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Geffen Kleinstern, Dennis P Robinson, Rania Abu Seir, Riki Perlman, Jianjun Liu, Nidal Jebrini, Hussein Elyan, Dina Ben Yehuda, Susan L Slager, Ora Paltiel. European-Based Polygenic Risk Score and Genome-Wide Association Study of B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes in Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. British Journal of Haematology. August 2025. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40887045.
Talia Israel, Baruch Kaplan, Naama Tova Cohen, Shany Sherman, Geffen Kleinstern@, Khalaf Kridin@. Is a history of malignant melanoma associated with subsequent vitiligo?- Insights from a population-based case-control study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. August 2025 6;14(15):5546. PMID: 40807166 @ Co-last authors
Bushra Mahameed, Giora Sharf, Tamar Tadmor@, Geffen Kleinstern@. Health-related quality of life in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in active surveillance and active treatment. European Journal of Haematology. 2025 July 31. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40746021 @ Co-last authors
Geffen Kleinstern, Dennis P Robinson, Lisa M Rimsza, Melissa C Larson, Rebecca L King, Grzegorz S Nowakowski, Carrie A Thompson, Stephen M Ansell, Matthew J Maurer, Andrew L Feldman, Susan L Slager, Anne J Novak, Thomas M Habermann, James R Cerhan. Evaluation of Etiologic Heterogeneity for Risk of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Subtype Defined by the Cell of Origin. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & prevention. 2025 May 2;34(5):780-787.
Ingrid Glimelius@, Geffen Kleinstern@, Robinson DP, Mansouri L, Rostgaard K, Hjalgrim H, Niemann CU, Mattsson M, Rabe KG, Hampel PJ, Parikh SA, Rosenquist R, Cerhan JR, Slager SL, Smedby KE. Medical history and lifestyle factors have limited impact on time-to-first treatment in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. European Journal of Haematology. Aug 2024. 27;5(5):998-1004. PMID:39415908 @ Co-first authors
Geffen Kleinstern, Nicholas J. Boddicker, Daniel R. O’Brien, Cristine Allmer, Kari G. Rabe, Aaron D. Norman, Rosalie Griffin, Huihuang Yan, Tao Ma, Timothy G. Call, Laura Bruins, Sochilt Brown, Cecilia Bonolo de Campos, Curtis A. Hanson, Jose F. Leis, Wei Ding, Celine M. Vachon, Neil E. Kay, Christopher C. Oakes, Alexander S. Parker, Danielle M. Brander, J. Brice Weinberg, Richard R. Furman, Tait D. Shanafelt, James R. Cerhan, Sameer A. Parikh*, Esteban Braggio*, Susan L. Slager*. Tumor mutational load is prognostic for progression to therapy among high-count monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (HCMBL). Blood Advances. Feb 2024. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38359367.
Rosalie Griffin, Julia E. Wiedmeier-Nutor, ameer A. Parikh, Chantal E. McCabe, Daniel R. O’Brien, Nicholas J. Boddicker, Kleinstern G, Kari G. Rabe, Laura Bruins, Sochilt Brown, Cecilia Bonolo de Campos, Wei Ding, Jose F. Leis, Paul J. Hampel, Timothy G. Call, Daniel L. Van Dyke, Neil E. Kay, James R. Cerhan, Huihuang Yan, Susan L. Slager, and Esteban Braggio. Differential prognosis of single and multiple TP53 abnormalities in high-count MBL and untreated CLL. Blood Advances. 2023 Jul 11;7(13):3169-3179. PMID: 36877634.
Kleinstern G, Susan L Slager. The Inherited Genetic Contribution and Polygenic Risk Score for Risk of CLL and MBL: A Narrative Review. Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2023 Apr;64(4):788-798. PMID:36576061.
