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Christopher A. Haiman is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research broadly spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with specialized focus on Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scholarly work addresses important topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Risks and Factors, and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Recent notable papers by Christopher A. Haiman include:

  • Distinct germline genetic susceptibility profiles identified for common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes, 2022, Leukemia
  • Prediction of contralateral breast cancer: external validation of risk calculators in 20 international cohorts, 2020, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies candidate susceptibility genes for prostate-specific antigen levels in men without prostate cancer, 2024, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
  • Race and Ethnicity, Lifestyle, Diet, and Survival in Patients With Prostate Cancer, 2025, JAMA Network Open
  • Genome-wide association study of urinary cadmium levels in current smokers from the multiethnic cohort study, 2024, Human Molecular Genetics

Christopher A. Haiman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Montserrat García-Closas
  • Loïc Le Marchand
  • Julie R. Palmer
  • David V. Conti
  • Hermann Brenner

Their work has been published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Leukemia, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, and JAMA Network Open.

Best Publications

  • Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

    Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common variants on chromosomes 2q35 and 16q12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

    Simon N Stacey;Andrei Manolescu;Patrick Sulem;Thorunn Rafnar

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Ethnic and Racial Differences in the Smoking-Related Risk of Lung Cancer

    Christopher A. Haiman;Daniel O. Stram;Lynne R. Wilkens;Malcolm C. Pike

  • Multiple regions within 8q24 independently affect risk for prostate cancer.

    Christopher A Haiman;Nick Patterson;Matthew L Freedman;Matthew L Freedman;Simon R Myers

  • The 8q24 cancer risk variant rs6983267 shows long-range interaction with MYC in colorectal cancer.

    Mark M. Pomerantz;Nasim Ahmadiyeh;Nasim Ahmadiyeh;Li Jia;Paula Herman

  • Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men

    Matthew L. Freedman;Christopher A. Haiman;Nick Patterson;Gavin J. McDonald;Gavin J. McDonald

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

Frequent Co-Authors

Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Brian E. Henderson
Brian E. Henderson University of Southern California
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Daniel O. Stram
Daniel O. Stram University of Southern California
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Laurence N. Kolonel
Laurence N. Kolonel University of Hawaii at Manoa

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