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Overview

Heli Nevanlinna is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research focuses primarily on genetics and molecular biology with a notable emphasis on cancer-related studies.

The main fields of study for Nevanlinna include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

The subfields in which Nevanlinna publishes most frequently are:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Key topics addressed in Nevanlinna's work cover:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Nevanlinna include:

  • Manjeet K. Bolla
  • Stig E. Bojesen
  • Anna Jakubowska
  • Kamila Czene
  • Irene L. Andrulis

Among the primary publication venues where Nevanlinna's work appears are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancers
  • Breast Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • npj Breast Cancer

Notable recent papers by Nevanlinna include:

  • Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Characterization of the Cancer Spectrum in Men With Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Breast cancer risks associated with missense variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes, 2022, Genome Medicine

Best Publications

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

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

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Subtyping of breast cancer by immunohistochemistry to investigate a relationship between subtype and short and long term survival: a collaborative analysis of data for 10,159 cases from 12 studies

    Fiona M. Blows;Kristy E. Driver;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Annegien Broeks

  • 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

  • 53BP1 loss rescues BRCA1 deficiency and is associated with triple-negative and BRCA-mutated breast cancers

    Peter Bouwman;Amal Mahmoud Aly;Jose M. Escandell;Mark Pieterse

  • Breast-Cancer Risk in Families with Mutations in PALB2

    A. C. Antoniou;S. Casadei;T. Heikkinen;D. Barrowdale

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • Inherited Mutations in 17 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among a Large Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cohort Unselected for Family History of Breast Cancer

    Fergus J. Couch;Steven N. Hart;Priyanka Sharma;Amanda Ewart Toland

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

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

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • 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

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Carl Blomqvist
Carl Blomqvist University of Helsinki
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria

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