Selected Publications

  1. Lundgren SN, Madan JC, Emond JA, Morrison HG, Christensen BC, Karagas MR, Hoen AG. Maternal diet during pregnancy is related with the infant stool microbiome in a delivery mode-dependent manner. Microbiome. 2018 Jul 5;6(1):109. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0490-8. PMID: 29973274
  2. Punshon T, Jackson BP. Essential micronutrient and toxic trace element concentrations in gluten containing and gluten-free foods. Food Chem. 2018 Jun 30;252:258-264. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.01.120. PMID: 29478539
  3. Salas LA, Koestler DC, Butler RA, Hansen HM, Wiencke JK, Kelsey KT, Christensen BC. An optimized library for reference-based deconvolution of whole-blood biospecimens assayed using the Illumina HumanMethylationEPIC BeadArray. Genome Biol. 2018 May 29;19(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7. PMID: 29843789
  4. Salas LA, Johnson KC, Koestler DC, O'Sullivan DE, Christensen BC. Integrative epigenetic and genetic pan-cancer somatic alteration portraits. Epigenetics. 2017 Jul 3;12(7):561-574. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2017.1319043. Epub 2017 Apr 20. PMID: 28426276
  5. Rapuano KM, Zieselman AL, Kelley WM, Sargent JD, Heatherton TF, Gilbert-Diamond D. Genetic risk for obesity predicts nucleus accumbens size and responsivity to real-world food cues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jan 3;114(1):160-165. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605548113. Epub 2016 Dec 19. PMID: 27994159 PMCID: PMC5224374
  6. Johnson, KC, Houseman, EA, King, JE, Christensen, BC. Normal breast tissue DNA methylation differences at regulatory elements are associated with the cancer risk factor age. Breast Cancer Research. 2017 Jul 10;19(1):81. PMC5504720
  7. Koestler DC, Usset JL, Christensen BC, Marsit CJ, Karagas MR, Kelsey KT, Wiencke JK. DNA methylation-derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio: an epigenetic tool to explore cancer inflammation and outcomes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Dec 13. pii: cebp.0461.2016. PMID: 27965295
  8. Johnson KC, Houseman EA, King JE, von Herrmann KM, Fadul CE, Christensen BC. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine localizes to enhancer elements and is associated with survival in glioblastoma patients. Nat Commun. 2016 Nov 25;7:13177. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13177. PMID: 27886174 PMCID: PMC5133638.
  9. Rees JR, Mott LA, Barry EL, Baron JA, Bostick RM, Figueiredo JC, Bresalier RS, Robertson DJ, Peacock JL. Lifestyle and Other Factors Explain One-Half of the Variability in the Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Response to Cholecalciferol Supplementation in Healthy Adults. J Nutr. 2016 Nov;146(11):2312-2324. PMID: 27683872 PMCID: PMC5086794.
  10. Houseman EA, Johnson KC, Christensen BC. OxyBS: estimation of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine from tandem-treated oxidative bisulfite and bisulfite DNA. Bioinformatics. 2016 Aug 15;32(16):2505-7. PMID: 27153596 PMCID: PMC4978924
  11. Fried D, Rhyu J, Odata KB, Blunt HB, Karagas MR, Gilbert-Diamond D, Maternal and cord blood vitamin D status and childhood infection and allergic disease: a systematic review. Nutrition Reviews. 2016 Jun;74(6):387-410. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuv108. Epub 2016 Apr 15. PMID: 27083486 PMCID: PMC4892299
  12. O'Sullivan DE, Johnson KC, Skinner L, Koestler DC, Christensen BC. Epigenetic and genetic burden measures are associated with tumor characteristics in invasive breast carcinoma. Epigenetics. 2016 May 3;11(5):344-53. PMID: 27070496 PMCID: PMC4889287
  13. Koestler DC, Jones MJ, Usset J, Christensen BC, Butler RA, Kobor MS, Wiencke JK, Kelsey KT. Improving cell mixture deconvolution by identifying optimal DNA methylation libraries (IDOL). BMC Bioinformatics. 2016 Mar 8;17(1):120. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-0943-7. PMCID: PMC4782368
  14. Gilbert-Diamond D, Emond J, Korrick S, Baker ER, Karagas MR. Relation between in utero arsenic exposure and birth outcomes in a cohort of mothers and their newborns from New Hampshire. Environ Health Perspect. 2016 Aug;124(8):1299-307. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1510065. Epub 2016 Mar 8. PMID: 26955061 PMCID: PMC4977046
  15. Madan, JC. Neonatal Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis: Potential Interactions and Implications for Systematic Health. Clin Ther. 2016 Apr;38(4):740-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2016.02.008. Epub 2016 Mar 10. PMID: 26973296 PMCID: PMC5206974
  16. Chernikova D, Koestler D, Hoen AG, Housman ML,Hibberd P, Moore JH, Morrison HG, Sogin ML, Zain-Ul-Abideen M, Madan JC. Fetal exposures and perinatal influences on the stool microbiota of premature infants. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016; 29(1):99-105. PMID: 25394613 PMCID: PMC4476945
  17. Madan JC, Hoen AG, Lundgren SN, Farzan SF, Cottingham KL, Morrison HG, Sogin ML, Li H, Moore JH, Karagas MR. Association of Cesarean Delivery and Formula Supplementation with the Intestinal Microbiome of 6-Week-Old Infants. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Mar;170(3):212-9. PMID: 26752321 PMCID: PMC4783194
  18. Emond JA, Bernhardt AM, Gilbert-Diamond D, Li Z, Sargent JD. Commercial Television Exposure, Fast Food Toy Collecting, and Family Visits to Fast Food Restaurants among Families Living in Rural Communities. J Pediatr. 2016 Jan; 158-163.e1.
