, Cramer SD, Xu J, Lei M, Sui G. MicroRNA-101 negatively regulates Ezh2 and its expression is modulated by androgen receptor and HIF-1alpha/HIF-1beta. Mol Cancer. 2010; 9():108.

Cramer SD, Rao A, Xu J, Chang B-l, inventors; Wake Forest University Health Sciences, assignee. Genetic polymorphisms in the prostate-specific antigen gene promoter. United States patent US 7,718,372. 2010 May 18. 2010; ():.

Elliott KS, Zeggini E, McCarthy MI, Gudmundsson J, Sulem P, Stacey SN, Thorlacius S, Amundadottir L, Gronberg H, Xu J, et al. Evaluation of association of HNF1B variants with diverse cancers: collaborative analysis of data from 19 genome-wide association studies. PLoS ONE. 2010; 5(5):e10858.

Haffner MC, Aryee MJ, Toubaji A, Esopi DM, Albadine R, Gurel B, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, Liu W, Xu J, et al. Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements. Nat Genet. 2010; 42(8):668-675.

Lango Allen H, Estrada K, Lettre G, Berndt SI, Weedon MN, Rivadeneira F, Willer CJ, Jackson AU, Vedantam S, Xu J, et al. Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height [research letter]. Nature. 2010; 467(7317):832-838.

Feng J, Sun J, Wang MZ, Zhang Z, Kim ST, Zhu Y, Sun J, Xu J. Compilation of a comprehensive gene panel for systematic assessment of genes that govern an individual's drug responses. Pharmacogenomics. 2010; 11(10):1403-1425.

Kim S-T, Cheng Y, Hsu F-C, Jin T, Kader AK, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Sun J. Prostate cancer risk-associated variants reported from genome-wide association studies: meta-analysis and their contribution to genetic variation. Prostate. 2010; 70(16):1729-1738.

Speliotes EK, Willer CJ, Berndt SI, Monda KL, Thorleifsson G, Jackson AU, Allen HL, Lindgren CM, Luan J, Xu J, et al. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet. 2010; 42(11):937-948.

Gronberg H, Xu J, Isaacs WB. Individualized prediction of prostate cancer using genetic markers [abstract]. EJC Suppl. 2010; 8(5):158.

Kim JW, Cheng Y, Liu W, Li T, Yegnasubramanian S, Zheng SL, Xu J, Isaacs WB, Chang B-L. Genetic and epigenetic inactivation of LPL gene in human prostate cancer. Int J Cancer. 2009; 124(3):734-738.

Cheng Y, Kim JW, Liu W, Dunn TA, Luo J, Loza MJ, Kim S-T, Zheng SL, Xu J, Chang B-L, et al. Genetic and epigenetic inactivation of TNFRSF10C in human prostate cancer. Prostate. 2009; 69(3):327-335.

Sun J, Zheng SL, Li G, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Xu J, Chang B-L, et al. Sequence variants at 22q13 are associated with prostate cancer risk. Cancer Res. 2009; 69(1):10-15.

Bleyer AJ, Hire D, Russell GB, Xu J, Divers J, Shihabi Z, Bowden DW, Freedman BI. Ethnic variation in the correlation between random serum glucose concentration and glycated haemoglobin. Diabet Med. 2009; 26(2):128-133.

Zheng SL, Sun J, Gao Z, Purcell LD, Hsu F-C, Zhu Y, Turner AR, Adams TS, Liu W, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Genetic variants and family history predict prostate cancer similar to prostate-specific antigen. Clin Cancer Res. 2009; 15(3):1105-1111.

Liu W, Sun J, Li G, Zhu Y, Zhang S, Kim S-T, Sun J, Xu J, Zheng SL, Chang B-L, et al. Association of a germ-line copy number variation at 2p24.3 and risk for aggressive prostate cancer. Cancer Res. 2009; 69(6):2176-2179.

Wiklund F, Zheng SL, Sun J, Adami H-O, Lilja H, Hsu F-C, Stattin P, Cramer SD, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Association of reported prostate cancer risk alleles with PSA levels among men without a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Prostate. 2009; 69(4):419-427.

