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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 78, No. 13_Supplement ( 2018-07-01), p. 3369-3369
    Abstract: Lung cancer (LC) is a global health burden that accounted for 1.69 million deaths worldwide in 2015. Asian women have high incidence rates of LC, with about half of all diagnoses occurring among never-smokers. Chromosomal copy-number (CN) aberrations can arise de novo in somatic cells with progressing age. These genomic alterations can change the dosage of critical genes and impact biological processes. Gains and losses of Chromosome X in a proportion of cells (ChrX mosaicism) are markers of genomic instability; however, their relationship with LC is unclear. We characterized leukocyte ChrX mosaicism among never-smoking Asian female LC patients and cancer-free controls. We investigated 5,137 LC cases (4,477 adenocarcinomas (AC) and 660 squamous cell carcinomas (SCC)) and 4,535 controls from 13 case-control studies and one cohort study in the Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia. Subjects were aged 19-91 years from China, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. In case-control studies, blood was drawn after diagnosis and mostly before treatment. Leukocyte DNA was genotyped on Illumina 660W arrays, with a small subset on 610Q and 370K arrays. ChrX mosaicism was detected using normalized log R ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF) values from probes covering ChrX. ChrX was segmented for mosaic events (gains, losses, and copy-neutral) using circular binary segmentation on BAF values. Segments & lt;2 Mb were excluded. Event CN state was assigned based on LRR values. LRR deviations of 0.01 and −0.01 were used to classify events as gain and losses, respectively, for ChrX-spanning mosaic events; while thresholds of 0.05 and −0.05 were used for those spanning a portion of ChrX. Mosaic proportions were estimated using deviation from the expected BAF given the LRR-defined CN state. Fisher's Exact tests on 2x3 and 2x2 tables were used to compare ChrX mosaic events between LC cases and controls. Exact logistic regression was used to assess associations between combined gain and loss events and AC. We found 18 detectable mosaic ChrX events (0.19%) in 12 women. LC cases had 5 gains, 3 losses, and 4 copy-neutral mosaic events; while controls had no gains, 1 loss, and 5 copy-neutral events (p=9.8E-2). AC patients had significantly more combined gains and losses (n=7) and fewer copy-neutral events (n=0) compared to controls who had 1 combined gain and loss and 5 copy-neutral events (p=4.7E-3). Notably, all 5 gains were among AC and none among controls (p=3.5E-3). Women with combined gain and loss events had 7 times the odds of AC compared to those without them (p=3.8E-2). Our preliminary findings suggest a possible role of leukocyte ChrX mosaicism, particularly CN gains, in the biological mechanism of LC development. However, given the rarity of these events and possible disease-effect, larger studies are needed to further evaluate ChrX mosaicism as a risk factor for future occurrence of LC. Citation Format: Jason Y. Wong, Mitchell Machiela, Weiyin Zhou, Wei Jie Seow, Bryan Bassig, Jinming Zhang, Meredith Yeager, Wei Zheng, Xiao-Ou Shu, Hongbing Shen, Keitaro Matsuo, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Maria P. Wong, Yun-Chul Hong, Jiu-cun Wang, Yi-Long Wu, Baosen Zhou, Robert Klein, Zhihua Yin, Tangchun Wu, Pan-Chyr Yang, Yong-Bing Xiang, Adeline Seow, Yu-Tang Gao, Chen Wu, Jianjun Liu, Zhibin Hu, Laurie Burdett, Qiuyin Cai, Juncheng Dai, Dongxin Lin, Kexin Chen, Stephen Chanock, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan. Mosaic chromosome X copy-number aberrations in leukocytes of never-smoking lung cancer patients: The Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia (FLCCA) [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3369.