  19. De R, Verma SS, Drenos F, Holzinger ER, Holmes MV, Hall MA, Crosslin DR, Carrell DS, Hakonarson H, Jarvik G, Larson E, Pacheco JA, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Moore CB, Asselbergs FW, Moore JH, Ritchie MD, Keating BJ, Gilbert-Diamond D. Identifying gene-gene interactions that are highly associated with Body Mass Index using Quantitative Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (QMDR). BioData Min. 2015 Dec 14;8:41.
  20. De R, Hu T, Moore JH, Gilbert-Diamond D. Characterizing gene-gene interactions in a statistical epistasis network of twelve candidate genes for obesity. BioData Min. 2015 Dec 29;8:45.
  21. Emond, J, Smith, M, Mathur, S, Sargent JD, Gilbert-Diamond, D. Children's Food and Beverage Promotion on Television to Parents. Pediatrics. 2015 Dec;136(6):1095-102.
  22. Punshon T, Davis MA, Marsit CJ, Theiler SK, Baker ER, Jackson BP, Conway DC, Karagas MR. Placental arsenic concentrations in relation to both maternal and infant biomarkers of exposure in a US cohort. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2015 Nov-Dec;25(6):599-603.
  23. Carignan C, Karagas MR, Punshon T, Gilbert-Diamond, D and Cottingham, K. Contribution of breast milk and formula to arsenic exposure during the first year of life in a US prospective cohort. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2015 Nov 4.
  24. Punshon T, Chen S, Finney L, Howard L, Jackson BP, Karagas MR, Ornvold K. High-resolution elemental mapping of human placental chorionic villi using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2015 Sep;407(22):66839-50.
  25. Johnson KC, Koestler DC, Fleischer T, Chen P, Jenson EG, Marotti JD, Onega T, Kristensen VN, Christensen BC. DNA methylation in ductal carcinoma in situ related with future development of invasive breast cancer. Clin Epigenetics. 2015 Jul 25;7(1):75.
  26. Hoen AG, Li J, Moulton LA, O'Toole GA, Housman ML, Koestler D, Guill MF, Moore JH, Hibberd PL, Morrison H, Sogin M, Karagas M, Madan J. Associations between Gut Microbial Colonization in Early Life and Respiratory Outcomes in Cystic Fibrosis. J Pediatr. 2015 Jul;167(1):138-147.e3.
  27. Carignan CC, Cottingham KL, Jackson BP, Farzan SF, Gandolfi AJ, Punshon T, Folt CL, Karagas MR. Estimated Exposure to Arsenic in Breastfed and Formula-Fed Infants in a United States Cohort. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 May; 123(5):500-6.
  28. Beaulieu-Jones BR, O'Brien DM, Hopkins SE, Moore JH, Boyer BB, Gilbert-Diamond D. Sex, Adiposity, and Hypertension Status Modify the Inverse Effect of Marine Food Intake on Blood Pressure in Alaska Native (Yup'ik) People. J Nutr. 2015 May;145(5):931-8.
  29. Shi X, Ayotte JD, Onda A, Miller S, Rees J, Gilbert-Diamond D, Onega T, Gui, J, Karagas M, Moeschler J. Geospatial Association between Low Birth Weight and Arsenic in Groundwater in New Hampshire, USA. Environ Geochem Health. 2015 Apr;37(2): 333-51.
  30. Davis MA, Higgins J, Li Z, Gilbert-Diamond D, Baker ER, Das A, Karagas MR. Preliminary analysis of in utero low-level arsenic exposure and fetal growth using biometric measurements extracted from fetal ultrasound reports. Environ Health. 2015 Mar 30;14:12.
  31. Jackson B, Punshon T. Recent Advances in the Measurement of Arsenic, Cadmium, and Mercury in Rice and Other Foods. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2015 Mar 1;2(1):15-24.
  32. Emond JA, Sargent JD, Gilbert-Diamond D. Patterns of energy drink advertising over US television networks. J Nutr Educ behav. 2015 Mar-Apr;47(2):120-6.
  33. Bernhardt AM, Wilking C, Gilbert-Diamond D, Emond JA, Sargent JD. Children's Recall of Fast Food Television Advertising - Testing the Adequacy of Food Marketing Regulation. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 4;10(3): e0119300.
  34. Lansigan RK, Emond JA, Gilbert-Diamond D. Understanding eating in the absence of hunger among young children: a systematic review of existing studies. Appetite. 2015 Feb;85:36-47.
