Publications

* indicates co-first authorship

Working Papers

  1. Dong M, Yan J, Liu L, Wang L. “Efficient adjustment sets for inverse probability weighted estimation in causal graphical models.”

  2. Hou T, Thakral A, Hueniken K, …, Dong M, Xu W, Lee J, Liu G. “Genetic liability to smoking and alcohol use and risk and survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Towards a personalized approach.” Submitted.

  3. Haycock P, Dong M, Liu Y, Vanderwerff B, Bate T, et al.. “A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of lung cancer survival.”

  4. Bate T, Dong M, Liu Y, Seviiri M, Brown MC, et al.. “Investigating the repurposing potential of immune checkpoint inhibition for cancer treatment using Mendelian randomisation.” Submitted.

  5. Bate T, Dong M, Ogamba C, Liu Y, Seviiri M, et al.. “Investigating the repurposing potential of cardiometabolic and hormonal medications for cancer treatment using Mendelian randomisation.”

Preprints

  1. Dong M, Liu L, Tang D, Liu G, Xu W, Wang L (2025). “Marginal causal effect with continuous instrumental variables.” arXiv preprint. arXiv:2510.14368.

    IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award; SSC General Student Research Oral Presentation Award; University of Toronto Department of Statistics Research Day Best Poster Award.

    arXiv

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Dong M, Wang L, Liu L, Dukes O (2026). “Mei Dong, Linbo Wang, Lin Liu, and Oliver Dukes’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Regression by composition’ by Farewell et al.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology. qkag093.

    DOI arXiv

  2. Hou T, Thakral A, …, Dong M, …, Liu G (2025). “Polygenic risk score-based smoking and drinking behaviors and head and neck squamous cell cancer risk by HPV status.” Cancer Research. Abstract publication, 85(8 Supplement 1):7399.

  3. Dong M, Thakral A, Byrne KS, Bosse Y, Zhou H, 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.

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  4. Lam A, Hueniken K, Pienkowski M, Lee JW, Dong M, et al. (2025). “Performance of eight smoking metrics for modeling survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.” JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery. 151(4):360–370.

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  5. Xue M, Leibovitzh H, Shao J, Neustaeter A, Dong M, et al. (2024). “Environmental factors associated with risk of Crohn’s disease development in the CCC-GEM Project: A prospective cohort of healthy first-degree relatives of CD patients.” Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 22(9):1889–1897.

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  6. Dong M, Mitani A (2023). “Multiple imputation methods for missing multilevel ordinal outcomes.” BMC Medical Research Methodology. 23:112.

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  7. Xue M, Turpin W, Haim L, Lee SH, Neustaeter A, Dong M, et al. (2023). “A198 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. Abstract publication, 6(Suppl 1):41.

  8. García-Pardo M, Chang A, Schmid S, Dong M, Brown MC, et al. (2023). “Respiratory and cardiometabolic comorbidities and stage I–III non-small cell lung cancer survival: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium.” Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 18(3):313–323.

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  9. Fuoco J, Dong M, MacMillan C, Kak I, Perez-Ordonez B, Bradley G, Xu W, Magalhaes M (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.

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  10. García-Pardo M, Chang A, Schmid S, Dong M, Brown MC, et al. (2022). “Respiratory and cardiometabolic comorbidities and stage I–III non-small cell lung cancer survival: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium.” Annals of Oncology. Abstract publication, 33:S979.

  11. Turpin W*, Dong M*, Sasson G*, Garay JA*, Espin-Garcia O, et al. (2022). “Mediterranean-like dietary pattern associations with gut microbiome composition and subclinical gastrointestinal inflammation.” Gastroenterology. 163(3):685–698.

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  12. Schmid S, Jiang M, Brown MC, Fares A, Garcia M, Soriano J, Dong M, Thomas S, 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.

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  13. Bai W*, Dong M*, Li L, Feng C, Xu W (2021). “Randomized quantile residuals for diagnosing zero-inflated generalized linear mixed models with applications to microbiome count data.” BMC Bioinformatics. 22:564.

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  14. Shestopaloff K*, Dong M*, Gao F, Xu W (2021). “DCMD: Distance-based classification using mixture distributions on microbiome data.” PLoS Computational Biology. 17(3):e1008799.

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  15. Dong M*, Li L*, Chen M, Kusalik A, Xu W (2020). “Predictive analysis methods for human microbiome data with application to Parkinson’s disease.” PLOS ONE. 15(8):e0237779.

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