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
- Circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of seven cancers: Mendelian randomisation study (2017) Dimitrakopoulou VI, Tsilidis KK, Haycock PC, Dimou NL, Al-Dabhani K, Martin RM, Lewis SJ, Gunter MJ, Mondul A, Shui IM, Theodoratou E, Nimptsch K, Lindstrom S, Albanes D, Kuhn T, Key TJ, Travis RC, Vimaleswaran KS, Kraft P, Pierce BL, Schildkraut JM, Schildkraut JM; GECCO Consortium; PRACTICAL Consortium; GAME-ON Network
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- FANCM mutation c.5791C > T is a risk factor for triple-negative breast cancer in the Finnish population (2017)
- Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Kiiski JI, Tervasmaki A, Pelttari LM, Khan S, Mantere T, Pylkas K, Mannermaa A, Tengstrom M, Kvist A, Borg A, Kosma VM, Kallioniemi A, Schleutker J, Butzow R, Blomqvist C, Aittomaki K, Winqvist R, Nevanlinna H
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Geneettinen alttius syövälle (2017) Kankuri-Tammilehto Minna, Schleutker Johanna
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
- Genetic association analysis of the RTK/ERK pathway with aggressive prostate cancer highlights the potential role of CCND2 in disease progression (2017) Chen Y, Zhang Q, Wang QY, Li J, Sipeky C, Xia JH, Gao P, Hu YL, Zhang HY, Yang XB, Chen HT, Jiang YH, Yang YH, Yao ZT, Chen YC, Gao Y, Tan AH, Liao M, Schleutker J, Xu JF, Sun YH, Wei GH, Mo ZN, Mo ZN
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Genome-wide association study of classical Hodgkin lymphoma identifies key regulators of disease susceptibility (2017) Teixeira M., John E., De Ruyck K., Neuhausen S., Newcomb L., Razack A., Kaneva R., Lessel D., Park J., Penney K., Cybulski C., Stanford J., Brenner H., Nordestgaard B., Kim J., Maier C., Jöckel K., Strandmann E., Lightfoot T., Kane E., Roman E., Lake A., Montgomery D., Jarrett R., Usmani N., Claessens F., Townsend P., Dominguez M., Roobol M., Menegaux F., Hoffmann P., Nöthen M., Hemminki K., Orr N., Engert A., Swerdlow A., Houlston R., Law P., Försti A., Filho M., Holroyd A., Sud A., Thomsen H., Easton D., Cooke R., Dunning A., Pharoah P., Orlando G., Broderick P., Wright L., Lenive O., Pashayan N., Muir K., Haiman C., Henderson B., Canzian F., Peto J., Kote-Jarai Z., Eeles R., Chanock S., Stevens V., Conti D., Wiklund F., Olama A., Berndt S., Benlloch S., Schumacher F., Weinstein S., Wolk A., Schleutker J., Albanes D., Clements J., Gronberg H., Tangen C., Batra J., Travis R., Neal D., Maehle L., Sorensen K., Koutros S., Cancel-Tassin G., Mucci L., West C., Kogevinas M., Vega A., Kibel A., Giles G., Lu Y., Rosenstein B., Ingles S., Hamilton R.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Germline EMSY sequence alterations in hereditary breast cancer and ovarian cancer families (2017) Maatta KM, Nurminen R, Kankuri-Tammilehto M, Kallioniemi A, Laasanen SL, Schleutker J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- gsSKAT: Rapid gene set analysis and multiple testing correction for rare-variant association studies using weighted linear kernels (2017) Larson NB, McDonnell S, Albright LC, Teerlink C, Stanford J, Ostrander EA, Isaacs WB, Xu JF, Cooney KA, Lange E, Schleutker J, Carpten JD, Powell I, Bailey-Wilson JE, Cussenot O, Cancel-Tassin G, Giles GG, MacInnis RJ, Maier C, Whittemore AS, Hsieh CL, Wiklund F, Catolona WJ, Foulkes W, Mandal D, Eeles R, Kote-Jarai Z, Ackerman MJ, Olson TM, Klein CJ, Thibodeau SN, Schaid DJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Height, selected genetic markers and prostate cancer risk: Results from the PRACTICAL consortium (2017)
- British Journal of Cancer
