Jack A. Taylor
Jack A. Taylor received a B.A. degree from Carleton College, an M.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. degree in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Taylor is licensed in North Carolina, and holds board certifications in public health and general preventive medicine. He holds Adjunct Professorships from the Department of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as from the Department of Medicine at Duke University. He serves as a Senior Researcher in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and holds a joint appointment at the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis at NIEHS.
Biography Updated on 3 September 2008
Personal Home Page
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/lmc/molecular/index.cfm
Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Folate and one-carbon metabolism gene polymorphisms and their associations with oral facial clefts
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, vol. 146A, no. 4, pp. 440–449, 2008 - XRCC1 and DNA polymerase ß in cellular protection against cytotoxic DNA single-strand breaks
Cell Research, vol. 18, no. 1, Article ID cr20087, 15 pages, 2008 - Tag SNP selection for candidate gene association studies using HapMap and gene resequencing data
European Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 15, no. 10, Article ID 5201875, 7 pages, 2007 -
Detection of Pre-Invasive Lung Cancer: Technical Aspects of the LIFE Project
Toxicologic Pathology, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 65–74, 2007 - TAGster: efficient selection of LD tag SNPs in single or multiple populations
Bioinformatics, vol. 23, no. 23, pp. 3254–3255, 2007 - Assessing human germ-cell mutagenesis in the Postgenome Era: A celebration of the legacy of William Lawson (Bill) Russell
Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 71–95, 2007 - Smoking is associated with increased telomerase activity in short-term cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells
Cancer Letters, vol. 246, no. 1-2, pp. 24–33, 2007 - Antimutagenicity of cinnamaldehyde and vanillin in human cells: Global gene expression and possible role of DNA damage and repair
Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, vol. 616, no. 1-2, pp. 60–69, 2007 - Folic acid supplements and risk of facial clefts: national population based case-control study
BMJ, vol. 334, no. 7591, pp. 464–464, 2007 - Val153Met Polymorphism of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase and Prevalence of Uterine Leiomyomata
Reproductive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 117–120, 2007 - Lycopene Intake and Prostate Cancer Risk: Effect Modification by Plasma Antioxidants and the XRCC1 Genotype
Nutrition and Cancer, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 13–20, 2006 - How Well Do HapMap Haplotypes Identify Common Haplotypes of Genes? A Comparison with Haplotypes of 334 Genes Resequenced in the Environmental Genome Project
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 133–137, 2006 - DNA repair gene polymorphisms and probability of p53 mutation in bladder cancer
Molecular Carcinogenesis, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 715–719, 2006 - APE1 genotype and risk of bladder cancer: Evidence for effect modification by smoking
International Journal of Cancer, vol. 118, no. 12, pp. 3170–3173, 2006 - Approximate Bayesian inference for quantiles
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 385–400, 2005 - Chromosomal abnormalities in bronchial epithelium from smokers, nonsmokers, and lung cancer patients
Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 137–142, 2005 - Lead Exposure as a Risk Factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Neurodegenerative Diseases, vol. 2, no. 3-4, pp. 195–201, 2005 - No Association Between SOD2 or NQO1 Genotypes and Risk of Bladder Cancer
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 753–754, 2005 - Application of the GA/KNN method to SELDI proteomics data
Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1638–1640, 2004 - VEGF Promoter Haplotype and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Journal of Neurogenetics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 429–434, 2004 - Analytical and statistical methods to evaluate microsatellite allelic imbalance in small amounts of DNA
Laboratory Investigation, vol. 84, no. 5, Article ID 3700076, 8 pages, 2004 - Mini-and microsatellite mutations in children from Chernobyl accident cleanup workers
Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, vol. 559, no. 1-2, pp. 143–151, 2004 - Variants of developmental genes (TGFA, TGFB3, andMSX1) and their associations with orofacial clefts: A case-parent triad analysis
Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 230–239, 2003 - Cleft palate, transforming growth factor alpha gene variants, and maternal exposures: Assessing gene-environment interactions in case-parent triads
Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 367–374, 2003 - Cadmium is a mutagen that acts by inhibiting mismatch repair
Nature Genetics, vol. 34, no. 3, Article ID ng1172, 3 pages, 2003 - Exploring the Effects of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene Variants C677T and A1298C on the Risk of Orofacial Clefts in 261 Norwegian Case-Parent Triads
American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 157, no. 12, pp. 1083–1091, 2003 - Bayesian Latent Variable Models for Median Regression on Multiple Outcomes
Biometrics, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 296–304, 2003 - Pooled Analysis and Meta-analysis of Glutathione S-Transferase M1 and Bladder Cancer: A HuGE Review
American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 156, no. 2, pp. 95–109, 2002 - Potential for Selection Bias with Tumor Tissue Retrieval in Molecular Epidemiology Studies
Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–6, 2002 - Mucin phenotype and microsatellite instability in early multiple gastric cancers
International Journal of Cancer, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 419–424, 2002 - A Novel Host Cell Reactivation Assay to Assess Homologous Recombination Capacity in Human Cancer Cell Lines
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 281, no. 1, pp. 212–219, 2001 - Role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in progression of mouse skin carcinogenesis
Molecular Carcinogenesis, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 74–82, 2001 - Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and prostate cancer
Molecular Carcinogenesis, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 18–23, 2000 - Nature Genetics, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 362–362, 1999
- Prostate cancer risk and polymorphism in 17 hydroxylase (CYP17) and steroid reductase (SRD5A2)
Carcinogenesis, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1727–1731, 1999 - Symposium overview: the role of genetic polymorphism and repair deficiencies in environmental disease [published erratum appears in Toxicol Sci 1999 Oct;51(2):317]
Toxicological Sciences, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 135–143, 1999 - Avoided and avoidable risks of cancer
Carcinogenesis, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 97–105, 1997 - Genetic Analysis of Complex Diseases
Science, vol. 275, no. 5304, pp. 1327–1330, 1997 - Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Cancer: Interaction of Environmental and Genetic Factors
Chest, vol. 109, no. 3 Supplement, pp. 14S–19S, 1996 - Increased risk for myelodysplastic syndromes in individuals with glutathione transferase theta 1 (GSTT1) gene defect
The Lancet, vol. 347, no. 8997, pp. 295–297, 1996 - Microsomal epoxide hydrolase polymorphism as a risk factor for ovarian cancer
Molecular Carcinogenesis, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 160–162, 1996 - Non-hierarchical logistic models and case-only designs for assessing susceptibility in population-based case-control studies
Statistics in Medicine, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 153–162, 1994 - 53 mutation hotspot in radon-associated lung cancer
The Lancet, vol. 343, no. 8906, pp. 1158–1159, 1994 - p53 mutation hotspot in radon-associated lung cancer
The Lancet, vol. 343, no. 8889, pp. 86–87, 1994 - Ethnic variation in the CYP2E1 gene: polymorphism analysis of 695 African-Americans, European-Americans and Taiwanese
Pharmacogenetics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 185–192, 1994 - L-myc Proto-oncogene alleles and susceptibility to hepatocellular carcinoma
International Journal of Cancer, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 927–930, 1993 - Expression of CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 genes in human liver
Pharmacogenetics, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 239–249, 1993 - Statistical methods for assessing environmental effects on human genetic disorders
Environmetrics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 369–384, 1992 - Evidence for clustering of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in wisconsin
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 569–575, 1989