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Overview

Daehee Kang is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea, with a research focus spanning medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly output includes 179 publications in medicine and 90 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, highlighting a comprehensive engagement with these fields.

Their research contributions primarily address genetics, oncology, and public health, including environmental and occupational health. Subfields of particular activity include genetics (52 publications), oncology (42), public health (37), molecular biology (21), and cancer research (17). This diverse scope supports a focus on the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in disease.

Main topics covered in their work include nutritional studies and diet, genetic associations and epidemiology, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, cancer risks and factors, nutrition combined with genetics and disease, global cancer incidence and screening, and factors related to obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • European polygenic risk score for prediction of breast cancer shows similar performance in Asian women (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Coffee and tea consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease and cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective studies from the Asia Cohort Consortium (2021, International Journal of Epidemiology)
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of effects of menopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular diseases (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Reproductive Factors and Endometrial Cancer Risk Among Women (2023, JAMA Network Open)

Daehee Kang collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Aesun Shin, Ji-Yeob Choi, Sue K. Park, Keitaro Matsuo, and Jong-Koo Lee. These collaborations illustrate a substantial network within their research community.

Frequent publication venues for their studies include Cancer Research, JAMA Network Open, International Journal of Cancer, Scientific Reports, and Research Square. These venues reflect an engagement with journals that emphasize cancer research and public health-related topics.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

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

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

  • Metabolic gene polymorphism frequencies in control populations.

    S. Garte;L. Gaspari;A.K. Alexandrie;C. Ambrosone

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

    Angela Cox;Alison M. Dunning;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Sabapathy Balasubramanian

  • 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

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

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

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

  • 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 analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Maya Ghoussaini;Olivia Fletcher;Kyriaki Michailidou;Clare Turnbull

  • Meta-analysis identifies multiple loci associated with kidney function–related traits in east Asian populations

    Y. Okada;X. Sim;X. Sim;M. J. Go;J. Y. Wu;J. Y. Wu

  • Young age: an independent risk factor for disease-free survival in women with operable breast cancer

    Wonshik Han;Seok Won Kim;In Ae Park;Daehee Kang

  • Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Yu Chen;Wade K. Copeland;Rajesh Vedanthan;Eric Grant

  • Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Paolo Boffetta;Dale McLerran;Yu Chen;Manami Inoue

  • Large-scale genome-wide association studies in East Asians identify new genetic loci influencing metabolic traits.

    Young Jin Kim;Min Jin Go;Cheng Hu;Chang Bum Hong

  • Pooled Analysis and Meta-analysis of Glutathione S-Transferase M1 and Bladder Cancer: A HuGE Review

    Lawrence S. Engel;Emanuela Taioli;Ruth Pfeiffer;Montserrat Garcia-Closas

  • Correlates associated with participation in physical activity among adults: a systematic review of reviews and update.

    Jaesung Choi;Miyoung Lee;Jong Koo Lee;Daehee Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

Keun-Young Yoo
Keun-Young Yoo Seoul National University
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Chen-Yang Shen
Chen-Yang Shen Academia Sinica
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Dong-Young Noh
Dong-Young Noh Seoul National University
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kenneth W. Muir
Kenneth W. Muir University of Manchester
Keitaro Matsuo
Keitaro Matsuo Nagoya University

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