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Human Genome Epidemiology (2nd ed.): Building the evidence for using genetic information to improve health and prevent disease
Edited by Muin J. Khoury, Sara R. Bedrosian, Marta Gwinn, Julian P.T. Higgins, John P.A. Ioannidis, and Julian Little

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Preface
In the first edition of Human Genome Epidemiology published in 2004, we discussed how the epidemiologic approach provides an important scientific foundation for studying the continuum from gene discovery to the development, applications, and evaluation of human genome information in improving health and preventing disease. Since 2004, advances in human genomics have continued to occur at a breathtaking pace. Although the concept of personalized healthcare and disease prevention often promised by enthusiastic scientists and the media is yet to be fulfilled, we are now seeing progress and rapid accumulation of data in many “omics” related research fields. New methods to measure genome variation on an unprecedented large scale have propelled a new generation of genome-wide association studies. Evaluation of rare variants and full sequencing at large-scale are rapidly becoming a reality. Also, we have seen the emergence of population-based biobanks in many countries with the objectives of quantifying longitudinally the joint influences of genetic and environmental factors on the occurrence of common diseases.

With all these ongoing developments, we have invited many authors who are leaders in the field to produce the second edition of Human Genome Epidemiology. Our aim is to inform readers of new developments in the genomics field and how epidemiologic methods are being used to make sense of this information. We do realize that the material presented in this book will be outdated even before it is published. However, the methodologic challenges and possible solutions to them will remain with us for quite some time. There is very little material remaining from the first edition of Human Genome Epidemiology.

This new edition is divided into five parts. In Part I, we revisit the fundamentals of human genome epidemiology. We first give an overview of the development and progress in applications of genomic technologies with a focus on genomic sequence variation (Chapter 2). We then give an overview of the multidisciplinary field of public health genomics that includes a fundamental role of epidemiologic methods and approaches (Chapter 3). We also present a brief overview of evolving methods for tracking and compiling information on genetic factors in disease (Chapter 4).

In Part II, we discuss methodologic developments in collection, analysis, and synthesis of data from human genome epidemiologic studies. We discuss the emergence of biobanks around the world (Chapter 5), the evolution of case-control studies and cohort studies in the era of GWAS (Chapter 6), and the emerging role of consortia and networks (Chapter 7). Next, we discuss methodologic analytic issues in GWAS (Chapter 8) and the analytic challenges of gene-gene and gene-environment interaction (Chapter 9). We then address issues of reporting of genetic associations (Chapter 10), evolving methods for integrating the evidence (Chapter 11) as well as assessment of cumulative evidence and field synopses (Chapter 12).

In Part III, we provide several case studies that attempt to present an evolving knowledge base of the cumulative evidence on genetic variation in a variety of human diseases. As the information undoubtedly will change (even before the publication of the book), we stress here the importance of strong methodologic foundation for analysis and synthesis of information from various studies. The diseases shown in this section include three cancers: colorectal cancer (Chapter 13), childhood leukemia (Chapter 14), and bladder cancer (Chapter 15). We also present data from type 2 diabetes (Chapter 16), osteoporosis (Chapter 17), preterm birth (Chapter 18), coronary heart disease (Chapter 19), and schizophrenia (Chapter 20). Collectively, these chapters cover an impressive array of common complex human diseases and provide an epidemiologic approach to rapidly emerging data on gene-disease and gene-environment interactions.

