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Overview

Joseph L. Wiemels is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, and Oncology.

The core topics of Joseph L. Wiemels' work encompass:

  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Birth, Development, and Health

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Cancer Research

Notable recent papers by Joseph L. Wiemels include:

  • "Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age," published in 2020 in Genome Medicine
  • "The proliferative history shapes the DNA methylome of B-cell tumors and predicts clinical outcome," published in 2020 in Nature Cancer
  • "Genetic determinants of blood-cell traits influence susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia," published in 2021 in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation," published in 2022 in Nature Biotechnology
  • "The genome-wide impact of trisomy 21 on DNA methylation and its implications for hematopoiesis," published in 2021 in Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated frequently with notable co-authors such as:

  • Catherine Metayer
  • Adam J. de Smith
  • Xiaomei Ma
  • Libby M. Morimoto
  • Shaobo Li

Best Publications

  • Glioma Groups Based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT Promoter Mutations in Tumors

    Jeanette E Eckel-Passow;Daniel H Lachance;Annette M. Molinaro;Kyle M. Walsh

  • Epidemiology and etiology of meningioma.

    Joseph Wiemels;Margaret Wrensch;Elizabeth B. Claus;Elizabeth B. Claus

  • Aging and Environmental Exposures Alter Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation Dependent upon CpG Island Context

    Brock C. Christensen;E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Carmen J. Marsit;Shichun Zheng

  • Brain tumor epidemiology: consensus from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.

    Melissa L. Bondy;Michael E. Scheurer;Beatrice Malmer;Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan

  • Origins of chromosome translocations in childhood leukaemia

    Mel F. Greaves;Joe Wiemels

  • Prenatal origin of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children

    JL Wiemels;G Cazzaniga;M Daniotti;OB Eden

  • Epidemiology of intracranial meningioma.

    Elizabeth B Claus;Elizabeth B Claus;Melissa L Bondy;Joellen M Schildkraut;Joseph L Wiemels

  • Leukemia in twins: lessons in natural history.

    Mel F. Greaves;Ana Teresa Maia;Joseph L. Wiemels;Anthony M. Ford

  • Epidemiology of brain tumors

    James L. Fisher;James L. Fisher;Judith A. Schwartzbaum;Margaret Wrensch;Joseph L. Wiemels

  • Variants in the CDKN2B and RTEL1 regions are associated with high grade glioma susceptibility

    Margaret Wrensch;Robert B. Jenkins;Jeffrey S. Chang;Ru Fang Yeh

  • Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) polymorphisms and risk of molecularly defined subtypes of childhood acute leukemia

    Joseph L. Wiemels;Rosalyn N. Smith;G. Malcolm Taylor;Osborn B. Eden

  • Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information.

    Elizabeth B. Claus;Kyle M. Walsh;John K. Wiencke;Annette M. Molinaro

  • Prevalence of the inactivating 609C-->T polymorphism in the NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) gene in patients with primary and therapy-related myeloid leukemia.

    Richard A. Larson;Richard A. Larson;Yunxia Wang;Yunxia Wang;Mekhala Banerjee;Mekhala Banerjee;Joseph Wiemels;Joseph Wiemels

  • Transplacental chemical exposure and risk of infant leukemia with MLL gene fusion.

    F E Alexander;S L Patheal;A Biondi;S Brandalise

  • Perspectives on the causes of childhood leukemia.

    Joseph Wiemels

  • In utero origin of t(8;21) AML1-ETO translocations in childhood acute myeloid leukemia.

    Joseph L. Wiemels;Zhijian Xiao;Patricia A. Buffler;Ana T. Maia

  • Protracted and variable latency of acute lymphoblastic leukemia after TEL-AML1 gene fusion in utero

    JL Wiemels;AM Ford;ER Van Wering;A Postma

  • DNA Topoisomerase II in Therapy-Related Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

    Anita R. Mistry;Carolyn A. Felix;Ryan J. Whitmarsh;Annabel Mason

  • Whole-genome fingerprint of the DNA methylome during human B cell differentiation

    Marta Kulis;Angelika Merkel;Simon Heath;Ana C Queirós

  • Model-based clustering of DNA methylation array data: a recursive-partitioning algorithm for high-dimensional data arising as a mixture of beta distributions

    E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Brock C. Christensen;Ru-Fang Yeh;Carmen J. Marsit

Frequent Co-Authors

John K. Wiencke
John K. Wiencke University of California, San Francisco
Margaret R. Wrensch
Margaret R. Wrensch University of California, San Francisco
Paige M. Bracci
Paige M. Bracci University of California, San Francisco
Martyn T. Smith
Martyn T. Smith University of California, Berkeley
Melissa L. Bondy
Melissa L. Bondy Stanford University
Lisa F. Barcellos
Lisa F. Barcellos University of California, Berkeley
Karl T. Kelsey
Karl T. Kelsey Brown University
Carmen J. Marsit
Carmen J. Marsit Emory University
E. Andres Houseman
E. Andres Houseman Oregon State University

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