Eric Kawaguchi

Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences

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Publications

  • Pathway polygenic risk scores (pPRS) for the analysis of gene-environment interaction. PLoS Genet. 2025 Aug; 21(8):e1011543.. View in PubMed
  • Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-β-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction. medRxiv. 2025 Jun 16.. View in PubMed
  • Living on the edge: Role of adjuvant therapy after resection of primary lung cancer within 2 millimeters of a T-stage cutoff. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 May; 169(5):1338-1345.e15.. View in PubMed
  • Change in depression and anxiety symptoms among university students, staff, and faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: Trojan pandemic response initiative. J Am Coll Health. 2025 Apr; 73(4):1787-1797.. View in PubMed
  • Comparison of waitlist and post-transplant outcomes in patients supported with total artificial heart versus continuous biventricular assist devices. Artif Organs. 2025 Feb; 49(2):281-291.. View in PubMed
  • Genome-scale evolution in local populations of wild chimpanzees. Sci Rep. 2025 01 02; 15(1):548.. View in PubMed
  • Characterization of Additive Gene-environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk. Epidemiology. 2025 Jan 01; 36(1):126-138.. View in PubMed
  • Pathway Polygenic Risk Scores (pPRS) for the Analysis of Gene-environment Interaction. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 19.. View in PubMed
  • Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination status among college students. J Am Coll Health. 2024 Dec; 72(9):3136-3138.. View in PubMed
  • A regularized Cox hierarchical model for incorporating annotation information in predictive omic studies. BioData Min. 2024 Oct 24; 17(1):44.. View in PubMed
  • The Differential Experience of COVID-19 on Asian American Subgroups: The Los Angeles Pandemic Surveillance Cohort Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Oct; 11(5):2806-2815.. View in PubMed
  • A Regularized Cox Hierarchical Model for Incorporating Annotation Information in Predictive Omic Studies. bioRxiv. 2024 Jul 29.. View in PubMed
  • Genetic risk impacts the association of menopausal hormone therapy with colorectal cancer risk. Br J Cancer. 2024 Jun; 130(10):1687-1696.. View in PubMed
  • Genome-wide interaction study of dietary intake of fibre, fruits, and vegetables with risk of colorectal cancer. EBioMedicine. 2024 Jun; 104:105146.. View in PubMed
  • Two genome-wide interaction loci modify the association of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with colorectal cancer. Sci Adv. 2024 05 31; 10(22):eadk3121.. 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
  • Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Analyses to Understand the Relationship between Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 03 01; 33(3):400-410.. View in PubMed
  • Association between levels of receptor binding domain antibodies of SARS-CoV-2, receipt of booster and risk of breakthrough infections: LA pandemic surveillance cohort study. Sci Rep. 2023 11 25; 13(1):20761.. View in PubMed
  • New UNOS allocation system associated with no added benefit in waitlist outcomes and worse post-transplant survival in heart-kidney patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023 11; 42(11):1529-1542.. View in PubMed
  • Genome-wide interaction analysis of folate for colorectal cancer risk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 11; 118(5):881-891.. View in PubMed
  • Characteristics associated with attitudes and behaviors towards mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Trojan Pandemic Response Initiative. BMC Public Health. 2023 10 11; 23(1):1968.. View in PubMed
  • Effect of the UNOS policy change on rates of rejection, infection, and hospital readmission following heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023 10; 42(10):1415-1424.. View in PubMed
  • A Genetic Locus within the FMN1/GREM1 Gene Region Interacts with Body Mass Index in Colorectal Cancer Risk. Cancer Res. 2023 08 01; 83(15):2572-2583.. View in PubMed
  • Probing the diabetes and colorectal cancer relationship using gene – environment interaction analyses. Br J Cancer. 2023 08; 129(3):511-520.. View in PubMed
