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Overview

Marc J. Gunter is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, contributing extensively to these areas through numerous publications.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields including Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research. Their research topics emphasize Nutritional Studies and Diet, Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cancer Risks and Factors, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease.

Marc J. Gunter has authored several recent papers, notable among them:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Type 2 Diabetes and Cancer: An Umbrella Review of Observational and Mendelian Randomization Studies, 2021, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Mycotoxin exposure and human cancer risk: A systematic review of epidemiological studies, 2020, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Neil Murphy
  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Konstantinos K. Tsilidis
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Matthias B. Schulze

Marc J. Gunter has published extensively in several scientific venues, with the highest number of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • BMC Medicine

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults

    Steven C. Moore;I-Min Lee;Elisabete Weiderpass;Peter T. Campbell

  • Adiposity and cancer at major anatomical sites: umbrella review of the literature.

    Maria Kyrgiou;Maria Kyrgiou;Ilkka Kalliala;Georgios Markozannes;Marc J Gunter

  • Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers?

    Isabelle Romieu;Laure Dossus;Simón Barquera;Hervé M. Blottière

  • Insulin, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

    Marc J. Gunter;Donald R. Hoover;Herbert Yu;Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

  • 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

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

  • Risk factors for endometrial cancer: An umbrella review of the literature.

    Olivia Raglan;Olivia Raglan;Ilkka Kalliala;Ilkka Kalliala;Georgios Markozannes;Sofia Cividini

  • 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

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Obesity and colorectal cancer: epidemiology, mechanisms and candidate genes.

    Marc J. Gunter;Michael F. Leitzmann

  • Plasma concentrations and intakes of amino acids in male meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans: a cross-sectional analysis in the EPIC-Oxford cohort

    J A Schmidt;S Rinaldi;A Scalbert;P Ferrari

  • Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to diabetes and high body-mass index: a comparative risk assessment

    Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard;Bin Zhou;Vasilis Kontis;James Bentham;James Bentham

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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