Chang B-L, Cramer SD, Sun J, Smith S, Pruett K, Romero LM, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Fine mapping association study and functional analysis implicate a SNP in MSMB at 10q11 as a causal variant for prostate cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2009; 18(7):1368-1375.

Hsu F-C, Sun J, Purcell LD, Gao Z, Zhu Y, Kim S-T, Zhang Z, Liu W, Chang B-L, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. A novel prostate cancer susceptibility locus at 19q13. Cancer Res. 2009; 69(7):2720-2723.

Liu W, Laitinen S, Khan S, Vihinen M, Kowalski J, Yu G, Chen L, Ewing CM, Eisenberger MA, Xu J, et al. Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer [letter]. Nat Med. 2009; 15(5):559-565.

Zheng SL, Sun J, Smith S, Pruett K, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Two independent prostate cancer risk-associated Loci at 11q13. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(6):1815-1820.

Xu J, Sun J, Kader AK, Lindstrom S, Wiklund F, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Johansson J-E, Zheng SL, Platz EA, et al. Estimation of absolute risk for prostate cancer from blood DNA [abstract]. J Urol. 2009; 181(4 Suppl):643.

Wiklund FE, Adami H-O, Zheng SL, Stattin P, Isaacs WB, Gronberg H, Xu J. Established prostate cancer susceptibility variants are not associated with disease outcome. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(5):1659-1662.

Kader AK, Sun J, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Yan G, Kim S-T, Fedor H, DeMarzo AM, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Individual and cumulative effect of prostate cancer risk-associated variants on clinicopathologic variables in 5,895 prostate cancer patients. Prostate. 2009; 69(11):1195-1205.

Lu L, Sun J, Isaacs SD, Smith S, Pruett K, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Fine-mapping and family-based association analyses of prostate cancer risk variants at Xp11. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(7):2132-2136.

Xu J, Kibel AS, Turner AR, Pruett K, Zheng SL, Sun J, Kim S-T, Hsu F-C, Torti FM, Chang B-L, et al. Prostate cancer risk associated loci in African Americans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(7):2145-2149.

Zhang W, Sun K, Zhen Y, Wang D, Wang Y, Chen J, Xu J, Hu FB, Hui R. VEGF receptor-2 variants are associated with susceptibility to stroke and recurrence. Stroke. 2009; 40(8):2720-2726.

Khoury MJ, McBride CM, Schully SD, Ioannidis JPA, Feero WG, Janssens ACJW, Gwinn M, Simons-Morton DG, Bernhardt JM, Xu J, et al. The Scientific Foundation for personal genomics: recommendations from a National Institutes of Health-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention multidisciplinary workshop. Genet Med. 2009; 11(8):559-567.

Xu J, Sun J, Kader AK, Lindstrom S, Wiklund F, Hsu F-C, Johansson J-E, Zheng SL, Thomas G, Hayes RB, et al. Estimation of absolute risk for prostate cancer using genetic markers and family history. Prostate. 2009; 69(14):1565-1572.

Lindstrom S, Adami H-O, Balter K, Xu J, Zheng SL, Sun J, Stattin P, Gronberg H, Wiklund F. Genetic variation in the upstream region of ERG and prostate cancer. Cancer Causes Control. 2009; 20(7):1173-1180.

Yeager M, Chatterjee N, Ciampa J, Jacobs KB, Gonzalez-Bosquet J, Hayes RB, Kraft P, Xu J, Zheng SL, Sun J, et al. Identification of a new prostate cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 8q24. Nat Genet. 2009; 41(10):1055-1057.

Brown DA, Lindmark F, Stattin P, Balter K, Adami H-O, Zheng SL, Xu J, Isaacs WB, Gronberg H, Breit SN, et al. Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1: a new prognostic marker in prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2009; 15(21):6658-6664.

Koppelman GH, Meyers DA, Howard TD, Zheng SL, Hawkins GA, Ampleford EJ, Xu J, Koning H, Bruinenberg M, Bleecker ER, et al. Identification of PCDH1 as a novel susceptibility gene for bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009; 180(10):929-935.