In Part IV, we discuss methodologic issues surrounding specific applications of human genomic information for medicine and public health. We start in Chapter 21 with a review of the concept of Mendelian Randomization, an approach that allows us to assess the role of environmental factors and other biomarkers in the occurrence of human diseases using data on the association of genetic variation and disease endpoints. In Chapter 22, we discuss how clinical epidemiologic concepts and methods can be used to assess whether or not one or more genetic variants (e.g., genome profiles) can be used to predict risk for human diseases. Chapter 23 presents a major milestone for public health genomics, namely the publication of methods of systematic review and assessment of the clinical validity and utility of genomic applications in clinical practice. This chapter is a reprint of the published paper from the independent multidisciplinary panel, the EGAPP™ working group, supported by CDC and many partners. Chapter 24 briefly summarizes how reviews of the evidence on validity and utility of genomic information can be done systematically and rapidly, even in the face of incomplete information. Chapter 25 focuses on the crucial role of the behavioral and social sciences in assessing the impact and value of epidemiologic information on gene-disease associations. Chapter 26 addresses issues in evaluating developments in newborn screening. Chapter 27 provides an epidemiologic framework for the evaluation of pharmacogenomic applications in clinical and public health practice. Chapter 28 presents an overview of the relevance and impact of epigenomics in clinical practice and disease prevention. Finally, Chapter 29 presents an epidemiologic framework for evaluating family health history as a tool for disease prevention and health promotion. Even in this genomics era, family history remains a strong foundation, not only for identifying single gene disorders, but also for stratifying individuals and populations by different levels of disease risk and implementing personalized interventions.

Finally, in Part V of the book, we present a few case studies of the application of epidemiologic methods of assessment of clinical validity and utility for several disease examples. These include two pharmacogenomic testing examples—initial treatment of depression with SSRIs (Chapter 30) and warfarin therapy (Chapter 31). We also present information on population screening for hereditary hemochromatosis (Chapter 32), a genetic disorder with incomplete penetrance that has attracted some attention over the past decade as a possible example of population screening in the genomics era.

The second edition of Human Genome Epidemiology is primarily targeted to basic, clinical, and population scientists involved in studying genetic factors in common diseases. In addition, the book focuses on practical applications of human genome variation in clinical practice and disease prevention. We hope that students, clinicians, public health professionals, and policy makers will find the book useful in learning about evolving epidemiologic methods for approaching the discovery and the use of genetic information in medicine and public health in the twenty-first century.

Atlanta MJK, SB, MG

Cambridge JH

Ioannina JI

Ottawa JL

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Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the following individuals for reviewing drafts of selected book chapters:
Louise Acheson

Betsy Anagnostelis

Melissa Austin

Wylie Burke

Melinda Clyne

Rajvir Dahiya

W. David Dotson

Michael P. Douglas

Nicole Dowling

Jennifer L. Flome

Sara Giordano

Ridgely Fisk Green

Scott Grosse

Daurice A. Grossniklaus

Idris Guessous

Jennifer Harris

Steve Hawken

Terri Jackson

Candice Y. Johnson

Fontini Kavvoura

Katherine Kolor

Ruth Loos Denise Lowe

Stephanie Melillo

Melanie Myers

Renée M. Ned

Nikolaos Patsopoulos

Paul Pharoah

Margaret Piper

Beth Potter

Jessica L. Rowell

Simon Sanderson

Linda Sharp

Camilla Stoltenberg

John Thompson

Rodolfo Valdez

Jan Vandenbroucke

David Veenstra

Bridget Wilcken

Lauren E. Williams

Quanhe Yang

Ajay Yesupriya

Wei Yu

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Part I - Fundamentals of Human Genome Epidemiology Revisited

Human genome epidemiology: The road map revisited

Muin J. Khoury, Sara R. Bedrosian, Marta L. Gwinn, Julian P. T. Higgins, John P. A. Ioannidis, and Julian Little

Principles of analysis of germline genetics
Jesus Gonzalez-Bosquet and Stephen J. Chanock

The public health genomics enterprise
Philippa Brice and Ron Zimmern

Navigating the evolving knowledge of human genetic variation in health and disease

Marta L. Gwinn and Wei Yu

Part II - Methods and Approaches for Data Collection, Analysis, and Integration

The global emergence of epidemiological biobanks: Opportunities and challenges
Paul R. Burton, Isabel Fortier, and Bartha Knoppers

Case-control and cohort studies in the age of genome-wide associations
Teri Manolio

