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Melissa C. Southey

Melissa C. Southey

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Medicine
Australia
2023

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Best Female Scientists

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131
Citations
74300
World Ranking
335
National Ranking
13

Medicine

D-Index
135
Citations
79805
World Ranking
2043
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Melissa C. Southey is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in Medicine. Within these domains, their work is particularly concentrated in subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics covered in Melissa C. Southey's research include:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • RNA modifications and cancer

They have authored multiple papers, with recent publications including:

  • Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging, 2021, Genome biology
  • Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Germline Sequencing DNA Repair Genes in 5545 Men With Aggressive and Nonaggressive Prostate Cancer, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Graham G. Giles
  • Roger L. Milne
  • John L. Hopper
  • Pierre-Antoine Dugué
  • Tú Nguyen-Dumont

The most common publication venues for Melissa C. Southey's work are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancers
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Breast Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

    Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;John L. Hopper;Daniel R. Barnes;Kelly-Anne Phillips

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Subtyping of breast cancer by immunohistochemistry to investigate a relationship between subtype and short and long term survival: a collaborative analysis of data for 10,159 cases from 12 studies

    Fiona M. Blows;Kristy E. Driver;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Annegien Broeks

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Breast-Cancer Risk in Families with Mutations in PALB2

    A. C. Antoniou;S. Casadei;T. Heikkinen;D. Barrowdale

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility.

    Rosalind A Eeles;Rosalind A Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Graham G Giles;Graham G Giles;Ali Amin Al Olama

  • Gene-Panel Sequencing and the Prediction of Breast-Cancer Risk

    Douglas Frederick Easton;Paul David Pharoah;Antonis C. Antoniou;Marc Derek Tischkowitz

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Iron-overload-related disease in HFE hereditary hemochromatosis

    Katrina J. Allen;Lyle C. Gurrin;Clare C. Constantine;Nicholas J. Osborne

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

    Angela Cox;Alison M. Dunning;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Sabapathy Balasubramanian

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • A genome-wide association study identifies colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23.3

    Ian P.M. Tomlinson;Emily Webb;Luis Carvajal-Carmona;Peter Broderick

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge

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