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Karl T. Kelsey is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, oncology, otorhinolaryngology, immunology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research topics prominently focus on epigenetics and DNA methylation, head and neck cancer studies, birth, development, and health, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, RNA modifications and cancer, and immune cells in cancer.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Karl T. Kelsey include the following:

  • Enhanced cell deconvolution of peripheral blood using DNA methylation for high-resolution immune profiling, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Gestational perfluoroalkyl substance exposure and body mass index trajectories over the first 12 years of life, 2020, International Journal of Obesity
  • Lung cancer risk and residential radon exposure: A pooling of case-control studies in northwestern Spain, 2020, Environmental Research
  • Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Adiposity at Age 12 Years: Evaluating Periods of Susceptibility, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Karl T. Kelsey has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Epigenomics

Frequent co-authors in Karl T. Kelsey's research are:

  • Devin C. Koestler
  • John K. Wiencke
  • Brock C. Christensen
  • Lucas A. Salas
  • Annette M. Molinaro

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation arrays as surrogate measures of cell mixture distribution

    Eugene Andres Houseman;William P Accomando;Devin C Koestler;Brock C Christensen

  • TOXICITY TESTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A VISION AND A STRATEGY

    Daniel Krewski;Daniel Acosta;Melvin Andersen;Henry Anderson

  • Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium.

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Shu Chun Chuang;Stefania Boccia

  • 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

  • DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

    Christopher G Bell;Robert Lowe;Peter D Adams;Peter D Adams;Andrea A Baccarelli

  • A Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Polymorphism and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jia Chen;Edward Giovannucci;Karl Kelsey;Eric B. Rimm

  • Polymorphisms in the DNA repair genes XRCC1 and ERCC2 and biomarkers of DNA damage in human blood mononuclear cells

    Eric J. Duell;John K. Wiencke;Tsun-Jen Cheng;Andrea Varkonyi

  • Fundamental differences in cell cycle deregulation in human papillomavirus-positive and human papillomavirus-negative head/neck and cervical cancers.

    Dohun Pyeon;Michael A. Newton;Paul F. Lambert;Johan A. den Boon

  • Sexual behaviours and the risk of head and neck cancers: a pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium

    Julia E. Heck;Julien Berthiller;Julien Berthiller;Salvatore Vaccarella;Deborah M. Winn

  • MicroRNA responses to cellular stress.

    Carmen J. Marsit;Karen Eddy;Karl T. Kelsey

  • Ethnic differences in the prevalence of the homozygous deleted genotype of glutathione S-transferase theta

    Heather H. Nelson;John K. Wiencke;David C. Christiani;T. J. Cheng

  • p16INK4a and Histology-specific Methylation of CpG Islands by Exposure to Tobacco Smoke in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Duk Hwan Kim;Heather H. Nelson;John K. Wiencke;Shichun Zheng

  • Recommendations for the design and analysis of epigenome-wide association studies

    Karin B Michels;Alexandra M Binder;Sarah Dedeurwaerder;Charles B Epstein

  • Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

    Elin Ringström;Edward Peters;Masayuki Hasegawa;Marshall Posner

  • Global DNA Methylation Level in Whole Blood as a Biomarker in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Debra Ting Hsiung;Carmen J. Marsit;E. Andres Houseman;Karen Eddy

  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk

    Manuela Marron;Manuela Marron;Paolo Boffetta;Zuo Feng Zhang;David Zaridze

  • MicroRNA Expression Ratio Is Predictive of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Michele Avissar;Brock C. Christensen;Karl T. Kelsey;Carmen J. Marsit

  • Lack of Association of Alcohol and Tobacco with HPV16-Associated Head and Neck Cancer

    Katie M. Applebaum;C. Sloane Furniss;Ariana Zeka;Marshall R. Posner

  • The relationship between a polymorphism in CYP17 with plasma hormone levels and breast cancer.

    Christopher A. Haiman;Susan E. Hankinson;Donna Spiegelman;Graham A. Colditz

  • 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
Carmen J. Marsit
Carmen J. Marsit Emory University
Brock C. Christensen
Brock C. Christensen Dartmouth College
E. Andres Houseman
E. Andres Houseman Oregon State University
Margaret R. Karagas
Margaret R. Karagas Dartmouth College
David C. Christiani
David C. Christiani Harvard University
Margaret R. Wrensch
Margaret R. Wrensch University of California, San Francisco
Dominique S. Michaud
Dominique S. Michaud Tufts University
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Mia Hashibe
Mia Hashibe University of Utah

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