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9633
National Ranking
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Overview

Mark P. Purdue is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biomedical science, with a strong focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Specific subfields include genetics, molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
  • Head and neck cancer studies
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia research

Mark P. Purdue has contributed to a variety of publications, with frequent appearances in journals and venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Environment International

The scientist collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Paul Brennan
  • Jongeun Rhee
  • Jonathan N. Hofmann
  • Zuo-Feng Zhang
  • Stephen J. Chanock

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark P. Purdue include:

  • Serum Concentrations of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma (2020), published in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration (2020), published in British Journal of Cancer
  • Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • An approach for normalization and quality control for NanoString RNA expression data (2020), published in Briefings in Bioinformatics
  • The renal lineage factor PAX8 controls oncogenic signalling in kidney cancer (2022), published in Nature

Best Publications

  • Renal cell carcinoma.

    James J. Hsieh;Mark P. Purdue;Sabina Signoretti;Charles Swanton

  • Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium.

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Shu Chun Chuang;Stefania Boccia

  • Colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy

    Robert E. Schoen;Paul F. Pinsky;Joel L. Weissfeld;Lance A. Yokochi

  • Genome-wide association study of circulating vitamin D levels

    Jiyoung Ahn;Kai Yu;Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon;K. Claire Simon

  • Human oral microbiome and prospective risk for pancreatic cancer: a population-based nested case-control study

    Xiaozhou Fan;Alexander V Alekseyenko;Jing Wu;Brandilyn A Peters

  • 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

  • Sexual behaviours and the risk of head and neck cancers: a pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium

    Julia E. Heck;Julien Berthiller;Julien Berthiller;Salvatore Vaccarella;Deborah M. Winn

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

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

  • Cigarette smoking and the oral microbiome in a large study of American adults.

    Jing Wu;Brandilyn A Peters;Christine Dominianni;Yilong Zhang

  • Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40-59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies

    Cari M. Kitahara;Alan J. Flint;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez;Leslie Bernstein

  • Oral Microbiome Composition Reflects Prospective Risk for Esophageal Cancers.

    Brandilyn A. Peters;Jing Wu;Zhiheng Pei;Zhiheng Pei;Liying Yang

  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk

    Manuela Marron;Manuela Marron;Paolo Boffetta;Zuo Feng Zhang;David Zaridze

  • Cigarette Smoking and Variations in Systemic Immune and Inflammation Markers

    Meredith S. Shiels;Hormuzd A. Katki;Neal D. Freedman;Mark P. Purdue

  • Recent Trends in Incidence of Cutaneous Melanoma among US Caucasian Young Adults

    Mark P. Purdue;Laura E. Beane Freeman;William F. Anderson;Margaret A. Tucker

  • International trends in the incidence of testicular cancer, 1973–2002

    Victoria M. Chia;Sabah M. Quraishi;Susan S. Devesa;Mark P. Purdue

  • Serum vitamin D concentration and prostate cancer risk: a nested case-control study.

    Jiyoung Ahn;Ulrike Peters;Ulrike Peters;Demetrius Albanes;Mark P. Purdue

  • Cigarette, Cigar, and Pipe Smoking and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancers: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Annah Wyss;Mia Hashibe;Shu Chun Chuang;Yuan Chin Amy Lee

  • Low vitamin D status is associated with physical inactivity, obesity and low vitamin D intake in a large US sample of healthy middle-aged men and women ☆

    K. Brock;W. Y. Huang;D. R. Fraser;L. Ke

  • Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3

    Mark P. Purdue;Mattias Johansson;Diana Zelenika;Jorge R. Toro

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Qing Lan
Qing Lan National Institutes of Health
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Demetrius Albanes
Demetrius Albanes National Institutes of Health
Susan M. Gapstur
Susan M. Gapstur American Cancer Society
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano Brigham and Women's Hospital
Patricia Hartge
Patricia Hartge National Institutes of Health

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