Albert M. Levin, Ph.D.

Biography

• B.S., Biology/Studies in Religion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1995
• M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1998
• Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2004
• M.A., Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2005

Awards, Honors and Publications

• Levin AM, Machiela MJ, Zuhlke KA, Ray AM, Cooney KA, Douglas JA. Chromosome 17q12 variants contribute to risk of early-onset prostate cancer (2008). Cancer Res. Aug 15; 68(16):6492-5.
• Levin AM, Beebe-Dimmer JL, Ray AM, Zuhlke KA, Machiela MJ, Halstead-Nussloch BA, Johnson GR, Cooney KA, Douglas JA. Chromosome 8q24 markers: risk of early-onset and familial prostate cancer (2008). Int J Cancer. Jun 15; 122(12):2876-9.
• Levin AM, Zuhlke KA, Ray AM, Cooney KA, Douglas JA. Sequence variation in alpha-methyacyl-CoA racemase and risk of early-onset and familial prostate cancer (2007). Prostate. Oct 1;67(14):1507:13.
• Douglas JA, Levin AM, Zuhlke KA, Ray AM, Johnson GR, Lange EM, Wood DP, Cooney KA. Common variation in the BRCA1 gene and prostate cancer risk (2007). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. Jul;16(7):1510-6.
• Levin AM, Ray AM, Zuhlke KA, Douglas JA, Cooney KA. Association between germline variation in the FHIT gene and prostate cancer in Caucasians and African Americans (2007). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. Jun;16(6):1294-7.
• Sun YV, Levin AM, Boerwinkle E, Robertson H, Kardia SL. A scan statistic for identifying chromosomal patterns of SNP association (2006). Genet Epidemiol. Nov; 30(7):627:35.
• Pierce LJ, Levin AM, Rebbeck TR, Ben-David MA, Friedman E, Solin LJ, Harris EE, Gaffney DK, Haffty BG, Dawson LA, Narod SA, Olivotto IA, Eisen A, Whelan TJ, Olopade OI, Isaacs C, Merajver SD, Wong JS, Garber JE, Weber BL. Multi-Institutional 10-Year Results of Breast-Conserving Surgery and Radiotherapy in BRCA1/2-Associated Stage I/II Breast Cancer (2006). J Clin Oncol. Jun 1;24(16):2437-43.
• Douglas JA, Zuhlke KA, Beebe-Dimmer J, Levin AM, Gruber SB, Wood DP, Cooney KA. Identifying susceptibility genes for prostate cancer--a family-based association study of polymorphisms in CYP17, CYP19, CYP11A1, and LH-beta (2005). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. Aug;14(8):2035-9.
• Levin AM, Ghosh D, Cho KR, Kardia SLR. A model-based scan statistic for identifying extreme chromosomal regions of gene expression in human tumors (2005). Bioinformatics. 2005 Jun 15;21(12):2867-74.
• Xu Z, Fowlkes JB, Rothman ED, Levin AM, Cain CA. Controlled ultrasound tissue erosion: the role of dynamic interaction between insonation and microbubble activity (2005). J Acoust Soc Am. Jan;117(1):424-35.
• Schwartz DR, Wu R, Kardia SL, Levin AM, Huang CC, Shedden KA, Kuick R, Misek DE, Hanash SM, Taylor JM, Reed H, Hendrix N, Zhai Y, Fearon ER, Cho KR. (2003) Novel candidate targets of beta-catenin/T-cell factor signaling identified by gene expression profiling of ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinomas. Cancer Res. 63(11):2913-22.
• Small KM, Wagoner LE, Levin AM, Kardia SL, Liggett SB. (2002) Synergistic polymorphisms of beta1- and alpha2C-adrenergic receptors and the risk of congestive heart failure. N Engl J Med. 347(15):1135-42.
• Beer DG, Kardia SL, Huang CC, Giordano TJ, Levin AM, Misek DE, Lin L, Chen G, Gharib TG, Thomas DG, Lizyness ML, Kuick R, Hayasaka S, Taylor JM, Iannettoni MD, Orringer MB, Hanash S. (2002) Gene-expression profiles predict survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma. Nat Med. 8(8):816-24.
• Rebbeck TR, Levin AM, Eisen A, Snyder C, Watson P, Cannon-Albright L, Isaacs C, Olopade O, Garber JE, Godwin AK, Daly MB, Narod SA, Neuhausen SL, Lynch HT, Weber BL. (1999) Breast cancer risk after bilateral prophylactic oophorectomy in BRCA1 mutation carriers. J Natl Cancer Inst. 91(17):1442-3.
• Gruber SB, Entius MM, Petersen GM, Laken SJ, Longo PA, Boyer R, Levin AM, Mujumdar UJ, Trent JM, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Hamilton SR, Polymeropoulos MH, Offerhaus GJ, Giardiello FM. (1998) Pathogenesis of adenocarcinoma in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Cancer Res. 58(23):5267-70.