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Overview

Clare Turnbull is affiliated with the Institute of Cancer Research in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise spans multiple disciplines, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. This work covers a significant volume of publications across various subfields such as genetics, oncology, cancer research, molecular biology, and pathology and forensic medicine. The researcher focuses on topics related to BRCA gene mutations in cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, genomics and rare diseases, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and DNA repair mechanisms. Additionally, there is work addressing the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare, specifically in cancer care.

Their recent publications include:

  • Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants (2023) published in Nature
  • Collateral damage: the impact on outcomes from cancer surgery of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) published in Annals of Oncology
  • Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study (2020) published in The Lancet Oncology
  • Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement (2020) published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • Estimated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services and excess 1-year mortality in people with cancer and multimorbidity: near real-time data on cancer care, cancer deaths and a population-based cohort study (2020) published in BMJ Open

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marc Tischkowitz (42 co-authored works)
  • Helen Hanson (38 co-authored works)
  • Alice Garrett (35 co-authored works)
  • Bethany Torr (32 co-authored works)
  • Diana Eccles (32 co-authored works)

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications
  • Annals of Oncology with 11 publications
  • Genetics in Medicine with 8 publications
  • Journal of Medical Genetics with 8 publications
  • Cancer Research with 7 publications

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Breast-Cancer Risk in Families with Mutations in PALB2

    A. C. Antoniou;S. Casadei;T. Heikkinen;D. Barrowdale

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Clare Turnbull;Shahana Ahmed;Jonathan Morrison;David Pernet

  • 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

  • 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

  • Germline mutations in RAD51D confer susceptibility to ovarian cancer

    Chey Loveday;Clare Turnbull;Emma Ramsay;Deborah Hughes

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

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

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

  • Genetic predisposition to breast cancer: past, present, and future.

    Clare Turnbull;Nazneen Rahman

  • The 100 000 Genomes Project: bringing whole genome sequencing to the NHS

    Clare Turnbull;Richard H Scott;Ellen Thomas;Louise Jones

  • Variants near DMRT1 , TERT and ATF7IP are associated with testicular germ cell cancer

    Clare Turnbull;Elizabeth A Rapley;Sheila Seal;David Pernet

  • A genome-wide association study of testicular germ cell tumor.

    Elizabeth A Rapley;Clare Turnbull;Ali Amin Al Olama;Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Maya Ghoussaini;Olivia Fletcher;Kyriaki Michailidou;Clare Turnbull

  • DICER1 syndrome: clarifying the diagnosis, clinical features and management implications of a pleiotropic tumour predisposition syndrome

    Ingrid Slade;Chiara Bacchelli;Helen Davies;Anne Murray

  • Germline RAD51C mutations confer susceptibility to ovarian cancer

    Chey Loveday;Clare Turnbull;Elise Ruark;Rosa Maria Munoz Xicola

  • Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement.

    Nora Pashayan;Antonis C. Antoniou;Urska Ivanus;Laura J. Esserman

  • Mosaic PPM1D mutations are associated with predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer

    Elise Ruark;Katie Snape;Peter Humburg;Chey Loveday

Frequent Co-Authors

Nazneen Rahman
Nazneen Rahman Institute of Cancer Research
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Richard S. Houlston
Richard S. Houlston Institute of Cancer Research
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University

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