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Keun-Young Yoo is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a focus on public health and environmental factors affecting health outcomes.

The researcher has contributed notably to areas including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Pharmacology. Key research topics addressed include Tea Polyphenols and Effects, Coffee Research and Impacts, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Sleep and Related Disorders, Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue, and Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Clinical Laboratory, JAMA Network Open, International Journal of Epidemiology, Thyroid, and Cancers.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • 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
  • Pickled Vegetable and Salted Fish Intake and the Risk of Gastric Cancer: Two Prospective Cohort Studies and a Meta-Analysis, 2020, Cancers
  • Body Mass Index and Thyroid Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of Half a Million Men and Women in the Asia Cohort Consortium, 2021, Thyroid
  • Gender differences in respiratory health outcomes among farming cohorts around the globe: findings from the AGRICOH consortium, 2020, Journal of Agromedicine

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors including:

  • Sue K. Park
  • Eiko Saito
  • Md. Shafiur Rahman
  • Norie Sawada
  • Woon-Puay Koh

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

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

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

  • A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

    Angela Cox;Alison M. Dunning;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Sabapathy Balasubramanian

  • 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

  • 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

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Maya Ghoussaini;Olivia Fletcher;Kyriaki Michailidou;Clare Turnbull

  • Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Yu Chen;Wade K. Copeland;Rajesh Vedanthan;Eric Grant

  • Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Paolo Boffetta;Dale McLerran;Yu Chen;Manami Inoue

  • Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

    Keun Young Yoo;Hai Rim Shin

  • Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

    Juliet D. French;Maya Ghoussaini;Stacey L. Edwards;Kerstin B. Meyer

  • Dietary factors and stomach cancer: a case-control study in Korea.

    Jung Kwon Lee;Byung Joo Park;Keun Young Yoo;Yoon Ok Ahn

  • Independent protective effect of lactation against breast cancer: a case-control study in Japan.

    Keun-Young Yoo;Kazuo Tajima;Tetsuo Kuroishi;Kaoru Hirose

  • Gene-environment interactions between the smoking habit and polymorphisms in the DNA repair genes, APE1 Asp148Glu and XRCC1 Arg399Gln, in Japanese lung cancer risk.

    Hidemi Ito;Keitaro Matsuo;Nobuyuki Hamajima;Tetsuya Mitsudomi

  • Association between type 2 diabetes and risk of cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of over 771,000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium.

    Yu Chen;Fen Wu;Eiko Saito;Yingsong Lin

  • Genome-Wide Association Study in East Asians Identifies Novel Susceptibility Loci for Breast Cancer

    Jirong Long;Qiuyin Cai;Hyuna Sung;Jiajun Shi

  • Intrauterine environments and breast cancer risk: meta-analysis and systematic review

    Sue Kyung Park;Sue Kyung Park;Sue Kyung Park;Daehee Kang;Daehee Kang;Katherine A McGlynn;Montserrat Garcia-Closas

  • Effects of bisphenol A on breast cancer and its risk factors.

    Mihi Yang;Jae-Ha Ryu;Raok Jeon;Daehee Kang

  • CLONORCHIS SINENSIS INFECTION AND INCREASING RISK OF CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

    Min Kyung Lim;Young-Hee Ju;Silvia Franceschi;Jin-Kyoung Oh

Frequent Co-Authors

Daehee Kang
Daehee Kang Seoul National University
Dong-Young Noh
Dong-Young Noh Seoul National University
Chen-Yang Shen
Chen-Yang Shen Academia Sinica
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Alison M. Dunning
Alison M. Dunning University of Cambridge
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University

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