Elad Ziv, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine in Residence Division of General Internal Medicine

Training and Education:

• Undergraduate: Yale University, BS Biology 1991
• Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine
• Fellowship: General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Areas of Interest

• Genetic Epidemiology
• Breast Cancer Epidemiology

Recent Publications

Ziv, E, C Daley, S Blower, "Early therapy for latent tuberculosis infection," American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001; 153(4) 381-385.

Ziv E, J Cauley, P Morin, R Saiz, WS Browner, "An association between the T29->C polymorphism in the transforming growth factor beta1 gene and breast cancer in elderly white women: the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures," JAMA, 2001; 285:2859-2863.

Risch, N, E Gonzalez-Burchard, E Ziv, H Tang, "Classification of Humans in Biomedical Research: Genes Race and Disease," Genome Biology 2002;3(7):COMMENT2007.

Ziv, E, A Kahn, J Cauley, P Morin, R Saiz, WS Browner, "The L10P polymorphism of TGF-_1 is not associated with osteoporosis among white women," American Journal of Medicine, 2003; 114: 227-31.

Ziv E, J Shepherd, R Smith-Bindman, K Kerlikowske, "Mammographic breast density and family history of breast cancer." Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2003; 95: 556-8.

Burchard E*, E Ziv*, N Coyle, S Lin Gomez, H. Tang, AJ Karter, JL Mountain, EJ Perez-Stable, D Sheppard, N Risch, "The importance of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and clinical practice", New England Journal of Medicine, 345: 1170-5.
*Contributed equally to the manuscript

Ziv E, E Burchard "Human population structure and genetic association studies", in press, Pharmacogenomics.