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John K. Wiencke

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California

Biography

Dr. Wiencke received his Ph.D. in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and completed post-doctoral training in Radiobiology and Human Genetics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He established the UCSF Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and served as its director. The laboratory supports both constitutive and tumor related genetic and epigenetic molecular analyses in population based human cancer studies. Since 2004 Dr. Wiencke has co-directed the Laboratory for Neuro and Molecular Epidemiology within the Department of Neurological Surgery.

Publications

Matching on Race and Ethnicity in Case-Control Studies as a Means of Control for Population Stratification

Some investigators argue that controlling for self-reported race or ethnicity, either in statistical analysis or in study design, is sufficient to mitigate unwanted influence from population stratification. In this report, we evaluated the effectiveness of a study design involving matching on self-reported ethnicity and race in minimizing bias due ... Read More»

Anand P. Chokkalingam, Melinda C. Aldrich, Karen Bartley, Ling-I Hsu, Catherine Metayer, Lisa F. Barcellos, Joseph L. Wiemels, John K. Wiencke, Patricia A. Buffler and Steve Selvin

Research Article: Epidemiol 2011, 1:101

DOI: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000101

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