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Overview

Kenneth W. Muir is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in subfields including Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and Cancer Risks and Factors.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenneth W. Muir include:

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes (2022, JAMA Oncology)
  • European polygenic risk score for prediction of breast cancer shows similar performance in Asian women (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants (2023, Nature Genetics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kenneth W. Muir include:

  • Artitaya Lophatananon
  • Rosalind A. Eeles
  • Zsofia Kote-Jarai
  • Esther M. John
  • Jyotsna Batra

The most common venues for this scientist's publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • Cancers
  • Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Best Publications

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

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

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

  • Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility.

    Rosalind A Eeles;Rosalind A Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Graham G Giles;Graham G Giles;Ali Amin Al Olama

  • A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21.

    Ian Tomlinson;Ian Tomlinson;Emily Webb;Luis Carvajal-Carmona;Peter Broderick

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma

    Sanjay Shete;Fay J. Hosking;Lindsay B. Robertson;Sara E. Dobbins

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability

    Sheila C O’Reilly;Adrian Jones;Ken R Muir;Michael Doherty

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • Effectiveness of home exercise on pain and disability from osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomised controlled trial

    Sheila C O’Reilly;Ken R Muir;Michael Doherty

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Home based exercise programme for knee pain and knee osteoarthritis: randomised controlled trial.

    KS Thomas;KR Muir;Michael Doherty;AC Jones

  • A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

    Ali Amin Al Olama;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Sonja I. Berndt;David V. Conti

  • Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Ali Amin Al Olama;Graham G. Giles;Graham G. Giles

  • Aspirin and folic acid for the prevention of recurrent colorectal adenomas

    Richard F.A. Logan;Matthew J. Grainge;Vic C. Shepherd;Nicholas C. Armitage

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

    David V. Conti;Burcu F. Darst;Lilit C. Moss;Edward J. Saunders

  • The INTERPHONE study: Design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population

    Elisabeth Cardis;Lesley Richardson;Isabelle Deltour;Bruce Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
David E. Neal
David E. Neal University of Cambridge
Zsofia Kote-Jarai
Zsofia Kote-Jarai Institute of Cancer Research
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Johanna Schleutker
Johanna Schleutker Turku University Hospital

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