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Jong Park , Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Oncology Program Member-in-Residence of the Moffitt Cancer Center E-mail: Jong.Park@moffitt.org |
Training
M.S.: University of South Florida; Microbiology, 1987.
M.P.H.: University of Alabama, Birmingham; International Health and Epidemiology, 1991.
Ph.D.: University of Alabama, Birmingham; International Health and Epidemiology, 1995.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Temple University; Molecular Epidemiology, 1996-1999.
Research Interests
I am interested in differential cancer risk between ethnic groups. As we know, some cancers, especially prostate cancer rates (incidence and mortality) in African Americans, are much higher than Caucasians. I am trying to find explanation by investigating their genetic profile using case:control study.
After genotyping analysis, frequencies of genotypes between case and control are compared to see whether individuals with a certain genotype may have a higher risk. We found individuals with a defective DNA repair capacity had a higher risk than subjects with normal activity genotype.
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Selected Publications
Park. J.Y., Chen , L., Shade, K., Lazarus, P., Seigne, J., Patterson, S., Helal, M., and Pow-Sang, J. (2004) Asp85Tyr polymorphism in UDP-glucuronosyltransferase ( UGT) 2B15 gene and risk of prostate cancer, The Journal of Urology, 171(6, Part 1 Of 2):2484-2488.
Park. J., Chen, L., Elahi, A., Lazarus, P., and Tockman, M. (2005). Genetic analysis of microsomal epoxide hydrolase gene and its association with lung cancer risk. (In press: European Journal of Cancer and Prevention. 2004).
Park, J., Chen, L., Lee, J., Sellers, T. and Tockman, M. (2005). Polymorphisms in the promoter region of Neutrophil Elastase Gene and Lung Cancer risk (In press Lung Cancer).
Park, J., Chen, L., Wadhwa, N., and Tockman, M.S. (2005), Polymorphisms for microsomal epoxide hydrolase and genetic susceptibility to COPD (In press International Journal of Molecular Medicine).
Park, J., Brena, R.M., Gruidl, M., Zhou, J., Huang, T., Plass, C., and Tockman, M.S. (2005). CpG island hyper Methylation profiling of lung cancer using restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS) analysis. (Accepted Disease Markers).
Cancer Biology Ph.D. Program
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