Area of research
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine · Physiology
Research interest
interests are in the molecular epidemiology of prostate cancer and cancer health disparities with a focus on biological differences in carcinogenesis by ancestry. My most recent published research is focused on inflammatory markers of cancer susceptibility in benign prostate tissue and prostate cancer histomics. My research group has also been a leader in understanding the role that DNA adducts play in prostate carcinogenesis – publishing some of the first and only epidemiologic studies examining the relationship of DNA adduct levels to prostate cancer susceptibility and outcomes. My prostate cancer research includes collaborative efforts that report on the genomics of prostate cancer in African American men – whole genome scans and sequencing studies that reveal the race-specific genomic
Evidence of Novel Susceptibility Variants for Prostate Cancer and a Multiancestry Polygenic Risk Score Associated with Aggressive Disease in Men of African Ancestry
Evaluating approaches for constructing polygenic risk scores for prostate cancer in men of African and European ancestry
Evaluating Approaches for Constructing Polygenic Risk Scores for Prostate Cancer in Men of African and European Ancestry
A Rare Germline HOXB13 Variant Contributes to Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry
Racial differences in the systemic inflammatory response to prostate cancer
A Germline Variant at 8q24 Contributes to Familial Clustering of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of multiple myeloma among men and women of African ancestry
Association between cadmium and androgen receptor protein expression differs in prostate tumors of African American and European American men
Genetic, Immunologic, and Environmental Basis of Sarcoidosis
Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium
Two Novel Susceptibility Loci for Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry
Prostate Cancer Susceptibility in Men of African Ancestry at 8q24
Mutational Landscape of Aggressive Prostate Tumors in African American Men
Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation
A Meta-analysis of Multiple Myeloma Risk Regions in African and European Ancestry Populations Identifies Putatively Functional Loci
Methylation in benign prostate and risk of disease progression in men subsequently diagnosed with prostate cancer
Identification of Immune-Relevant Factors Conferring Sarcoidosis Genetic Risk
Two susceptibility loci identified for prostate cancer aggressiveness
High-Density Genetic Mapping Identifies New Susceptibility Variants in Sarcoidosis Phenotypes and Shows Genomic-driven Phenotypic Differences
Associations of prostate cancer risk variants with disease aggressiveness: results of the NCI-SPORE Genetics Working Group analysis of 18,343 cases
Integration of multiethnic fine-mapping and genomic annotation to prioritize candidate functional SNPs at prostate cancer susceptibility regions
Racial differences in the relationship between clinical prostatitis, presence of inflammation in benign prostate and subsequent risk of prostate cancer
Genome-wide Scan of 29,141 African Americans Finds No Evidence of Directional Selection since Admixture
Leveraging population admixture to characterize the heritability of complex traits
Generalizability of established prostate cancer risk variants in men of <scp>A</scp>frican ancestry
Dietary influences on tissue concentrations of phytanic acid and AMACR expression in the benign human prostate
Global Patterns of Prostate Cancer Incidence, Aggressiveness, and Mortality in Men of African Descent
Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer
Genome-Wide Association Study of African and European Americans Implicates Multiple Shared and Ethnic Specific Loci in Sarcoidosis Susceptibility
Genome-wide meta-analyses of smoking behaviors in African Americans