Alexander Ploner

ORCID: 0000-0002-5042-8326
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Research Areas
  • Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • Genital Health and Disease
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Frailty in Older Adults

Karolinska Institutet
2016-2025

Karolinska Institutet Innovations (Sweden)
2022

Uppsala University
2015-2021

Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada
2021

MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing
2021

University College London
2021

National Institute on Aging
2021

National Institutes of Health
2021

Queen Mary University of London
2021

Vitenparken
2021

Perturbations of the p53 pathway are associated with more aggressive and therapeutically refractory tumors. However, molecular assessment status, by using sequence analysis immunohistochemistry, incomplete assessors functional effects. We posited that transcriptional fingerprint is a definitive downstream indicator function. Herein, we analyzed transcript profiles 251 p53-sequenced primary breast tumors identified clinically embedded 32-gene expression signature distinguishes p53-mutant...

10.1073/pnas.0506230102 article EN Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005-09-02

The efficacy and effectiveness of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in preventing high-grade cervical lesions have been shown. However, data to inform relationship between HPV vaccination subsequent risk invasive cancer are lacking.We used nationwide Swedish demographic health registers follow an open population 1,672,983 girls women who were 10 30 years age from 2006 through 2017. We assessed association cancer, controlling for at follow-up, calendar year, county...

10.1056/nejmoa1917338 article EN New England Journal of Medicine 2020-09-30

Adjuvant breast cancer therapy significantly improves survival, but overtreatment and undertreatment are major problems. Breast expression profiling has so far mainly been used to identify women with a poor prognosis as candidates for adjuvant without demonstrated value prediction.We obtained the gene profiles of 159 population-derived patients, hierarchical clustering signature associated impact therapies, defined distant metastasis or death within 5 years. Independent datasets 76 treated...

10.1186/bcr1325 article EN cc-by Breast Cancer Research 2005-10-03

Motivation: In microarray data studies most researchers are keenly aware of the potentially high rate false positives and need to control it. One key statistical shift is move away from well-known P-value discovery (FDR). Less discussion perhaps has been spent on sensitivity or associated negative (FNR). The purpose this paper explain in simple ways why FDR for assessment necessary, elucidate determining factors and, a two-sample comparative study, discuss its via sample size at design stage.

10.1093/bioinformatics/bti448 article EN Bioinformatics 2005-04-19

Biological age measurements (BAs) assess aging-related physiological change and predict health risks among individuals of the same chronological (CA). Multiple BAs have been proposed are well studied individually but not jointly. We included 845 3973 repeated from a Swedish population-based cohort examined longitudinal trajectories, correlations, mortality associations nine across 20 years follow-up. found growth functional accelerated around 70; average levels BA curves differed by sex span...

10.7554/elife.51507 article EN cc-by eLife 2020-02-11

SummaryBackgroundOne or two-dose schedule for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination has been recommended by the World Health Organization and used in many programs. We aimed to comprehensively evaluate effectiveness of quadrivalent HPV vaccine against high-grade cervical lesions age at number doses received.MethodsThis cohort study included 2,200,495 females aged 10–35 years old who were residents Sweden between 2006 2022, with 584,676 (26.6%) receiving least one dose vaccine. Poisson...

10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101178 article EN cc-by The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2025-01-05

Molecular markers and the rich biological information they contain have great potential for cancer diagnosis, prognostication therapy prediction. So far, however, not superseded routine histopathology staging criteria, partly because few studies performed on molecular subtyping had little validation limited clinical characterization.We obtained gene expression data 412 breast cancers from population-based cohorts of patients Stockholm Uppsala, Sweden. Using intrinsic set approximately 500...

