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Overview

Tongzhang Zheng is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with particular focus on subfields such as Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered by Zheng include:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders

Among recent published papers, Zheng has contributed to studies addressing cancer risks and genetic factors:

  • "Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration," 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • "Lessons learned from the INHANCE consortium: An overview of recent results on head and neck cancer," 2020, Oral Diseases
  • "Risk factors for head and neck cancer in more and less developed countries: Analysis from the INHANCE consortium," 2022, Oral Diseases
  • "Genetically Determined Height and Risk of Non-hodgkin Lymphoma," 2020, Frontiers in Oncology
  • "B-Cell NHL Subtype Risk Associated with Autoimmune Conditions and PRS," 2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Zheng has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Paolo Boffetta, Claire M. Vajdic, Jacqueline Clavel, Mark P. Purdue, and Paige M. Bracci. These collaborators have coauthored multiple research articles together, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Publication venues where Zheng's work appears include UNC Libraries, Oral Diseases, British Journal of Cancer, Environmental Research, and the European Journal of Cancer Prevention. The most frequent venue of publication is UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • International patterns and trends in thyroid cancer incidence, 1973–2002

    Briseis A. Kilfoy;Briseis A. Kilfoy;Tongzhang Zheng;Theodore R. Holford;Xuesong Han

  • Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph Consortium.

    Karin Ekström Smedby;Claire M. Vajdic;Michael Falster;Eric A. Engels

  • Considerations of circadian impact for defining 'shift work' in cancer studies: IARC working group report

    Richard G. Stevens;Johnni Hansen;Giovanni Costa;Erhard Haus

  • Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the InterLymph Consortium

    Nathaniel Rothman;Christine F Skibola;Sophia S Wang;Gareth Morgan

  • Proposed classification of lymphoid neoplasms for epidemiologic research from the Pathology Working Group of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)

    Lindsay M. Morton;Jennifer J. Turner;James R. Cerhan;Martha S. Linet

  • Hepatitis C and non-Hodgkin lymphoma among 4784 cases and 6269 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium.

    Silvia De Sanjose;Yolanda Benavente;Claire M. Vajdic;Eric A. Engels

  • microRNA miR-196a-2 and breast cancer: a genetic and epigenetic association study and functional analysis.

    Aaron E. Hoffman;Tongzhang Zheng;Chunhui Yi;Derek Leaderer

  • Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes: The InterLymph Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes Project

    Lindsay M. Morton;Susan L. Slager;James R. Cerhan;Sophia S. Wang

  • Diabetes and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis

    P. Boyle;M. Boniol;A. Koechlin;C. Robertson

  • Alcohol, tobacco, diet and the risk of oral cancer: a pooled analysis of three case-control studies

    G.J. Macfarlane;G.J. Macfarlane;T. Zheng;T. Zheng;J.R. Marshall;J.R. Marshall;P. Boffetta;P. Boffetta

  • Dentition, oral hygiene, and risk of oral cancer: a case-control study in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

    Tongzhang Zheng;Peter Boyle;Huanfang Hu;Jun Duan

  • Novel Chlorinated Polyfluorinated Ether Sulfonates and Legacy Per-/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Placental Transfer and Relationship with Serum Albumin and Glomerular Filtration Rate.

    Yitao Pan;Yingshuang Zhu;Tongzhang Zheng;Qianqian Cui

  • Painting, firefighting, and shiftwork

    Aaron Blair;David Blask;Magne Bråtveit;Thomas Brock

  • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    Sonja I. Berndt;Christine F. Skibola;Christine F. Skibola;Vijai Joseph;Nicola J. Camp

  • Period3 Structural Variation: A Circadian Biomarker Associated with Breast Cancer in Young Women

    Yong Zhu;Heather N Brown;Yawei Zhang;Richard G Stevens

  • Cytokine polymorphisms in the Th1/Th2 pathway and susceptibility to non-Hodgkin lymphoma

    Qing Lan;Tongzhang Zheng;Nathaniel Rothman;Yawei Zhang

  • 1,1-Dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene and polychlorinated biphenyls and breast cancer: combined analysis of five U.S. studies.

    Francine Laden;Gwen Collman;Kumiko Iwamoto;Anthony J. Alberg

  • CLOCK in Breast Tumorigenesis: Genetic, Epigenetic, and Transcriptional Profiling Analyses

    Aaron E. Hoffman;Chun-Hui Yi;Tongzhang Zheng;Richard G. Stevens

  • Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Pooled Analysis from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)

    Lindsay M Morton;Patricia Hartge;Theodore R Holford;Elizabeth A Holly;Elizabeth A Holly

  • Oxidative damage-related genes AKR1C3 and OGG1 modulate risks for lung cancer due to exposure to PAH-rich coal combustion emissions.

    Qing Lan;Judy Lee Mumford;Min Shen;David M. DeMarini

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodore R. Holford
Theodore R. Holford Yale University
Qing Lan
Qing Lan National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle University of Edinburgh
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
James R. Cerhan
James R. Cerhan Mayo Clinic
Wendy Cozen
Wendy Cozen University of Southern California
Shelia Hoar Zahm
Shelia Hoar Zahm National Institutes of Health
Mark P. Purdue
Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health

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