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    Impact of cryopreservation on tetramer, cytokine flow cytometry, and ELISPOT

    Cryopreservation of PBMC and/or overnight ship** of samples are required for many clinical trials, despite their potentially adverse effects upon immune monitoring assays such as MHC-peptide tetramer stainin...

    Holden T Maecker, James Moon, Sonny Bhatia, Smita A Ghanekar in BMC Immunology (2005)

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    Sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) Mutations in Paget’s Disease of Bone from the United States

    Paget’s disease of bone (PDB) is a localized bone disease characterized by excessive bone resorption due to overactive osteoclasts. Seven genetic loci (PDB1-PDB7) have been reported for late-onset PDB. PDB3 is...

    Emily C. Rhodes, Teresa L. Johnson-Pais in Calcified Tissue International (2008)

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    Pitfalls in Prostate Cancer Biomarker Evaluation Studies

    Biomarker studies in prostate cancer research aim to discover new markers or novel uses of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to complement or replace PSA as the existing standard for screening. These studies oft...

    Donna P. Ankerst in Prostate Cancer Screening (2009)

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    Development of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator

    The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator provides a single probability of prostate cancer and of high-grade disease (Gleason grade

    Donna P. Ankerst, Ian M. Thompson in Prostate Cancer Screening (2009)

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    Statistical Evaluation of Markers and Risk Tools for Prostate Cancer Classification and Prediction

    Adopting novel biomarkers for use in prostate cancer screening requires rigorous scientific evaluation. The predictive accuracy of the markers must be quantified and compared with other potential markers. In t...

    Yingye Zheng, Donna P. Ankerst in Prostate Cancer Screening (2009)

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    The Performance Characteristics of Prostate-Specific Antigen for Prostate Cancer Screening

    When considering the application of a screening test for any disease, it is extremely important to understand how the performance characteristics of a test will affect its usefulness to a patient as well as to...

    JR Ian M. Thompson MD, Donna P. Ankerst in Prostate Cancer Screening (2009)

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    Association analysis of frost tolerance in rye using candidate genes and phenotypic data from controlled, semi-controlled, and field phenoty** platforms

    Frost is an important abiotic stress that limits cereal production in the temperate zone. As the most frost tolerant small grain cereal, rye (Secale cereale L.) is an ideal cereal model for investigating the gene...

    Yongle Li, Andreas Böck, Grit Haseneyer, Viktor Korzun, Peer Wilde in BMC Plant Biology (2011)

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    Evaluating the PCPT risk calculator in ten international biopsy cohorts: results from the Prostate Biopsy Collaborative Group

    To evaluate the discrimination, calibration, and net benefit performance of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Risk Calculator (PCPTRC) across five European randomized study of screening for prostate cancer ...

    Donna P. Ankerst, Andreas Boeck, Stephen J. Freedland in World Journal of Urology (2012)

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    Editorial for special issue on epidemiology and prevention of prostate cancer

    Ian M. Thompson, Donna P. Ankerst in World Journal of Urology (2012)

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    Prostate cancer incidence and survival in immigrants to Sweden

    The large international variation in the incidence of prostate cancer (PC) is well known but the underlying reasons are not understood. We want to compare PC incidence and survival among immigrants to Sweden i...

    Kari Hemminki, Donna P. Ankerst, Jan Sundquist in World Journal of Urology (2013)

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    Evaluating the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial High Grade prostate cancer risk calculator in 10 international biopsy cohorts: results from the prostate biopsy collaborative group

    To assess the applicability of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial High Grade (Gleason grade ≥ 7) Risk Calculator (PCPTHG) in ten international cohorts, representing a range of populations.

    Donna P. Ankerst, Andreas Boeck, Stephen J. Freedland in World Journal of Urology (2014)

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    Association of tree and plot characteristics with microhabitat formation in European beech and Douglas-fir forests

    Process-orientated, unmanaged forest remnants are not sufficient for halting the loss of forest biodiversity. Thus, integrated biodiversity-promoting management for forest inhabitants is needed. Microhabitats,...

    Susanne Winter, Josef Höfler, Alexa K. Michel in European Journal of Forest Research (2015)

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    A case control study of sarcosine as an early prostate cancer detection biomarker

    Sarcosine has been investigated as a prostate cancer biomarker with mixed results concerning its predictive power. We performed a case–control evaluation of the predictive value of serum sarcosine for early de...

    Donna P. Ankerst, Michael Liss, David Zapata, Josef Hoefler, Ian M. Thompson in BMC Urology (2015)

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    Daily growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) on moist sites is affected by short-term drought rather than ozone uptake

    Daily stem growth was reduced by drought with high significance, but not affected by ozone uptake or drought–ozone interaction. Increasing air temperature showed capacity of compensating negati...

    Angelika R. Kühn, Sonja Grill, Manuela Baumgarten, Donna P. Ankerst in Trees (2015)

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    Men with family history of prostate cancer have a higher risk of disease recurrence after radical prostatectomy

    We aimed to determine if family history (FH) of prostate cancer (PC) influenced cancer control after radical prostatectomy (RP).

    Mark Thalgott, Martina Kron, Johannes M. Brath in World Journal of Urology (2018)

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    Multi-cohort modeling strategies for scalable globally accessible prostate cancer risk tools

    Online clinical risk prediction tools built on data from multiple cohorts are increasingly being utilized for contemporary doctor-patient decision-making and validation. This report outlines a comprehensive da...

    Johanna Tolksdorf, Michael W. Kattan in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2019)

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    No detrimental effect of a positive family history on postoperative upgrading and upstaging in men with low risk and favourable intermediate-risk prostate cancer: implications for active surveillance

    To assess whether a first-degree family history or a fatal family history of prostate cancer (PCa) are associated with postoperative upgrading and upstaging among men with low risk and favourable intermediate-...

    Kathleen Herkommer, Nikola Maier, Donna P. Ankerst in World Journal of Urology (2021)

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    Diversity of cancer-related identities in long-term prostate cancer survivors after radical prostatectomy

    Individuals affected by cancer need to integrate this experience into their personal biography as their life continues after primary therapy, leading to substantial changes in self-perception. This study ident...

    Matthias Jahnen, Eike Mynzak, Valentin H. Meissner, Stefan Schiele in BMC Cancer (2021)

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    Long-term and pathological outcomes of low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: implications for active surveillance

    The safety of active surveillance (AS) in favorable intermediate-risk (FIR) prostate cancer (PCa) remains uncertain. To provide guidance on clinical decision-making, we examined long-term and pathological outc...

    Valentin H. Meissner, Mira Woll, Donna P. Ankerst in World Journal of Urology (2021)

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    Accommodating heterogeneous missing data patterns for prostate cancer risk prediction

    We compared six commonly used logistic regression methods for accommodating missing risk factor data from multiple heterogeneous cohorts, in which some cohorts do not collect some risk factors at all, and deve...

    Matthias Neumair, Michael W. Kattan in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2022)

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