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Jack A. Taylor is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with particular contributions in genetics, molecular biology, and oncology. The scope of their work includes pulmonary and respiratory medicine, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's publications cover a variety of topics with a strong focus on epigenetics and DNA methylation, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, and global cancer incidence and screening. Their research also extends to birth, development, and health, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer treatment and research.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk Among Carriers of Germline Pathogenic Variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2, 2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Capturing carbon dioxide from air with charged-sorbents, 2024, Nature
  • Associations of Body Composition and Physical Activity Level With Multiple Measures of Epigenetic Age Acceleration, 2020, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Association of Neighborhood Deprivation With Epigenetic Aging Using 4 Clock Metrics, 2020, JAMA Network Open

Frequent coauthors in Jack A. Taylor's research include:

  • Dale P. Sandler
  • Zongli Xu
  • Esther M. John
  • Katie M. O'Brien
  • Jeannette T. Bensen

Jack A. Taylor's work has been published in various venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Urology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology

Best Publications

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Genetic Risk and Carcinogen Exposure: a Common Inherited Defect of the Carcinogen-Metabolism Gene Glutathione S-Transferase M1 (GSTM1) That Increases Susceptibility to Bladder Cancer

    Douglas A. Bell;Jack A. Taylor;David F. Paulson;Cary N. Robertson

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • SNPinfo: integrating GWAS and candidate gene information into functional SNP selection for genetic association studies

    Zongli Xu;Jack A. Taylor

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

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

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

    Chunling Hu;Steven N Hart;Rohan Gnanaolivu;Hongyan Huang

  • Non-hierarchical logistic models and case-only designs for assessing susceptibility in population-based case-control studies

    Walter W. Piegorsch;Clarice R. Weinberg;Jack A. Taylor

  • Cadmium is a mutagen that acts by inhibiting mismatch repair

    Yong Hwan Jin;Alan B Clark;Robbert J C Slebos;Hanan Al-Refai

  • Folic acid supplements and risk of facial clefts: national population based case-control study

    Allen J Wilcox;Rolv Terje Lie;Kari Solvoll;Jack Taylor

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • 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

  • Association of Prostate Cancer with Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism

    Jack A. Taylor;Ari Hirvonen;Mary Watson;Gary Pittman

  • Genotype/phenotype discordance for human arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT2) reveals a new slow-acetylator allele common in African-Americans.

    D. A. Bell;J. A. Taylor;M. A. Butler;E. A. Stephens

  • Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer

    Y S Ju;L B Alexandrov;M Gerstung;I Martincorena

  • Increased risk for myelodysplastic syndromes in individuals with glutathione transferase theta 1 (GSTT1) gene defect

    H.W Chen;D.P Sandler;J.A Taylor;D.A Bell

  • ENmix: a novel background correction method for Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip.

    Zongli Xu;Liang Niu;Leping Li;Jack A. Taylor

  • 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 identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

    David V. Conti;Burcu F. Darst;Lilit C. Moss;Edward J. Saunders

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale P. Sandler
Dale P. Sandler National Institutes of Health
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Clarice R. Weinberg
Clarice R. Weinberg National Institutes of Health
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Alicja Wolk
Alicja Wolk Karolinska Institute
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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