Kedda M., Kerr K., Saunders P., Turner M., Srinivasan S., Heathcote P., Yeadon T., Omara T., Christova S., Popov E., Eckert A., Dikov T., Wood G., Collins A., Alexander K., Malone G., Lose F., Stewart-Brown S., Kote-Jarai Z., Lophatananon A., Hamdy F., Neal D., Garcia S., Olama A., Southey M., Fitzgerald L., Giles G., Donovan J., Aly M., Gronberg H., Pashayan N., Pharoah P., Arndt V., Dieffenbach A., Brenner H., Stanford J., Kaneva R., Mitev V., Batra J., Spurdle A., Park J., Lin H., Sellers T., Slavov C., Schleutker J., Nordestgaard B., Wiklund F., Travis R., Clements J., Easton D., Eeles R., Muir K., Kibel A., Blot W., Cannon-Albright L., Cybulski C., Thibodeau S., Haiman C., Walther V., Maier C., Leongamornlert D., Guy M., Wilkinson R., Sawyer E., Teixeira M., Pandha H., Govindasami K., Cook M., Dadaev T., Cox A., Livni N., Hazel S., Saunders E., Tymrakiewicz M., Morgan A., Fisher C., Hopper J., Karlsson A., Brown P., Pedersen J., Marsden G., Davis M., George A., Lane A., Zachariah B., Stegmaier C., Kolb S., Stattin P., Broms M., Johansson J., Adolfson J., Cavalli-Bjoerkman C., Kachakova D., Mitkova A., Vlahova A., Radlein S., Rincon M., Pow-Sang J., Haley J., Park H.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Investigating the possible causal role of coffee consumption with prostate cancer risk and progression using Mendelian randomization analysis (2017)
- International Journal of Cancer
Taylor AE, Martin RM, Geybels MS, Stanford JL, Shui I, Eeles R, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Giles GG, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Haiman CA, Schleutker J, Nordestgaard BG, Travis RC, Neal D, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Blot W, Thibodeau S, Maier C, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Park J, Kaneva R, Batra J, Teixeira MR, Pandha H, Donovan J, Munafo MR
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- SNP interaction pattern identifier (SIPI): an intensive search for SNP-SNP interaction patterns (2017) Lin HY, Chen DT, Huang PY, Liu YH, Ochoa A, Zabaleta J, Mercante DE, Fang Z, Sellers TA, Pow-Sang JM, Cheng CH, Eeles R, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Giles GG, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Haiman CA, Schleutker J, Nordestgaard BG, Travis RC, Hamdy F, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Blot WJ, Thibodeau SN, Maier C, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Kaneva R, Batra J, Teixeira MR, Pandha H, Lu YJ, Park JY
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Whole-exome sequencing of Finnish hereditary breast cancer families (2017)
- European Journal of Human Genetics
Määttä K, Rantapero T, Lindström A, Nykter M, Kankuri-Tammilehto M, Laasanen SL, Schleutker J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Assessing the role of insulin-like growth factors and binding proteins in prostate cancer using Mendelian randomization: Genetic variants as instruments for circulating levels (2016)
- International Journal of Cancer
Bonilla C, Lewis SJ, Rowlands MA, Gaunt TR, Smith GD, Gunnell D, Palmer T, Donovan JL, Hamdy FC, Neal DE, Eeles R, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Giles GG, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Haiman CA, Schleutker J, Nordestgaard BG, Travis RC, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Blot WJ, Thibodeau S, Maier C, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Park J, Kaneva R, Batra J, Teixeira MR, Pandha H, Lathrop M, Martin RM, Holly JMP
