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Jennifer A. Doherty

Jennifer A. Doherty

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
27116
World Ranking
5821
National Ranking
2756

Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
27600
World Ranking
19008
National Ranking
9476

Overview

Jennifer A. Doherty is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues. These include:

  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Gynecologic Oncology

Their work spans multiple subfields such as reproductive medicine, molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, and genetics. Topics frequently covered in their publications encompass:

  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored include the following:

  • "Determinants of telomere length across human tissues," 2020, Science
  • "Association Between Breastfeeding and Ovarian Cancer Risk," 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • "Limitations of Transformers on Clinical Text Classification," 2021, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • "Metabolic dysfunction and obesity-related cancer: Beyond obesity and metabolic syndrome," 2022, Obesity
  • "miQC: An adaptive probabilistic framework for quality control of single-cell RNA-sequencing data," 2021, PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent co-authors in Jennifer A. Doherty's collaborations include:

  • Marc T. Goodman
  • Holly R. Harris
  • Joellen M. Schildkraut
  • Andrew Berchuck
  • Celeste Leigh Pearce

Best Publications

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

    Celeste Leigh Pearce;Claire Templeman;Mary Anne Rossing;Alice Lee

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

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

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Younghun Han;Xuchen Zong

  • Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

    Robert Carreras-Torres;Mattias Johansson;Philip C. Haycock;Kaitlin H. Wade

  • 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

  • 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

  • Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Survival by Histotype and Disease Stage.

    Lauren C Peres;Kara L Cushing-Haugen;Martin Köbel;Holly R Harris

  • Interindividual Variation in Nucleotide Excision Repair Genes and Risk of Endometrial Cancer

    Jocelyn M. Weiss;Jocelyn M. Weiss;Jocelyn M. Weiss;Noel S. Weiss;Noel S. Weiss;Cornelia M. Ulrich;Jennifer A. Doherty

  • GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

    Paul D.P. Pharoah;Ya Yu Tsai;Susan J. Ramus;Catherine M. Phelan

  • A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer at 2q31 and 8q24

    Ellen L Goode;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Honglin Song;Susan J Ramus

  • Determinants of telomere length across human tissues

    Kathryn Demanelis;Farzana Jasmine;Lin S. Chen;Meytal Chernoff

  • A genome-wide association study identifies a new ovarian cancer susceptibility locus on 9p22.2.

    Honglin Song;Susan J. Ramus;Jonathan Tyrer;Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton

  • Common variants at 19p13 are associated with susceptibility to ovarian cancer.

    Kelly L Bolton;Kelly L Bolton;Jonathan Tyrer;Honglin Song;Susan J Ramus

  • Aspirin, Nonaspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug, and Acetaminophen Use and Risk of Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Pooled Analysis in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

    Britton Trabert;Roberta B. Ness;Wei Hsuan Lo-Ciganic;Megan A. Murphy

  • Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

    Catherine M Olsen;Christina M Nagle;David C Whiteman;Roberta Ness

  • Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer

    Tracy A. O'Mara;Dylan M. Glubb;Frédéric Amant;Daniela Annibali

  • Tubal ligation and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: a pooled analysis of case-control studies

    Weiva Sieh;Shannon Salvador;Valerie McGuire;Rachel Palmieri Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Joellen M. Schildkraut
Joellen M. Schildkraut University of Virginia
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Andrew Berchuck
Andrew Berchuck Duke University
Marc T. Goodman
Marc T. Goodman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Anna H. Wu
Anna H. Wu University of Southern California
Daniel W. Cramer
Daniel W. Cramer Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ellen L. Goode
Ellen L. Goode Mayo Clinic
Roberta B. Ness
Roberta B. Ness The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Penelope M. Webb
Penelope M. Webb QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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