Faculty

Emily White

Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology


Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1982
MS Biostatistics, University of Washington, 1979

Contact


Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Office M4-B831
Box 358080
WA

Research Interests

Cancer prevention research; epidemiologic methods; vitamin supplements and cancer; etiology of breast cancer; colorectal cancer; bladder cancer; melanoma

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-β-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction.
(2025 Jun 16)
medRxiv
Mendez JS, Queme B, Fu Y, Morrison J, Lewinger JP, Kawaguchi E, Mi H, Obón-Santacana M, Moratalla-Navarro F, Martín V, Moreno V, Lin Y, Bien SA, Qu C, Su YR, White E, Harrison TA, Huyghe JR, Tangen CM, Newcomb PA, Phipps AI, Thomas CE, Conti DV, Wang J, Platz EA, Keku TO, Newton CC, Um CY, Kundaje A, Shcherbina A, Murphy N, Gunter MJ, Dimou N, Papadimitriou N, Bézieau S, van Duijnhoven FJ, Männistö S, Rennert G, Wolk A, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Chang-Claude J, Tian Y, Le Marchand L, Cotterchio M, Tsilidis KK, Bishop DT, Melaku YA, Lynch BM, Buchanan DD, Ulrich CM, Ose J, Peoples AR, Pellatt AJ, Li L, Devall MA, Campbell PT, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Berndt SI, Gruber SB, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Song M, Joshi AD, Drew DA, Petrick JL, Chan AT, Giannakis M, Hsu L, Peters U, Gauderman WJ, Stern MC

TGFβ-dependent signaling drives tumor growth and aberrant extracellular matrix dynamics in NF1-associated plexiform neurofibroma.
(2025 Jun 20)
Sci Adv 11(25): eadu0772
Abu-Sultanah M, Zhou Z, Jiang C, Mitchell DK, Bessler WK, Jiang L, Li X, Qian S, Smith AE, Mang HE, White EE, Ciesielski MD, Hickey BE, Brewster KM, Sandusky GE, Masters A, Angus SP, Clapp DW, Le LQ, Rhodes SD

Alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk: An analysis from 30 prospective studies across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
(2025 May)
PLoS Med 22(5): e1004590
Naudin S, Wang M, Dimou N, Ebrahimi E, Genkinger J, Adami HO, Albanes D, Babic A, Barnett M, Bogumil D, Cai H, Chen C, Eliassen AH, Freudenheim JL, Gierach G, Giovannucci EL, Gunter MJ, Håkansson N, Hirabayashi M, Hou T, Huang BZ, Huang WY, Jayasekara H, Jones ME, Katzke VA, Koh WP, Lacey JV, Lagerros YT, Larsson SC, Liao LM, Lo K, Loftfield E, MacInnis RJ, Männistö S, McCullough ML, Miller A, Milne RL, Moore SC, Mucci LA, Neuhouser ML, Patel AV, Platz EA, Prizment A, Robien K, Rohan TE, Sacerdote C, Sandin S, Sawada N, Schoemaker M, Shu XO, Sinha R, Snetselaar L, Stampfer MJ, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Thomson CA, Tjønneland A, Um CY, van den Brandt PA, Visvanathan K, Wang SS, Wang R, Weiderpass E, Weinstein SJ, White E, Willett W, Woslk A, Wolpin BM, Yaun SS, Yuan C, Yuan JM, Zheng W, Brennan P, Smith-Warner SA, Ferrari P

Association between socioeconomic position and lung cancer incidence in 16 countries: a prospective cohort consortium study.
(2025 Apr)
EClinicalMedicine 82(): 103152
Onwuka JU, Zahed H, Feng X, Alcala K, Erhunmwunsee L, Williams RM, Aldrich MC, Ahluwalia JS, Albanes D, Arslan AA, Bassett JK, Brennan P, Cai Q, Chen C, Dimou N, Ferrari P, Freedman ND, Huang WY, Jones ME, Jones MR, Kaaks R, Koh WP, Langhammer A, Liao LM, Malekzadeh R, Milne RL, Rohan TE, Sánchez MJ, Sheikh M, Sinha R, Shu XO, Stevens VL, Tinker LF, Visvanathan K, Wang Y, Wang R, Weinstein SJ, White E, Yuan JM, Zheng W, Johansson M, Robbins HA

Accurate fusion transcript identification from long- and short-read isoform sequencing at bulk or single-cell resolution.
(2025 Apr 14)
Genome Res 35(4): 967-986
Qin Q, Popic V, Wienand K, Yu H, White E, Khorgade A, Shin A, Georgescu C, Campbell CD, Dondi A, Beerenwinkel N, Vazquez F, Al'Khafaji AM, Haas BJ

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