The emergence of networks in human genome epidemiology: Challenges and opportunities
Daniela Seminara, Muin J. Khoury, Thomas R. O’Brien, Teri Manolio, Marta L. Gwinn, Julian Little, Julian P. T. Higgins, Jonine L. Bernstein, Paolo Boffetta, Melissa L. Bondy, Molly S. Bray, Paul E. Brenchley, Patricia A. Buffler, Juan Pablo Casas, Anand P. Chokkalingam, John Danesh, George Davey-Smith, Siobhan M. Dolan, Ross Duncan, Nelleke A. Gruis, Mia Hashibe, David J. Hunter, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Beatrice Malmer, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Julia A. Newton-Bishop, Elio Riboli, Georgia Salanti, Emanuela Taioli, Nic Timpson, Andre´ G. Uitterlinden, Paolo Vineis, Nick Wareham, Deborah M. Winn, Ron Zimmern, and John P. A. Ioannidis

Design and analysis issues in genome-wide association studies

Duncan C. Thomas

The challenge of assessing complex gene–gene and gene–environment interactions
Peter Kraft and David J. Hunter

STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA)—An extension of the STROBE statement

Julian Little, Julian P.T. Higgins, John P.A. Ioannidis, David Moher, France Gagnon, Erik von Elm, Muin J. Khoury, Barbara Cohen, George Davey-Smith, Jeremy Grimshaw, Paul Scheet, Marta L. Gwinn, Robin E. Williamson, Guang Yong Zou, Kimberley Hutchings, Candice Y. Johnson, Valerie Tait, Miriam Wiens, Jean Golding, Cornelia van Duijn, John McLaughlin, Andrew Paterson, George Wells, Isabel Fortier, Matthew Freedman, Maja Zecevic, Richard A King, Claire Infante-Rivard, Alexandre Stewart, and Nick Birkett

Integration of the evidence on gene-disease associations: Methods of HuGE reviews

Julian P.T. Higgins and Julian Little

Genome-wide association studies, field synopses, and the development of the knowledge base on genetic variation and human disease
Muin J. Khoury, Lars Bertram, Paolo Boffetta, Adam S. Butterworth, Stephen J. Chanock, Siobhan M. Dolan, Isabel Fortier, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Marta L. Gwinn, Julian P. T. Higgins, A. Cecile J.W. Janssens, James M. Ostell, Ryan P. Owen, Roberta A. Pagon, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Nathaniel Rothman, Jonine L. Bernstein , Paul R. Burton, Harry Campbell, Anand P. Chokkalingam, Helena Furberg, Julian Little, Thomas R. O’Brien, Daniela Seminara, Paolo Vineis, Deborah M. Winn, Wei Yu, and John P.A. Ioannidis

PART III - Case Studies: Cumulative Assessment of the Role of Human Genome Variation in Specific Diseases

Colorectal cancer

Harry Campbell, Steven Hawken, Evropi Theodoratou, Alex Demarsh, Kimberley Hutchings, Candice Y. Johnson, Lindsey Masson, Linda Sharp, Valerie Tait, and Julian Little

Childhood leukemias

Anand P. Chokkalingam and Patricia A. Buffler

Bladder cancer

Jonine D. Figueroa, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, and Nathaniel Rothman

Type 2 diabetes

Eleftheria Zeggini and Mark I. McCarthy

Osteoporosis

André G. Uitterlinden, Joyce B.J. van Meurs, and Fernando Rivadeneira

Preterm birth

Siobhan M. Dolan

Coronary heart disease

Adam S. Butterworth, Julian P.T. Higgins, Nadeem Sarwar, and John Danesh

Schizophrenia

Lars Bertram

Part IV - Applications of Epidemiologic Methods for Using Genetic Information in Medicine and Public Health

Mendelian randomization: The contribution to genetic epidemiology to elucidating environmentally modifiable causes of disease

George Davey-Smith and Shah Ebrahim

Evaluation of predictive genetic tests for common diseases: Bridging epidemiological, clinical, and public health measures

A. Cecile J. W. Janssens, Marta Gwinn, and Muin J. Khoury

The Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP™) initiative: Methods of the EGAPP™ working group

