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Retrospective clinical trial experimentally validates glioblastoma genome-wide pattern of DNA copy-number alterations predictor of survival
SP Ponnapalli, MW Bradley, K Devine, J Bowen, SE Coppens, KM Leraas, BA Milash, F Li, H Luo, S Qiu, K Wu, H Yang, CT Wittwer, CA Palmer, RL Jensen, JM Gastier-Foster, HA Hanson, JS Barnholtz-Sloan, O Alter
APL Bioengineering 4 (2), 026106

Factors associated with appropriate and low-value PSA testing
N Oswald, T Lin, B Haaland, M Flynn, K Kawamoto, KA Cooney, W Lowrance, HA Hanson, B O’Neil
Cancer Epidemiology 66, 101724

Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Mortality among Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Patients.
JY Ou, HA Hanson, JM Ramsay, HK Kaddas, CA Pope 3rd, CL Leiser, J CanDerslice, AC Kirchhoff
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 10, 1158-9965

Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: Case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the
JE Tonna, HA Hanson, JN Cohan, ML McCrum, JJ Horns, BS Brooke, R Das, BC Kelly, AJ Campbell, J Hotaling 

Harnessing Population Pedigree Data and Machine Learning Methods to Identify Patterns of Familial Bladder Cancer Risk
HA Hanson, CL Leiser, B O'Neil, C Martin, S Gupta, KR Smith, C Dechet, WT Lowrance, MJ Madsen, NJ Camp
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers 29 (5), 918-926

Spatial clusters of cancer incidence: analyzing 1940 census data linked to 1966–2017 cancer records
CL Leiser, M Taddie, R Hemmert, R Richards Steed, JA VanDerslice, K Henry, J Ambrose, B O’Neil, KR Smith, HA Hanson
Cancer Causes & Control, 1-7

Family study designs informed by tumor heterogeneity and multi-cancer pleiotropies: the power of the Utah Population Database
HA Hanson, CL Leiser, MJ Madsen, J Gardner, S Knight, M Cessna, C Sweeney, JA Doherty, KR Smith, PS Bernard, NJ Camp
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers 29 (4), 807-815

Harnessing the full potential of reproductive genetics and epigenetics for male infertility in the era of “big data”
DP Patel, TG Jenkins, KI Aston, J Guo, AW Pastuszak, HA Hanson, JM Hotaling
Fertility and Sterility 113 (3), 478-488

Combining Drive Time and Urologist Density to Understand Access to Urologic Care
CL Leiser, RE Anderson, C Martin, HA Hanson, B O'Neil
Urology 139, 78-83

Age-associated sperm DNA methylation patterns do not directly persist trans-generationally
TG Jenkins, ER James, KI Aston, A Salas-Huetos, AW Pastuszak, KR Smith, HA Hanson, JM Hotaling, CT Carrell
Epigenetics & Chromatin 12 (1), 1-8

Evaluation of the Sex-and-Age-Specific Effects of PM2. 5 on Hospital Readmission in the Presence of the Competing Risk of Mortality in the Medicare Population of Utah 1999–2009
CL Leiser, KR Smith, JA VanDerslice, JP Glotzbach, TW Farrell, HA Hanson
Journal of Clinical Medicine 8 (12), 2114

The Relative Importance of Race Compared to Health Care and Social Factors in Predicting Prostate Cancer Mortality: A Random Forest Approach
HA Hanson, C Martin, B O'Neil, CL Leiser, EN Mayer, KR Smith, WT Lowrance
The Journal of urology 202 (6), 1209-1216

GSVD-and tensor GSVD-uncovered patterns of DNA copy-number alterations predict adenocarcinomas survival in general and in response to platinum
MW Bradley, KA Aiello, SP Ponnapalli, HA Hanson, O Alter
APL bioengineering 3 (3), 036104

Describing the Spectrum of Patient Reported Outcomes after Radical Prostatectomy: Providing Information to Improve Patient Counseling and Shared Decision Making
C Martin, B Haaland, AE Tward, C Dechet, W Lowrance, RA Stephenson, HA Hanson, B O’Neil
The Journal of urology 201 (4), 751-758

Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study
CL Leiser, HA Hanson, K Sawyer, J Steenblik, R Al-Dulaimi, T Madsen, K Gibbins, JM Hotaling, TO Ibrahim, JA VanDerslice, M Fuller
Fertility and sterility 111 (2), 341-347

Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers
JY Ou, HA Hanson, JM Ramsay, CL Leiser, Y Zhang, JA VanDerslice, CA Pope, AC Kirchhoff
International journal of environmental research and public health 16 (6), 1081

Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Endometrial Cancer Survivors in a Large, Population-Based Cohort Study
Soisson S, Ganz PA, Gaffney D, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Hanson HA, Wu YP, Stanford J, Al-Sarray A, Werner TL, Setiawan VW, Hashibe M. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2018 Dec 1;110(12):1342-1351. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djy070. PMCID: PMC6292788

Describing the Spectrum of Patient Reported Outcomes after Radical Prostatectomy: Providing Information to Improve Patient Counseling and Shared Decision Making
Martin C, Haaland B, Tward AE, Dechet C, Lowrance W, Stephenson RA, Hanson H, O'Neil B. J Urol. 2018 Oct 23. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2018.10.014.

Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study
Leiser CL, Hanson HA, Sawyer K, Steenblik J, Al-Dulaimi R, Madsen T, Gibbins K, Hotaling JM, Ibrahim YO, VanDerslice JA, Fuller M. Fertil Steril. 2018 Dec 4. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.10.028.

Response to K. Hemminki et al.
Hanson HA, Martin C, Leiser CL, O'Neil B, Smith KR. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2018 Nov 1;110(11):1279. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djy054.

Opportunities for life course research through the integration of data across Clinical and Translational Research Institutes
Hanson HA, Hay WW, Jr., Tobin JN, Barkin SL, Atkins M, Karagas MR, Dozier AM, Wetmore C, Konstan MW, Heubi JE. J Clin Transl Sci. 2018 Jun;2(3):156-162. doi: 10.1017/cts.2018.29. PMCID: PMC6202009

Fertility treatment and congenital urologic malformations: is there a solution to our correlation versus causation woes?
Hanson HA. Fertil Steril. 2018 Oct;110(5):842-843. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.08.017.

Reproductive and gynecological complication risks among thyroid cancer survivors
Blackburn BE, Ganz PA, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Kim J, Kirchhoff AC, Porucznik C, Hanson H, Abraham D, Monroe M, Hashibe M. J Cancer Surviv. 2018 Oct;12(5):702-711. doi: 10.1007/s11764-018-0707-7. PMCID: PMC6158013

How Well Does the Family Longevity Selection Score Work: A Validation Test Using the Utah Population Database
Arbeeva LS, Hanson HA, Arbeev KG, Kulminski AM, Stallard E, Ukraintseva SV, Wu D, Boudreau RM, Province MA, Smith KR, Yashin AI. Front Public Health. 2018;6:277. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00277. PMCID: PMC6174319

Do paternal semen parameters influence the birth weight or BMI of the offspring? A study from the Utah Population Database
Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Thai D, Zhang C, Presson AP, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Smith KR, Hotaling JM. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2018 May;35(5):793-799. doi: 10.1007/s10815-018-1154-0. PMCID: PMC5984892

Melanoma risk assessment based on relatives' age at diagnosis.
Wu YP, Kohlmann W, Curtin K, Yu Z, Hanson HA, Hashibe M, Parsons BG, Wong J, Schiffman JD, Grossman D, Leachman SA. Cancer Causes Control. 2018 Feb;29(2):193-199. doi: 10.1007/s10552-017-0994-8.

Variation in reproductive outcomes of women with histories of bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, or eating disorder not otherwise specified relative to the general population and closest-aged sisters.
Tabler J, Utz RL, Smith KR, Hanson HA, Geist C. Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Feb;51(2):102-111. doi: 10.1002/eat.22827.

Baby Boomers and Birth Certificates: Early-Life Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Risk in Adulthood.
Stroup AM, Herget KA, Hanson HA, Reed DL, Butler JT, Henry KA, Harrell CJ, Sweeney C, Smith KR. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Jan;26(1):75-84. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0371. PMCID: PMC5225081

Long-term, adverse genitourinary outcomes among endometrial cancer survivors in a large, population-based cohort study.
Soisson S, Ganz PA, Gaffney D, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Hanson HA, Wu YP, Stanford J, Werner TL, Setiawan VW, Hashibe M. Gynecol Oncol. 2017 Dec 27. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.12.025.

