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Lenka Foretova

Lenka Foretova

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Medicine

D-Index
88
Citations
33347
World Ranking
13030
National Ranking
6

Overview

Lenka Foretova is affiliated with Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, with a primary research focus spanning genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work extensively covers genetics-related fields, with an emphasis on cancer research and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research contributions include a significant number of publications-104 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, and an equal number in medicine. Their subfields of study highlight genetics (59 publications), molecular biology (34), pathology and forensic medicine (26), pulmonary and respiratory medicine (22), and cancer research (18).

Key topics addressed in their research comprise:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Nutrition, genetics, and disease
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Air quality and health impacts

Foretova has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including Vladimír Janout (28 publications), Paul Brennan (22), D. Gareth Evans (20), Yolanda Benavente (20), and Paolo Boffetta (19).

The most common venues for their publications include UNC Libraries (12 publications), Genetics in Medicine (5), Nature Genetics (4), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4), and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (3).

Some of the recent papers authored include:

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Best Publications

  • Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

    Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;John L. Hopper;Daniel R. Barnes;Kelly-Anne Phillips

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Spectrum of mutations in BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and TP53 in families at high risk of breast cancer.

    Tom Walsh;Silvia Casadei;Kathryn Hale Coats;Elizabeth Swisher

  • Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph Consortium.

    Karin Ekström Smedby;Claire M. Vajdic;Michael Falster;Eric A. Engels

  • Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Rayjean J Hung;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • 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

  • Cigarette smoking and lung cancer – relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case-control studies

    Beate Pesch;Benjamin Kendzia;Per Gustavsson;Karl Heinz Jöckel

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Nandita Mitra;Fei Wan;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • High prevalence of mutant KRAS in circulating exosome-derived DNA from early-stage pancreatic cancer patients.

    K. Allenson;J. Castillo;F. A. San Lucas;G. Scelo

  • Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

    Yufei Wang;James D McKay;Thorunn Rafnar;Zhaoming Wang

  • Hepatitis C and non-Hodgkin lymphoma among 4784 cases and 6269 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium.

    Silvia De Sanjose;Yolanda Benavente;Claire M. Vajdic;Eric A. Engels

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

  • Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes: The InterLymph Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes Project

    Lindsay M. Morton;Susan L. Slager;James R. Cerhan;Sophia S. Wang

  • Evaluation of polygenic risk scores for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Lesley McGuffog;Daniel Barrowdale;Andrew Lee

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health
Peter Rudnai
Peter Rudnai National Institutes of Health
David Zaridze
David Zaridze Russian Cancer Research Center NN Blokhin
Alexandra Nieters
Alexandra Nieters University of Freiburg
James McKay
James McKay International Agency For Research On Cancer
Silvia de Sanjosé
Silvia de Sanjosé University of Barcelona
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne

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