Steven M. Teutsch, Linda A. Bradley, Glenn E. Palomaki, James E. Haddow, Margaret Piper, Ned Calonge, W. David Dotson, Michael P. Douglas, and Alfred O. Berg

Rapid evidence-based reviews of genetic tests

James M. Gudgeon, Glenn E. Palomaki, and Marc S. Williams

Role of social and behavioral research in assessing the utility of genetic information

Saskia C. Sanderson , Christopher Wade , and Colleen M. McBride

Assessing the evidence for clinical utility in newborn screening

Scott D. Grosse

The role of epidemiology in assessing the potential clinical impact of pharmacogenomics
David L. Veenstra

The human epigenome and cancer

Mukesh Verma

The use of family history in public health practice: the epidemiologic view
Rodolfo Valdez, Muin J. Khoury, and Paula W. Yoon

Part V - Case Studies: Assessing the Use of Genetic Information in Practice for Specific Diseases

Cytochrome P450 testing in the treatment of depression

Iris Grossman, Mugdha Thakur, and David B. Matchar

A rapid ACCE review of CYP2C9 and VKORC1 allele testing to inform warfarin dosing in adults at elevated risk for thrombotic events to avoid serious bleeding

Monica R. McClain , Glenn E. Palomaki, Margaret Piper, and James E. Haddow

Hereditary hemochromatosis: Population screening for gene mutations

Diana B. Petitti

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Contributors

Sara R. Bedrosian, BA, BFA

McKing Consulting Corporation

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH

Department of Family Medicine

University of Washington

Seattle, WA
Jonine L. Bernstein, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
Lars Bertram, MD

Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Berlin, Germany
Nick Birkett, MD, MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Paolo Boffetta, MD

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Lyon, France
Melissa L. Bondy, PhD

Department of Epidemiology

University of Texas

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX
Linda A. Bradley, PhD

Women & Infants Hospital

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RI
Molly S. Bray, PhD

Center for Human Genetics

Institute of Molecular Medicine and School of Public Health

University of Texas

Houston, TX
Paul E. Brenchley, PhD

Renal Research Laboratories

Manchester Institute of Nephrology and Transplantation

Royal Infirmary

Manchester, United Kingdom
Philippa Brice, PhD

Foundation for Genomics and

Population Health (PHG Foundation)Cambridge, United Kingdom
Patricia A. Buffler, PhD, MPH

Division of Epidemiology

University of California

Berkeley School of Public Health

Berkeley, CA
Paul R. Burton, MD

Department of Health Sciences

University of Leicester

Leicester, United Kingdom
Adam S. Butterworth, MSc, PhD

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

and

UK HuGENet Coordinating Centre

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Denver, CO
Harry Campbell, MD, FRCP, FFPH, FRSE

Public Health Sciences

College of Medicine and Vet Medicine

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Juan Pablo Casas, MD

Department of Epidemiology and Population Health

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, United Kingdom
Stephen J. Chanock, MD

Laboratory of Translational Genomics

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD
Anand P. Chokkalingam, PhD, MS

Division of Epidemiology

School of Public Health

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA
Barbara Cohen, PhD

Former Senior Editor

Public Library of Science

San Francisco, CA
John Danesh, MD, MBChB, MSc, DPhil, FRCP

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom
George Davey Smith, MD, DSc, FRCP,

F Med Sci

MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in

Translational Epidemiology

Department of Social Medicine

University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom
Alex Demarsh, MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center

Bronx, NY
W. David Dotson, PhD

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Michael P. Douglas, MS

McKing Consulting Corporation

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Cornelia M. van Duijn, PhD

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology

Erasmus University Medical Center

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ross Duncan, PhD, MA

Department of Dermatology

Leiden University Medical Center

Leiden, The Netherlands
Shah Ebrahim, MSc,DM,FRCP,FFPHM

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, United Kingdom
Erik von Elm, MD, MSc

