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Overview

Chad D. Huff is affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with specific emphasis on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment

Chad D. Huff has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent publications include:

  • Polygenic hazard score is associated with prostate cancer in multi-ethnic populations, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Rare Germline Variants in ATM Predispose to Prostate Cancer: A PRACTICAL Consortium Study, 2021, European Urology Oncology
  • Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk, 2022, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • A Germline Variant at 8q24 Contributes to Familial Clustering of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry, 2020, European Urology
  • Evidence of Novel Susceptibility Variants for Prostate Cancer and a Multiancestry Polygenic Risk Score Associated with Aggressive Disease in Men of African Ancestry, 2023, European Urology

The frequent co-authors in their collaborative works include:

  • Yao Yu
  • Esther M. John
  • Sue A. Ingles
  • Rosalind A. Eeles
  • Jennifer J. Hu

Best Publications

  • Exome sequencing identifies the cause of a Mendelian disorder

    Sarah B H Ng;Kati J. Buckingham;Choli Lee;Abigail W. Bigham

  • Genetic Evidence for High-Altitude Adaptation in Tibet

    Tatum S. Simonson;Yingzhong Yang;Chad D. Huff;Haixia Yun

  • Analysis of genetic inheritance in a family quartet by whole-genome sequencing

    Jared C. Roach;Gustavo Glusman;Arian F. A. Smit;Chad D. Huff;Chad D. Huff

  • De novo mutations in ATP1A3 cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Erin L Heinzen;Kathryn J Swoboda;Yuki Hitomi;Fiorella Gurrieri

  • A genetic mechanism for Tibetan high-altitude adaptation

    Felipe R. Lorenzo;Chad Huff;Chad Huff;Mikko Myllymäki;Benjamin Olenchock

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

    David V. Conti;Burcu F. Darst;Lilit C. Moss;Edward J. Saunders

  • Mobile elements create structural variation: analysis of a complete human genome.

    Jinchuan Xing;Yuhua Zhang;Kyudong Han;Abdel Halim Salem;Abdel Halim Salem;Abdel Halim Salem

  • A Comprehensive Map of Mobile Element Insertion Polymorphisms in Humans

    Chip Stewart;Deniz Kural;Michael P. Strömberg;Jerilyn A. Walker

  • Genomic diversity and evolution of the head crest in the rock pigeon.

    Michael D. Shapiro;Zev Kronenberg;Cai Li;Eric T. Domyan

  • Using VAAST to Identify an X-Linked Disorder Resulting in Lethality in Male Infants Due to N-Terminal Acetyltransferase Deficiency

    Alan F. Rope;Kai Wang;Rune Evjenth;Jinchuan Xing

  • A probabilistic disease-gene finder for personal genomes

    Mark Yandell;Chad D Huff;Hao Hu;Marc Singleton

  • Phevor Combines Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Accurate Identification of Disease-Causing Alleles in Single Individuals and Small Nuclear Families

    Marc V. Singleton;Stephen L. Guthery;Karl V. Voelkerding;Karin Chen

  • Maximum-likelihood estimation of recent shared ancestry (ERSA)

    Chad D. Huff;David J. Witherspoon;Tatum S. Simonson;Jinchuan Xing

  • VAAST 2.0: Improved Variant Classification and Disease‐Gene Identification Using a Conservation‐Controlled Amino Acid Substitution Matrix

    Hao Hu;Chad D. Huff;Barry Moore;Steven Flygare

  • 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

    Maggie C. Y. Ng;Mariaelisa Graff;Yingchang Lu;Anne E. Justice

  • A unified test of linkage analysis and rare-variant association for analysis of pedigree sequence data

    Hao Hu;Jared C Roach;Hilary Coon;Stephen L Guthery

  • Evolutionary history of Tibetans inferred from whole-genome sequencing.

    Hao Hu;Nayia Petousi;Gustavo Glusman;Yao Yu

  • Metabolic insight into mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in Tibetans

    Ri Li Ge;Tatum S. Simonson;Tatum S. Simonson;Robert C. Cooksey;Uran Tanna

  • Toward a more uniform sampling of human genetic diversity: A survey of worldwide populations by high-density genotyping

    Jinchuan Xing;W. Scott Watkins;Adam Shlien;Erin Walker

  • Two Novel Susceptibility Loci for Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry.

    David V. Conti;Kan Wang;Xin Sheng;Jeannette T. Bensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn B. Jorde
Lynn B. Jorde University of Utah
Jinchuan Xing
Jinchuan Xing Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Janet L. Stanford
Janet L. Stanford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mark Yandell
Mark Yandell University of Utah
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Lisa A. Cannon-Albright
Lisa A. Cannon-Albright University of Utah
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
David E. Neal
David E. Neal University of Cambridge

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