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  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John D. Potter is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. The primary fields of study for Potter's research include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The subfields span Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Genetics, Cancer Research, and Epidemiology.

Potter's body of work focuses on topics such as genetic factors in colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening and detection, genetic associations and epidemiology, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, and folate and B vitamins research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Potter include Polly A. Newcomb, Mark A. Jenkins, Loïc Le Marchand, Steven Gallinger, and Sonja I. Berndt.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Potter are:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Adiposity, metabolites, and colorectal cancer risk: Mendelian randomization study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Coffee and tea consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease and cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective studies from the Asia Cohort Consortium, 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology

Potter's publications frequently appear in venues such as UNC Libraries, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), New Zealand Medical Journal, and Cancer Research.

In recognition of contributions to science, Potter was awarded the title Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Vegetables, Fruit, and Cancer Prevention: A Review

    Kristi A. Steinmetz;John D. Potter

  • Food, nutrition and the prevention of cancer : a global perspective

    John D. Potter

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Phases of Biomarker Development for Early Detection of Cancer

    Margaret Sullivan Pepe;Ruth Etzioni;Ziding Feng;John D. Potter

  • Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and associations with cancer risk.

    Ellen L. Goode;Cornelia M. Ulrich;John D. Potter;John D. Potter

  • Vegetables, fruit, and cancer. I. Epidemiology.

    Kristi A. Steinmetz;John D. Potter

  • An international association between Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer

    D Forman;M Coleman;Gui De Backer;J Eider

  • Alcohol and breast cancer in women: a pooled analysis of cohort studies.

    S. Smith-Warner;D. Spiegelman;S. Yaun;P. Van Den Brandt

  • Colorectal Cancer: Molecules and Populations

    John D. Potter

  • Folic acid for the prevention of colorectal adenomas: a randomized clinical trial.

    Bernard F. Cole;John A. Baron;Robert S. Sandler;Robert W. Haile

  • Colon Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiology

    John D. Potter;Martha L. Slattery;Roberd M. Bostick;Susan M. Gapstur

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • Vegetables, fruit, and cancer. II. Mechanisms.

    Kristi A. Steinmetz;John D. Potter

  • Late mortality experience in five-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Ann C. Mertens;Yutaka Yasui;Joseph P. Neglia;John D. Potter

  • Report of the Conference on Low Blood Cholesterol: Mortality Associations.

    D Jacobs;H Blackburn;M Higgins;D Reed

  • Genome-wide association scan identifies a colorectal cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 8q24

    Brent W. Zanke;Celia M.T. Greenwood;Celia M.T. Greenwood;Jagadish Rangrej;Rafal Kustra;Rafal Kustra

  • Body Fat Distribution and 5-Year Risk of Death in Older Women

    Aaron R. Folsom;Susan A. Kaye;Thomas A. Sellers;Ching Ping Hong

  • Study design and cohort characteristics of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study: a multi-institutional collaborative project.

    Leslie L. Robison;Ann C. Mertens;John D. Boice;Norman E. Breslow

  • Effect of exercise on total and intra-abdominal body fat in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.

    Melinda L. Irwin;Yutaka Yasui;Cornelia M. Ulrich;Deborah Bowen

  • Antibiotic use in relation to the risk of breast cancer.

    Christine M. Velicer;Susan R. Heckbert;Johanna W. Lampe;John D. Potter

Frequent Co-Authors

Polly A. Newcomb
Polly A. Newcomb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Cornelia M. Ulrich
Cornelia M. Ulrich University of Utah
Martha L. Slattery
Martha L. Slattery University of Utah
Ulrike Peters
Ulrike Peters University of Washington
Bette J. Caan
Bette J. Caan Kaiser Permanente
Mark A. Jenkins
Mark A. Jenkins University of Melbourne
Emily White
Emily White Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Andrew T. Chan
Andrew T. Chan Harvard University
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa

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