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National Ranking
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Overview

Mattias Johansson is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The subfields of their work include Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Genetics, Oncology, and Cancer Research.

The main topics of Mattias Johansson's research involve Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, RNA modifications and cancer, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Recent papers published by Mattias Johansson include:

  • Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank, 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Pan-cancer analysis demonstrates that integrating polygenic risk scores with modifiable risk factors improves risk prediction, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis, 2022, BMC Medicine
  • Tobacco Smoking and Risk of Second Primary Lung Cancer, 2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer, 2022, Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mattias Johansson are:

  • Rayjean J. Hung
  • Paul Brennan
  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Hilary A. Robbins
  • Loïc Le Marchand

Prominent publication venues for Mattias Johansson include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Younghun Han;Xuchen Zong

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

    Robert Carreras-Torres;Mattias Johansson;Philip C. Haycock;Kaitlin H. Wade

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

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

    Yufei Wang;James D McKay;Thorunn Rafnar;Zhaoming Wang

  • Insulin-like growth factors, their binding proteins, and prostate cancer risk: analysis of individual patient data from 12 prospective studies.

    Andrew W. Roddam;Naomi E. Allen;Paul Appleby;Timothy J. Key

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC)

    Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Heather A. Ward;Teresa Norat;Jian'an Luan

  • Evaluation of Human Papillomavirus Antibodies and Risk of Subsequent Head and Neck Cancer

    Aimee R. Kreimer;Mattias Johansson;Tim Waterboer;Rudolf Kaaks

  • 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

  • Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank

    Therese Haugdahl Nøst;Karine Alcala;Ilona Urbarova;Karl Smith Byrne

  • Hypomethylation of smoking-related genes is associated with future lung cancer in four prospective cohorts

    Francesca Fasanelli;Laura Baglietto;Erica Ponzi;Florence Guida

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Harvard University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

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