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Brian E. Henderson publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian E. Henderson sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 916 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Brian E. Henderson D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian E. Henderson sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 175 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Brian E. Henderson was affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spanned the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with significant contributions specifically in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Reproductive Medicine.

Their work covered core topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Frequent collaborators in Henderson's research included Christopher A. Haiman, Loïc Le Marchand, Stephen J. Chanock, Laurence N. Kolonel, and Esther M. John.

Henderson published extensively across several venues, notably with many works in UNC Libraries. Other frequent publication platforms included Nature Communications, Cancers, The American Journal of Human Genetics, and Cancer Letters.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Henderson included:

  • An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Determinants of penetrance and variable expressivity in monogenic metabolic conditions across 77,184 exomes, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Genomic analysis of male puberty timing highlights shared genetic basis with hair colour and lifespan, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Treatment Strategies for KRAS-Mutated Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer, 2023, Cancers
  • Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Brian E. Henderson also contributed to literature in book form, with two publications under McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, both titled unfinishing and published in 2022.

Among the distinctions received by Henderson were election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1992 and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

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

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

  • Cancers of the prostate and breast among Japanese and white immigrants in Los Angeles County.

    H Shimizu;RK Ross;L Bernstein;R Yatani

  • INCREASED CELL DIVISION AS A CAUSE OF HUMAN CANCER

    Susan Preston-Martin;Malcolm C. Pike;Ronald K. Ross;Peter A. Jones

  • A Multiethnic Cohort in Hawaii and Los Angeles: Baseline Characteristics

    Laurence N. Kolonel;Brian E. Henderson;Jean H. Hankin;Abraham M. Y. Nomura

  • Assessing the impact of population stratification on genetic association studies.

    Matthew L Freedman;Matthew L Freedman;David Reich;David Reich;Kathryn L Penney;Kathryn L Penney;Gavin J McDonald;Gavin J McDonald

  • ‘Hormonal’ risk factors, ‘breast tissue age’ and the age-incidence of breast cancer

    M C Pike;M D Krailo;B E Henderson;J T Casagrande

  • 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

  • Urinary aflatoxin biomarkers and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma

    R. K. Ross;M. C. Yu;B. E. Henderson;J. M. Yuan

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Ethnic and Racial Differences in the Smoking-Related Risk of Lung Cancer

    Christopher A. Haiman;Daniel O. Stram;Lynne R. Wilkens;Malcolm C. Pike

  • Endogenous Hormones as a Major Factor in Human Cancer

    Brian E. Henderson;Ronald K. Ross;Malcolm C. Pike;John T. Casagrande

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

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

  • The 8q24 cancer risk variant rs6983267 shows long-range interaction with MYC in colorectal cancer.

    Mark M. Pomerantz;Nasim Ahmadiyeh;Nasim Ahmadiyeh;Li Jia;Paula Herman

  • Estrogens and Endometrial Cancer in a Retirement Community

    Thomas M. Mack;Malcolm C. Pike;Brian E. Henderson;Robert I. Pfeffer

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence N. Kolonel
Laurence N. Kolonel University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lynne R. Wilkens
Lynne R. Wilkens University of Hawaii at Manoa
Daniel O. Stram
Daniel O. Stram University of Southern California
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Malcolm C. Pike
Malcolm C. Pike Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University

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