Publications

Lee, D. E., Hwang, J., Kim, K., & Kim, H. J. (2026). Modifying role of physical activity in associations between air pollutants and blood pressure among cancer survivors. Scientific Reports.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39815-7

 Park, H. Y., & Kim, K. (2025). Bidirectional associations between metabolic syndrome and epigenetic age acceleration: A 20-year longitudinal study in midlife adults. Experimental Gerontology, 113017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2025.113017

Lai, M., Kim, K., Zheng, Y., Castellani, C. A., Ratliff, S. M., Wang, M., ... & NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) mtDNA Working Group Arking Dan E. 6 Castellani Christina A. 6 29 Manson JoAnn E. 30 Zhao Wei 7 Liu Chunyu 28 31. (2025). Epigenome-wide association study of nuclear DNA methylation in relation to mitochondrial heteroplasmy. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65845-2

Chen, Y., Zheng, Y., Zhao, L., Gao, T., Qu, Y., Carr, J. J., Kim, K.,... & Zhang, X. (2025). Cumulative lipid exposure in young adulthood and risk of midlife MASLD. JHEP Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2025.101679

Seo, H. J., Chang, Y., Ryu, S., & Kim, K. (2025). Association of muscle mass and strength with blood-based epigenetic aging among middle-aged and older adults in the United States. GeroScience, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01961-7

Lee, D. E., Park, Y. S., Jang, H. M., Kim, B. J., Kim, Y. J., Cho, S. I., & Kim, K. (2025). Differential contributions of cardiovascular health-related lifestyle factors to epigenetic ageing: implications for healthy longevity. BMC medicine, 23(1), 545. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04394-3

Kim, K., Chang, Y., Yoo, E. H., & Ryu, S. (2025). Timing and duration of neighborhood greenness exposure and their associations with depressive Symptoms: A 12-year follow-up of 527,965 Korean adults. Environmental Research, 122838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.122838

Kim, K., Chang, Y., Yoo, E-h, Ryu, S (2025). Timing and duration of neighborhood greenness and their associations with depressive symptoms: A 12-year follow-up of 527,965 Korean adults. Env Res, 122838.

Hwang, J., Kim, K., Ahn, S., Lee, D. E., Lee, S. W., Kim, H. J., & Kim, K. (2025). Association of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution with osteoporosis among cancer survivors: Results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Prev Med, 192, 108228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2025.108228

Kim, K., Zheng, Y., Joyce, B. T., Nannini, D. R., Wang, J., Qu, Y., Hawkins, C. A., Okeke, E., Lesi, O. A., Roberts, L. R., Gursel, D. B., Abdulkareem, F. B., Akanmu, A. S., Duguru, M. J., Davwar, P., Nyam, D. P., Adisa, R. A., Imade, G., Wei, J. J.,…Hou, L. (2025). Cell-free DNA methylation-based inflammation score as a marker for hepatocellular carcinoma among people living with HIV. Hepatol Int, 19(3), 596-606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12072-024-10768-1

Lee, D.-e., Hwang, J., Ahn, S., Kim, K., Kim, K., & Kim, H.-J. (2025). Association of ambient air pollution with hypertension among cancer survivors. Cancer Research, 85(8_Supplement_1), 3611-3611. 

Lee, D. E., Zheng, Y., Min, K. B., Joyce, B., Wang, J., Gao, T., Hou, L., Ha, S. W., Jeong, D. E., Kang, M. J., Min, J. Y., & Kim, K. (2025). The association of DNA methylation-based epigenetic age acceleration with facial expression recognition in older adults. Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 133, 105808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2025.105808

Szeto, M. D., Ning, H., Pedamallu, H., Zheng, Y., Schneper, L., Joyce, B., Kim, K., Kershaw, K. N., Reges, O., Hou, L., Allen, N. B., Notterman, D. A., & Lloyd-Jones, D. M. (2025). Mediation of Social Determinants and Hypertension by Epigenetic Age in CARDIA. Hypertension, 82(3), e22-e24. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.24080

Zheng, Y., Han, J., Qu, Y., Wang, J., Joyce, B. T., Kim, K., Nannini, D. R., Musa, J., Imade, G. E., Anorlu, R., Maiga, M., Morhason-Bello, I., Simon, M. A., Silas, O., Abdulkareem, F. B., Badmos, K., Nyam, C. J., Gursel, D. B., Wei, J. J.,…Hou, L. (2025). DNA methylation biomarkers for cervical cancer risk prediction in HIV-positive Nigerian women. Int J Cancer, 157(7), 1363-1375. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35502

