Publications

* indicates co-first author

Working Papers & Papers Under Review

  1. Mei Dong, Lin Liu, Dingke Tang, Geoffrey Liu, Wei Xu, Linbo Wang (2025) “Marginal causal effect estimation with continuous instrumental variables”
  1. Philip C Haycock, Mei Dong, Yuxi Liu, Brett Vanderwerff, Tessa Bate, et al. (2025+) “A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of lung cancer survival”
  1. Tessa Bate, Richard M Martin, James Yarmolinsky, Philip C Haycock, Mei Dong, et al. (2025+) “Investigating the repurposing potential of immune checkpoint inhibitors to additional cancer patient populations using Mendelian randomization.”

Refereed (Peer-Reviewed) Journal Articles

  1. Mei Dong, Abhinav Thakral, Karl Smith-Byrne, Yohan Bosse, Hufeng Zhou, et al. (2025) “Genome-Wide Association Study of Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Prognosis: A pooled analysis in the International Lung Cancer Consortium” Carcinogenesis. 46(2): bgaf031. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgaf031
  1. Tim Hou, Abhinav Thakral, Katrina Hueniken, …, Mei Dong, …, Geoffrey Liu. (2025) “Polygenic risk score-based smoking and drinking behaviors and head and neck squamous cell cancer risk by HPV status.” Cancer Research. 85(8 Supplement 1): 7399. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.AM2025-7399
  1. Andrew C. L. Lam, Katrina Hueniken, Martha Pienkowski, John J. W. Lee, Mei Dong, Brenda Diergaarde, et al. (2025) “Performance of 8 Smoking Metrics for Modeling Survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma” JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery. 151(4): 360-70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoto.2024.5392
  1. Mingyue Xue, Haim Leibovitzh, Shao Jingcheng, Anna Neustaeter, Mei Dong, Wei Xu, Osvaldo Espin-Garcia, et al. (2024) “Environmental Factors Associated with Risk of Crohn’s Disease Development in the Crohn’s and Colitis Canada-Genetic, Environmental, Microbial Project” Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 22(9): 1889-97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2024.03.049
  1. Mingyue Xue, Williams Turpin, Leibovitzh Haim, Sun-Ho Lee, Anna Neustaeter, Mei Dong, et al. (2023) “The Long-term impact of environment exposures on host health and the risk factors of Crohn’s disease.” Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. 6(Suppl 1): 41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwac036.198
  1. Miguel García-Pardo, Amy Chang, Sabine Schmid, Mei Dong, M. Catherine Brown, et al. (2023) “Respiratory and cardiometabolic comorbidities and Stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survival: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO)” Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 18(3): 313-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2022.10.020
  1. Jessie Fuoco, Mei Dong, Christina MacMillan, Ipshita Kak, Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, Grace Bradley, Wei Xu, Marco Magalhaes (2023) “A 10-Year Review of Intraoral Salivary Gland Tumor Diagnoses: Diagnostic Challenges and Inter-Observer Agreement” Head and Neck Pathology. 17(1): 193–203. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-022-01487-w
  1. Mei Dong, Aya Mitani (2023) “Multiple imputation methods for missing multilevel ordinal outcomes” BMC Medical Research Methodology. 23: 112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01909-5
  1. Miguel García-Pardo, Amy Chang, Sabine Schmid, Mei Dong, M. Catherine Brown, et al. (2022) “Respiratory and cardiometabolic comorbidities and stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survival: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO).” Annals of Oncology. 33: S979.
  1. Sabine Schmid, Mei Jiang, M Catherine Brown, Aline Fares, Miguel Garcia, Joelle Soriano, Mei Dong, Sera Thomas, et al. (2022) “Accounting for EGFR Mutations in Epidemiologic Analyses of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancers: Examples Based on the International Lung Cancer Consortium Data” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 31(3): 679–687. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-0747
  1. *Williams Turpin, *Mei Dong, *Gila Sasson, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Osvaldo Espin-Garcia, et al. (2022) “Mediterranean-Like dietary pattern associations with gut microbiome composition and subclinical gastrointestinal inflammation” Gastroenterology. 163(3): 685-698. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2022.05.037
  1. *Konstantin Shestopaloff, *Mei Dong, Wei Xu (2021) “DCMD: Distance-based classification using mixture distributions on microbiome data” PLoS computational biology. 17(3): e1008799. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008799
  1. *Wei Bai, *Mei Dong, Longhai Li, Cindy Feng, Wei Xu (2021) “Randomized quantile residuals for diagnosing zero-inflated generalized linear mixed models with applications to microbiome count data” BMC bioinformatics. 22:564. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04371-6
  1. *Mei Dong, *Longhai Li, Man Chen, Anthony Kusalik, Wei Xu (2020) “Predictive analysis methods for human microbiome data with application to Parkinson’s disease” Plos one. 15(8): e0237779. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237779