• Assessment of the EarlyCDT-Lung test as an early biomarker of lung cancer in ever-smokers: A retrospective nested case-control study in two prospective cohorts 

      Wu, Wendy Yi-Ying; Haider, Zahra; Feng, Xiaoshuang; Heath, Alicia K.; Tjønneland, Anne; Agudo, Antonio; Masala, Giovanna; Robbins, Hilary A.; Huerta, María-José; Guevara, Marcela; Schulze, Matthias B.; Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel; Vineis, Paolo; Tumino, Rosario; Kaaks, Rudolf; Fortner, Renée T.; Sieri, Sabina; Panico, Salvatore; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Braaten, Tonje; Johansson, Mattias; Melin, Beatrice; Johansson, Mikael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-28)
      The EarlyCDT-Lung test is a blood-based autoantibody assay intended to identify high-risk individuals for low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening. However, there is a paucity of evidence on the performance of the EarlyCDT-Lung test in ever-smokers. We conducted a nested case-control study within two prospective cohorts to evaluate the risk-discriminatory performance of the EarlyCDT-Lung ...
    • DNA methylation and copy number variation profiling of T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma 

      Haider, Zahra; Landfors, Mattias; Golovleva, Irina; Erlanson, Martin; Schmiegelow, Kjeld; Flægstad, Trond; Kanerva, Jukka; Norén-Nyström, Ulrika; Hultdin, Magnus; Degerman, Sofie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-28)
      Despite having common overlapping immunophenotypic and morphological features, T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and lymphoma (T-LBL) have distinct clinical manifestations, which may represent separate diseases. We investigated and compared the epigenetic and genetic landscape of adult and pediatric T-ALL (<i>n</i> = 77) and T-LBL (<i>n</i> = 15) patient samples by high-resolution genome-wide ...
    • DNA methylation holds prognostic information in relapsed precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia 

      Borssén, Magnus; Nordlund, Jessica; Haider, Zahra; Landfors, Mattias; Larsson, Pär; Kanerva, Jukka; Schmiegelow, Kjeld; Flægstad, Trond; Jónsson, Ólafur Gísli; Frost, Britt-Marie; Palle, Josefine; Forestier, Erik; Heyman, Mats; Hultdin, Magnus; Lönnerholm, Gudmar; Degerman, Sofie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-05)
      <p><i>Background</i>: Few biological markers are associated with survival after relapse of B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL). In pediatric T-cell ALL, we have identified promoter-associated methylation alterations that correlate with prognosis. Here, the prognostic relevance of CpG island methylation phenotype (CIMP) classification was investigated in pediatric BCP-ALL ...
    • An integrated transcriptome analysis in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia links DNA methylation subgroups to dysregulated TAL1 and ANTP homeobox gene expression 

      Haider, Zahra; larsson, Pär; Landfors, Mattias; Kohn, Linda; Schmiegelow, Kjeld; Flægstad, Trond; Kanerva, Jukka; Heyman, Mats; Hultdin, Magnus; Degerman, Sofie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-21)
      Classification of pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) patients into CIMP (CpG Island Methylator Phenotype) subgroups has the potential to improve current risk stratification. To investigate the biology behind these CIMP subgroups, diagnostic samples from Nordic pediatric T-ALL patients were characterized by genome-wide methylation arrays, followed by targeted exome sequencing, ...
    • Lung cancer risk discrimination of prediagnostic proteomics measurements compared with existing prediction tools 

      Feng, Xiaoshuang; Wu, Wendy Yi-Ying; Onwuka, Justina Ucheojor; Haider, Zahra; Alcala, Karine; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Zahed, Hana; Guida, Florence; Wang, Renwei; Bassett, Julie K.; Stevens, Victoria; Wang, Ying; Weinstein, Stephanie; Freedman, Neal D.; Chen, Chu; Tinker, Lesley; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Koh, Woon-Puay; Muller, David; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra M.; Tumino, Rosario; Hung, Rayjean J.; Amos, Christopher I.; Lin, Xihong; Zhang, Xuehong; Arslan, Alan A.; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Severi, Gianluca; Hveem, Kristian; Brennan, Paul; Langhammer, Arnulf; Milne, Roger L.; Yuan, Jian-Min; Melin, Beatrice; Johansson, Mikael; Robbins, Hilary A.; Johansson, Mattias (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-01)
      Background: We sought to develop a proteomics-based risk model for lung cancer and evaluate its risk-discriminatory performance in comparison with a smoking-based risk model (PLCOm2012) and a commercially available autoantibody biomarker test.<p><p>Methods: We designed a case-control study nested in 6 prospective cohorts, including 624 lung cancer participants who donated blood samples at most 3 ...