2026 Carmen J. Marsit: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	96	9717	9120	5002	4625	444	32200

Overview

Carmen J. Marsit is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans various fields within medicine and environmental science, with a notable emphasis on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work focuses on topics related to birth, development, and health, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, among other areas.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Birth, Development, and Health
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies
Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Air Quality and Health Impacts
Infant Development and Preterm Care

Marsit has contributed extensively to research addressing environmental influences on health, especially concerning maternal and child outcomes. The scientist's publications frequently appear in specialized venues such as:

ISEE Conference Abstracts
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
Epigenetics
Pediatric Research

Frequent collaborators include Amber Burt, Todd M. Everson, Margaret R. Karagas, T. Michael O'Shea, and Anne L. Dunlop, each with dozens of coauthored publications alongside Marsit, demonstrating ongoing research partnerships.

Selected recent papers by Marsit include:

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure, maternal metabolomic perturbation, and fetal growth in African American women: A meet-in-the-middle approach, 2021, Environment International
Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children, 2022, JAMA Network Open
Exposure to Contemporary and Emerging Chemicals in Commerce among Pregnant Women in the United States: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcome (ECHO) Program, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
Trends in Screen Time Use Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic, July 2019 Through August 2021, 2023, JAMA Network Open
Newborn metabolomic signatures of maternal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and reduced length of gestation, 2023, Nature Communications

Their research predominantly falls within subfields such as pediatrics, perinatology and child health, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, molecular biology, obstetrics and gynecology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Best Publications

DNA methylation arrays as surrogate measures of cell mixture distribution

Eugene Andres Houseman;William P Accomando;Devin C Koestler;Brock C Christensen

3061
Citations
Aging and Environmental Exposures Alter Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation Dependent upon CpG Island Context

Brock C. Christensen;E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Carmen J. Marsit;Shichun Zheng

1212
Citations
Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

Nicole M Warrington;Robin N Beaumont;Momoko Horikoshi;Felix R Day

631
Citations
Childhood adversity and epigenetic modulation of the leukocyte glucocorticoid receptor: preliminary findings in healthy adults.

Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Carmen Marsit;Oakland C. Walters

551
Citations
Fundamental differences in cell cycle deregulation in human papillomavirus-positive and human papillomavirus-negative head/neck and cervical cancers.

Dohun Pyeon;Michael A. Newton;Paul F. Lambert;Johan A. den Boon

519
Citations
MicroRNA responses to cellular stress.

Carmen J. Marsit;Karen Eddy;Karl T. Kelsey

496
Citations
Reference-free cell mixture adjustments in analysis of DNA methylation data

Eugene Andres Houseman;John Molitor;Carmen J. Marsit

476
Citations
Global DNA Methylation Level in Whole Blood as a Biomarker in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Debra Ting Hsiung;Carmen J. Marsit;E. Andres Houseman;Karen Eddy

386
Citations
MicroRNA Expression Ratio Is Predictive of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Michele Avissar;Brock C. Christensen;Karl T. Kelsey;Carmen J. Marsit

338
Citations
The roles of DNA methylation of NR3C1 and 11β-HSD2 and exposure to maternal mood disorder in utero on newborn neurobehavior

Elisabeth Conradt;Barry M Lester;Allison A Appleton;David A Armstrong

334
Citations
Small-Magnitude Effect Sizes in Epigenetic End Points are Important in Children's Environmental Health Studies: The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center's Epigenetics Working Group.

Carrie V. Breton;Carmen J. Marsit;Elaine Faustman;Kari Nadeau;Kari Nadeau

311
Citations
PTEN expression in non-small-cell lung cancer: evaluating its relation to tumor characteristics, allelic loss, and epigenetic alteration.

Carmen J. Marsit;Shichun Zheng;Kenneth D Aldape;Philip W. Hinds

304
Citations
DNA Methylation, Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutation, and Survival in Glioma

Brock C. Christensen;Ashley A. Smith;Shichun Zheng;Devin C. Koestler

301
Citations
A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

296
Citations
Inactivation of the Fanconi anemia/BRCA pathway in lung and oral cancers: implications for treatment and survival.

Carmen J Marsit;Mei Liu;Heather H Nelson;Marshall Posner

296
Citations
Bisphenol A exposure leads to specific microRNA alterations in placental cells

Michele Avissar-Whiting;Keila R. Veiga;Kristen M. Uhl;Matthew A. Maccani

285
Citations
Reference-free deconvolution of DNA methylation data and mediation by cell composition effects

E. Andres Houseman;Molly L. Kile;David C. Christiani;Tan A. Ince

257
Citations
Blood-based profiles of DNA methylation predict the underlying distribution of cell types: a validation analysis.

Devin C Koestler;Brock C Christensen;Margaret R Karagas;Carmen J Marsit

252
Citations
Influence of environmental exposure on human epigenetic regulation

Carmen J. Marsit

252
Citations
Model-based clustering of DNA methylation array data: a recursive-partitioning algorithm for high-dimensional data arising as a mixture of beta distributions

E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Brock C. Christensen;Ru-Fang Yeh;Carmen J. Marsit

230
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl T. Kelsey Brown University

Margaret R. Karagas Dartmouth College

Brock C. Christensen Dartmouth College

E. Andres Houseman Oregon State University

Barry M. Lester Brown University

John K. Wiencke University of California, San Francisco

Joseph L. Wiemels University of Southern California

Ke Hao Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dominique S. Michaud Tufts University

Audrey R. Tyrka Brown University

External Links

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