Bostrom MA, Lu L, Chou J, Hicks PJ, Xu J, Langefeld CD, Freedman BI, Bowden DW. Genome wide association study of non-diabetic end stage renal disease in African Americans using pooled DNA [abstract]. Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics, October 21, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii. 2009; ():A676.

Koppelman GH, Meyers DA, Howard TD, Zheng SL, Hawkins GA, Ampleford EA, Xu J, Koning H, Bruinenberg M, Bleecker ER, et al. Identification of protocadherin-1 as a novel susceptibility gene for bronchial hyperresponsiveness and asthma [abstract]. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009; 179(1 Meeting Abstracts):A2447.

Xu J, Zheng SL, Herrington DM, Bleecker E, Meyers D, Isaacs W, Walsh P, inventors; Wake Forest University Health Sciences, assignee. Mutations in the macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene alter risk of prostate cancer, asthma, and cardiovascular disease. United States patent US 7,579,147. 2009 Aug 25. 2009; ():.

Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Rich SS, Xu J, Wagenknecht LE, Ziegler J, Hicks PJ, Langefeld CD. Genome-wide linkage scans for renal function and albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Diabetes Heart Study. Diabet Med. 2008; 25(3):268-276.

Sun J, Lange EM, Isaacs SD, Liu W, Wiley KE, Lange L, Gronberg H, Xu J, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, et al. Chromosome 8q24 risk variants in hereditary and non-hereditary prostate cancer patients. Prostate. 2008; 68(5):489-497.

Zheng SL, Sun J, Smith S, Li G, Hsu F-C, Zhu Y, Kader AK, Turner AR, Liu W, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Cumulative association of five genetic variants with prostate cancer. N Engl J Med. 2008; 358(9):910-919.

Chen S-H, Sun J, Dimitrov L, Turner AR, Adams TS, Meyers DA, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, Xu J, Hsu F-C, et al. A support vector machine approach for detecting gene-gene interaction. Genet Epidemiol. 2008; 32(2):152-167.

Gudmundsson J, Sulem P, Rafnar T, Bergthorsson JT, Manolescu A, Gudbjartsson D, Zheng SL, Sun J, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Common sequence variants on 2p15 and Xp11.22 confer susceptibility to prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2008; 40(3):281-283.

Sun J, Purcell L, Gao Z, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Hsu F-C, Liu W, Xu J, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, et al. Association between sequence variants at 17q12 and 17q24.3 and prostate cancer risk in European and African Americans. Prostate. 2008; 68(7):691-697.

Jacobs EJ, Hsing AW, Bain EB, Stevens VL, Wang Y, Chen J, Chanock SJ, Zheng SL, Xu J, Thun MJ, et al. Polymorphisms in angiogenesis-related genes and prostate cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008; 17(4):972-977.

Hsu F-C, Lindstrom S, Sun J, Wiklund F, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Chang B-l, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. A multigenic approach to evaluating prostate cancer risk in a systematic replication study. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2008; 183(2):94-98.

Kader AK, Sun J, Yang G, Zheng L, Xu J, Liu W, Issacs WB. Loss of chromosome 17p13.1 significantly correlates with Gleason score at the time of radical prostatectomy [abstract]. J Urol. 2008; 179(4 Suppl):227-228.

Xu JF, Isaacs WB, Gronberg H. Five genetic variants associated with prostate cancer [reply to letter]. N Engl J Med. 2008; 358(25):2741.

Sun J, Chang B-L, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Wiklund F, Stattin P, Duggan D, Carpten JD, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. Cumulative effect of five genetic variants on prostate cancer risk in multiple study populations. Prostate. 2008; 68(12):1257-1262.

Bowden DW, Lehtinen AB, Ziegler JT, Rudock ME, Xu J, Wagenknecht LE, Herrington DM, Rich SS, Freedman BI, Carr JJ, Langefeld CD. Genetic epidemiology of subclinical cardiovascular disease in the Diabetes Heart Study. Ann Hum Genet. 2008; 72(Pt 5):598-610.