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    In: Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 10, No. 1 ( 2020-07-09)
    Abstract: Outdoor air pollution is a growing public health concern, particularly in urban settings. However, there are limited epidemiological data on outdoor air pollution in rural areas with substantial levels of air pollution attributed to solid fuel burning for household cooking and heating. Xuanwei and Fuyuan are rural counties in China where the domestic combustion of locally sourced bituminous (“smoky”) coal has been associated with the highest lung cancer rates in China. We previously assessed indoor and personal air pollution exposures in this area; however, the influence of indoor coal combustion and household ventilation on outdoor air pollution has not been assessed. Therefore, we measured outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), species of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) including naphthalene (NAP) and the known carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) over two consecutive 24-h sampling periods in 29 villages. Just over half of the villages were revisited two to nine months after the initial sampling period to repeat all measurements. The overall geometric mean (GM) of outdoor PM 2.5 , BaP, NAP, and NO 2 were 45.3 µg/m 3 , 9.7 ng/m 3 , 707.7 ng/m 3 , and 91.5 µg/m 3 , respectively. Using linear mixed effects models, we found that burning smoky coal was associated with higher outdoor BaP concentrations [GM ratio (GMR) = 2.79] and lower outdoor SO 2 detection rates (GMR = 0.43), compared to areas burning smokeless coal. Areas with predominantly ventilated stoves ( 〉  50% of stoves) had higher outdoor BaP (GMR = 1.49) compared to areas with fewer ventilated stoves. These results show that outdoor air pollution in a rural region of China was associated with the type of coal used for cooking and heating indoors and the presence of stove ventilation. Our findings suggest that efforts of household stove improvement to reduce indoor air pollution have resulted in higher outdoor air pollution levels. Further reducing adverse health effects in rural villages from household coal combustion will require the use of cleaner fuel types.
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    In: ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 2018, No. 1 ( 2018-09-24)
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 79, No. 13_Supplement ( 2019-07-01), p. 2682-2682
    Abstract: Background: Accounting for approximately 1.76 million annual deaths worldwide, lung cancer is a significant global health burden. While smoking is the most common cause of lung cancer, up to 25% of all lung cancer patients worldwide are never smokers. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in China, where most women do not smoke, making women in Asia an ideal population to study. Previously conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of lung cancer risk among never-smoking women in Asia identified 10 lung cancer susceptibility loci. Indoor air pollution from coal burned for home cooking and heating is known to contain lung carcinogens and has been found to be causally associated with lung cancer. In the current analysis, we evaluated gene-environment interaction between a polygenic risk score (PRS) and coal use in relation to lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: Three studies (Taiwan, Shanghai, Shenyang) from the Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia (FLCCA) were used for the primary analysis (1,419 cases; 1,446 controls). A replication study was conducted using samples from Xuanwei, China (159 cases; 572 controls), where lung cancer rates for never-smokers are among the highest in the world and attributed to widespread coal use. We calculated a PRS as the weighted sum of the risk allele counts across the 10 loci, and modeled PRS as a continuous variable scaled by the standard deviation in controls. Logistic regression was used to estimate the main effects of the PRS and coal use, and a likelihood ratio test was used to evaluate the interaction. Models were adjusted for age ( & lt;40, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, ≥70 years), study, and significant eigenvectors. Results: Coal use was associated with an increased risk of lung adenocarcinoma (OR=1.31, 95% CI: 1.01-1.68). We observed an exposure-response relationship between PRS and lung adenocarcinoma (p-trend= 2x10-16) and found a significant multiplicative interaction between PRS and coal use (p-interaction= 0.005). The association between PRS and lung adenocarcinoma was significantly higher among the never coal users (OR=1.68, 95% CI: 1.52-1.86) compared to ever coal users in the three studies (OR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.03-1.50) (p-interaction=0.005), as well as between never coal users in the three studies and ever coal users in Xuanwei (OR=1.25, 95% CI: 1.04-1.49) (p-interaction=0.004). Conclusion: We observed an antagonistic interaction between PRS and coal use with lung adenocarcinoma, where the genetic effect was attenuated among those exposed to coal combustion in the home. We replicated the finding in Xuanwei. These results suggest that the pathogenesis of lung cancer among never-smoking women in Asia differs by exposure to coal combustion emissions and provides one of the few examples of sub-multiplicative gene-environment interactions in the cancer literature. Citation Format: Batel Blechter, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Zhihua Yin, Xiao-Ou Shu, H. Dean Hosgood, Jason Y.Y Wong, Jianxin Shi, Wei Hu, Bryan Bassig, Wei Jie Seow, Yu -ang Gao, Qiuyin Cai, Yong-Bing Xiang, I-Shou Chang, Baosen Zhou, Wei Zheng, Kyoung-Mu Lee, Stephen Chanock, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan. Analysis of polygenic risk score interaction with coal use and risk of lung adenocarcinoma among never-smoking women in Asia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2682.
