Johanna Schleutker
PhD, Professor of Medical Genetics
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.
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.
Teaching
Genetics, cancer genetics, hereditary cancer, genomics, molecular biology.
Publications
- A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to identify prostate cancer susceptibility loci associated with aggressive and non-aggressive disease (2013) Ali Amin Al Olama, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Fredrick R Schumacher3, Fredrik Wiklund, Sonja I Berndt, Sara Benlloch, Graham G Giles, Gianluca Severi, David E Neal, Freddie C Hamdy, Jenny L Donovan, David J Hunter, Brian E Henderson, Michael J Thun, Michael Gaziano, dward L Giovannucci, Afshan Siddiq, Ruth C Travis, David G Cox, Federico Canzian, Elio Riboli, Timothy J Key, Gerald Andriole, Demetrius Albanes, Richard B Hayes, Johanna Schleutker, Anssi Auvinen, Teuvo L J Tammela, Maren Weischer, Janet L Stanford, Elaine A Ostrander, Cezary Cybulski, Jan Lubinski, Stephen N Thibodeau, Daniel J Schaid, Karina D Sorensen, Jyotsna Batra, Judith A Clements, Suzanne Chambers, Joanne Aitken, Robert A Gardiner, Christiane Maier, Walther Vogel, Thilo Do, Hermann Brenner, Tomonori abuchi, Sue Ingles, Esther M John, Joanne L Dickinson, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Manuel R Teixeira, Radka Kaneva, Hong-Wei Zhang, Yong-Jie Lu, Jong Y Park, Kathleen A Cooney, Kenneth R Muir, Daniel A Leongamornlert, Edward Saunders, Malgorzata Tymrakiewicz, adiya Mahmud, Michelle Guy, Koveela Govindasami, Lynne T O’Brien, Rosemary A Wilkinson, Amanda L Hall, Emma J Sawyer, Tokhir Dadaev, Jonathan Morrison, David P Dearnaley, Alan Horwich, Robert A Huddart, Vincent S Khoo, Christopher C Parker, Nicholas Van As, Christopher J Woodhouse, Alan Thompson, TimDudderidge, Chris Ogden, Colin S Cooper, Artitaya Lophatonanon, Melissa C Southey, John L Hopper, Dallas English, Jarmo Virtamo, Loic Le Marchand, Daniele Campa, Rudolf Kaaks, Sara Lindstrom, W Ryan Diver, Susan Gapstur, Meredith Yeager, AngelaCox, Mariana C Stern, Roman Corral, MarkusAly, William Isaacs, Jan Adolfsson, Jianfeng Xu, S Lilly Zheng, Tiina Wahlfors, Kimmo Taari, Paula Kujala, Peter Klarskov, Børge G Nordestgaard, M Andreas Røder, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Stig E Bojesen, Liesel M FitzGerald, Suzanne Kolb, Erika M Kwon, Danielle M Karyadi, Torben Falck Orntoft, Michael Borre, Antje Rinckleb, Manuel Luedeke, KathleenHerkommer, AndreasMeyer, JurgenSerth, James R Marthick, BrionyPatterson, Dominika Wokolorczyk, Amanda Spurdle, Felicity Lose, Shannon K McDonnell, Amit D Joshi, Ahva Shahabi, Pedro Pinto, Joana Santos, AnaRay, Thomas A Sellers, Hui-Yi Lin, Robert A Stephenson, Craig Teerlink, Heiko Muller, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Norihiko Tsuchiya, Shintaro Narita, Guang-Wen Cao, Chavdar Slavov, Vanio Mitev, The UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators/British Association of Urological Surgeons’ Section of Oncology}, The UK ProtecT Study Collaborators, The Australian Prostate Cancer Bioresource, The PRACTICAL Consortium, Stephen Chanock, Henrik Gronberg, Christopher A Haiman, Peter Kraft, Douglas F Easton, Rosalind A Eeles
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- An Assessment of the Shared Allelic Architecture between Type II Diabetes and Prostate Cancer (2013)
- Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention
Oriana Hoi Yun Yu, William D Foulkes, Zari Dastani, Richard M Martin, Rosalind Eeles, for the PRACTICAL Consortium and the CRUK GWAS Investigators and J Brent Richards
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- ARLTS1 and Prostate Cancer Risk - Analysis of Expression and Regulation (2013) Siltanen S, Fischer D, Rantapero T, Laitinen V, Mpindi JP, Kallioniemi O, Wahlfors T, Schleutker J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Copy Number Variation Analysis in Familial BRCA1/2-Negative Finnish Breast and Ovarian Cancer (2013) Kirsi M Kuusisto, Oyediran Akinrinade, Mauno Vihinen, Minna Kankuri-Tammilehto, Satu-Leena Laasanen, Johanna Schleutker
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Epigenetic analysis leads to identification of HNF1B as a subtype-specific susceptibility gene for ovarian cancer (2013) Shen H, Fridley BL, Song HL, Lawrenson K, Cunningham JM, Ramus SJ, Cicek MS, Tyrer J, Stram D, Larson MC, Kobel M, Ziogas A, Zheng W, Yang HP, Wu AH, Wozniak EL, Woo YL, Winterhoff B, Wik E, Whittemore AS, Wentzensen N, Weber RP, Vitonis AF, Vincent D, Vierkant RA, Vergote I, Van Den Berg D, Van Altena AM, Tworoger SS, Thompson PJ, Tessier DC, Terry KL, Teo SH, Templeman C, Stram DO, Southey MC, Sieh W, Siddiqui N, Shvetsov YB, Shu XO, Shridhar V, Wang-Gohrke S, Severi G, Schwaab I, Salvesen HB, Rzepecka IK, Runnebaum IB, Rossing MA, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Risch HA, Renner SP, Poole EM, Pike MC, Phelan CM, Pelttari LM, Pejovic T, Paul J, Orlow I, Omar SZ, Olson SH, Odunsi K, Nickels S, Nevanlinna H, Ness RB, Narod SA, Nakanishi T, Moysich KB, Monteiro ANA, Moes-Sosnowska J, Modugno F, Menon U, McLaughlin JR, McGuire V, Matsuo K, Adenan NAM, Massuger LFAG, Lurie G, Lundvall L, Lubinski J, Lissowska J, Levine DA, Leminen A, Lee AW, Le ND, Lambrechts S, Lambrechts D, Kupryjanczyk J, Krakstad C, Konecny GE, Kjaer SK, Kiemeney LA, Kelemen LE, Keeney GL, Karlan BY, Karevan R, Kalli KR, Kajiyama H, Ji BT, Jensen A, Jakubowska A, Iversen E, Hosono S, Hogdall CK, Hogdall E, Hoatlin M, Hillemanns P, Heitz F, Hein R, Harter P, Halle MK, Hall P, Gronwald J, Gore M, Goodman MT, Giles GG, Gentry-Maharaj A, Garcia-Closas M, Flanagan JM, Fasching PA, Ekici AB, Edwards R, Eccles D, Easton DF, Durst M, du Bois A, Dork T, Doherty JA, Despierre E, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Cybulski C, Cramer DW, Cook LS, Chen XQ, Charbonneau B, Chang-Claude J, Campbell I, Butzow R, Bunker CH, Brueggmann D, Brown R, Brooks-Wilson A, Brinton LA, Bogdanova N, Block MS, Benjamin E, Beesley J, Beckmann MW, Bandera EV, Baglietto L, Bacot F, Armasu SM, Antonenkova N, Anton-Culver H, Aben KK, Liang D, Wu XF, Lu KR, Hildebrandt MAT, Schildkraut JM, Sellers TA, Huntsman D, Berchuck A, Chenevix-Trench G, Gayther SA, Pharoah PDP, Laird PW, Goode EL, Pearce CL