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland

and

German Cochrane Centre

Department of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics

University Medical Centre

Freiburg, Germany
Jonine D. Figueroa, PhD

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute

Department of Health and Human Services

Bethesda, MD
Isabel Fortier, PhD

Public Population Project in Genomics

Montreal, QC, Canada

and

Department of Social and Preventive

Medicine

University of Montreal

Montreal, QC, Canada
Matthew Freedman, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, MA
Helena Furberg, PhD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC
France Gagnon, MSc, PhDUniversity of Toronto

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Toronto, ON, Canada
Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, MPH, DrPH

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD
Jean Golding, PhD, DSc, FMedSci

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Bristol, United Kingdom
Jesus Gonzalez-Bosquet, MD, PhD

Laboratory of Translational Genomics

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD
Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP

Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake

Clinical Epidemiology Program

Ottawa Health Research Institute

Department of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Scott D. Grosse, PhD

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Iris Grossman, PhD

Pharmacogenetics Consulting

Cabernet Pharmaceuticals

Durham, NC
Nelleke A. Gruis, PhD

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA
James M. Gudgeon, MS, MBA

Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute

Salt Lake City, UT
Marta Gwinn, MD, MPH

McKing Consulting Corporation

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
James E. Haddow, MD

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Brown University, Alpert Medical School

Providence, RI
Mia Hashibe, PhD

Gene–Environment Epidemiology Group

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Lyon, France
Steven Hawken, MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Julian P.T. Higgins, PhD

MRC Biostatistics Unit

Institute of Public Health

Cambridge, United Kingdom

and

UK HuGENet Coordinating Centre

Cambridge, United Kingdom
David J. Hunter, MBBS, ScD

Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology

Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA
Kimberley Hutchings, MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Claire Infante-Rivard, MD, PhD

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health

Faculty of Medicine

McGill University

Montréal, QC, Canada
John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, PhD

Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology

Unit

Department of Hygiene and

Epidemiology

School of Medicine and Biomedical

Research Institute

Foundation for Research and

Technology-Hellas

University of Ioannina

Ioannina, Greece

and

Center for Genetic Epidemiology and

Modeling

Department of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, MA
Cecile J.W. Janssens, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology

Erasmus University Medical Center

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

Imperial College

London, United Kingdom

and

Department of Public Health Science and General Practice

University of Oulu

Oulu, Finland
Candice Y. Johnson, MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada

Muin J. Khoury, MD, PhD

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

and

Division of Cancer Control and

Population Sciences

National Cancer Institute

Bethesda, MD
Richard A. King, MD

Genetics in Medicine

Minneapolis, MN
Bartha Knoppers, PhD, O.C.

Centre of Genomics and Policy

Department of Human Genetics

McGill University

Montreal, QC, Canada
Peter Kraft, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA
Julian Little, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Human

Genome Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Beatrice Malmer, MD, PhD

Department of Radiation Sciences

Oncology

Umea University Hospital

Umea, Sweden
Teri Manolio, MD, PhD

Office of Population Genomics

National Human Genome Research Institute

Bethesda, MD
Demetrius M. Maraganore, MD

Department of Neurology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN
Lindsey Masson, PhD, MSc, BSc, RPHNutr

Department of Public Health

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
David B. Matchar, MD

Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research

Durham, NC

and

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, NC

and

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Program in Health Services Research

Singapore
Colleen M. McBride, PhD

Social and Behavioral Research Branch

National Human Genome Research Institute

Washington, DC
Mark I. McCarthy, MD, FRCP, FMedSci

Oxford Centre for Diabetes,

Endocrinology and Metabolism

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

and

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human

Genetics

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

and

Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research

Centre

Churchill Hospital

Oxford, United Kingdom
Monica R. McClain, PhD

Division of Medical Screening

Women & Infants Hospital

Providence, RI
John McLaughlin, PhD

Population Studies and Surveillance

Cancer Care Ontario

Toronto, ON, Canada

and

Prosserman Centre for Health Research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

Toronto, ON, Canada
Joyce B.J. van Meurs, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine

Erasmus Medical Center

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
David Moher, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Julia A. Newton-Bishop, PhD

