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Margaret R. Karagas

Margaret R. Karagas

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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109
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40529
World Ranking
941
National Ranking
573

Medicine

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111
Citations
42559
World Ranking
5357
National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Margaret R. Karagas is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and specializes in research across medicine and environmental science. Their scholarly output includes extensive work in subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis; pediatrics, perinatology and child health; molecular biology; public health, environmental and occupational health; and environmental chemistry.

The prominent topics in their research cover a range of environmental and health-related issues, including:

  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Their recent publications demonstrate involvement in multidisciplinary epidemiological and environmental health studies. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Exposure to Contemporary and Emerging Chemicals in Commerce among Pregnant Women in the United States: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcome (ECHO) Program, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Trends in Screen Time Use Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic, July 2019 Through August 2021, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Metals and trace elements in relation to body mass index in a prospective study of US women, 2020, Environmental Research

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Anne L. Dunlop, Assiamira Ferrara, Dana Dabelea, Juliette C. Madan, and Carrie V. Breton, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

Margaret R. Karagas's publications are frequently found in venues including ISEE Conference Abstracts, UNC Libraries, Environmental Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and JAMA Network Open, indicating consistent contributions to both conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • Erratum: Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (991-995))

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

  • Aging and Environmental Exposures Alter Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation Dependent upon CpG Island Context

    Brock C. Christensen;E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Carmen J. Marsit;Shichun Zheng

  • Evidence on the human health effects of low-level methylmercury exposure.

    Margaret R. Karagas;Anna Lai Choi;Emily Oken;Milena Horvat

  • Basic epidemiology of fractures of the upper and lower limb among Americans over 65 years of age.

    John A. Baron;Margaret Karagas;Jane Barrett;Wayne Kniffin

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Risk of subsequent basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin among patients with prior skin cancer. Skin Cancer Prevention Study Group.

    M R Karagas;T A Stukel;E R Greenberg;J A Baron

  • Increase in incidence rates of basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer in New Hampshire, USA

    M R Karagas;E R Greenberg;S K Spencer;T A Stukel

  • Rice consumption contributes to arsenic exposure in US women

    Diane Gilbert-Diamond;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Joann F. Gruber;Tracy Punshon

  • Serial Analysis of the Gut and Respiratory Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis in Infancy: Interaction between Intestinal and Respiratory Tracts and Impact of Nutritional Exposures

    J. C. Madan;D. C. Koestler;B. A. Stanton;L. Davidson

  • Use of Tanning Devices and Risk of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Skin Cancers

    Margaret R. Karagas;Virginia A. Stannard;Leila A. Mott;Mary Jo Slattery

  • New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

    Simon N Stacey;Patrick Sulem;Gisli Masson;Sigurjon A Gudjonsson

  • Sun exposure and melanoma risk at different latitudes: a pooled analysis of 5700 cases and 7216 controls

    Yu Mei Chang;Jennifer H. Barrett;Timothy D. Bishop;Bruce K. Armstrong

  • The epidemiology of peripheral fractures.

    John A. Baron;J. A. Barrett;M. R. Karagas

  • Human Papillomavirus Infection and Incidence of Squamous Cell and Basal Cell Carcinomas of the Skin

    Margaret R. Karagas;Heather H. Nelson;Peter Sehr;Tim Waterboer

  • Mortality associated with low plasma concentration of beta carotene and the effect of oral supplementation

    Greenberg Er;Baron Ja;Karagas Mr;Stukel Ta

  • Risk of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Skin Cancers After Ionizing Radiation Therapy

    M R Karagas;J A McDonald;E R Greenberg;T A Stukel

  • Oral ingestion of hexavalent chromium through drinking water and cancer mortality in an industrial area of Greece - An ecological study

    Athena Linos;Athanassios Petralias;Athanassios Petralias;Costas A Christophi;Costas A Christophi;Eleni Christoforidou

  • Association of Cesarean Delivery and Formula Supplementation With the Intestinal Microbiome of 6-Week-Old Infants

    Juliette C. Madan;Juliette C. Madan;Anne G. Hoen;Sara N. Lundgren;Shohreh F. Farzan

  • Heterogeneity of hip fracture: age, race, sex, and geographic patterns of femoral neck and trochanteric fractures among the US elderly.

    Margaret R. Karagas;Grace L. Lu-Yao;Jane A. Barrett;Michael L. Beach

  • Model-based clustering of DNA methylation array data: a recursive-partitioning algorithm for high-dimensional data arising as a mixture of beta distributions

    E. Andres Houseman;E. Andres Houseman;Brock C. Christensen;Ru-Fang Yeh;Carmen J. Marsit

Frequent Co-Authors

Carmen J. Marsit
Carmen J. Marsit Emory University
Karl T. Kelsey
Karl T. Kelsey Brown University
Debra T. Silverman
Debra T. Silverman National Institutes of Health
Brian P. Jackson
Brian P. Jackson Dartmouth College
Jason H. Moore
Jason H. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Brock C. Christensen
Brock C. Christensen Dartmouth College
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
John A. Baron
John A. Baron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Therese A. Stukel
Therese A. Stukel University of Toronto
Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health

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