Kim, K., Joyce, B. T., Zheng, Y., Nannini, D. R., Wang, J., Gordon-Larsen, P., Bhatt, A. S., Gabriel, K. P., Shikany, J. M., Hu, M., Chen, A., Reges, O., Carnethon, M. R., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., Zhang, K., & Hou, L. (2024). Associations of Urban Blue and Green Spaces With Coronary Artery Calcification in Black Individuals and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods. Circulation, 150(3), 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067992

Kim, K., Yao, J., Jacobs, D. R., Jr., Martin, R. V., van Donkelaar, A., Su, W. C., Zhang, C., Chen, X., Murthy, V. L., Zhang, X., Lloyd-Jones, D., Hou, L., & Zhang, K. (2024). Associations of exposure to PM(2.5) and its compounds with carotid intima-media thickness among middle-aged adults. Sci Total Environ, 955, 177098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177098

Wang, J., Imade, G., Akanmu, A. S., Musa, J., Anorlu, R., Zheng, Y., Garcia-Bedoya, O., Sanchez, G. I., Belinson, J., Kim, K., Maiga, M., Gursel, D. B., Sagay, A. S., Ogunsola, F. T., Murphy, R. L., & Hou, L. (2024). Analytic performance of ScreenFire HPV RS assay Zebra BioDome format and its potential for large-scale population HPV screening. Infect Agent Cancer, 19(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13027-024-00622-2

Diakite, B., Kassogue, Y., Maiga, M., Dolo, G., Kassogue, O., Holl, J. L., Joyce, B., Wang, J., Cisse, K., Diarra, F., Keita, M. L., Traore, C. B., Kamate, B., Sissoko, S. B., Coulibaly, B., Sissoko, A. S., Traore, D., Sidibe, F. M., Bah, S., Kim, K.,…Hou, L. (2023). Lack of Association of C677T Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Polymorphism with Breast Cancer Risk in Mali. Genet Res (Camb), 2023, 4683831. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4683831

Kim, K., Joyce, B. T., Nannini, D. R., Zheng, Y., Gordon-Larsen, P., Shikany, J. M., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., Hu, M., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J., Vaughan, D. E., Zhang, K., & Hou, L. (2023). Inequalities in urban greenness and epigenetic aging: Different associations by race and neighborhood socioeconomic status. Sci Adv, 9(26), eadf8140. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf8140

Kim, K., Yaffe, K., Rehkopf, D. H., Zheng, Y., Nannini, D. R., Perak, A. M., Nagata, J. M., Miller, G. E., Zhang, K., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., Joyce, B. T., & Hou, L. (2023). Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife. JAMA Netw Open, 6(6), e2317987. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.17987

Nannini, D. R., Zheng, Y., Joyce, B. T., Kim, K., Gao, T., Wang, J., Jacobs, D. R., Schreiner, P. J., Yaffe, K., Greenland, P., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., & Hou, L. (2023). Genome-wide DNA methylation association study of recent and cumulative marijuana use in middle aged adults. Mol Psychiatry, 28(6), 2572-2582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02106-y

Kim, K., Argos, M., Persky, V. W., Freels, S., Sargis, R. M., & Turyk, M. E. (2022). Associations of exposure to metal and metal mixtures with thyroid hormones: Results from the NHANES 2007-2012. Environ Res, 212(Pt C), 113413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113413

Kim, K., Zheng, Y., Joyce, B. T., Jiang, H., Greenland, P., Jacobs, D. R., Jr., Zhang, K., Liu, L., Allen, N. B., Wilkins, J. T., Forrester, S. N., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., & Hou, L. (2022). Relative contributions of six lifestyle- and health-related exposures to epigenetic aging: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Clin Epigenetics, 14(1), 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-022-01304-9

Musa, J., Kim, K., Zheng, Y., Qu, Y., Joyce, B. T., Wang, J., Nannini, D. R., Gursel, D. B., Silas, O., Abdulkareem, F. B., Imade, G., Akanmu, A. S., Wei, J. J., Kocherginsky, M., Kim, K. A., Wehbe, F., Achenbach, C. J., Anorlu, R., Simon, M. A.,…Hou, L. (2022). Accelerated Epigenetic Age Among Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer and HIV-Infection in Nigeria. Front Public Health, 10, 834800. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.834800

Shin, J., Kang, H.-C., Kim, H., & Kim, K. (2022). A Study of Recent Policy to Improve Health from Particulate Matter in Korea. In: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs.

Fakhoury, M. Q., Ghorayeb, A. M., Houlihan, M. D., Powers, R. J., Hurley, S., Wille, M. A., Freeman, V. L., Kim, K., Psutka, S. P., Vidal, P., & Hollowell, C. M. (2021). Predictive Risk Factors for Continued Smoking after the Diagnosis of a Genitourinary Malignancy. Urology, 147, 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2020.05.089

Kim, K., Joyce, B. T., Zheng, Y., Schreiner, P. J., Jacobs, D. R., Jr., Catov, J. M., Shikany, J. M., Carnethon, M. R., Greenland, P., Van Horn, L. V., Allen, N. B., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., Gunderson, E. P., & Hou, L. (2021). DNA Methylation GrimAge and Incident Diabetes: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Diabetes, 70(6), 1404-1413. https://doi.org/10.2337/db20-1167

Kim, K. (2020). Genes, Environmental Pollutants, and Endocrine System Disruption University of Illinois at Chicago]. 