Cramer SD, Sun J, Zheng SL, Xu J, Peehl DM. Association of prostate-specific antigen promoter genotype with clinical and histopathologic features of prostate cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008; 17(9):2451-2457.

Sun J, Zheng SL, Purcell LD, Gao Z, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Liu W, Zhu Y, Dimitrov L, Sun J, Li T, Turner AR, Adams TS, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Evidence for two independent prostate cancer risk-associated loci in the HNF1B gene at 17q12. Nat Genet. 2008; 40(10):1153-1155.

Xu J, Sun J, Li G, Zhu Y, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Adams TS, Liu W, Chang B, Zheng S, et al. Association of prostate cancer risk variants with clinicopathologic characteristics of the disease. Clin Cancer Res. 2008; 14(18):5819-5824.

Lange EM, Sun J, Lange LA, Zheng SL, Duggan D, Carpten JD, Gronberg H, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Chang B-L. Family-based samples can play an important role in genetic association studies [commentary]. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008; 17(9):2208-2214.

Liu W, Xie CC, Zhu Y, Li T, Sun J, Cheng Y, Turner AR, Sun J, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Homozygous deletions and recurrent amplifications implicate new genes involved in prostate cancer. Neoplasia. 2008; 10(8):897-907.

Stevens VL, Hsing AW, Talbot JT, Zheng SL, Sun J, Chen J, Thun MJ, Xu J, Calle EE, Rodriguez C. Genetic variation in the toll-like receptor gene cluster (TLR10-TLR1-TLR6) and prostate cancer risk. Int J Cancer. 2008; 123(11):2644-2650.

Ohar JA, Holian A, Sadeghnejad A, Hamilton RF, Zheng SL, Xu J, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER. Polymorphisms in MSR1 gene affect macrophage function [abstract]. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008; 177(Online Abstr Issue):A503.

Liu W, Chang B, Li T, Dimitrov L, Kim S, Kim JW, Turner AR, Meyers DA, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Germline copy number polymorphisms involving larger than 100 kb are uncommon in normal subjects. Prostate. 2007; 67(3):227-233.

Lakoski SG, Li L, Langefeld CD, Liu Y, Howard TD, Brosnihan KB, Xu J, Bowden DW, Herrington DM. The association between innate immunity gene (IRAK1) and C-reactive protein in the Diabetes Heart Study. Exp Mol Pathol. 2007; 82(3):280-283.

Sun J, Liu W, Adams TS, Sun J, Li X, Turner AR, Chang B, Kim JW, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. DNA copy number alterations in prostate cancers: a combined analysis of published CGH studies. Prostate. 2007; 67(7):692-700.

De Marzo AM, Platz EA, Sutcliffe S, Xu J, Gronberg H, Drake CG, Nakai Y, Isaacs WB, Nelson WG. Inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis. Nat Rev Cancer. 2007; 7(4):256-269.


Sun J, Turner A, Xu J, Gronberg H, Isaacs W. Genetic variability in inflammation pathways and prostate cancer risk. Urol Oncol. 2007; 25(3):250-259.


Gudmundsson J, Sulem P, Manolescu A, Amundadottir LT, Gudbjartsson D, Helgason A, Rafnar T, Bergthorsson JT, Agnarsson BA, Xu J, et al. Genome-wide association study identifies a second prostate cancer susceptibility variant at 8q24. Nat Genet. 2007; 39(5):631-637.

Camp NJ, Cannon-Albright LA, Farnham JM, Baffoe-Bonnie AB, George A, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Carpten JD, Dimitrov L, Xu J, et al. Compelling evidence for a prostate cancer gene at 22q12.3 by the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics. Hum Mol Genet. 2007; 16(11):1271-1278.

Kouprina N, Noskov VN, Solomon G, Otstot J, Isaacs W, Xu J, Schleutker J, Larionov V. Mutational analysis of SPANXgenes in families with X-linked prostate cancer. Prostate. 2007; 67(8):820-828.

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