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Annika Lindblom

Annika Lindblom

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Molecular Biology
Sweden
2026

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
115
Citations
58273
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
9

Molecular Biology

D-Index
112
Citations
59387
World Ranking
335
National Ranking
8

Medicine

D-Index
115
Citations
61856
World Ranking
4465
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Annika Lindblom is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The research work spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with 139 and 123 publications respectively. Within these domains, the focus has been on subfields including Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers main topics such as genetic factors in colorectal cancer, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, colorectal cancer screening and detection, cancer genomics and diagnostics, breast cancer treatment studies, and genomics and rare diseases.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Jenny Chang-Claude, Hermann Brenner, Loïc Le Marchand, Graham G. Giles, and Paul D.P. Pharoah.

Common venues for publication include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancers
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Annika Lindblom are:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cancer prevention with aspirin in hereditary colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), 10-year follow-up and registry-based 20-year data in the CAPP2 study: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Adiposity, metabolites, and colorectal cancer risk: Mendelian randomization study, 2020, BMC Medicine

Best Publications

  • Genetic Heterogeneity and Penetrance Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Breast Cancer Families

    D Ford;D F Easton;M Stratton;S Narod

  • Revised Bethesda Guidelines for Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome) and Microsatellite Instability

    Asad Umar;C. Richard Boland;Jonathan P. Terdiman;Sapna Syngal

  • Mutation in the DNA mismatch repair gene homologue hMLH 1 is associated with hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer

    Bronner Ce;Baker Sm;Morrison Pt;Warren G

  • Erratum: Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (991-995))

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Long-term effect of aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial

    John Burn;Anne Marie Gerdes;Finlay MacRae;Jukka Pekka Mecklin

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

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

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

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common variants on chromosomes 2q35 and 16q12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

    Simon N Stacey;Andrei Manolescu;Patrick Sulem;Thorunn Rafnar

  • Revised guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome (HNPCC): recommendations by a group of European experts

    Hans F A Vasen;Ignacio Blanco;Katja Aktan-Collan;Jessica P Gopie

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.

    Thorunn Rafnar;Patrick Sulem;Simon N Stacey;Frank Geller

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • 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

  • The clinical phenotype of Lynch syndrome due to germ-line PMS2 mutations

    Leigha Senter;Mark Clendenning;Kaisa Sotamaa;Heather Hampel

  • 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

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

    Sofia Khan;Dario Greco;Dario Greco;Kyriaki Michailidou;Roger L. Milne;Roger L. Milne

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Barbara Burwinkel
Barbara Burwinkel Heidelberg University
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University

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