Twitter-derived neighborhood characteristics associated with obesity and diabetes.
Nguyen QC, Brunisholz KD, Yu W, McCullough M, Hanson HA, Litchman ML, Li F, Wan Y, VanDerslice JA, Wen M, Smith KR. Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 27;7(1):16425. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16573-1. PMCID: PMC5703998

Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the United States.
Mayer EN, Lenherr SM, Hanson HA, Jessop TC, Lowrance WT. Urology. 2017 May;103:39-46. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2016.12.064. PMCID: PMC5532805

Familial Cancer Clustering in Urothelial Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study.
Martin C, Leiser CL, O'Neil B, Gupta S, Lowrance WT, Kohlmann W, Greenberg S, Pathak P, Smith KR, Hanson HA. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2017 Dec 8. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djx237.

The joint effects of family risk of obesity and neighborhood environment on obesity among women.
Kowaleski-Jones L, Brown BB, Fan JX, Hanson HA, Smith KR, Zick CD. Soc Sci Med. 2017 Dec;195:17-24. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.018.

Risk of childhood mortality in family members of men with poor semen quality.
Hanson HA, Mayer EN, Anderson RE, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Berger J, Lowrance WT, Smith KR, Hotaling JM. Hum Reprod. 2017 Jan;32(1):239-247. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dew289. PMCID: PMC5165078

Is Cancer Protective for Subsequent Alzheimer's Disease Risk? Evidence From the Utah Population Database.
Hanson HA, Horn KP, Rasmussen KM, Hoffman JM, Smith KR. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2017 Oct 1;72(6):1032-1043. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw040.

Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America.
Dribe M, Breschi M, Gagnon A, Gauvreau D, Hanson HA, Maloney TN, Mazzoni S, Molitoris J, Pozzi L, Smith KR, Vezina H. Popul Stud (Camb). 2017 Mar;71(1):3-21. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2016.1253857. PMCID: PMC5315643

Effect of Population Socioeconomic and Health System Factors on Medical Care of Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Caplin DA, Smith KR, Ness KK, Hanson HA, Smith SM, Nathan PC, Hudson MM, Leisenring WM, Robison LL, Oeffinger KC. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2017 Mar;6(1):74-82. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2016.0016. PMCID: PMC5346913

Childhood Cancer Risk in the Siblings and Cousins of Men with Poor Semen Quality.
Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Lowrance WT, Redshaw J, Oottamasathien S, Schaeffer A, Johnstone E, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Cartwright P, Smith KR, Hotaling JM. J Urol. 2017 Mar;197(3 Pt 2):898-905. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.09.110. PMCID: PMC5665568

Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population.
Zimmer Z, Hanson HA, Smith KR. Demography. 2016 Oct;53(5):1583-1603. doi: 10.1007/s13524-016-0502-x. PMCID: PMC5086077

Movers and stayers: how residential selection contributes to the association between female body mass index and neighborhood characteristics.
Smith KR, Hanson HA, Brown BB, Zick CD, Kowaleski-Jones L, Fan JX. Int J Obes (Lond). 2016 Sep;40(9):1384-1391. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2016.78. PMCID: PMC5014692

Differential Vulnerability to Early-Life Parental Death: The Moderating Effects of Family Suicide History on Risks for Major Depression and Substance Abuse in Later Life.
Hollingshaus MS, Coon H, Crowell SE, Gray DD, Hanson HA, Pimentel R, Smith KR. Biodemography Soc Biol. 2016;62(1):105-125. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2016.1138395. PMCID: PMC4929083

Recent decline in prostate cancer incidence in the United States, by age, stage, and Gleason score.
Herget KA, Patel DP, Hanson HA, Sweeney C, Lowrance WT. Cancer Med. 2016 Jan;5(1):136-141. doi: 10.1002/cam4.549. PMCID: PMC4708896

Subfertility increases risk of testicular cancer: evidence from population-based semen samples.
Hanson HA, Anderson RE, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Smith KR, Hotaling JM. Fertil Steril. 2016 Feb;105(2):322-328 e321. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.10.027. PMCID: PMC4744156

Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans.
Bolund E, Lummaa V, Smith KR, Hanson HA, Maklakov AA. Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 18;6:24672. doi: 10.1038/srep24672. PMCID: PMC4834564

Cancer risk in first- and second-degree relatives of men with poor semen quality.
Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Patel DP, Johnstone E, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Lowrance WT, Smith KR, Hotaling JM. Fertil Steril. 2016 Sep 1;106(3):731-738. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.05.021. PMCID: PMC5617641