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Fine-mapping identifies multiple prostate cancer risk loci at 5p15, one of which associates with TERT expression (2013) Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Edward J Saunders, Daniel A Leongamornlert, Malgorzata Tymrakiewicz, Tokhir Dadaev, Sarah Jugurnauth-Little, Helen Ross-Adams, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Silvia Halim, Roslin Russel, Alison M Dunning, Craig Luccarini, Joe Dennis, David E Neal, Freddie C Hamdy, Jenny L Donovan, Ken Muir, Graham G Giles, Gianluca Severi, Fredrik Wiklund, Henrik Gronberg, Christopher A Haiman, Fredrick Schumacher, Brian E Henderson, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, David J Hunter, Susan Gapstur, Stephen Chanock, Sonja I Berndt, Demetrius Albanes, Gerald Andriole, Johanna Schleutker, Maren Weischer, Federico Canzian, Elio Riboli, Tim J Key, Ruth C Travis, Daniele Campa, Sue Ingles, Esther M John, Richard B Hayes, Paul Pharoah, Kay-Tee Khaw, Janet L Stanford, Elaine A Ostrander, Lisa B Signorello, Stephen N Thibodeau, Dan Schaid, Christiane Maier, Walther Vogel, Adam S Kibel, Cezary Cybulski, Jan Lubinski, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Hermann Brenner, Jong Y Park, Radka Kaneva, Jyotsna Batra, Amanda Spurdle, Judith A Clements, Manuel R Teixeira, Koveela Govindasami, Michelle Guy, Rosemary A Wilkinson, Emma J Sawyer, Angela Morgan, Ed Dicks, Caroline Baynes, Don Conroy, Stig E Bojesen, Rudolf Kaaks, Daniel Vincent, Franc¸ois Bacot, Daniel C Tessier, COGS-CRUK GWASELLIPSE (Part of GAME-ON) Initiative}, The UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators/British Association of Urological Surgeons’ Section of Oncology, The UK ProtecT Study Collaborators, The PRACTICAL Consortium, Douglas F Easton and Rosalind A Eeles
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Fine mapping of 11q13.5 identifies regions associated with prostate cancer and prostate cancer death (2013)
- European Journal of Cancer
Riikka Nurminen, Rainer Lehtonen, Anssi Auvinen, Teuvo L J Tammela, Tiina Wahlfors, Johanna Schleutker
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Genetic heterogeneity in Finnish hereditary prostate cancer using ordered subset analysis (2013)
- European Journal of Human Genetics
Simpson CL, Cropp CD, Wahlfors T, George A, Jones MS, Harper U, Ponciano-Jackson D, Tammela T, Schleutker J, Bailey-Wilson JE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- HOXB13 G84E Mutation in Finland: Population-Based Analysis of Prostate, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer Risk (2013)
- Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention
Virpi H Laitinen, Tiina Wahlfors, Leena Saaristo, Tommi Rantapero, Liisa M Pelttari, Outi Kilpivaara, Satu-Leena Laasanen, Anne Kallioniemi, Heli Nevanlinna, Lauri Aaltonen, Robert L Vessella, Anssi Auvinen, Tapio Visakorpi, Teuvo L J Tammela, Johanna Schleutker
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- HOXB13 is a susceptibility gene for prostate cancer: results from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG) (2013) Xu JF, Lange EM, Lu LY, Zheng SQL, Wang Z, Thibodeau SN, Cannon-Albright LA, Teerlink CC, Camp NJ, Johnson AM, Zuhlke KA, Stanford JL, Ostrander EA, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Maier C, Luedeke M, Vogel W, Schleutker J, Wahlfors T, Tammela T, Schaid D, McDonnell SK, DeRycke MS, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Eeles R, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Whittemore AS, Hsieh CL, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Severi G, Catalona WJ, Mandal D, Ledet E, Foulkes WD, Hamel N, Mahle L, Moller P, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Carpten JD, Seminara D, Cooney KA, Isaacs WB
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
