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Celine M. Vachon

Celine M. Vachon

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Medicine

D-Index
103
Citations
40147
World Ranking
7348
National Ranking
3848

Overview

Celine M. Vachon is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, notably genetics, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their work covers a wide range of topics, including:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia research
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Digital radiography and breast imaging
  • Artificial intelligence in cancer detection
  • Multiple myeloma research and treatments
  • Cancer risks and factors

Their recent publications include:

  • "A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Risk of Breast Cancer Among Carriers of Pathogenic Variants in Breast Cancer Predisposition Genes Varies by Polygenic Risk Score," 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "Breast Cancer Screening Strategies for Women With ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2 Pathogenic Variants," 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • "Prospective evaluation of a breast-cancer risk model integrating classical risk factors and polygenic risk in 15 cohorts from six countries," 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Deep-LIBRA: An artificial-intelligence method for robust quantification of breast density with independent validation in breast cancer risk assessment," 2021, Medical Image Analysis

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Aaron D. Norman
  • Stacey J. Winham
  • Susan L. Slager
  • Nicholas Boddicker
  • Janet E. Olson

Their work has been published repeatedly in various venues with notable publication counts, including:

  • Cancer Research
  • Blood
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Blood Cancer Journal

Best Publications

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Benign breast disease and the risk of breast cancer

    Lynn C. Hartmann;Thomas A. Sellers;Marlene H. Frost;Wilma L. Lingle

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

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

  • 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

  • Incidence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas in a population younger than 40 years.

    Leslie J. Christenson;Theresa A. Borrowman;Celine M. Vachon;Megha M. Tollefson

  • Inherited Mutations in 17 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among a Large Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cohort Unselected for Family History of Breast Cancer

    Fergus J. Couch;Steven N. Hart;Priyanka Sharma;Amanda Ewart Toland

  • Malignant Melanoma in the 21st Century, Part 1: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Screening, Prevention, and Diagnosis

    Svetomir N. Markovic;Lori A. Erickson;Ravi D. Rao;Robert R. McWilliams

  • 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

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

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

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

    Chunling Hu;Steven N Hart;Rohan Gnanaolivu;Hongyan Huang

  • Unsupervised Deep Learning Applied to Breast Density Segmentation and Mammographic Risk Scoring

    Michiel Kallenberg;Kersten Petersen;Mads Nielsen;Andrew Y. Ng

  • Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Per Hall;Heli Nevanlinna;Karen Pooley

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Association of mammographically defined percent breast density with epidemiologic risk factors for breast cancer (United States)

    Celine M. Vachon;Celine M. Vachon;Christopher C. Kuni;Kristin Anderson;V. Elving Anderson

  • Mammographic density, breast cancer risk and risk prediction

    Celine M Vachon;Carla H van Gils;Thomas A Sellers;Karthik Ghosh

  • A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Xianshu Wang;Zachary S. Fredericksen;Lesley McGuffog

  • Mammographic Density Phenotypes and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis

    Andreas Pettersson;Rebecca E Graff;Giske Ursin;Isabel Dos Santos Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Janet E. Olson
Janet E. Olson Mayo Clinic
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

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