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 74, No. 19_Supplement ( 2014-10-01), p. 4160-4160
    Abstract: Background: There is growing evidence that longer telomere length is associated with higher risk of lung cancer. We investigated this association in the prospective Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, which was conducted in the United States. We also combined these data with two previously published prospective cohorts: the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) trial conducted among ever smoking males in Finland and the Shanghai Women's Health Study (SWHS) which comprised primarily of never-smoking women, resulting in a pooled analysis on a total of 847 cases and 847 controls matched by age, sex and study. Methods: Blood samples were collected prior to diagnosis of lung cancer and telomere length was measured using the same monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR method in all three studies. We used conditional logistic regression models to calculate odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association between telomere length and lung cancer risk adjusted for age, to account for residual confounding, and pack-years of smoking as continuous variables. Analyses by telomere length quartile retaining the initial categorization used in each study, and using categorization based on telomere length in pooled controls, produced similar findings and results are presented for the former. Results: In the PLCO Trial, increasing telomere length was significantly associated with lung cancer risk (adjusted OR [95% CI] by quartile: 1.00; 1.11 [0.65-1.92] ; 1.20 [0.66-2.15]; and 1.83 [1.05-3.19] ; P-trend = 0.011), consistent with results from the ATBC and SWHS studies. In the pooled analyses, the adjusted OR (95% CI) by quartile was 1.00; 1.24 (0.90-1.72); 1.27 (0.91-1.77); and 1.87 (1.33-2.63); P-trend = 0.000022. This positive association was particularly evident for adenocarcinoma cases, especially those diagnosed more than 6 years after blood collection (n=115; adjusted OR [95% CI] by quartile: 1.00; 2.48 [0.85-7.23] ; 2.05 [0.81-5.15]; and 3.59 [1.38-9.34] ; P-trend = 0.0027). Conclusion: Telomere length in white blood cell DNA may be an important biomarker of future increased risk of lung cancer in diverse populations. Citation Format: Wei Jie Seow, Richard Cawthon, Mark Purdue, Wei Hu, Yu-Tang Gao, Wen-Yi Huang, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Bu-Tian Ji, Jarmo Virtamo, Dean Hosgood, Bryan Bassig, Xiaoou Shu, Qiuyin Cai, Yongbin Xiang, Shen Min, Wong-Ho Chow, Sonja Berndt, Christopher Kim, Unhee Lim, Demetrius Albanes, Neil E. Caporaso, Stephen Chanock, Wei Zheng, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan. Telomere length in white blood cell DNA and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of three prospective cohorts. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2014 Apr 5-9; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2014;74(19 Suppl):Abstract nr 4160. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2014-4160
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    In: ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 2022, No. 1 ( 2022-09-18)
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    In: International Journal of Cancer, Wiley, Vol. 136, No. 3 ( 2015-02), p. 632-638
    Abstract: What's New? Where there's smoke, there's cancer. In households where cooking smoke collects in the kitchen, is there greater risk of lung cancer? These authors collected information from nonsmoking women in Shanghai about their cooking practices, then correlated those data with cases of lung cancer among the population. Inadequate kitchen ventilation, particularly combined with long term use of coal, increased the risk of lung cancer significantly. These findings could have an important impact on public health in urban China.
