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Overview

Mark A. Jenkins is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on genetic factors and epidemiology related to colorectal cancer, with a substantial body of work spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their scholarly output includes numerous studies in oncology, pathology, forensic medicine, cancer research, and molecular biology. Key topics of investigation cover genetic factors in colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening and detection, genetic associations and epidemiology, cancer genomics and diagnostics, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, global cancer incidence and screening, and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

Jenkins has published extensively in several venues, with frequent appearances in UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, and Gastroenterology.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Jenkins include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • Deciphering colorectal cancer genetics through multi-omic analysis of 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of European and east Asian ancestries (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Adiposity, metabolites, and colorectal cancer risk: Mendelian randomization study (2020, BMC Medicine)
  • Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators in Jenkins's research include:

  • Daniel D. Buchanan
  • Steven Gallinger
  • Polly A. Newcomb
  • John L. Hopper
  • Loïc Le Marchand

Jenkins's primary fields of study involve medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with specific expertise in oncology and cancer genetics. Their research addresses complex genetic architectures and risk prediction related to colorectal cancer, integrating multi-omic analyses and epidemiological methods.

Best Publications

  • The clinical phenotype of Lynch syndrome due to germ-line PMS2 mutations

    Leigha Senter;Mark Clendenning;Kaisa Sotamaa;Heather Hampel

  • Identification of Lynch syndrome among patients with colorectal cancer

    Leticia Moreira;Francesc Balaguer;Noralane Lindor;Albert De La Chapelle

  • Validation of Questionnaire and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness against Respiratory Physician Assessment in the Diagnosis of Asthma

    Mark A Jenkins;Jane R Clarke;John B Carlin;Colin F Robertson

  • A novel recurrent mutation in MITF predisposes to familial and sporadic melanoma

    Satoru Yokoyama;Susan L. Woods;Glen M. Boyle;Lauren G. Aoude

  • Cancer risk and survival in path_MMR carriers by gene and gender up to 75 years of age: a report from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Pål Møller;Toni T Seppälä;Inge Bernstein;Inge Bernstein;Elke Holinski-Feder

  • A meta-analysis of effectiveness of influenza vaccine in persons aged 65 years and over living in the community

    Trang Vu;Stephen Farish;Mark Jenkins;Heath Kelly

  • Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Mev Dominguez-Valentin;Julian R. Sampson;Toni T. Seppälä;Sanne W. ten Broeke

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

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

  • Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13.5 as risk loci for asthma

    Manuel A Ferreira;Melanie C Matheson;David L Duffy;Guy B Marks

  • Global trends in colorectal cancer mortality: projections to the year 2035

    Marzieh Araghi;Isabelle Soerjomataram;Mark Jenkins;James Brierley

  • Dominant Negative ATM Mutations in Breast Cancer Families

    Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Amanda B. Spurdle;Magtouf Gatei;Helena Kelly

  • Prevalence and Penetrance of Major Genes and Polygenes for Colorectal Cancer

    Aung Ko Win;Mark A. Jenkins;James G Dowty;Antonis C Antoniou

  • Risks of Lynch Syndrome Cancers for MSH6 Mutation Carriers

    Laura Baglietto;Noralane M. Lindor;James G. Dowty;Darren M. White

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer : a Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Nikos Papadimitriou;Niki Dimou;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Barbara Banbury

  • Factors in childhood as predictors of asthma in adult life

    Mark A Jenkins;John L Hopper;Glenn Bowes;John B Carlin

  • Pathology features in Bethesda guidelines predict colorectal cancer microsatellite instability: a population-based study.

    Mark A. Jenkins;Shinichi Hayashi;Anne Marie O'Shea;Lawrence J. Burgart

  • Colorectal and Other Cancer Risks for Carriers and Noncarriers From Families With a DNA Mismatch Repair Gene Mutation: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Aung Ko Win;Joanne P Young;Noralane M Lindor;Katherine M. Tucker

  • Identification of Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Colorectal Tumors in a Genome-Wide Meta-analysis

    Ulrike Peters;Ulrike Peters;Shuo Jiao;Fredrick R. Schumacher;Carolyn M. Hutter;Carolyn M. Hutter

  • Metachronous Colorectal Cancer Risk for Mismatch Repair Gene Mutation Carriers: The Advantage of More Extensive Colon Surgery

    Susan Parry;Susan Parry;Aung Ko Win;Bryan Parry;Finlay A Macrae

  • 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

John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Polly A. Newcomb
Polly A. Newcomb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Daniel D. Buchanan
Daniel D. Buchanan University of Melbourne
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Steven Gallinger
Steven Gallinger Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Joanne P. Young
Joanne P. Young University of Adelaide
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center

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