Boyle T, Kleinstern G, Bracci PM, Cerhan JR, Benavente Y, Casabonne D, Chiu BC, Habermann TM, Holly EA, Liebow M, Norman A, Paltiel O, Robinson D, Rothman N, Seir RA, Slager SL, Villeneuve PJ, Wang SS, Weisenburger DD, Spinelli JJ. Physical activity and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis. International Journal of Cancer. 2023 Feb 1;152(3):396-407. PMID: 36054546.
Sonja I Berndt, Joseph Vijai, Yolanda Benavente, Nicola J Camp, Alexandra Nieters, Zhaoming Wang, Karin E Smedby, Kleinstern G, Henrik Hjalgrim, Caroline M Besson, Christine F Skibola, Lindsay M Morton, Angela R Brooks-Wilson, Lauren R Teras, Hans-Olov Adami, Demetrius Albanes, Kenneth C Anderson, Stephen M Ansell, Djordje Atanackovic, Bryan Bassig, Nikolaus Becker, Parveen Bhatti, Brenda M Birmann, Paolo Boffetta, Paige M Bracci, Paul Brennan, Elizabeth E Brown, Laurie Burdett, Lisa A Cannon-Albright, Ellen T Chang, Brian C H Chiu, Charles C Chung, Jacqueline Clavel, Pierluigi Cocco, Graham Colditz, Lucia Conde, David V Conti, David G Cox, Karen Curtin, Anneclaire J De Roos, Immaculata De Vivo, W Ryan Diver, Ahmet Dogan, Christopher K Edlund, Lenka Foretova, Joseph F Fraumeni Jr, Attilio Gabbas, Hervé Ghesquières, Graham G Giles, Sally Glaser, Martha Glenn, Bengt Glimelius, Jian Gu, Thomas M Habermann, Christopher A Haiman, Corinne Haioun, Jonathan N Hofmann, Theodore R Holford, Elizabeth A Holly, Amy Hutchinson, Rebecca D Jackson, Ruth F Jarrett, Rudolph Kaaks, Eleanor Kane, Laurence N Kolonel, Yinfei Kong, Peter Kraft, Anne Kricker, Annette Lake, Qing Lan, Charles Lawrence, Dalin Li, Mark Liebow, Tracy Lightfoot, Brian K Link, Corrado Magnani, Ann Maria, Marc Maynadie, James McKay, Mads Melbye, Lucia Miligi, Roger L Milne, Thierry J Molina, Alain Monnereau, Rebecca Montalvan, Amy Moore, Jacob Musinsky, Kari E North, Anne J Novak, Kenan Onel, Mark P Purdue, Kristin A Rand, Elio Riboli, Jacques Riby, Eve Roman, Gilles Salles, Richard K Severson, Tait D Shanafelt, Martyn T Smith, Alexandra Smith, Kevin W Song, Lei Song, Melissa C Southey, John J Spinelli, Anthony Staines, Heather J Sutherland, Carrie A Thompson, Hervé Tilly, Lesley F Tinker, Ruth C Travis, Guido Tricot, Jenny Turner, Celine M Vachon, Claire M Vajdic, Anke Van Den Berg, David J Van Den Berg, Roel C H Vermeulen, Paolo Vineis, Alice H Wang, Sophia S Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, George J Weiner, Stephanie Weinstein, Nicole Wong Doo, Yuanqing Ye, Meredith Yeager, Kai Yu, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Yawei Zhang, Tongzhang Zheng, Elad Ziv, Joshua Sampson, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Silvia de Sanjose, Kenneth Offit, Wendy Cozen, Xifeng Wu, James R Cerhan, Stephen J Chanock, Susan L Slager, Nathaniel Rothman. Distinct genetic susceptibility profiles identified for common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes. Leukemia. Dec 2022; 36(12):2835-2844; Epub 2022 Oct 22. PMID: 36273105.
