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Overview

Elad Ziv is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these main fields, notable subfields of focus include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers several core topics related to cancer and genetics. Important topics include BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, and Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease.

Frequent publication venues for Elad Ziv include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, UNC Libraries, and Nature Communications.

Elad Ziv has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Scott Huntsman, Donglei Hu, Linda Kachuri, Susan L. Neuhausen, and Laura Fejerman.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Elad Ziv include:

  • Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Comprehensive Analysis of Genetic Ancestry and Its Molecular Correlates in Cancer, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Pan-cancer study detects genetic risk variants and shared genetic basis in two large cohorts, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pan-cancer analysis demonstrates that integrating polygenic risk scores with modifiable risk factors improves risk prediction, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    Vésteinn Thorsson;David L Gibbs;Scott D Brown;Denise Wolf

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice.

    Esteban González Burchard;Elad Ziv;Natasha Coyle;Scarlett Lin Gomez

  • Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

    Neil Risch;Neil Risch;Esteban Burchard;Elad Ziv;Hua Tang

  • Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

    Valentina A Zavala;Paige M Bracci;John M Carethers;Luis Carvajal-Carmona

  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism.

    Luisa N. Borrell;Jennifer R. Elhawary;Elena Fuentes-Afflick;Jonathan Witonsky

  • Latino populations: a unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological research.

    Esteban González Burchard;Luisa N. Borrell;Shweta Choudhry;Mariam Naqvi

  • Reduced Neutrophil Count in People of African Descent Is Due To a Regulatory Variant in the Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines Gene

    David Reich;David Reich;Michael A. Nalls;W. H. Linda Kao;Ermeg L. Akylbekova

  • Association of common genetic variation in the insulin/IGF1 signaling pathway with human longevity.

    Ludmila Pawlikowska;Donglei Hu;Scott Huntsman;Andrew Sung

  • 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

  • PCA-correlated SNPs for structure identification in worldwide human populations.

    Peristera Paschou;Elad Ziv;Esteban G Burchard;Shweta Choudhry

  • Prevention of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women: Approaches to Estimating and Reducing Risk

    Steven R. Cummings;Jeffrey A. Tice;Scott Bauer;Scott Bauer;Warren S. Browner

  • Mammographic Breast Density and the Gail Model for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction in a Screening Population

    Jeffrey A. Tice;Steven R. Cummings;Elad Ziv;Karla Kerlikowske

  • Genetic ancestry in lung-function predictions.

    Rajesh Kumar;Max A. Seibold;Melinda C. Aldrich;L. Keoki Williams

  • Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

    Joshua Mark Galanter;Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez;Christopher R. Gignoux;Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

  • Pharmacogenetic differences in response to albuterol between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans with asthma.

    Shweta Choudhry;Ngim Ung;Pedro C. Avila;Elad Ziv

  • Population stratification confounds genetic association studies among Latinos

    Shweta Choudhry;Shweta Choudhry;Natasha E. Coyle;Natasha E. Coyle;Hua Tang;Keyan Salari;Keyan Salari

  • The WISDOM Study: breaking the deadlock in the breast cancer screening debate

    Laura J Esserman;Wisdom Study;Athena Investigators

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis points to CTC1 and ZNF676 as genes regulating telomere homeostasis in humans

    Massimo Mangino;Shih Jen Hwang;Timothy D. Spector;Steven C. Hunt

  • Admixture Mapping of White Cell Count: Genetic Locus Responsible for Lower White Blood Cell Count in the Health ABC and Jackson Heart Studies

    Michael A. Nalls;James G. Wilson;Nick J. Patterson;Arti Tandon

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
John S. Witte
John S. Witte Stanford University
Celine M. Vachon
Celine M. Vachon Mayo Clinic
Karla Kerlikowske
Karla Kerlikowske University of California, San Francisco
Neil Risch
Neil Risch University of California, San Francisco
Celeste Eng
Celeste Eng University of California, San Francisco
Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington

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