Clarifying hierarchical age-period-cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones.
Reither EN, Land KC, Jeon SY, Powers DA, Masters RK, Zheng H, Hardy MA, Keyes KM, Fu Q, Hanson HA, Smith KR, Utz RL, Yang YC. Soc Sci Med. 2015 Nov;145:125-128. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.013. PMCID: PMC4673395

Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database.
Hanson HA, Smith KR, Zimmer Z. Demography. 2015 Dec;52(6):2021-2049. doi: 10.1007/s13524-015-0439-5. PMCID: PMC4655204

An age-period-cohort analysis of cancer incidence among the oldest old, Utah 1973-2002.
Hanson HA, Smith KR, Stroup AM, Harrell CJ. Popul Stud (Camb). 2015;69(1):7-22. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2014.958192. PMCID: PMC4428162

Survival of offspring who experience early parental death: early life conditions and later-life mortality.
Smith KR, Hanson HA, Norton MC, Hollingshaus MS, Mineau GP. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Oct;119:180-190. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.054. PMCID: PMC4087105

Geographic scale matters in detecting the relationship between neighbourhood food environments and obesity risk: an analysis of driver license records in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Fan JX, Hanson HA, Zick CD, Brown BB, Kowaleski-Jones L, Smith KR. BMJ Open. 2014 Aug 19;4(8):e005458. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005458. PMCID: PMC4139648

BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and female fertility.
Smith KR, Hanson HA, Hollingshaus MS. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Jun;25(3):207-213. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32835f1731. PMCID: PMC4010322

The male-female health-survival paradox and sex differences in cohort life expectancy in Utah, Denmark, and Sweden 1850-1910.
Lindahl-Jacobsen R, Hanson HA, Oksuzyan A, Mineau GP, Christensen K, Smith KR. Ann Epidemiol. 2013 Apr;23(4):161-166. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.02.001. PMCID: PMC3651922

Early origins of longevity: prenatal exposures to food shortage among early Utah pioneers.
Hanson HA, Smith KR. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2013 Apr;4(2):170-181. doi: 10.1017/S2040174412000682. PMCID: PMC5532803

Effects of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations on female fertility.
Smith KR, Hanson HA, Mineau GP, Buys SS. Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Apr 7;279(1732):1389-1395. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1697. PMCID: PMC3282366

Age-associated sperm DNA methylation patterns do not directly persist trans-generationally.
Jenkins TG, James ER, Aston KI, Salas-Huetos A, Pastuszak AW, Smith KR, Hanson HA,
Hotaling JM, Carrell DT (2019). Epigenetics Chromatin, 12(1), 74.

Harnessing Population Pedigree Data and Machine Learning Methods to Identify Patterns of Familial Bladder Cancer Research.
Hanson HA, Leiser CL, O'Neil B, Martin C, Gupta S, Smith KR, Dehet C, Lowrance WT, Madsen
MJ, Camp NJ (2019). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev.

Evaluation of the Sex-and-Age-Specific Effects of PM2.5 on Hospital Readmission in the Presence of the Competing Risk of Mortality in the Medicare Population of Utah 1999-2009.
Leiser CL, Smith KR, VanDerslice JA, Glotzbach JP, Farrell TW, Hanson HA (2019). J Clin Med, 8(12).

The Relative Importance of Race Compared to Health Care and Social Factors in Predicting Prostate Cancer Mortality: A Random Forest Approach.
Hanson HA, Martin C, O'Neil B, Leiser CL, Mayer EN, Smith KR, Lowrance WT (2019). J Urol, 202(6), 1209-1216.

GSVD- and tensor GSVD-uncovered patterns of DNA copy-number alterations predict adenocarcinomas survival in
general and in response to platinum.
Bradley MW, Aiello KA, Ponnapalli SP, Hanson HA, Alter O (2019). APL Bioengineering, 3(3), 036104.

Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers.
Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Leiser CL, Zhang Y, VanDerslice JA, Pope CA 3rd, Kirchhoff AC (2019). Int J Environ Res Public Health, 16(6).

Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study.
Leiser CL, Hanson HA, Sawyer K, Steenblik J, Al-Dulaimi R, Madsen T, Gibbins K, Hotaling JM, Ibrahim YO, VanDerslice JA, Fuller M (2019). Fertil Steril, 111(2), 341-347.

Heidi Hanson, PhD
Principal Investigator
Heidi.Hanson@hci.utah.edu
 

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Email: Heidi.Hanson@hci.utah.edu