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Conxi Lázaro is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their extensive body of work addresses diverse subfields including genetics, molecular biology, neurology, cancer research, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of specific areas, notably cancer genomics and diagnostics, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, neurofibromatosis and schwannoma cases, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, genomics and rare diseases, DNA repair mechanisms, and genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Conxi Lázaro has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in these journals and venues:

  • Annals of Oncology
  • Cancers
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • Genetics in Medicine

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Joan Brunet, Gabriel Capellá, Marta Pineda, Jesús Del Valle, and Lídia Feliubadaló, indicating a network of consistent research partnerships.

Some of their recent papers include the following publications:

  • "Revised diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type 1 and Legius syndrome: an international consensus recommendation," 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • "Updated diagnostic criteria and nomenclature for neurofibromatosis type 2 and schwannomatosis: An international consensus recommendation," 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • "ESGO-ESMO-ESP consensus conference recommendations on ovarian cancer: pathology and molecular biology and early, advanced and recurrent disease," 2024, Annals of Oncology
  • "Cancer Surveillance Guideline for individuals with PTEN hamartoma tumour syndrome," 2020, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Genetic Screening for TLR7 Variants in Young and Previously Healthy Men With Severe COVID-19," 2021, Frontiers in Immunology

Best Publications

  • Network modeling links breast cancer susceptibility and centrosome dysfunction.

    Miguel Angel Pujana;Jing Dong J Han;Lea M. Starita;Kristen N. Stevens

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

  • Deletion of the late cornified envelope LCE3B and LCE3C genes as a susceptibility factor for psoriasis

    Rafael De Cid;Eva Riveira-Munoz;Patrick L.J.M. Zeeuwen;Jason Robarge

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Nandita Mitra;Fei Wan;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • Mutations affecting mRNA splicing are the most common molecular defects in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1

    Elisabet Ars;Eduard Serra;Judit García;Helena Kruyer

  • Revised diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type 1 and Legius syndrome: an international consensus recommendation.

    E Legius;L Messiaen;P Wolkenstein;P Pancza

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • An absence of cutaneous neurofibromas associated with a 3-bp inframe deletion in Exon 17 of the NF1 gene (c.2970-2972 delAAT): evidence of a clinically significant NF1 genotype-phenotype correlation

    M. Upadhyaya;S. M. Huson;M. Davies;N. Thomas

  • 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

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

  • Evaluation of polygenic risk scores for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Lesley McGuffog;Daniel Barrowdale;Andrew Lee

  • Schwann cells harbor the somatic NF1 mutation in neurofibromas: evidence of two different Schwann cell subpopulations

    Eduard Serra;Thorsten Rosenbaum;Ursula Winner;Rosa Aledo

  • Mutational spectrum in a worldwide study of 29,700 families with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Tara M. Friebel;Eitan Friedman;Ute Hamann

  • Confirmation of a double-hit model for the NF1 gene in benign neurofibromas.

    Eduard Serra;Susana Puig;David Otero;Antonia Gaona

  • POLE and POLD1 mutations in 529 kindred with familial colorectal cancer and/or polyposis: review of reported cases and recommendations for genetic testing and surveillance

    Fernando Bellido;Marta Pineda;Gemma Aiza;Rafael Valdés-Mas

  • Guidelines for the Li–Fraumeni and heritable TP53-related cancer syndromes

    Thierry Frebourg;Svetlana Bajalica Lagercrantz;Carla Oliveira;Rita Magenheim

  • Common Breast Cancer Susceptibility Alleles and the Risk of Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Implications for Risk Prediction

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Jonathan Beesley;Lesley McGuffog;Olga M. Sinilnikova

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Capellá
Gabriel Capellá Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Javier Benitez
Javier Benitez Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Paolo Radice
Paolo Radice Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Antonis C. Antoniou
Antonis C. Antoniou University of Cambridge
Katherine L. Nathanson
Katherine L. Nathanson University of Pennsylvania
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University

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