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Meredith Yeager

Meredith Yeager

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Genetics

D-Index
100
Citations
38008
World Ranking
751
National Ranking
374

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
38824
World Ranking
7958
National Ranking
4137

Overview

Meredith Yeager is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on genetics, molecular biology, cancer research, epidemiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's work has addressed topics such as cervical cancer and HPV research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, genomic variations, chromosomal abnormalities, and sarcoma diagnosis and treatment.

Meredith Yeager's notable recent publications include:

  • Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in Patients With Osteosarcoma, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Radiation-related genomic profile of papillary thyroid carcinoma after the Chernobyl accident, 2021, Science
  • Genetic regulation of OAS1 nonsense-mediated decay underlies association with COVID-19 hospitalization in patients of European and African ancestries, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • The genetic structure and adaptation of Andean highlanders and Amazonians are influenced by the interplay between geography and culture, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Lack of transgenerational effects of ionizing radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident, 2021, Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Stephen J. Chanock, Belynda Hicks, Michael Dean, Amy Hutchinson, and Mitchell J. Machiela.

Meredith Yeager has published extensively in scientific venues such as Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Blood, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer

    David J Hunter;David J Hunter;Peter Kraft;Kevin B Jacobs;David G Cox

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Meredith Yeager;Nick Orr;Richard B Hayes;Kevin B Jacobs

  • Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Peter Kraft

  • Natural selection at major histocompatibility complex loci of vertebrates

    Austin L. Hughes;Meredith Yeager

  • NAT2 slow acetylation, GSTM1 null genotype, and risk of bladder cancer: results from the Spanish Bladder Cancer Study and meta-analyses.

    Montserrat García-Closas;Núria Malats;Debra Silverman;Mustafa Dosemeci

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • 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

  • A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1).

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Kevin B Jacobs;Peter Kraft;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager

  • A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Kai Yu;Lynn R. Goldin

  • A shared susceptibility locus in PLCE1 at 10q23 for gastric adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Christian C. Abnet;Neal D. Freedman;Nan Hu;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang

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

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

  • Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the InterLymph Consortium

    Nathaniel Rothman;Christine F Skibola;Sophia S Wang;Gareth Morgan

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia.

    Qing Lan;Chao A. Hsiung;Keitaro Matsuo;Yun Chul Hong

  • Rare missense variants in POT1 predispose to familial cutaneous malignant melanoma.

    Jianxin Shi;Xiaohong R. Yang;Bari Ballew;Melissa Rotunno

  • Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study

    Z Kote-Jarai;Olama Aaa.;G G Giles;G G Giles;G Severi;G Severi

  • Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations

    Nicholas G. Crawford;Derek E. Kelly;Matthew E. B. Hansen;Marcia H. Beltrame

  • Genome-wide association study of glioma subtypes identifies specific differences in genetic susceptibility to glioblastoma and non-glioblastoma tumors

    Beatrice S Melin;Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan;Margaret R Wrensch;Christoffer Johansen

  • Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study

    Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Ali Amin Al Olama;Graham G. Giles;Gianluca Severi

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Adam S. Kibel

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Sonja I. Berndt
Sonja I. Berndt National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Zhaoming Wang
Zhaoming Wang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kevin B. Jacobs
Kevin B. Jacobs Progenity (United States)
Amy Hutchinson
Amy Hutchinson National Cancer Institute
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Nilanjan Chatterjee Johns Hopkins University
Margaret A. Tucker
Margaret A. Tucker National Institutes of Health
Demetrius Albanes
Demetrius Albanes National Institutes of Health

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