Epidemiology of childhood acute myeloid leukemiaSusan E Puumala
Center for Health Outcomes and Prevention Research, Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 60:728-33. 2013
..Future studies should more closely examine causal mechanisms, improve exposure measurement, and include analysis using genetic and epigenetic factors...
Similar DNA methylation levels in specific imprinting control regions in children conceived with and without assisted reproductive technology: a cross-sectional studySusan E Puumala
Center for Health Outcomes and Prevention Research, Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
BMC Pediatr 12:33. 2012
..Results from previous studies have been mixed, but some methylation differences have been observed...
- Pediatric germ cell tumors and parental infertility and infertility treatment: a Children's Oncology Group report
Susan E Puumala
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC 715, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 35:e25-31. 2011
..Few risk factors have been established for childhood germ cell tumors (GCT). Parental infertility and infertility treatment may be associated with GCT development but these risk factors have not been fully investigated...
- Cancer risk among children with very low birth weights
Logan G Spector
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics and bMasonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Pediatrics 124:96-104. 2009
..Because data on very low birth weight and other childhood cancers are sparse, we examined the risk of malignancy with very low birth weight in a large data set...
- Childhood cancer among twins and higher order multiples
Susan E Puumala
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC 715, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:162-8. 2009
..Our analysis suggests that mechanisms other than birth weight and gestational age may influence the lower risk of Wilms' tumor and neuroblastoma in multiple births...
- Infant leukemia and parental infertility or its treatment: a Children's Oncology Group report
Susan E Puumala
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Hum Reprod 25:1561-8. 2010
..Parental infertility and infertility treatment have been studied with regard to childhood cancer in general, but rarely in individual cancer subtypes...
- Comparability and representativeness of control groups in a case-control study of infant leukemia: a report from the Children's Oncology Group
Susan E Puumala
Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:379-87. 2009
..3,317 g). Finally, participating BC mothers were likely to be older and to have more education than nonparticipants. Thus, the study's control groups were comparable but differed from the population of interest...
- Parental infertility, infertility treatment and hepatoblastoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group
Susan E Puumala
Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA
Hum Reprod 27:1649-56. 2012
..However, it is not clear whether this finding is confounded by the association between HB and low birthweight (LBW)...
- Perinatal characteristics and risk of neuroblastoma
Kimberly J Johnson
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Epidemiology, Clinical Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Int J Cancer 123:1166-72. 2008
..0, 95% CI 1.3-7.2) and maternal age <20 years (HR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.1-6.1) increased risks for infant NB only. Our study provides evidence that a few perinatal exposures as recorded in birth records may play a role in NB etiology...
- Parental and infant characteristics and childhood leukemia in Minnesota
Kimberly J Johnson
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
BMC Pediatr 8:7. 2008
..Translocations present in neonatal blood spots and the young age peak of diagnosis suggest that early-life factors are involved in childhood leukemia etiology...
Reproductive history, infertility treatment, and the risk of acute leukemia in children with down syndrome: a report from the Children's Oncology GroupSusan E Puumala
Division of Pediatric Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Cancer 110:2067-74. 2007
..There is mixed evidence for associations between reproductive history or infertility and acute leukemia among children without DS...
- Parental age and risk of childhood cancer: a pooled analysis
Kimberly J Johnson
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Epidemiology 20:475-83. 2009
..Few risk factors for childhood cancer are well-established. We investigated whether advancing parental age increases childhood cancer risk...
- Increased expression and aberrant localization of mucin 13 in metastatic colon cancer
Brij K Gupta
Cancer Biology Research Center, Sanford Research, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
J Histochem Cytochem 60:822-31. 2012
..These studies demonstrate a significant increase in MUC13 expression in metastatic colon cancer and suggest a correlation between aberrant MUC13 localization (cytoplasmic and nuclear expression) and metastatic colon cancer...
- Early postnatal weight gain, intellectual performance, and body mass index at 7 years of age in term infants with intrauterine growth restriction
Mary Pylipow
Division of Neonatology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pediatr 154:201-6. 2009
..To determine whether the postnatal growth rate of infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is associated with later cognitive function and body mass index (BMI)...
- Birth characteristics and Wilms tumor in Minnesota
Susan E Puumala
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Int J Cancer 122:1368-73. 2008
..All other factors examined showed no association with WT. This study contributes to the mounting evidence that children with large size at birth have an increased risk of WT...
- Feasibility of nationwide birth registry control selection in the United States
Logan G Spector
Division of Epidemiology Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:852-6. 2007
..These results suggest that birth registries may be used to select controls for studies of rare childhood diseases on a national scale...