Susan L Slager, Sameer A Parikh, Sara J Achenbach, Aaron D Norman, Kari G Rabe, Nicholas J Boddicker, Janet E Olson, Kleinstern G, Connie E Lesnick, Timothy G Call, James R Cerhan, Celine M Vachon, Neil E Kay, Esteban Braggio, Curtis A Hanson, Tait D Shanafelt. Progression and Survival of Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis (MBL): A screening study of 10,139 individuals. Blood. 2022 Oct 13;140(15):1702-1709. PMID: 35969843.
Kleinstern G, Dirk R. Larson, Cristine Allmer, Aaron D. Norman, Grace Muntifering, Jason Sinnwell2, Alissa Visram, Vincent Rajkumar, Angela Dispenzieri, Robert A. Kyle, Susan L. Slager, Shaji Kumar, Celine M. Vachon. Body Mass Index Associated with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) Progression in Olmsted County, Minnesota. Blood Cancer Journal. 2022 Apr 19;12(4):67-73. PMID: 35440099.
Celine M. Vachon, Josiah Murray; Cristine Allmer, Dirk Larson, Aaron D. Norman, Jason P Sinnwell, Angela Dispenzieri, Kleinstern G, Alissa Visram, Robert A. Kyle, ; S. Vincent Rajkumar, Susan L. Slager, Shaji K. Kumar, David L. Murray. Prevalence of Heavy Chain MGUS by Race and Family History Risk Groups Using a High Sensitivity Screening Method. Blood Advances. 2022 June 28;6(12):3746-3750. PMID: 35316833
Nicholas Boddicker, Sara Achenbach, Sameer Parikh, Kleinstern G, Esteban Braggio, Aaron Norman, Kari Rabe, Celine Vachon, Connie Lesnick, Timothy Call, Janet Olson, James Cerhan, Neil KAY, Curtis Hanson, Tail Shanafelt, Susan Slager. Associations of history of vaccination and hospitalization due to infection with risk of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis. Leukemia. 2022 May;36(5):1404-1407. Epub 2022 Feb 15. PMID: 35169244.
Kleinstern G, Zigron R, Porat S, Rosenbloom JI, Rottenstreich M, Sompolinsky Y, Rottenstreich A. Duration of the second stage of labor and risk of subsequent spontaneous preterm birth. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2022 Sep;129(10):1743-1749. Epub 2022 Jan 29.
Kleinstern G, Dennis P. Robinson, Carrie A. Thompson, Melissa C. Larson, Cristine Allmer, Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, Timothy G. Call, Stephen M. Ansell, Andrew L. Feldman, Neil E. Kay, Thomas. Vaccination history and risk of lymphoma and its major subtypes. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & prevention. 2022 Feb;31(2):461-470. Epub 2021 Nov 15. PMID: 34782394.
Kleinstern G, Weinberg JB, Parikh SA, Braggio E, Achenbach SJ, Robinson DP, Norman AD, Rabe KG, Boddicker NJ, Vachon CM, Lesnick CE, Call TG, Brander DM, Rassenti LZ, Kipps TJ, Olson JE, Cerhan JR, Kay NE, Furman RR, Hanson CA, Shanafelt TD, Slager SL. Polygenic risk score and risk of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis in caucasians and risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in African Americans. Leukemia. 2022 Jan;36(1)119-125. Epub 2021 Jul 20.
Parikh SA, Rabe KG, Kay NE, Call TG, Ding W, Leis JF, Kenderian SS, Muchtar E, Wang Y, Koehler AB, Schwager SM, Lesnick CE, Kleinstern G, Van Dyke D, Hanson CA, Braggio E, Slager SL, Shanafelt TD. The CLL International Prognostic Index predicts outcomes in monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis and Rai 0 CLL. Blood. 2021 Jul 15;138(2):149-159. PMID: 33876228.
Slager, S.L., Lanasa, M.C., Marti, G. e, Achenbach, S.J., Camp, N.J., Abbasi, F., Kay, N.E., Vachon, C.M., Cerhan, J.R., Johnston, J.B., Call T.G, Rabe K.G, Kleinstern G, et al. (2020). Natural History of Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis (MBL) Among Relatives in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Families. Blood. 2021 Apr 15;137(15):2046-2056. PMID: 33876228.