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation (2016) Gusev A, Shi H, Kichaev G, Pomerantz M, Li F, Long HW, Ingles SA, Kittles RA, Strom SS, Rybicki BA, Nemesure B, Isaacs WB, Zheng W, Pettaway CA, Yeboah ED, Tettey Y, Biritwum RB, Adjei AA, Tay E, Truelove A, Niwa S, Chokkalingam AP, John EM, Murphy AB, Signorello LB, Carpten J, Leske MC, Wu SY, Hennis AJM, Neslund-Dudas C, Hsing AW, Chu L, Goodman PJ, Klein EA, Witte JS, Casey G, Kaggwa S, Cook MB, Stram DO, Blot WJ, Eeles RA, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Giles GG, Southey MC, Fitzgerald LM, Gronberg H, Wiklund F, Aly M, Henderson BE, Schleutker J, Wahlfors T, Tammela TLJ, Nordestgaard BG, Key TJ, Travis RC, Neal DE, Donovan JL, Hamdy FC, Pharoah P, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Thibodeau SN, McDonnell SK, Schaid DJ, Maier C, Vogel W, Luedeke M, Herkommer K, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Wokolorczyk D, Kluzniak W, Cannon-Albright L, Teerlink C, Brenner H, Dieffenbach AK, Arndt V, Park JY, Sellers TA, Lin HY, Slavov C, Kaneva R, Mitev V, Batra J, Spurdle A, Clements JA, Teixeira MR, Pandha H, Michael A, Paulo P, Maia S, Kierzek A, Conti DV, Albanes D, Berg C, Berndt SI, Campa D, Crawford ED, Diver WR, Gapstur SM, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci E, Hoover R, Hunter DJ, Johansson M, Kraft P, Le Marchand L, Lindstrom S, Navarro C, Overvad K, Riboli E, Siddiq A, Stevens VL, Trichopoulos D, Vineis P, Yeager M, Trynka G, Raychaudhuri S, Schumacher FR, Price AL, Freedman ML, Haiman CA, Pasaniuc B, Cook M, Guy M, Govindasami K, Leongamornlert D, Sawyer EJ, Wilkinson R, Saunders EJ, Tymrakiewicz M, Dadaev T, Morgan A, Fisher C, Hazel S, Livni N, Lophatananon A, Pedersen J, Hopper JL, Adolfson J, Stattin P, Johansson JE, Cavalli-Bjoerkman C, Karlsson A, Broms M, Auvinen A, Kujala P, Maeaettaenen L, Murtola T, Taari K, Weischer M, Nielsen SF, Klarskov P, Roder A, Iversen P, Wallinder H, Gustafsson S, Cox A, Brown P, George A, Marsden G, Lane A, Davis M, Zheng W, Signorello LB, Blot WJ, Tillmans L, Riska S, Wang L, Rinckleb A, Lubiski J, Stegmaier C, Pow-Sang J, Park H, Radlein S, Rincon M, Haley J, Zachariah B, Kachakova D, Popov E, Mitkova A, Vlahova A, Dikov T, Christova S, Heathcote P, Wood G, Malone G, Saunders P, Eckert A, Yeadon T, Kerr K, Collins A, Turner M, Srinivasan S, Kedda MA, Alexander K, Omara T, Wu HH, Henrique R, Pinto P, Santos J, Barros-Silva J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Blood lipids and prostate cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis (2016) Bull CJ, Bonilla C, Holly JMP, Perks CM, Davies N, Haycock P, Yu OHY, Richards JB, Eeles R, Easton D, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Giles GG, MacInnis RJ, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Haiman CA, Schleutker J, Nordestgaard BG, Travis RC, Neal D, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Blot WJ, Thibodeau S, Maier C, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Park J, Kaneva R, Batra J, Teixeira MR, Micheal A, Pandha H, Smith GD, Lewis SJ, Martin RM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Expressional Profiling of Prostate Cancer Risk SNPs at 11q13.5 Identifies DGAT2 as a New Target Gene (2016)
- Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer
Nurminen R, Rantapero T, Wong SC, Fischer D, Lehtonen R, Tammela TLJ, Nykter M, Visakorpi T, Wahlfors T, Schleutker J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Gene and pathway level analyses of germline DNA-repair gene variants and prostate cancer susceptibility using the iCOGS-genotyping array (2016)
- British Journal of Cancer
Edward J Saunders, Tokhir Dadaev, Daniel A Leongamornlert, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Graham G Giles, Fredrik Wiklund, Henrik Grönberg, Christopher A Haiman, Johanna Schleutker, Børge G Nordestgaard, Ruth C Travis, David Neal, Nora Pasayan, Kay-Tee Khaw, Janet L Stanford, William J Blot, Stephen N Thibodeau, Christiane Maier, Adam S Kibel, Cezary Cybulski, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Hermann Brenner, Jong Y Park, Radka Kaneva, Jyotsna Batra, Manuel R Teixeira, Hardev Pandha, Koveela Govindasami, Ken Muir, The UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators, The UK ProtecT Study Collaborators, The PRACTICAL Consortium, Douglas F Easton, Rosalind A Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Genome-wide association