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Alice S. Whittemore

Alice S. Whittemore

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Alice S. Whittemore is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Medicine, with significant contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

Recent publications reflect this focus, with selected papers including:

  • Clinical and pathological associations of PTEN expression in ovarian cancer: a multicentre study from the Ovarian Tumour Tissue Analysis Consortium, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Identification of 31 loci for mammographic density phenotypes and their associations with breast cancer risk, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies eight new susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Two-stage Study of Familial Prostate Cancer by Whole-exome Sequencing and Custom Capture Identifies 10 Novel Genes Associated with the Risk of Prostate Cancer, 2020, European Urology
  • Expanding Our Understanding of Ovarian Cancer Risk: The Role of Incomplete Pregnancies, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Alice S. Whittemore has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Weiva Sieh
  • Marc T. Goodman
  • Ellen L. Goode
  • Susan J. Ramus
  • Valerie McGuire

Best Publications

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants

    Nilah M M. Ioannidis;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Vikas Pejaver;Sumit Middha

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Characteristics relating to ovarian cancer risk: collaborative analysis of 12 US case-control studies. II. Invasive epithelial ovarian cancers in white women. Collaborative Ovarian Cancer Group.

    A S Whittemore;R Harris;J Itnyre

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • Localized prostate cancer. Relationship of tumor volume to clinical significance for treatment of prostate cancer.

    Thomas A. Stamey;Fuad S. Freiha;John E. McNeal;Elise A. Redwine

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Prostate Cancer in Relation to Diet, Physical Activity, and Body Size in Blacks, Whites, and Asians in the United States and Canada

    Whittemore As;Kolonel Ln;Wu Ah;John Em

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Ovarian Cancer: Screening, Treatment, and Follow-up

    Vicki Seltzer;Bruce H. Drukker;Brenda W. Gillespie;Lynn M. Gossfeld

  • Multiple regions within 8q24 independently affect risk for prostate cancer.

    Christopher A Haiman;Nick Patterson;Matthew L Freedman;Matthew L Freedman;Simon R Myers

  • Characteristics Relating to Ovarian Cancer Risk: Collaborative Analysis of 12 US Case-Control Studies I. Methods

    Alice S. Whittemore;Robin Harris;Jacqueline Itnyre;Jerry Halpern

  • Dietary intake of fiber and decreased risk of cancers of the colon and rectum: Evidence from the combined analysis of 13 case-control studies

    Geoffrey R. Howe;Enrique Benito;Roberto Castelleto;Jacqueline Cornée

  • Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men

    Matthew L. Freedman;Christopher A. Haiman;Nick Patterson;Gavin J. McDonald;Gavin J. McDonald

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

  • Vegetables, fruits, legumes and prostate cancer: a multiethnic case-control study.

    Laurence N. Kolonel;Jean H. Hankin;Alice S. Whittemore;Anna H. Wu

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Anna H. Wu
Anna H. Wu University of Southern California
Joellen M. Schildkraut
Joellen M. Schildkraut University of Virginia
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Marc T. Goodman
Marc T. Goodman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University

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