Kleinstern G, Scott, C.G., Tamimi, R.M., Jensen, M.R., Pankratz, V.S., Bertrand, K.A., Norman, A.D., Visscher, D.W., Couch, F.J., Brandt, K., et al. (2021). Association of mammographic density measures and breast cancer “intrinsic” molecular subtypes. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2021 May;187(1)215-224. Epub 2021 Jan 4. PMID: 33392844.
Tait D. Shanafelt, Neil E. Kay, Sameer A. Parikh, Sara J. Achenbach, Connie Lesnick, Curtis A. Hanson, Kleinstern G, Janet E. Olson, Aaron D. Norman, Kari G. Rabe, Susan M. Schwager, Tim G. Call, Susan L. Slager. Risk of Serious Infection Among Individuals With and Without Low Count Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis (MBL). Leukemia. 2021 Jan;35(1)239-244. PMID: 32203143
Caroline M Besson, Amy Moore, Wenting Wu, Claire M Vajdic, Silvia de Sanjose, Nicola J Camp, Karin E Smedby, Tait D Shanafelt, Lindsay M Morton, Jerry D Brewer, Lydia Zablotska, Shengchao Li, Charles C Chung, Nicole Wong Doo, Lauren R Teras, Kleinstern G, Alain Monnereau, Eleanor Kane, Yolanda Benavente, Mark P Purdue, Lynn R Goldin, Brenda M Birmann, Brian K Link, Roel C H Vermeulen, John J Spinelli, Demetrius Albanes, Alan A Arslan, Lucia Miligi, Thierry J Molina, Christine F Skibola, Yawei Zhang, Wendy Cozen, Anthony Staines, Neil E Caporaso, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, Roger L Milne, Lesley F Tinker, Richard K Severson, Mads Melbye, Hans-Olov Adami, Bengt Glimelius, Paige M Bracci, Lucia Conde, Martha Glenn, Karen Curtin, Qing Lan, Tongzhang Zheng, Stephanie Weinstein, Angela R Brooks-Wilson, W Ryan Diver, Jacqueline Clavel, Paolo Vineis, Elisabete Weiderpass46, Nikolaus Becker, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Lenka Foretova, Marc Maynadie, J Brice Weinberg, Sonia Sanna, Fabio Culurgioni, Angela Gambelunghe, Annie Lincoln, Rebecca D Jackson, Henrik Hjalgrim, Kari E North, James McKay, Kenneth Offit, Joseph Vijai, Alexandra Nieters, Eric A Engels, Stephen J Chanock, Nathaniel Rothman, James R Cerhan, Susan L Slager, Jiali Han, Sonja I Berndt. Common genetic polymorphisms contribute to the association between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and non-melanoma skin cancer. InternationL Journal of Epidemiology. 2021 Aug 30;50(4):1325-1334. PMID: 33748835.
