Amie Eunah Hwang, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences

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Education and Training

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — PhD — 05/2012 — Epidemiology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — MPH — 05/2005 — Public Health
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA — BS — 05/1998 — Nutrition Science

Publications

Female-specific hypertension risk factors across the lifecourse: a co-twin control analysis using the California Twin Program. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Jul 08; 195(7):1944-1961.. View in PubMed
Cancer Risk in Veterans Enlisted in the United States Military after September 11, 2001: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Mil Med. 2026 07 01; 191(7-8):e1641-e1646.. View in PubMed
Adverse late outcomes in long-term survivors of young adult Hodgkin lymphoma (YAHL) compared to their unaffected co-twins. Leuk Lymphoma. 2025 Jul; 66(7):1254-1263.. View in PubMed
Leveraging Large Language Models for Real-World Data Evidence: A Framework for Automated Treatment Extraction and Data Harmonization. J Registry Manag. 2025; 52(4):138-145.. View in PubMed
Prostate Cancer Disparities in Clinical Characteristics and Survival among Black and Latino Patients Considering Nativity: Findings from the California Cancer Registry. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Nov 01; 33(11):1512-1522.. View in PubMed
Population-based evaluation of disparities in stomach cancer by nativity among Asian and Hispanic populations in California, 2011-2015. Cancer. 2024 04 01; 130(7):1092-1100.. View in PubMed
Risk of Presenting with Poor-Prognosis Metastatic Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Population-Based Study. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Oct 08; 14(19).. View in PubMed
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, genetic ancestry, and susceptibility to Ewing sarcoma. Mitochondrion. 2022 11; 67:6-14.. View in PubMed
Survival of Adolescents and Young Adults with Prevalent Poor-Prognosis Metastatic Cancers: A Population-Based Study of Contemporary Patterns and Their Implications. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 04 01; 31(4):900-908.. View in PubMed
Lymphoma-Associated Biomarkers Are Increased in Current Smokers in Twin Pairs Discordant for Smoking. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Oct 27; 13(21).. View in PubMed
Bariatric surgery in patients with breast and endometrial cancer in California: population-based prevalence and survival. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2022 Jan; 18(1):42-52.. View in PubMed
Educational attainment of same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins: An individual-level pooled study of 19 twin cohorts. Horm Behav. 2021 11; 136:105054.. View in PubMed
Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2021 08; 5:881-896.. View in PubMed
Poor-Prognosis Metastatic Cancers in Adolescents and Young Adults: Incidence Patterns, Trends, and Disparities. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021 06; 5(3).. View in PubMed
Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts. Sci Rep. 2020 07 29; 10(1):12681.. View in PubMed
Variability in Cytogenetic Testing for Multiple Myeloma: A Comprehensive Analysis From Across the United States. JCO Oncol Pract. 2020 10; 16(10):e1169-e1180.. View in PubMed
Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education. Sci Rep. 2020 05 14; 10(1):7974.. View in PubMed
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of multiple myeloma among men and women of African ancestry. Blood Adv. 2020 01 14; 4(1):181-190.. View in PubMed
Emerging Cancer Survival Trends, Disparities, and Priorities in Adolescents and Young Adults: A California Cancer Registry-Based Study. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2019 Jun; 3(2):pkz031.. View in PubMed
Response to Siegel et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 06 01; 111(6):635-636.. View in PubMed
A Reappraisal of Sex-Specific Cancer Survival Trends Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 05 01; 111(5):509-518.. View in PubMed
Parental Education and Genetics of BMI from Infancy to Old Age: A Pooled Analysis of 29 Twin Cohorts. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 05; 27(5):855-865.. View in PubMed
DNA methylation patterns of adult survivors of adolescent/young adult Hodgkin lymphoma compared to their unaffected monozygotic twin. Leuk Lymphoma. 2019 06; 60(6):1429-1437.. View in PubMed
Birth Anomalies in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins: Results From the California Twin Registry. J Epidemiol. 2019 Jan 05; 29(1):18-25.. View in PubMed
Epstein-Barr virus load is higher in long-term Hodgkin lymphoma survivors compared to their unaffected twins and unrelated controls. Br J Haematol. 2019 04; 185(2):377-380.. View in PubMed
Education in Twins and Their Parents Across Birth Cohorts Over 100 years: An Individual-Level Pooled Analysis of 42-Twin Cohorts. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2017 10; 20(5):395-405.. View in PubMed
Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Aug; 106(2):457-466.. View in PubMed
Does the sex of one’s co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts. Biol Sex Differ. 2017; 8:14.. View in PubMed
HLA expression and HLA type associations in relation to EBV status in Hispanic Hodgkin lymphoma patients. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0174457.. View in PubMed
Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994. Elife. 2016 12 14; 5.. View in PubMed
Stomach Cancer Disparity among Korean Americans by Tumor Characteristics: Comparison with Non-Hispanic Whites, Japanese Americans, South Koreans, and Japanese. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 04; 26(4):587-596.. View in PubMed
A Meta-analysis of Multiple Myeloma Risk Regions in African and European Ancestry Populations Identifies Putatively Functional Loci. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 12; 25(12):1609-1618.. View in PubMed
Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Aug; 104(2):371-9.. View in PubMed
Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts. Sci Rep. 2016 06 23; 6:28496.. View in PubMed
Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age: A Study of the CODATwins Project. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2015 Oct; 18(5):557-70.. View in PubMed
Common immune-related exposures/conditions and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case-control study of disease-discordant twin pairs. Am J Epidemiol. 2015 Sep 01; 182(5):417-25.. View in PubMed
The CODATwins Project: The Cohort Description of Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins to Study Macro-Environmental Variation in Genetic and Environmental Effects on Anthropometric Traits. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2015 Aug; 18(4):348-60.. View in PubMed
Childhood infections and adult height in monozygotic twin pairs. Am J Epidemiol. 2013 Aug 15; 178(4):551-8.. View in PubMed
The USC Adult Twin Cohorts: International Twin Study and California Twin Program. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2013 Feb; 16(1):366-70.. View in PubMed
A genome-wide meta-analysis of nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma identifies risk loci at 6p21.32. Blood. 2012 Jan 12; 119(2):469-75.. View in PubMed
The effect of selenium supplementation on DTH skin responses in healthy North American men. J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2009; 23(4):272-80.. View in PubMed