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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Julian Peto is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on fields within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, particularly Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The thematic areas of their work include Fungal Plant Pathogen Control, Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies, and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics.

Their publication record includes contributions to the journal Acta Horticulturae. One of their recent papers is titled Identification of scab resistance genes in new Hungarian apple hybrids using SCAR and SSR markers, published in 2021 in Acta Horticulturae.

Julian Peto has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. These co-authors include:

  • Ildikó Király
  • Virág Mihalka
  • A. Hüvely
  • András Palkovics
  • M. Tóth

Their contributions to science have been recognized through fellowship awards. They were made a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2019 and are a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide.

    J. M. M. Walboomers;M. V. Jacobs;M. M. Manos;F. X. Bosch

  • Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. analysis and examples.

    R Peto;M C Pike;P Armitage;N E Breslow

  • Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2

    Wooster R;Bignell G;Lancaster J;Swift S

  • Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus in Cervical Cancer: a Worldwide Perspective

    F X Bosch;M M Manos;N Muñoz;M Sherman

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

  • Asymptotically Efficient Rank Invariant Test Procedures

    Richard Peto;Julian Peto

  • Genetic Heterogeneity and Penetrance Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Breast Cancer Families

    D Ford;D F Easton;M Stratton;S Narod

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. I. Introduction and design.

    R. Peto;M. C. Pike;P. Armitage;N. E. Breslow

  • Localization of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, to chromosome 13q12-13

    Richard Wooster;Susan L. Neuhausen;Jonathan Mangion;Yvette Quirk

  • Efficacy of HPV-based screening for prevention of invasive cervical cancer: follow-up of four European randomised controlled trials

    Guglielmo Ronco;Joakim Dillner;K Miriam Elfström;Sara Tunesi

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Low-penetrance susceptibility to breast cancer due to CHEK2(*)1100delC in noncarriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

    Hanne Meijers-Heijboer;Ans van den Ouweland;Jan Klijn;Marijke Wasielewski

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

    N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

  • The European mesothelioma epidemic.

    J Peto;J Peto;A Decarli;C La Vecchia;C La Vecchia;F Levi

  • Erratum: Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2

    Richard Wooster;Graham Bignell;Jonathan Lancaster;Sally Swift

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Barbara Burwinkel
Barbara Burwinkel Heidelberg University
Alison M. Dunning
Alison M. Dunning University of Cambridge
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge

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