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  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joanna Groden is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work contributing to the fields of medicine, cancer research, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, genetics, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in their work include DNA repair mechanisms, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, occupational and environmental lung diseases, pleural and pulmonary diseases, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, and telomeres, telomerase, and senescence.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Joanna Groden are the following:

  • "Tumour predisposition and cancer syndromes as models to study gene-environment interactions," 2020, published in Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • "Heterozygous germline BLM mutations increase susceptibility to asbestos and mesothelioma," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Functional characterization of miR-708 microRNA in telomerase positive and negative human cancer cells," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "RecQ Family Members Combine Strand Pairing and Unwinding Activities to Catalyze Strand Exchange," 2021, published in UNC Libraries

Joanna Groden has collaborated frequently with several researchers throughout their career. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Michele Carbone
  • Angela Bononi
  • Giovanni Gaudino
  • Flavia Novelli
  • Harvey I. Pass

Their work has been published in a variety of journals and venues, reflecting interdisciplinary interests across biology and medicine. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • UNC Libraries

Joanna Groden was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006, recognizing contributions to scientific advancement.

Best Publications

  • Identification and characterization of the familial adenomatous polyposis coli gene

    Joanna Groden;Andrew Thliveris;Andrew Thliveris;Wade Samowitz;Mary Carlson

  • The Bloom's syndrome gene product is homologous to RecQ helicases

    Nathan A. Ellis;Joanna Groden;Tian Zhang Ye;Joel Straughen

  • Identification of a gene located at chromosome 5q21 that is mutated in colorectal cancers.

    Kenneth W. Kinzler;Mef C. Nilbert;Bert Vogelstein;Tracy M. Bryan

  • Identification of deletion mutations and three new genes at the familial polyposis locus

    Geoff Joslyn;Geoff Joslyn;Mary Carlson;Andrew Thliveris;Andrew Thliveris;Hans Albertsen

  • Alleles of the APC gene: An attenuated form of familial polyposis

    Lisa Spirio;Sylviane Olschwang;Joanna Groden;Margaret Robertson

  • Pathology of mouse models of intestinal cancer: Consensus report and recommendations

    Gregory P. Boivin;Kay Washington;Kan Yang;Jerrold M. Ward

  • Prostaglandin H synthase 2 is expressed abnormally in human colon cancer: evidence for a transcriptional effect

    William Kutchera;David A. Jones;Norisada Matsunami;Joanna Groden

  • Mutator phenotypes in human colorectal carcinoma cell lines

    Nitai P. Bhattacharyya;Adonis Skandalis;Anil Ganesh;Joanna Groden

  • Transcriptional recapitulation and subversion of embryonic colon development by mouse colon tumor models and human colon cancer

    Sergio Kaiser;Young Kyu Park;Jeffrey L. Franklin;Richard B. Halberg

  • MicroRNA-135b Promotes Cancer Progression by Acting as a Downstream Effector of Oncogenic Pathways in Colon Cancer

    Nicola Valeri;Chiara Braconi;Pierluigi Gasparini;Claudio Murgia

  • Enhanced tumor formation in mice heterozygous for Blm mutation.

    Kathleen Heppner Goss;Mary A. Risinger;Jennifer J. Kordich;Maureen M. Sanz

  • BLM Heterozygosity and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Stephen B. Gruber;Nathan A. Ellis;Gad Rennert;Kenneth Offit

  • Association and regulation of the BLM helicase by the telomere proteins TRF1 and TRF2

    Kate Lillard-Wetherell;Amrita Machwe;Gregory T. Langland;Kelly A. Combs

  • Mutational analysis of patients with adenomatous polyposis : identical inactivating mutations in unrelated individuals

    Joanna Groden;Lawrence Gelbert;Andrew Thliveris;Lesa Nelson

  • Germ-line mutations in the first 14 exons of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene.

    S Olschwang;P Laurent-Puig;J Groden;R White

  • Linkage disequilibrium predicts physical distance in the adenomatous polyposis coli region

    L. B. Jorde;W. S. Watkins;M. Carlson;J. Groden

  • β-Catenin/Wnt Signaling Regulates Expression of the Membrane Type 3 Matrix Metalloproteinase in Gastric Cancer

    Andrew M. Lowy;Wilson M. Clements;John W Bishop;Ling Kong

  • Identical APC exon 15 mutations result in a variable phenotype in familial adenomatous polyposis

    Philip Paul;Tom Letteboer;Larry Gelbert;Joanna Groden

  • The Bloom's syndrome protein (BLM) interacts with MLH1 but is not required for DNA mismatch repair.

    Gregory Langland;Jennifer Kordich;Jenette Creaney;Kathleen Heppner Goss

  • Bloom's syndrome. XVIII. Hypermutability at a tandem-repeat locus.

    Joanna Groden;James German

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray White
Ray White University of Utah
Mark Leppert
Mark Leppert University of Utah
James German
James German Cornell University
Wade S. Samowitz
Wade S. Samowitz University of Utah
Randall W. Burt
Randall W. Burt University of Utah
Nathan A. Ellis
Nathan A. Ellis University of Arizona
John P. Hughes
John P. Hughes Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John J. Wasmuth
John J. Wasmuth University of California, Irvine
John Douglas Mcpherson
John Douglas Mcpherson University of California, Davis
Janet A. Warrington
Janet A. Warrington Cybele Microbiome

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