  35. Gossai A, Lesseur C, Farzan S, Marsit C, Karagas MR, Gilbert-Diamond D. Association between maternal urinary arsenic species and infant cord blood leptin levels in a New Hampshire Pregnancy Cohort. Environ Res. 2015 Jan;136:180-6.
  36. Emond JA, Gilbert-Diamond D, Tanski S, Sargent JD. Energy drink consumption and the risk of alcohol use disorder among a national sample of adolescents and young adults. J Pediatr. 2014 Dec;165(6):1194-200.
  37. Davis MA, Li Z, Gilbert-Diamond D, Mackenzie TA, Cottingham KL, Jackson BP, Lee JS, Baker ER, Marsit CJ, Karagas MR. Infant toenails as a biomarker of in utero arsenic exposure. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2014 Sept-Oct;24(5):467-73.
  38. De R, Verma SS, Drenos F, Holmes M, Asselbergs F, Moore JH, Keating B, Ritchie M, Gilbert-Diamond D. Dissecting the obesity disease landscape: identifying gene-gene interactions that are associated with Body Mass Index. Systems Biology (ISB) 2014 Oct. Pg. 124-131. 14823457.
  39. Davis MA, Gilbert-Diamond D, Karagas MR, Li Z, Moore JH, Williams SM, Frost HR. A Dietary-Wide Association Study (DWAS) of environmental Metal Exposure in US Children and Adults. PLoS One. 2014 Sep 8;9(9):e104768.
  40. Fleischer T, Frigessi A, Johnson KC, Edvardsen H, Touleimat N, Klajic J, Riis M, Haakensen V, Wärnberg F, Naume B, Helland A, Børresen-Dale AL, Tost J, Christensen BC, Kristensen VN. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in progression to in situ and invasive carcinoma of the breast with impact on gene transcription and prognosis. Genome Biol. 2014 Aug;15(8):435.
  41. Hermand V, Julio E, Dorlhac de Borne F, Punshon T, Ricachenevsky FK, Bellec A, Gosti F, Berthomieu P. Inactivation of two newly identified tobacco heavy metal ATPases leads to reduced Zn and Cd accumulation in shoots and reduced pollen germination. Metallomics. 2014 Aug;6(8):1427-40.
  42. Karagas MR, Zens MS, Li Z, Stukel TA, Perry AE, Gilbert-Diamond D, Sayarath V, Stephenson RS, Nelson HH, Spencer SK. Early-onset basal cell carcinoma and indoor tanning: a population-based study. Pediatrics. 2014 Jul;134(1):e4-12.
  43. Sverrisson EF, Zens MS, Fei DL, Andrews A, Schned A, Robbins D, Kelsey KT, Li H, DiRenzo J, Karagas MR, Seigne JD. Clinicopathological correlates of Gli1 expression in a population-based cohort of patients with newly diagnosed bladder cancer. Urol Oncol. 2014 Jul;32(5):539-45.
  44. Gilbert-Diamond D, Li Z, Adachi-Mejia AM, McClure AC, Sargent JD. Association of a Television in the Bedroom With Increased Adiposity Gain in a Nationally Representative Sample of Children and Adolescents. JAMA Pediatr. 2014 May;168(5):427-34.
  45. Zhai Z, Gayomba SR, Jung HI, Vimalakumari NK, Piñeros M, Craft E, Rutzke MA, Danku J, Lahner B, Punshon T, Guerinot ML, Salt DE, Kochian LV, Vatamaniuk OK. OPT3 Is a Phloem-Specific Iron Transporter That Is Essential for Systemic Iron Signaling and Redistribution of Iron and Cadmium in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2014 May 27;26(5):2249-2264.
  46. Ung M, Ma X, Johnson KC, Christensen BC, Cheng C. Effect of estrogen receptor alpha binding on functional DNA methylation in breast cancer. Epigenetics. 2014 Apr 1;9(4):523-32.
  47. Selvakumar P, Owens TA, David JM, Thomas GV, Petrelli NJ, Christensen BC, Lakshmikuttyamma A, Rajasekaran AK. Epigenetic silencing of Na,K-ATPase B1 subunit gene ATP1B1 by methylation in clear renal cell carcinoma. Epigenetics. 2014 Apr 1;9(4):579-86
  48. Johnson KC, Koestler DC, Cheng C, Christensen BC. Age-related DNA methylation in normal breast tissue and its relationship with invasive breast tumor methylation. Epigenetics. 2014 Feb;9(2):268-75.
  49. Punshon T, Tappero R, Ricachenevsky FK, Hirschi K, Nakata PA. Contrasting calcium localization and speciation in leaves of the Medicago truncatula mutant cod5 analyzed via synchrotron X-ray techniques. Plant J. 2013 Nov;76(4):627-33.
  50. Punshon T, Ricachenevsky FK, Hindt MN, Socha AL, Zuber H. Methodological approaches for using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) imaging as a tool in ionomics: examples from Arabidopsis thaliana. Metallomics. 2013 Sep;5(9):1133-45