Huihuang Yan, Shulan Tian, Kleinstern G, Zhiquan Wang, Jeong-Heon Lee, Nicholas J. Boddicker, James R. Cerhan, Neil E. Kay, Esteban Braggio, Susan L. Slager. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) risk is mediated by multiple enhancer variants within CLL risk loci. Human Molecular Genetics. 2020 Sep 29;29(16):2761-2774. PMID: 32744316
Kleinstern G, Abdul Rishi, Sara J. Achenbach, Kari G. Rabe, Neil E. Kay, Tait D. Shanafelt, Wei Ding, Joe F. Leis, Aaron D. Norman, Timothy G. Call, James R. Cerhan, Sameer A. Parikh, Christian L. Baum, Susan L. Slager. Delineation of clinical and biological factors associated with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Journal of American Academy of Dermatology. 2020 Dec;83(6):1581-1589. PMID: 32682027
Kleinstern G, Daniel R. O’Brien, Brian F. Kabat, Kari G. Chaffee, Aaron D. Norman, Timothy G. Call, Sameer A. Parikh, Jose F. Leis, Wei Ding, James R. Cerhan, Neil E. Kay, Susan L. Slager1, Esteban Braggio. Tumor mutational load predicts time to first treatment in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis beyond the CLL international prognostic index. American Journal of Hematology. 2020 Aug;95(8)906-917. Epub 2020 May 7. PMID: 32279347
Kleinstern G, Nicola J. Camp, Sonja I. Berndt, Brenda M. Birmann, Alexandra Nieters, Paige M. Bracci, James McKay, Hervé Ghesquières, Qing Lan, Henrik Hjalgrim, Yolanda Benavente, Alain Monnereau, Sophia S. Wang, Yawei Zhang, Mark P. Purdue, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Graham Giles, Lauren R. Teras, Angela R Brooks-Wilson, Claire M. Vajdic, Eleanor Kane, Neil Caporaso, Karin E. Smedby, Gilles Salles, Joseph Vijai, Susan L. Slager, Stephen J. Chanock, Christine F. Skibola, Nathaniel Rothman, James R. Cerhan, on behalf of the NHL GWAS Consortium. Lipid traits variants and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & prevention. 2020 May;29(5):1074-1078. Epub 2020 Feb 27. PMID: 32108027.
Kleinstern G, Yan H, Hildebrandt MAT, Vijai J, Berndt SI, Ghesquieres H, McKay J, Wang SS, Nieters A, Ye Y, Monnereau A, Brooks-Wilson AR, Lan Q, Melbye M, Jackson RD, Teras LR, Purdue MP, Vajdic CM, Vermeulen RCH, Giles GG, Cocco PL, Birmann BM, Kraft P, Albanes D, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Crouch S, Zhang Y, Sarangi V, Asmann Y, Offit K, Salles G, Wu X, Smedby KE, Skibola CF, Slager SL, Rothman N, Chanock SJ, Cerhan JR. Inherited variants at 3q13.33 and 3p24.1 are associated with risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and implicate immune pathways. Human Molecular Genetics. 2020 Jan 1;29(1):70-79. PMID: 31600786.
Vaxman I, Bernstine H, Kleinstern G, Hendin N, Shimony S, Domachevsky L, Gurion R, Groshar D, Raanani P, Gafter-Gvili A. FDG PET/CT as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for the evaluation of marginal zone lymphoma. Hematological oncology. 2019 Apr; 37 (2):168-175 Epub 2019 Mar 18 PMID: 30734341
Klil-Drori AJ, Kleinstern G, Seir RA, Choshen-Cohen L, Abdeen Z, Hussein E, Aqel M, Goen T, Perlman R, Ben-Yehuda D, Paltiel O. Serum organochlorines and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A case-control study in Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Chemosphere. 2018 Dec; 213:395-402 Epub 2018 Sept 14 PMID: 30241084
McMaster ML, Berndt SI, Zhang J, Slager SL, Li SA, Vajdic CM, Smedby KE, Yan H, Birmann BM, Brown EE, Smith A, Kleinstern G, Fansler MM, Mayr C, Zhu B, Chung CC, Park JH, Burdette L, Hicks BD, Hutchinson A, Teras LR, Adami HO, Bracci PM, McKay J, Monnereau A, Link BK, Vermeulen RCH, Ansell SM, Maria A, Diver WR, Melbye M, Ojesina AI, Kraft P, Boffetta P, Clavel J, Giovannucci E, Besson CM, Canzian F, Travis RC, Vineis P, Weiderpass E, Montalvan R, Wang Z, Yeager M, Becker N, Benavente Y, Brennan P, Foretova L, Maynadie M, Nieters A, de Sanjose S, Staines A, Conde L, Riby J, Glimelius B, Hjalgrim H, Pradhan N, Feldman AL, Novak AJ, Lawrence C, Bassig BA, Lan Q, Zheng T, North KE, Tinker LF, Cozen W, Severson RK, Hofmann JN, Zhang Y, Jackson RD, Morton LM, Purdue MP, Chatterjee N, Offit K, Cerhan JR, Chanock SJ, Rothman N, Vijai J, Goldin LR, Skibola CF, Caporaso NE. Two high-risk susceptibility loci at 6p25.3 and 14q32.13 for Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. Nature communications. 2018 Oct 10;9(1):4182-4193 PMID: 30305637.