10.1186/bcr1517 article EN cc-by Breast Cancer Research 2006-07-17
Tove Fall Sara Hägg Reedik Mägi Alexander Ploner Krista Fischer and 95 more Momoko Horikoshi Antti‐Pekka Sarin Guðmar Þorleifsson Claes Ladenvall Mart Kals Maris Kuningas Harmen H. M. Draisma Janina S. Ried Natalie R. van Zuydam Ville Huikari Massimo Mangino Emily Sonestedt Beben Benyamin Christopher P. Nelson Natalia V. Rivera Kati Kristiansson Huei-Yi Shen Aki S. Havulinna Abbas Dehghan Louise A. Donnelly Marika Kaakinen Marja-Liisa Nuotio Neil Robertson Renée F.A.G. de Bruijn M. Arfan Ikram Najaf Amin Anthony J. Balmforth Peter S. Braund Alex S. F. Doney Angela Döring Paul Elliott Tõnu Esko Oscar H. Franco Sólveig Grétarsdóttir Anna‐Liisa Hartikainen Kauko Heikkilä Karl‐Heinz Herzig Hilma Hólm Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Elina Hyppönen Thomas Illig Aaron Isaacs Bo Isomaa Lennart C. Karssen Johannes Kettunen Wolfgang Köenig Kari Kuulasmaa Tiina Laatikainen Jaana Laitinen Cecilia M. Lindgren Valeriya Lyssenko Esa Läärä Nigel W. Rayner Satu Männistö Anneli Pouta Wolfgang Rathmann Fernando Rivadeneira Aimo Ruokonen Markku J. Savolainen Eric J.G. Sijbrands Kerrin S. Small Jan Smit Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Ann‐Christine Syvänen Anja Taanila Martin D. Tobin André G. Uitterlinden Sara M. Willems Gonneke Willemsen Jacqueline C.M. Witteman Markus Perola Alun Evans Jean Ferrières Jarmo Virtamo Frank Kee David‐Alexandre Trégouët Dominique Arveiler Philippe Amouyel Maurizio Ferrario Paolo Brambilla Alistair S. Hall Andrew C. Heath Pamela A. F. Madden Nicholas G. Martin Grant W. Montgomery John B. Whitfield Antti Jula Paul Knekt Ben A. Oostra Cornelia M. van Duijn Brenda W.J.H. Penninx George Davey Smith Jaakko Kaprio Nilesh J. Samani Christian Gieger

In this study, Prokopenko and colleagues provide novel evidence for causal relationship between adiposity heart failure increased liver enzymes using a Mendelian randomization study design. Please see later in the article Editors' Summary

10.1371/journal.pmed.1001474 article EN cc-by PLoS Medicine 2013-06-25

Objective: Both rare copy number variants (CNVs) and common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) contribute to liability schizophrenia, but their etiological relationship has not been fully elucidated. The authors evaluated an additive model whereby risk of schizophrenia requires less contribution from SNPs in the presence a CNV, tested for interactions. Method: Genetic data 21,094 case subjects with 20,227 control Psychiatric Genomics Consortium were examined. Three classes CNVs assessed:...

10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17040467 article EN American Journal of Psychiatry 2018-11-05

Incidence of condyloma, or genital warts (GW), is the earliest possible disease outcome to measure when assessing effectiveness human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategies. Efficacy trials that follow prespecified inclusion and exclusion criteria may not be fully generalizable real-life HPV programs, which target a broader segment population. We assessed GW incidence after on-demand with quadrivalent vaccine using individual-level data from entire Swedish An open cohort girls women...

10.1093/jnci/djt032 article EN JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2013-03-07

To compare tumor characteristics and risk factors of interval breast cancers screen-detected cancers, taking mammographic density into account.Women diagnosed with invasive cancer from 2001 to 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, data on (n = 4,091), factors, 1,957) were included. Logistic regression was used overall by highest lowest quartiles percent density.Compared nondense breasts (≤ 20% density) significantly more likely exhibit lymph node involvement (odds ratio [OR], 3.55; 95% CI, 1.74 7.13)...

10.1200/jco.2014.58.9986 article EN Journal of Clinical Oncology 2015-02-03

Human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16/18, included in HPV vaccines, contribute to the majority of cervical cancer, and a substantial proportion intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grades 2/3 or worse (CIN2+/CIN3+) including adenocarcinoma situ worse. The aim this study was quantify effect quadrivalent (qHPV) vaccination on incidence CIN2+ CIN3+. A nationwide cohort girls young women resident Sweden 2006–2013 aged 13–29 ( n = 1,333,691) followed for histologically confirmed high‐grade lesions. Data...

10.1002/ijc.30035 article EN cc-by-nc-nd International Journal of Cancer 2016-02-09

Abstract Subtype heterogeneity for breast cancer risk factors has been suspected, potentially reflecting etiologic differences and implicating prediction. However, reports are conflicting regarding the presence of many exposures. To examine subtype across known factors, we conducted a case–control analysis 2,632 cancers 15,945 controls in Sweden. Molecular was predicted from pathology record–derived IHC markers by classifier trained on PAM50 subtyping. Multinomial logistic regression...

10.1158/0008-5472.can-16-2574 article EN Cancer Research 2017-05-17

Abstract Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have become an increasingly popular approach for demonstrating polygenic influences on complex traits and establishing common signals between different traits. PRSs are typically constructed using pruning thresholding (P+T), but the best choice of parameters is uncertain; thus multiple settings used chosen. Optimization can lead to inflated Type I error. Permutation procedures correct this, they be computationally intensive. Alternatively, a single...