of familial prostate cancer cases identifies evidence for a rare segregating haplotype at 8q24.21 (2016) Teerlink CC, Leongamornlert D, Dadaev T, Thomas A, Farnham J, Stephenson RA, Riska S, McDonnell SK, Schaid DJ, Catalona WJ, Zheng SL, Cooney KA, Ray AM, Zuhlke KA, Lange EM, Giles GG, Southey MC, Fitzgerald LM, Rinckleb A, Luedeke M, Maier C, Stanford JL, Ostrander EA, Kaikkonen EM, Sipeky C, Tammela T, Schleutker J, Wiley KE, Isaacs SD, Walsh PC, Isaacs WB, Xu JF, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Mandal D, Laurie C, Laurie C, Thibodeau SN, Eeles RA, Kote-Jarai Z, Cannon-Albright L
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types (2016) Kar SP, Beesley J, Al Olama AA, Michailidou K, Tyrer J, Kote-Jarai ZA, Lawrenson K, Lindstrom S, Ramus SJ, Thompson DJ, Kibel AS, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Michael A, Dieffenbach AK, Gentry-Maharaj A, Whittemore AS, Wolk A, Monteiro A, Peixoto A, Kierzek A, Cox A, Rudolph A, Gonzalez-Neira A, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Swerdlow A, Ziogas A, Ekici AB, Burwinkel B, Karlan BY, Nordestgaard BG, Blomqvist C, Phelan C, McLean C, Pearce CL, Vachon C, Cybulski C, Slavov C, Stegmaier C, Maier C, Ambrosone CB, Hogdall CK, Teerlink CC, Kang D, Tessier DC, Schaid DJ, Stram DO, Cramer DW, Neal DE, Eccles D, Flesch-Janys D, Edwards DRV, Wokozorczyk D, Levine DA, Yannoukakos D, Sawyer EJ, Bandera EV, Poole EM, Goode EL, Khusnutdinova E, Hogdall E, Song FJ, Bruinsma F, Heitz F, Modugno F, Hamdy FC, Wiklund F, Giles GG, Olsson H, Wildiers H, Ulmer HU, Pandha H, Risch HA, Darabi H, Salvesen HB, Nevanlinna H, Gronberg H, Brenner H, Brauch H, Anton-Culver H, Song HL, Lim HY, McNeish I, Campbell I, Vergote I, Gronwald J, Lubinski J, Stanford JL, Bentez J, Doherty JA, Permuth JB, Chang-Claude J, Donovan JL, Dennis J, Schildkraut JM, Schleutker J, Hopper JL, Kupryjanczyk J, Park JY, Figueroa J, Clements JA, Knight JA, Peto J, Cunningham JM, Pow-Sang J, Batra J, Czene K, Lu KH, Herkommer K, Khaw KT, Matsuo K, Muir K, Offitt K, Chen KX, Moysich KB, Aittomaki K, Odunsi K, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LFAG, Fitzgerald LM, Cook LS, Cannon-Albright L, Hooning MJ, Pike MC, Bolla MK, Luedeke M, Teixeira MR, Goodman MT, Schmidt MK, Riggan M, Aly M, Rossing MA, Beckmann MW, Moisse M, Sanderson M, Southey MC, Jones M, Lush M, Hildebrandt MAT, Hou MF, Schoemaker MJ, Garcia-Closas M, Bogdanova N, Rahman N, Le ND, Orr N, Wentzensen N, Pashayan N, Peterlongo P, Guenel P, Brennan P, Paulo P, Webb PM, Broberg P, Fasching PA, Devilee P, Wang Q, Cai QY, Li QY, Kaneva R, Butzow R, Kopperud RK, Schmutzler RK, Stephenson RA, MacInnis RJ, Hoover RN, Winqvist R, Ness R, Milne RL, Travis RC, Benlloch S, Olson SH, McDonnell SK, Tworoger SS, Maia SA, Berndt S, Lee SC, Teo SH, Thibodeau SN, Bojesen SE, Gapstur SM, Kjaer SK, Pejovic T, Tammela TLJ, Dork T, Bruning T, Wahlfors T, Key TJ, Edwards TL, Menon U, Hamann U, Mitev V, Kosma VM, Setiawan VW, Kristensen V, Arndt V, Vogel W, Zheng W, Sieh W, Blot WJ, Kluzniak W, Shu XO, Gao YT, Schumacher F, Freedman ML, Berchuck A, Dunning AM, Simard J, Haiman CA, Spurdle A, Sellers TA, Hunter DJ, Henderson BE, Kraft P, Chanock SJ, Couch FJ, Hall P, Gayther SA, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Eeles R, Pharoah PDP, Lambrechts D
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Germline copy number variation analysis in Finnish families with hereditary prostate cancer (2016) Laitinen VH, Akinrinade O, Rantapero T, Tammela TL, Wahlfors T, Schleutker J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Microseminoprotein-Beta Expression in Different Stages of Prostate Cancer (2016) Sjoblom L, Saramaki O, Annala M, Leinonen K, Nattinen J, Tolonen T, Wahlfors T, Nykter M, Bova GS, Schleutker J, Tammela TLJ, Lilja H, Visakorpi T
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
