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Best Female Scientists

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121
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525
National Ranking
310

Medicine

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121
Citations
60584
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Margaret A. Tucker is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus within the subfields of Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Ophthalmology.

Their work covers several major topics, including:

  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies
  • Ocular Oncology and Treatments
  • Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms

Margaret A. Tucker has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • JNCI Cancer Spectrum
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • JAMA Dermatology
  • Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • JCO Precision Oncology

Recent papers written or co-authored by Tucker include:

  • "Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in Patients With Osteosarcoma," 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • "Recommendations for Long-Term Follow-up of Adults with Heritable Retinoblastoma," 2020, Ophthalmology
  • "Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study," 2021, JNCI Cancer Spectrum
  • "Sebaceous Carcinoma Epidemiology and Genetics: Emerging Concepts and Clinical Implications for Screening, Prevention, and Treatment," 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • "Germline ATM variants predispose to melanoma: a joint analysis across the GenoMEL and MelaNostrum consortia," 2021, Genetics in Medicine

Margaret A. Tucker collaborates frequently with other researchers. Some of the most frequent co-authors are:

  • Michael R. Sargen
  • Alisa M. Goldstein
  • Lindsay M. Morton
  • Xiaohong R. Yang
  • Belynda Hicks

Best Publications

  • The Risk of Cancer Associated with Specific Mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 among Ashkenazi Jews

    Jeffery P. Struewing;Patricia Hartge;Sholom Wacholder;Sonya M. Baker

  • A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer

    David J Hunter;David J Hunter;Peter Kraft;Kevin B Jacobs;David G Cox

  • Thyroid Cancer after Exposure to External Radiation: A Pooled Analysis of Seven Studies

    Elaine Ron;Jay H. Lubin;Roy E. Shore;Kiyohiko Mabuchi

  • A cancer family syndrome in twenty-four kindreds.

    Frederick P. Li;Joseph F. Fraumeni;John J. Mulvihill;William A. Blattner

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Germline p16 mutations in familial melanoma.

    Christopher J. Hussussian;Jeffery P. Struewing;Alisa M. Goldstein;Paul A. T. Higgins

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Meredith Yeager;Nick Orr;Richard B Hayes;Kevin B Jacobs

  • Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Peter Kraft

  • Germline mutations in the p16INK4a binding domain of CDK4 in familial melanoma.

    Lin Zuo;John Weger;Qingbei Yang;Alisa M. Goldstein

  • Risk of second cancers after treatment for Hodgkin's disease.

    M.A. Tucker;C.N. Coleman;R.S. Cox;A. Varghese

  • Bone sarcomas linked to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in children.

    MA Tucker;GJ D'Angio;Jr Jd Boice;LC Strong

  • Factors Affecting Late Mortality From Heart Disease After Treatment of Hodgkin's Disease

    Steven L. Hancock;Margaret A. Tucker;Richard T. Hoppe

  • Increased risk of pancreatic cancer in melanoma-prone kindreds with p16INK4 mutations.

    Alisa M. Goldstein;Mary C. Fraser;Jeffery P. Struewing;Christopher J. Hussussian

  • Breast Cancer After Treatment of Hodgkin's Disease

    Steven L. Hancock;Margaret A. Tucker;Richard T. Hoppe

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Melanoma: NIH Consensus Development Panel on Early Melanoma

    Lowell A. Goldsmith;Frederic B. Askin;Alfred E. Chang;Cynthia Cohen

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1).

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Kevin B Jacobs;Peter Kraft;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager

  • Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: Incidence and Survival Patterns in the United States, 1986-2005

    Porcia T. Bradford;Alisa M. Goldstein;Mary L. McMaster;Margaret A. Tucker

  • Recent Trends in Cutaneous Melanoma Incidence Among Whites in the United States

    Ahmedin Jemal;Susan S. Devesa;Patricia Hartge;Margaret A. Tucker

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Adam S. Kibel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisa M. Goldstein
Alisa M. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Amy Hutchinson
Amy Hutchinson National Cancer Institute
Neil E. Caporaso
Neil E. Caporaso National Institutes of Health
Maria Teresa Landi
Maria Teresa Landi National Institutes of Health
Zhaoming Wang
Zhaoming Wang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Joseph F. Fraumeni
Joseph F. Fraumeni National Institutes of Health
Kevin B. Jacobs
Kevin B. Jacobs Progenity (United States)
Sholom Wacholder
Sholom Wacholder National Institutes of Health

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