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Margaret R. Wrensch is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 64 and 45 publications respectively.

Their work concentrates on several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research, along with contributions to Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Immunology. Key research topics covered by Margaret R. Wrensch include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, MicroRNA in disease regulation, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

Margaret R. Wrensch has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Neuro-Oncology Advances

Frequent collaborators include John K. Wiencke, Annette M. Molinaro, Terri Rice, Lucie McCoy, and Helen M. Hansen.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Margaret R. Wrensch include:

  • Association of Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast-Enhanced Tumor With Survival Within Molecular Subgroups of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Interactive Effects of Molecular, Therapeutic, and Patient Factors on Outcome of Diffuse Low-Grade Glioma, 2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A noncoding single-nucleotide polymorphism at 8q24 drives IDH1-mutant glioma formation, 2022, Science
  • The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer, 2023, EBioMedicine

Best Publications

  • The epidemiology of glioma in adults: a "state of the science" review.

    Quinn T. Ostrom;Luc Bauchet;Faith G. Davis;Isabelle Deltour

  • Molecular Profiling Reveals Biologically Discrete Subsets and Pathways of Progression in Diffuse Glioma.

    Michele Ceccarelli;Floris P Barthel;Tathiane M Malta;Thais S Sabedot

  • Glioma Groups Based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT Promoter Mutations in Tumors

    Jeanette E Eckel-Passow;Daniel H Lachance;Annette M. Molinaro;Kyle M. Walsh

  • Epidemiology and etiology of meningioma.

    Joseph Wiemels;Margaret Wrensch;Elizabeth B. Claus;Elizabeth B. Claus

  • 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

  • Epidemiology and molecular pathology of glioma.

    Judith A Schwartzbaum;James L Fisher;Kenneth D Aldape;Margaret Wrensch

  • Epidemiology of primary brain tumors: current concepts and review of the literature.

    Margaret Wrensch;Yuriko Minn;Terri Chew;Melissa Bondy

  • Brain tumor epidemiology: consensus from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.

    Melissa L. Bondy;Michael E. Scheurer;Beatrice Malmer;Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan

  • Epidemiology of intracranial meningioma.

    Elizabeth B Claus;Elizabeth B Claus;Melissa L Bondy;Joellen M Schildkraut;Joseph L Wiemels

  • 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

  • Association of Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast-Enhanced Tumor With Survival Within Molecular Subgroups of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma.

    Annette M. Molinaro;Shawn Hervey-Jumper;Ramin A. Morshed;Jacob Young

  • Epidemiology of brain tumors

    James L. Fisher;James L. Fisher;Judith A. Schwartzbaum;Margaret Wrensch;Joseph L. Wiemels

  • Variants in the CDKN2B and RTEL1 regions are associated with high grade glioma susceptibility

    Margaret Wrensch;Robert B. Jenkins;Jeffrey S. Chang;Ru Fang Yeh

  • Genetic and molecular epidemiology of adult diffuse glioma

    Annette M Molinaro;Jennie W Taylor;John K Wiencke;Margaret R Wrensch

  • The transcription factor GABP selectively binds and activates the mutant TERT promoter in cancer

    Robert J. A. Bell;H. Tomas Rube;Alex Kreig;Andrew Mancini

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

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Alternative Therapies Used by Women With Breast Cancer in Four Ethnic Populations

    Marion M. Lee;Scarlett S. Lin;Margaret R. Wrensch;Shelley R. Adler

  • Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information.

    Elizabeth B. Claus;Kyle M. Walsh;John K. Wiencke;Annette M. Molinaro

  • 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

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

John K. Wiencke
John K. Wiencke University of California, San Francisco
Joseph L. Wiemels
Joseph L. Wiemels University of Southern California
Melissa L. Bondy
Melissa L. Bondy Stanford University
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan Case Western Reserve University
Joellen M. Schildkraut
Joellen M. Schildkraut University of Virginia
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Karl T. Kelsey
Karl T. Kelsey Brown University
Richard S. Houlston
Richard S. Houlston Institute of Cancer Research
Paige M. Bracci
Paige M. Bracci University of California, San Francisco

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