  • A note on p-value multiple-testing adjustment for two-step genome-wide gene-environment interactions scans. medRxiv. 2023 Jun 28.. View in PubMed
  • Trust in science and scientists among university students, staff, and faculty of a large, diverse university in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trojan Pandemic Response Initiative. BMC Public Health. 2023 03 30; 23(1):601.. View in PubMed
  • Genome-wide Interaction Study with Smoking for Colorectal Cancer Risk Identifies Novel Genetic Loci Related to Tumor Suppression, Inflammation, and Immune Response. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 03 06; 32(3):315-328.. View in PubMed
  • Improved two-step testing of genome-wide gene-environment interactions. Genet Epidemiol. 2023 03; 47(2):152-166.. View in PubMed
  • Quantification of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Binding Antibody Levels To Assess Infection and Vaccine-Induced Immunity Using WHO Standards. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 02 14; 11(1):e0370922.. View in PubMed
  • UNOS policy change benefits high-priority patients without harming those at low priority. Am J Transplant. 2022 12; 22(12):2931-2941.. View in PubMed
  • COVID-19 booster vaccine attitudes and behaviors among university students and staff in the United States: The USC Trojan pandemic research Initiative. Prev Med Rep. 2022 Aug; 28:101866.. View in PubMed
  • A More Accurate Measurement of the Burden of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Jul; 9(7):ofac332.. View in PubMed
  • Characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccination status among staff and faculty of a large, diverse University in Los Angeles: The Trojan Pandemic Response Initiative. Prev Med Rep. 2022 Jun; 27:101802.. View in PubMed
  • Effect of UNOS policy change and exception status request on outcomes in patients bridged to heart transplant with an intra-aortic balloon pump. Artif Organs. 2022 May; 46(5):838-849.. View in PubMed
  • Two-step hypothesis testing to detect gene-environment interactions in a genome-wide scan with a survival endpoint. Stat Med. 2022 04 30; 41(9):1644-1657.. View in PubMed
  • Anti-malarial activity in a Chinese herbal supplement containing Inonotus obliquus and Panax notoginseng. Parasitol Int. 2022 Apr; 87:102532.. 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
  • Hierarchical Ridge Regression for Incorporating Prior Information in Genomic Studies. J Data Sci. 2022 Jan; 20(1):34-50.. View in PubMed
  • A New ℓ0-Regularized Log-Linear Poisson Graphical Model with Applications to RNA Sequencing Data. J Comput Biol. 2021 09; 28(9):880-891.. View in PubMed
  • Sign-based Shrinkage Based on an Asymmetric LASSO Penalty. J Data Sci. 2021; 19(3):429-449.. View in PubMed
  • Scalable Algorithms for Large Competing Risks Data. J Comput Graph Stat. 2021; 30(3):685-693.. View in PubMed
  • A Cross-Sectional Study Examining the Seroprevalence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibodies in a University Student Population. J Adolesc Health. 2020 12; 67(6):763-768.. View in PubMed
  • A surrogate ℓ0 sparse Cox’s regression with applications to sparse high-dimensional massive sample size time-to-event data. Stat Med. 2020 03 15; 39(6):675-686.. View in PubMed
  • Evaluation of host effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal community compositions in a forested landscape in northern Japan. R Soc Open Sci. 2020 Feb; 7(2):191952.. View in PubMed
  • Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 immunotherapy promotes a survival benefit with intratumoral and systemic immune responses in recurrent glioblastoma. Nat Med. 2019 03; 25(3):477-486.. View in PubMed
  • Biogeographic Patterns of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities Associated With Castanopsis sieboldii Across the Japanese Archipelago. Front Microbiol. 2019; 10:2656.. View in PubMed
  • Disentangling the relative importance of host tree community, abiotic environment and spatial factors on ectomycorrhizal fungal assemblages along an elevation gradient. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2016 May; 92(5):fiw044.. View in PubMed
  • Unusually Large Number of Mutations in Asexually Reproducing Clonal Planarian Dugesia japonica. PLoS One. 2015; 10(11):e0143525.. View in PubMed