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    Publication Date: 2015
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 78, No. 13_Supplement ( 2018-07-01), p. 3238-3238
    Abstract: Emissions from burning solid fuels contribute substantially to the global disease burden. Xuanwei (XW), China, has among the highest lung cancer rates in the world, which has been attributed to the use of bituminous (“smoky”) coal for cooking and heating. Anthracite (“smokeless”) coal is also used in XW and is considered a “cleaner” fuel source compared to bituminous coal, but it emits high-levels of certain indoor pollutants (e.g. nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide) and the disease burden associated with its use has not been well characterized. To evaluate the impact of anthracite coal use and stove improvement on all- and cause-specific mortality, we conducted a cohort study in which 42,400 XW residents were followed from 1976-2011. We ascertained information on fuel use, stove improvement, and lifestyle factors using questionnaires, and mortality data were obtained from hospital records and death certificates. Sex-specific multivariable Cox regression models were used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) of all- and cause-specific mortality in relation to time-dependent annual coal tonnage use (median: 2 tons/year; 25th and 75th percentile = 1 and 3 tons/year, respectively) and stove improvement among 4,486 lifetime anthracite coal users. Compared to subjects who used & lt;2 tons of anthracite coal/year, higher annual tonnage was associated with increased total mortality (HR=1.16, 95% CI =1.03-1.30 in men; HR=1.18, 95% CI =1.02-1.37 in women), total respiratory disease mortality (HR=1.52, 95% CI =1.16-1.99 in men; HR=1.74, 95% CI=1.28-2.36 in women), which was driven by pneumonia, and total cancer mortality in men (HR=1.66, 95% CI=1.09-2.51) but not women. Lung cancer mortality was non-significantly increased and liver cancer mortality was significantly increased in both men and women for use of ≥2 tons of anthracite coal/year. Suggestive positive associations in relation to higher tonnage were also observed for ischemic heart disease. Changing from the traditional use of an unvented firepit to a portable or vented stove was associated with a reduction in overall mortality (HR=0.70, 95% CI=0.61-0.80 in men; HR=0.72, 95% CI=0.61-0.85 in women). Consistent sex-specific reductions in risk were observed for pneumonia and ischemic heart disease mortality, and a non-significant reduction in total cancer mortality was also observed for those who changed to using a portable or vented stove. Our findings suggest that anthracite coal use contributes to the burden of mortality in XW. This study emphasizes the importance of reducing the use of anthracite coal, which is still widely used in China for indoor cooking and heating, in favor of alternative fuel sources such as gas/electricity where possible. Citation Format: Bryan Bassig, Bingshu E. Chen, Wei Jie Seow, Roel Vermeulen, Jinming Zhang, Wei Hu, Jason Wong, Bofu Ning, H.Dean Hosgood, Yunchao Huang, Kaiyun Yang, George S. Downward, Lützen Portengen, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan. Annual coal use and stove improvement in relation to cause-specific mortality in a 36-year cohort analysis among anthracite coal users in Xuanwei, China [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3238.
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    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 75, No. 15_Supplement ( 2015-08-01), p. 840-840
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 75, No. 15_Supplement ( 2015-08-01), p. 840-840
    Abstract: Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a volatile chlorinated organic compound that is commonly used in industrial settings as a degreaser. Epidemiologic studies suggest that TCE exposure is associated with an increased risk of kidney cancer and may also be associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, the mechanisms for these associations are still not clear. To evaluate the relationship between occupational exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE) and LINE-1 methylation, a measure of global methylation, we conducted a cross-sectional molecular epidemiology study of 79 workers exposed to TCE and 81 comparable unexposed controls in Guangdong, China. Personal air exposure measurements and urine samples were collected prior to phlebotomy. The urine TCE metabolite, trichloroacetic acid (TCA), was measured by liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry in urine samples and LINE-1 methylation was assessed by pyrosequencing DNA isolated from peripheral blood. LINE-1 methylation levels [median (range) in percent] were 78.40 (75.80-81.20) in controls, 77.80 (76.10-81.00) in lower exposed, and 77.50 (74.20-80.20) in higher exposed workers based on median urine TCA level (p trend = 0.012). These results suggest that TCE may be associated with a decrease in global methylation measured by the LINE-1 assay. Gene-specific methylation is currently being conducted to follow up these findings. Citation Format: Wei Hu, Luoping Zhang, Christopher Kim, Xiaojiang Tang, Sungkyoon Kim4, Bryan Bassig, Wei-Jie Seow, Min Shen, Chuangyi Qiu, Yechen Ge, Boris Reiss, Mark Purdue, Lee Moore, Laiyu Li, Fei Yue, Hanlin Huang, Martyn T. Smith, Roel Vermeulen, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan. Occupational exposure to trichloroethylene and LINE-1 methylation. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 840. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-840
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    In: ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 2022, No. 1 ( 2022-09-18)
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