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Eitan Friedman is affiliated with Sheba Medical Center in Israel, focusing on research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions spanning medicine as well. Their work concentrates on genetics and molecular biology subfields, particularly addressing cancer research, pathology, forensic medicine, and oncology.

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • DNA repair mechanisms
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Genomics and rare diseases

Frequent co-authors working alongside Eitan Friedman are:

  • Rinat Bernstein-Molho
  • Miri Sklair-Levy
  • Yael Laitman
  • D. Gareth Evans
  • Irene L. Andrulis

Major publication venues where Eitan Friedman has contributed include:

  • Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Familial Cancer
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancers
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Eitan Friedman include:

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Clinical practice guidelines for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing, 2021, European Journal of Cancer
  • Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk, 2022, European Journal of Human Genetics

Best Publications

  • Activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein in the McCune-Albright syndrome.

    Lee S. Weinstein;Andrew Shenker;Pablo V. Gejman;Maria J. Merino

  • Obesity and adverse breast cancer risk and outcome: Mechanistic insights and strategies for intervention.

    Manuel Picon-Ruiz;Cynthia Morata-Tarifa;Janeiro J. Valle-Goffin;Eitan R. Friedman

  • Salpingo-oophorectomy and the Risk of Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Cancers in Women With a BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation

    Amy Finch;Mario Beiner;Jan Lubinski;Henry T. Lynch

  • 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

  • Breast Cancer Risk Following Bilateral Oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: An International Case-Control Study

    Andrea Eisen;Jan Lubinski;Jan Klijn;Pal Moller

  • 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

  • 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

  • Overall survival and clinical characteristics of pancreatic cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.

    T D Golan;Zaheer S Kanji;Ron Epelbaum;N Devaud;N Devaud

  • Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Steven A. Narod;Marie Pierre Dubé;Jan Klijn;Jan Lubinski

  • 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

  • Cancer risks among BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    E Levy-Lahad;E Friedman;E Friedman

  • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge.

    Catherine A. Brownstein;Alan H. Beggs;Nils Homer;Barry Merriman

  • Clonality of Parathyroid Tumors in Familial Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

    Eitan Friedman;Kazushige Sakaguchi;Allen E. Bale;Alberto Falchetti

  • Somatic mutations in the neurofibromatosis 1 gene in human tumors

    Ying Li;Gideon Bollag;Robin Clark;Jeff Stevens

  • International variation in rates of uptake of preventive options in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

    Kelly A. Metcalfe;Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli;Jan Lubinski;Jacek Gronwald

  • 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

  • Ten-Year Multi-Institutional Results of Breast-Conserving Surgery and Radiotherapy in BRCA1/2-Associated Stage I/II Breast Cancer

    Lori J. Pierce;Albert M. Levin;Timothy R. Rebbeck;Merav A. Ben-David

  • Genome-wide association study provides evidence for a breast cancer risk locus at 6q22.33

    Bert Gold;Tomas Kirchhoff;Stefan Stefanov;James Lautenberger

  • 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 in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Jan Lubinski
Jan Lubinski Pomeranian Medical University
Susan L. Neuhausen
Susan L. Neuhausen City Of Hope National Medical Center
Kenneth Offit
Kenneth Offit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Susan M. Domchek
Susan M. Domchek University of Pennsylvania
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Jeffrey N. Weitzel
Jeffrey N. Weitzel Natera (United States)

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