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Overview

Elizabeth M. Gillanders is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad fields, they have contributed notably to Genetics, Oncology, Cancer Research, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Immunology.

Their studies focus on several core topics, including:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

Gillanders has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Genetics

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Gillanders include:

  • "Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Awareness and use of genetic testing: An analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey 2020," 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • "Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry," 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Epidemiologic Research of Rare Cancers: Trends, Resources, and Challenges," 2021, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • "A Systematic Literature Review of Whole Exome and Genome Sequencing Population Studies of Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer," 2020, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

The frequent collaborators in Gillanders' research include:

  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Melissa Rotunno
  • Rolando Barajas
  • Leah E. Mechanic
  • Melinda C. Aldrich

Best Publications

  • HRPT2, encoding parafibromin, is mutated in hyperparathyroidism–jaw tumor syndrome

    J.D. Carpten;C.M. Robbins;A. Villablanca;L. Forsberg

  • Germline mutations in the ribonuclease L gene in families showing linkage with HPC1.

    J. Carpten;N. Nupponen;S. Isaacs;R. Sood

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • Evidence for a prostate cancer susceptibility locus on the X chromosome.

    Jianfeng Xu;Deborah Meyers;Diha Freije;Sarah Isaacs

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

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

  • A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

    Ali Amin Al Olama;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Sonja I. Berndt;David V. Conti

  • 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

  • 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

  • The landscape of recombination in African Americans

    Anjali G. Hinch;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon;Nick Patterson;Yunli Song

  • The OncoArray Consortium: A Network for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Common Cancers.

    Christopher I. Amos;Joe Dennis;Zhaoming Wang;Jinyoung Byun

  • A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.

    Keri L. Monda;Keri L. Monda;Gary K. Chen;Kira C. Taylor;Kira C. Taylor;Cameron Palmer;Cameron Palmer

  • Establishing an adjusted p-value threshold to control the family-wide type 1 error in genome wide association studies

    Priya Duggal;Elizabeth M Gillanders;Taura N Holmes;Joan E Bailey-Wilson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies three new melanoma susceptibility loci

    Jennifer H. Barrett;Mark M. Iles;Mark Harland;John C. Taylor

  • Common sequence variants on 20q11.22 confer melanoma susceptibility

    Kevin M. Brown;Stuart MacGregor;Grant W. Montgomery;David W. Craig

  • Progressive juvenile-onset punctate cataracts caused by mutation of the γD-crystallin gene

    Dietrich A. Stephan;Elizabeth Gillanders;Deborah Vanderveen;Diana Freas-Lutz

  • Experimentally-derived haplotypes substantially increase the efficiency of linkage disequilibrium studies.

    Julie A. Douglas;Michael Boehnke;Elizabeth Gillanders;Jeffrey M. Trent

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma

    Matthew H. Law;D. Timothy Bishop;Jeffrey E. Lee;Myriam Brossard

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Trent
Jeffrey M. Trent Translational Genomics Research Institute
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Joan E. Bailey-Wilson
Joan E. Bailey-Wilson National Institutes of Health
Alisa M. Goldstein
Alisa M. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
William B. Isaacs
William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University
Nelleke A. Gruis
Nelleke A. Gruis Leiden University Medical Center
Susana Puig
Susana Puig University of Barcelona
Margaret A. Tucker
Margaret A. Tucker National Institutes of Health

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