Shuai Xu
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Shuai Xu has a total of 78 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Adetunji T. Toriola
Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
25 shared publications - Babatunde Adedokun
Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
19 shared publications - Kayla R. Getz
Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor Michigan USA
19 shared publications - Wei Zheng
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt‐Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville Tennessee USA
19 shared publications - Guochong Jia
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
17 shared publications - Jirong Long
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
17 shared publications
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 24 November 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplemental Figure 1 from Breastfeeding and Mammographic Breast Density: A Cross-sectional Study
Supplemental Figure 1: Flowchart displaying how we arrived at the final analytic sample. Among the women recruited to the study, 127 were missing breastfeeding duration and 32 were missing values for all of the MBD measures. An additional 18 participants were missing values for one of the confounding variables; 11 women were missing age at menarche, 1 woman was missing BMI and 6 women were missing information about family history of breast cancer.
- 24 November 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplemental Figure 1 from Breastfeeding and Mammographic Breast Density: A Cross-sectional Study
Supplemental Figure 1: Flowchart displaying how we arrived at the final analytic sample. Among the women recruited to the study, 127 were missing breastfeeding duration and 32 were missing values for all of the MBD measures. An additional 18 participants were missing values for one of the confounding variables; 11 women were missing age at menarche, 1 woman was missing BMI and 6 women were missing information about family history of breast cancer.
- Open Access
- 24 November 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplemental Table 1 from Breastfeeding and Mammographic Breast Density: A Cross-sectional Study
Supplemental Table 1 shows results from IPW analysis.
- 24 November 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplemental Table 1 from Breastfeeding and Mammographic Breast Density: A Cross-sectional Study
Supplemental Table 1 shows results from IPW analysis.
- Open Access
- 16 October 2025
- Published by Wiley in Cancer Medicine
- Vol. 14 (20) , e71301
A Transcriptome‐Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Susceptibility Loci and Genes for Lung Cancer Risk
Background: Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 80 susceptibility loci for lung cancer risk. However, the genes underlying these associations remain largely unknown. Methods: We conducted a large transcriptome‐wide association study (TWAS) to identify lung cancer susceptibility genes. We leveraged gene expression data from lungs and 48 other tissue types and whole‐genome sequencing data from up to 706 samples of European ancestry in the GTEx (version 8) to build lung‐tissue and joint‐tissue gene expression prediction models. These models were applied to GWAS data, including 29,266 lung cancer cases and 56,450 controls, to assess the associations of genetically predicted gene expression levels with lung cancer risk. Results: A total of 8624 genes were successfully built for single‐tissue models, and 11,341 genes for joint‐tissue models (12,133 unique genes altogether). Among 40 genes whose expression levels were associated with the risk of lung cancer at a Bonferroni‐corrected significance level, ZKSCAN4 was located more than 2 Mb away from the GWAS‐identified variants linked to lung cancer. Among the remaining 39 genes within 2 Mb of GWAS‐identified variants, seven genes were independent of these. Among 53 genes associated with the risk of lung cancer subtypes, 13 genes were beyond 2 Mb of GWAS‐identified variants, and four genes were independent of the GWAS‐identified variants within 2 Mb regions. Conclusion: Our TWAS identified over 50 candidate susceptibility genes for lung cancer, providing new insights into lung cancer genetics.
- 16 October 2025
- Published by Wiley in Cancer Medicine
- Vol. 14 (20) , e71301
Open AccessA Transcriptome‐Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Susceptibility Loci and Genes for Lung Cancer Risk
Background: Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 80 susceptibility loci for lung cancer risk. However, the genes underlying these associations remain largely unknown. Methods: We conducted a large transcriptome‐wide association study (TWAS) to identify lung cancer susceptibility genes. We leveraged gene expression data from lungs and 48 other tissue types and whole‐genome sequencing data from up to 706 samples of European ancestry in the GTEx (version 8) to build lung‐tissue and joint‐tissue gene expression prediction models. These models were applied to GWAS data, including 29,266 lung cancer cases and 56,450 controls, to assess the associations of genetically predicted gene expression levels with lung cancer risk. Results: A total of 8624 genes were successfully built for single‐tissue models, and 11,341 genes for joint‐tissue models (12,133 unique genes altogether). Among 40 genes whose expression levels were associated with the risk of lung cancer at a Bonferroni‐corrected significance level, ZKSCAN4 was located more than 2 Mb away from the GWAS‐identified variants linked to lung cancer. Among the remaining 39 genes within 2 Mb of GWAS‐identified variants, seven genes were independent of these. Among 53 genes associated with the risk of lung cancer subtypes, 13 genes were beyond 2 Mb of GWAS‐identified variants, and four genes were independent of the GWAS‐identified variants within 2 Mb regions. Conclusion: Our TWAS identified over 50 candidate susceptibility genes for lung cancer, providing new insights into lung cancer genetics.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 2 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Figure 2 shows spearman correlation between the healthy lifestyle score and metabolic signature.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 2 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Figure 2 shows spearman correlation between the healthy lifestyle score and metabolic signature.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Table 3 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 3 shows selected baseline characteristics of study participants by training and testing sets in the UK Biobank.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Table 3 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 3 shows selected baseline characteristics of study participants by training and testing sets in the UK Biobank.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Table 4 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 4 shows selected baseline characteristics of study participants in the Rotterdam Study.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Table 4 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 4 shows selected baseline characteristics of study participants in the Rotterdam Study.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Table 1 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 1 shows ACS guidelines for cancer prevention and lifestyle components of the HLS in the UK Biobank.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Table 1 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 1 shows ACS guidelines for cancer prevention and lifestyle components of the HLS in the UK Biobank.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Table 5 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 5 shows association of the metabolic signature of healthy lifestyles with CRC risk in the Rotterdam Study.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Table 5 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Table 5 shows association of the metabolic signature of healthy lifestyles with CRC risk in the Rotterdam Study.
- Open Access
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Supplementary Figure 3 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Figure 3 shows correlation matrix for the top (20 positive and 20 negative) contributing metabolic biomarkers to the metabolic signature.
- 2 September 2025
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Open AccessSupplementary Figure 3 from A Blood Metabolic Signature of a Healthy Lifestyle and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Results from Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Studies
Supplementary Figure 3 shows correlation matrix for the top (20 positive and 20 negative) contributing metabolic biomarkers to the metabolic signature.