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Johanna
Schleutker
Professor, Institute of Biomedicine
PhD, Professor of Medical Genetics

Contact

+358 29 450 2726
+358 50 443 7237
Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

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Genetic Cancer Predisposition
ORCID

Areas of expertise

Cancer genetics
hereditary cancer
genomics
human genetics

Biography

Johanna Schleutker got her PhD in 1995 in University of Turku, Faculty of Medicine.The topic of her doctoral thesis was "Linkage disequilibrium is Salla disease; positioning of the sialic acid transport defect". She then moved to University of Tampere, and did her post doc in 1996-1998 in the Cancer Genetics research group of Professor Olli Kallioniemi. Her career continued in the US where she spent the years of 1999-2000 working as a research associate at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. During the NIH years, she studied genetics of familial prostate cancer in the group of Dr. Jeffrey M.Trent. After her return to Finland, Schleutker started her own research group in 2001 at the Insitute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere, and has ever since focused her studies on genetics and genetic susceptibility of prostate and breast cancer. Schleutker got a professorship in University of Tampere in 2008. In 2011 she started as a professor of medical genetics in University of Turku.

Teaching

Genetics, cancer genetics, hereditary cancer, genomics, molecular biology.

Research

The Schleutker group "Genetic Predisposition to Cancer" is studying both breast and prostate cancer genetics, the main emphasis being on prostate cancer. Of all cancers, prostate cancer (PrCa) has been reported as one of the most heritable diseases: genetic factors have been estimated to account for 57% of the risk. The goal is to identify and characterize predisposing genes and variants, especially those affecting aggressive outcome, including treatment responses to therapies. Further, the aim is to develop tools for prognostic purposes, i.e. prognostic biomarkers. The group has identified many significant genomic risk regions, candidate genes and variants, which have been then further profiled and characterized by functional studies. The group has produced (by 2021) 12 PhD degrees and published over 190 original, peer-reviewed articles in international journals.

Publications

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Chromosomes 4 and 8 implicated in a genome wide SNP linkage scan of 762 prostate cancer families collected by the ICPCG (2012)

Prostate
Lu L, Cancel-Tassin G, Valeri A, Cussenot O, Lange EM, Cooney KA, Farnham JM, Camp NJ, Cannon-Albright LA, Tammela TL, Schleutker J, Hoegel J, Herkommer K, Maier C, Vogel W, Wiklund F, Emanuelsson M, Grönberg H, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Helfand BT, Kan D, Catalona WJ, Stanford JL, FitzGerald LM, Johanneson B, Deutsch K, McIntosh L, Ostrander EA, Thibodeau SN, McDonnell SK, Hebbring S, Schaid DJ, Whittemore AS, Oakley-Girvan I, Hsieh CL, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Cropp CD, Simpson C, Carpten JD, Seminara D, Zheng SL, Xu J, Giles GG, Severi G, Hopper JL, English DR, Foulkes WD, Maehle L, Moller P, Badzioch MD, Edwards S, Guy M, Eeles R, Easton D, Isaacs WB
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study (2011)

Nature Genetics
Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Giles GG, Severi G, Schleutker J, Weischer M, Campa D, Riboli E, Key T, Gronberg H, Hunter DJ, Kraft P, Thun MJ, Ingles S, Chanock S, Albanes D, Hayes RB, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Pharoah P, Schumacher F, Henderson BE, Stanford JL, Ostrander EA, Sorensen KD, Dork T, Andriole G, Dickinson JL, Cybulski C, Lubinski J, Spurdle A, Clements JA, Chambers S, Aitken J, Gardiner RAF, Thibodeau SN, Schaid D, John EM, Maier C, Vogel W, Cooney KA, Park JY, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Habuchi T, Zhang HW, Lu YJ, Kaneva R, Muir K, Benlloch S, Leongamornlert DA, Saunders EJ, Tymrakiewicz M, Mahmud N, Guy M, O'Brien LT, Wilkinson RA, Hall AL, Sawyer EJ, Dadaev T, Morrison J, Dearnaley DP, Horwich A, Huddart RA, Khoo VS, Parker CC, Van As N, Woodhouse CJ, Thompson A, Christmas T, Ogden C, Cooper CS, Lophatonanon A, Southey MC, Hopper JL, English DR, Wahlfors T, Tammela TLJ, Klarskov P, Nordestgaard BG, Roder MA, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Bojesen SE, Travis R, Canzian F, Kaaks R, Wiklund F, Aly M, Lindstrom S, Diver WR, Gapstur S, Stern MC, Corral R, Virtamo J, Cox A, Haiman CA, Le Marchand L, FitzGerald L, Kolb S, Kwon EM, Karyadi DM, Orntoft TF, Borre M, Meyer A, Serth J, Yeager M, Berndt SI, Marthick JR, Patterson B, Wokolorczyk D, Batra J, Lose F, McDonnell SK, Joshi AD, Shahabi A, Rinckleb AE, Ray A, Sellers TA, Lin HY, Stephenson RA, Farnham J, Muller H, Rothenbacher D, Tsuchiya N, Narita S, Cao GW, Slavov C, Mitev V, Easton DF, Eeles RA
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

RAD51C is a susceptibility gene for ovarian cancer (2011)

Human Molecular Genetics
Pelttari LM, Heikkinen T, Thompson D, Kallioniemi A, Schleutker J, Holli K, Blomqvist C, Aittomaki K, Butzow R, Nevanlinna H
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Genome-Wide Linkage Analysis of 1,233 Prostate Cancer Pedigrees From the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics Using Novel sum LINK and sum LOD Analyses (2010)

Prostate
Christensen GB, Baffoe-Bonnie AB, George A, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Carpten JD, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Seven G, English DR, Foulkes WD, Maehle L, Moller P, Eeles R, Easton D, Badzioch MD, Whittemore AS, Oakley-Girvan I, Hsieh CL, Dimitrov L, Xu JF, Stanford JL, Johanneson B, Deutsch K, McIntosh L, Ostrander EA, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Isaacs WB, Thibodeau SN, McDonnell SK, Hebbring S, Schaid DJ, Lange EM, Cooney KA, Tammela TLJ, Schleutker J, Paiss T, Maier C, Gronberg H, Wiklund F, Emanuelsson M, Farnham JM, Cannon-Albright LA, Camp NJ, Camp NJ
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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