Genetic Epidemiology Division

CR-UK Clinical Centre

Leeds, United Kingdom
Thomas R. O’Brien, MD, MPH

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute

Rockville, MD
James M. Ostell, PhD

Information Engineering Branch

National Center for Biotechnology Information

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD
Ryan P. Owen, PhD

PharmGKB Genetics Department

Stanford University

Stanford, CA
Roberta A. Pagon, MD

University of Washington

School of Medicine

Seattle, WA
Glenn E. Palomaki, BS

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Brown University, Alpert

Medical School

Providence, RI
Andrew Paterson, MD

Genetics of Complex Diseases

Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Toronto, ON, Canada
Diana B. Petitti, MD, MPH

Department of Biomedical Informatics

Arizona State University

Phoenix, AZ
Margaret Piper, PhD

Technology Evaluation Center

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Chicago, IL
Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD

Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA
Elio Riboli, PhD

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Lyon, France

and

Imperial College

London, United Kingdom
Fernando Rivadeneira, MD, PhD

Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology Erasmus MC

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nathaniel Rothman, MD, MPH, MHS

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD
Georgia Salanti, PhD

School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute

University of Ioannina

Ioannina, Greece
Nadeem Sarwar, MPhil, PhD

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Saskia C. Sanderson, PhD

Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, NY
Paul Scheet, PhD

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Department of Epidemiology

University of Texas

Houston, TX
Daniela Seminara, PhD, MPH

Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

National Cancer Institute, NIH

Bethesda, MD
Linda Sharp, PhD

National Cancer Registry (NCR)

Cork, Ireland, United Kingdom
Alexandre Stewart, PhD, BScH, MSc

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, PA
Valerie Tait, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH

Los Angeles County Department of

Public Health

Los Angeles, CA

Mugdha Thakur, MD

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC
Evropi Theodoratou, PhD

Public Health Sciences

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Duncan C. Thomas, PhD

Biostatistics Division

Verna Richter Chair in Cancer Research

Department of Preventive Medicine

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA
Nic Timpson, PhD

Department of Social Medicine

University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom
Andre´ G. Uitterlinden, PhD

Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Erasmus MC

Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rodolfo Valdez, PhD, MSc

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
David L. Veenstra, PhD, PharmD

Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program and Institute for Public Health Genetics

University of Washington

Seattle, WA
Mukesh Verma, PhD

Methods and Technologies Branch

Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Bethesda, MD
Paolo Vineis, MD, MPH

Environmental Epidemiology

Imperial College

London, United Kingdom
Christopher Wade, PhD, MPH

Social and Behavioral Research Branch & Genome Technology Branch

National Human Genome Research Institute

Washington, DC
Nick Wareham, PhD, MRC

Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit

Elsie Widdowson Laboratories

Cambridge, United Kingdom
George Wells, MSc, PhD

Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Miriam Wiens, BSc MSc

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON, Canada
Marc S. Williams, MD

Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute

Salt Lake City, UT
Robin E. Williamson, PhD

Deputy Editor
American Journal of Human Genetics

Boston, MA
Deborah M. Winn, PhD

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

National Cancer Institute

Bethesda, MD
Paula W. Yoon, ScD, MPH

Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Wei Yu, PhD, MS

Office of Public Health Genomics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA
Maja Zecevic, PhD, MPH

Senior Editor
Lancet

New York, NY
Ron Zimmern, MA, FRCP, FFPHM

Foundation for Genomics and

Population Health (PHG Foundation)

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Guang Yong Zou, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

University of Western Ontario

London, ON, Canada

and

Robarts Clinical Trials

Robarts Research Institute

London, ON, Canada
Eleftheria Zeggini, PhD

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

University of Oxford,

Oxford, United Kingdom

and

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Suggested Citation:
Khoury MJ, Bedrosian S, Gwinn M, Higgins JPT, Ioannidis JPA, Little J, editors. Human Genome Epidemiology (Second Edition): Building the evidence for using genetic information to improve health and prevent disease. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; 2010. Also available with modifications from URL: www.cdc.gov/genomics/resources/books/2009_HuGE/index.htm.

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