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Laura Baglietto

Laura Baglietto

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Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
27585
World Ranking
14566
National Ranking
561

Overview

Laura Baglietto is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy, with a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their academic contributions include 118 publications, spanning multiple subfields and topics with a particular emphasis on Oncology, Genetics, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work addresses several main topics including Cancer Risks and Factors, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Microscopic Colitis, Nutritional Studies and Diet, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both clinical and population health issues within medicine.

Among their recent scholarly articles are:

  • Breast cancer risk after recent childbirth: A pooled analysis of 15 prospective studies (2024, PubMed)
  • Serum oncostatin M at baseline predicts mucosal healing in Crohn's disease patients treated with infliximab (2020, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics)
  • Causal mediation analysis in presence of multiple mediators uncausally related (2020, The International Journal of Biostatistics)
  • Investigation of circulating metabolites associated with breast cancer risk by untargeted metabolomics: a case-control study nested within the French E3N cohort (2021, British Journal of Cancer)
  • Psychological distress in the academic population and its association with socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: Results from a large multicenter Italian study (2021, PLoS ONE)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laura Baglietto include:

  • Marco Fornili
  • Gianluca Severi
  • Lara Tavoschi
  • Graham G. Giles
  • Roger L. Milne

Their research has also been published in notable venues such as UNC Libraries, European Journal of Public Health, PubMed, PLoS ONE, and Breast Cancer Research, indicating a consistency in publishing within reputable subject-related outlets.

Laura Baglietto's work integrates epidemiological methods and molecular insights to explore cancer risk factors, the biology of inflammatory diseases, and public health-related topics. The diversity of publication venues and co-authorships highlights interdisciplinary and collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Subtyping of breast cancer by immunohistochemistry to investigate a relationship between subtype and short and long term survival: a collaborative analysis of data for 10,159 cases from 12 studies

    Fiona M. Blows;Kristy E. Driver;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Annegien Broeks

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

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

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • The clinical phenotype of Lynch syndrome due to germ-line PMS2 mutations

    Leigha Senter;Mark Clendenning;Kaisa Sotamaa;Heather Hampel

  • 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

  • Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Per Hall;Heli Nevanlinna;Karen Pooley

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

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

  • Circulating sex hormones and breast cancer risk factors in postmenopausal women: Reanalysis of 13 studies

    T J Key;P N Appleby;G K Reeves;A W Roddam;A W Roddam

  • Risks of Lynch Syndrome Cancers for MSH6 Mutation Carriers

    Laura Baglietto;Noralane M. Lindor;James G. Dowty;Darren M. White

  • GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

    Paul D.P. Pharoah;Ya Yu Tsai;Susan J. Ramus;Catherine M. Phelan

  • A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Xianshu Wang;Zachary S. Fredericksen;Lesley McGuffog

  • Mammographic Density Phenotypes and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis

    Andreas Pettersson;Rebecca E Graff;Giske Ursin;Isabel Dos Santos Silva

  • Breast Cancer Risk From Modifiable and Nonmodifiable Risk Factors Among White Women in the United States.

    Paige Maas;Myrto Barrdahl;Amit D. Joshi;Paul L. Auer;Paul L. Auer

  • BCL2 in breast cancer: a favourable prognostic marker across molecular subtypes and independent of adjuvant therapy received

    S.-J. Dawson;N. Makretsov;F. M. Blows;K. E. Driver

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

    Maya Ghoussaini;Olivia Fletcher;Kyriaki Michailidou;Clare Turnbull

  • A common variant at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus is associated with estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer

    Christopher A. Haiman;Gary K. Chen;Celine M. Vachon;Federico Canzian

  • A genome-wide association study identifies a new ovarian cancer susceptibility locus on 9p22.2.

    Honglin Song;Susan J. Ramus;Jonathan Tyrer;Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton

  • Inositol polyphosphate 4-phosphatase II regulates PI3K/Akt signaling and is lost in human basal-like breast cancers

    Clare G Fedele;Lisa M Ooms;Miriel Ho;Jessica L Vieusseux

Frequent Co-Authors

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

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