Kleinstern G, Maurer MJ, Liebow M, Habermann TM, Koff JL, Allmer C, Witzig TE, Nowakowski GS, Micallef IN, Johnston PB, Inwards DJ, Thompson CA, Feldman AL, Link BK, Flowers C, Slager SL, Cerhan JR. History of autoimmune conditions and lymphoma prognosis. Blood cancer journal. 2018 Aug 1;8(8):73-82 Epub 2018 Aug 01 PMID: 30069001
Kleinstern G, Camp NJ, Goldin LR, Vachon CM, Vajdic CM, de Sanjose S, Weinberg JB, Benavente Y, Casabonne D, Liebow M, Nieters A, Hjalgrim H, Melbye M, Glimelius B, Adami HO, Boffetta P, Brennan P, Maynadie M, McKay J, Cocco PL, Shanafelt TD, Call TG, Norman AD, Hanson C, Robinson D, Chaffee KG, Brooks-Wilson AR, Monnereau A, Clavel J, Glenn M, Curtin K, Conde L, Bracci PM, Morton LM, Cozen W, Severson RK, Chanock SJ, Spinelli JJ, Johnston JB, Rothman N, Skibola CF, Leis JF, Kay NE, Smedby KE, Berndt SI, Cerhan JR, Caporaso N, Slager SL. Association of polygenic risk score with the risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis. Blood. 2018 Jun 7; 131 (23):2541-2551 Epub 2018 Apr 19 PMID: 29674426.
Kleinstern G, Averbuch M, Abu Seir R, Perlman R, Ben Yehuda D, Paltiel O. Presence of autoimmune disease affects not only risk but also survival in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Hematological oncology. 2018 Apr; 36 (2):457-462 Epub 2018 Feb 22 PMID: 29469175
Goldschmidt N, Darawshy F, Kleinstern G, Slyusarevsky E, Pogrebijski G, Krichevsky S, Ben-Yehuda D, Gatt ME. The prognostic value of bone marrow involvement at the molecular level in aggressive lymphoma. Leukemia & lymphoma. 2017 Jan; 58 (1):45-52 Epub 2016 Oct 18 PMID: 27756163
Kleinstern G, Abu Seir R, Perlman R, Khatib A, Abdeen Z, Elyan H, Nirel R, Amir G, Ramlawi A, Sabatin F, Boffetta P, Dann EJ, Kedmi M, Ellis M, Nagler A, Ben Yehuda D, Paltiel O. Ethnic variation in medical and lifestyle risk factors for B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A case-control study among Israelis and Palestinians. PLoS One. 2017; 12 (2):e0171709 (12 pages). Epub 2017 Feb 14 PMID: 28196110
Kleinstern G, Seir RA, Perlman R, Abdeen Z, Khatib A, Elyan H, Dann EJ, Kedmi M, Ellis M, Nagler A, Amir G, Ben Yehuda D, Safadi R, Paltiel O. Associations between B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and exposure, persistence and immune response to hepatitis B. Haematologica. 2016 Jul; 101 (7):e303-5 Epub 2016 Apr 21 PMID: 27102500
Goldschmidt N, Kleinstern G, Orevi M, Paltiel O, Ben-Yehuda D, Gural A, Libster D, Lavie D, Gatt ME. Favorable outcome of primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with sequential RCHOP-RICE regimen without radiotherapy. Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology. 2016 May; 77 (5):1053-60 Epub 2016 Apr 07 PMID: 27056383