10.1002/gepi.22339 article EN Genetic Epidemiology 2020-07-21

Determining vaccine dose-level protection is essential to minimize program costs and increase mass vaccination feasibility. Currently, a 3-dose schedule recommended for both the quadrivalent bivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines. Although primary goal of HPV programs prevent cervical cancer, condyloma related types 6 11 also prevented with represents earliest measurable preventable disease outcome vaccine.To examine association between first occurrence in relation dose...

10.1001/jama.2014.95 article EN JAMA 2014-02-11

Abstract Observational studies revealed a relationship between changes in gastric mucosa and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) which suggested possible role for microbiota ESCC carcinogenesis. In this study we aimed to compare pattern corpus with normal esophagus. Cases were included subjects early (stage I–II) dysplasia (ESD) as the cancer precursor. Control groups age sex-matched mid-esophagus esophagitis (diseased-control) histologically esophagus (healthy-control). DNA...

10.1038/srep08820 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2015-03-06

Meal-Q and its shorter version, MiniMeal-Q, are 2 new Web-based food frequency questionnaires. Their meal-based interactive format was designed to promote ease of use minimize answering time, desirable improvements in large epidemiological studies.We evaluated the validity energy macronutrient intake assessed with MiniMeal-Q as well reproducibility Meal-Q.Healthy volunteers aged 20-63 years recruited from Stockholm County filled out 174-item Meal-Q. The questionnaire compared 7-day weighed...

10.2196/jmir.2458 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2013-06-05
Tove Fall Sara Hägg Alexander Ploner Reedik Mägi Krista Fischer and 83 more Harmen H. M. Draisma Antti‐Pekka Sarin Beben Benyamin Claes Ladenvall Mikael Åkerlund Mart Kals Tõnu Esko Christopher P. Nelson Marika Kaakinen Ville Huikari Massimo Mangino Aline Meirhaeghe Kati Kristiansson Marja-Liisa Nuotio Michael Kobl Harald Grallert Abbas Dehghan Maris Kuningas Paul S. de Vries Renée F.A.G. de Bruijn Sara M. Willems Kauko Heikkilä Karri Silventoinen Kirsi H. Pietiläinen Vanessa Legry Vilmantas Giedraitis Louisa Goumidi Ann‐Christine Syvänen Konstantin Strauch Wolfgang Köenig Peter Lichtner Christian Herder Aarno Palotie Cristina Menni André G. Uitterlinden Kari Kuulasmaa Aki S. Havulinna Luís A. Moreno Marcela González‐Gross Alun Evans David‐Alexandre Trégouët J. W. G. Yarnell Jarmo Virtamo Jean Ferrières Giovanni Veronesi Markus Perola Dominique Arveiler Paolo Brambilla Lars Lind Jaakko Kaprio Albert Hofman Bruno H. Stricker Cornelia M. van Duijn M. Arfan Ikram Oscar H. Franco Dominique Cottel Jean Dallongeville Alistair S. Hall Antti Jula Martin D. Tobin Brenda W.J.H. Penninx Annette Peters Christian Gieger Nilesh J. Samani Grant W. Montgomery John B. Whitfield Nicholas G. Martin Per‐Henrik Groop Tim D. Spector Patrik K. E. Magnusson Philippe Amouyel Dorret I. Boomsma Peter M. Nilsson Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin Valeriya Lyssenko Andres Metspalu David P. Strachan Veikko Salomaa Samuli Ripatti Nancy L. Pedersen Inga Prokopenko Mark I. McCarthy Erik Ingelsson

Observational studies have reported different effects of adiposity on cardiovascular risk factors across age and sex. Since are enriched in obese individuals, it has not been easy to dissect the from those other factors. We used a Mendelian randomization approach, applying set 32 genetic markers estimate causal effect blood pressure, glycemic indices, circulating lipid levels, inflammation liver disease up 67,553 individuals. All analyses were stratified by (cutoff 55 years age) The score...

10.2337/db14-0988 article EN Diabetes 2015-02-23

Background High-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection is established as the major cause of invasive cervical cancer (ICC). However, whether hrHPV status in tumor associated with subsequent prognosis ICC controversial. We aim to evaluate association between and using national registers comprehensive (HPV) genotyping. Methods findings In this nationwide population-based cohort study, we identified all diagnosed Sweden during years 2002–2011 (4,254 confirmed cases), requested archival...

10.1371/journal.pmed.1002666 article EN cc-by PLoS Medicine 2018-10-01

Frailty index (FI) is a well-established predictor of all-cause mortality, but less known for cause-specific mortality and whether familial effects influence the associations. Middle-aged individuals are also understudied association between FI mortality. Furthermore, population impact frailty remains understudied.We estimated predictive value taking into account factors, tested associations time-dependent. We assessed proportion deaths that attributable to increased levels frailty. analyzed...

10.1186/s12916-019-1331-8 article EN cc-by BMC Medicine 2019-05-15
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