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Overview

D. Timothy Bishop is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various fields, primarily focused on Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these main fields, their work is involved in subfields including Genetics, Surgery, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's research addresses multiple topics, notably:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Frequent coauthors in their work include Marc J. Gunter, Loïc Le Marchand, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister, and Peter T. Campbell, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Publications featuring contributions from D. Timothy Bishop have appeared repeatedly in several venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Brain and Spine
  • Nature Communications
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Highlighted recent papers include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020, Nature Communications)
  • The incidence and gene frequency of ataxia-telangiectasia in the United States (2020, PubMed)
  • Cancer prevention with aspirin in hereditary colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), 10-year follow-up and registry-based 20-year data in the CAPP2 study: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial (2020, The Lancet)
  • Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility (2020, Nature Genetics)
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Erratum: Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (991-995))

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Long-term effect of aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial

    John Burn;Anne Marie Gerdes;Finlay MacRae;Jukka Pekka Mecklin

  • Multifactorial Analysis of Differences Between Sporadic Breast Cancers and Cancers Involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Jocelyne Jacquemier;John P Sloane;Barry A. Gusterson

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.

    Thorunn Rafnar;Patrick Sulem;Simon N Stacey;Frank Geller

  • A genome-wide association study identifies colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23.3

    Ian P.M. Tomlinson;Emily Webb;Luis Carvajal-Carmona;Peter Broderick

  • Geographical Variation in the Penetrance of CDKN2A Mutations for Melanoma

    D. Timothy Bishop;Florence Demenais;Alisa M. Goldstein;Wilma Bergman

  • A Collaborative Survey of 80 Mutations in the BRCA1 Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Gene: Implications for Presymptomatic Testing and Screening

    Donna Shattuck Eidens;Melody Mcclure;Jacques Simard;Fernand Labrie

  • A novel recurrent mutation in MITF predisposes to familial and sporadic melanoma

    Satoru Yokoyama;Susan L. Woods;Glen M. Boyle;Lauren G. Aoude

  • Genome-wide association study identifies three loci associated with melanoma risk.

    D Timothy Bishop;Florence Demenais;Mark M Iles;Mark Harland

  • Features associated with germline CDKN2A mutations: a GenoMEL study of melanoma‐prone families from three continents

    Alisa M Goldstein;May Chan;Mark Harland;Nicholas K Hayward

  • Sequence Variant on 8q24 Confers Susceptibility to Urinary Bladder Cancer

    Lambertus A Kiemeney;Steinunn Thorlacius;Patrick Sulem;Frank Geller

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

  • High-risk Melanoma Susceptibility Genes and Pancreatic Cancer, Neural System Tumors, and Uveal Melanoma across GenoMEL

    Alisa M. Goldstein;May Chan;Mark Harland;Elizabeth M. Gillanders

  • A case-control study of diet and prostate cancer.

    T. J. A. Key;P. B. Silcocks;G. K. Davey;P. N. Appleby

  • POT1 loss-of-function variants predispose to familial melanoma

    Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza;Mark Harland;Andrew J Ramsay;Lauren G Aoude

  • Erratum: Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2

    Richard Wooster;Graham Bignell;Jonathan Lancaster;Sally Swift

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer H. Barrett
Jennifer H. Barrett University of Leeds
Julia Newton-Bishop
Julia Newton-Bishop University of Leeds
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Annika Lindblom
Annika Lindblom Karolinska Institute
Graham J. Mann
Graham J. Mann Australian National University
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Nelleke A. Gruis
Nelleke A. Gruis Leiden University Medical Center
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Nicholas K. Hayward
Nicholas K. Hayward QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Mark M. Iles
Mark M. Iles University of Leeds

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