Kim, K., Kong, A., Flanigan, R. C., Quek, M. L., Hollowell, C. M. P., Vidal, P. P., Branch, J., Dean, L. A., Macias, V., Kajadacsy-Balla, A. A., Fitzgibbon, M. L., Cintron, D., Liu, L., & Freeman, V. L. (2019). Pre-diagnostic carbohydrate intake and treatment failure after radical prostatectomy for early-stage prostate cancer. Cancer Causes Control, 30(3), 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-019-1134-4

Song, N., Kim, K., Shin, A., Park, J. W., Chang, H. J., Shi, J., Cai, Q., Kim, D. Y., Zheng, W., & Oh, J. H. (2018). Colorectal cancer susceptibility loci and influence on survival. Genes Chromosomes Cancer, 57(12), 630-637. https://doi.org/10.1002/gcc.22674

Shin, A., Sandin, S., Lof, M., Margolis, K. L., Kim, K., Couto, E., Adami, H. O., & Weiderpass, E. (2015). Alcohol consumption, body mass index and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor status: Women' Lifestyle and Health Study. BMC Cancer, 15, 881. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-015-1896-3

Woo, H. D., Kim, K., & Kim, J. (2015). Association between preoperative C-reactive protein level and colorectal cancer survival: a meta-analysis. Cancer Causes Control, 26(11), 1661-1670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-015-0663-8

Park, B., Shin, A., Kim, K. Z., Lee, Y. S., Hwang, J. A., Kim, Y., Sung, J., Yoo, K. Y., & Lee, E. S. (2014). Lack of effects of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma genetic polymorphisms on breast cancer risk: a case-control study and pooled analysis. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 15(21), 9093-9099. https://doi.org/10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.21.9093

Kim, K.-Z., Min, J.-Y., Kim, K., Sung, J., & Cho, S.-I. (2013). Exploring Trans-acting regulators of gene expression associated with metabolic syndrome: a coupled application of factor analysis and linkage analysis. Genes & Genomics, 35(1), 59-67. 

Kim, K. Z., Shin, A., Kim, J., Park, J. W., Park, S. C., Choi, H. S., Chang, H. J., Kim, D. Y., & Oh, J. H. (2013). Association between CASR polymorphisms, calcium intake, and colorectal cancer risk. PLoS One, 8(3), e59628. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059628

Shin, A., Jung, Y. S., Jung, K. W., Kim, K., Ryu, J., & Won, Y. J. (2013). Trends of human papillomavirus-related head and neck cancers in Korea: national cancer registry data. Laryngoscope, 123(11), E30-37. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.24243

Han, K., Kim, K. Z., Oh, J. M., Kim, I. W., Kim, K., & Park, T. (2012). Unbalanced sample size effect on genome-wide population differentiation studies. Int J Data Min Bioinform, 6(5), 490-504. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijdmb.2012.049303

Kim, K. Z., Shin, A., Lee, J., Myung, S. K., & Kim, J. (2012). The beneficial effect of leisure-time physical activity on bone mineral density in pre- and postmenopausal women. Calcif Tissue Int, 91(3), 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00223-012-9624-3

Kim, K. Z., Shin, A., Lee, Y. S., Kim, S. Y., Kim, Y., & Lee, E. S. (2012). Polymorphisms in adiposity-related genes are associated with age at menarche and menopause in breast cancer patients and healthy women. Hum Reprod,27(7), 2193-2200. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/des147

Shin, A., Kim, K. Z., Jung, K. W., Park, S., Won, Y. J., Kim, J., Kim, D. Y., & Oh, J. H. (2012). Increasing trend of colorectal cancer incidence in Korea, 1999-2009. Cancer Res Treat, 44(4), 219-226. https://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2012.44.4.219

Kim, K.-Z., Min, J.-Y., Kwon, G.-Y., Sung, J.-H., & Cho, S.-I. (2011). Directed causal network construction using linkage analysis with metabolic syndrome-related expression quantitative traits. Genomics & informatics, 9(4), 143-151. 

Kim, K., Min, J.-Y., Kim, K., Sung, J., & Cho, S.-I. (2009). Exploring Common Genetic Regulators of Gene Expressions Related to Insulin Resistance Syndrome: A Coupled Application of Factor Analysis and Linkage Analysis to GAW15 Problem 1 Data. GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY,