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Montserrat Garcia-Closas

Montserrat Garcia-Closas

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2025

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Overview

Montserrat Garcia-Closas is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Within these broad areas, their work emphasizes genetics, oncology, molecular biology, cancer research, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics in cancer genetics and risk factors. Main topics of their work include:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Cancer risks and factors
  • Breast cancer treatment studies
  • Nutrition, genetics, and disease

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Montserrat Garcia-Closas have included:

  • Thomas U. Ahearn
  • Manjeet K. Bolla
  • Jonine D. Figueroa
  • Stephen J. Chanock
  • Joe Dennis

Key recent publications of Montserrat Garcia-Closas illustrate the focus and impact of their work. Selected papers include:

  • "Cancer therapy shapes the fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis" (2020) published in Nature Genetics
  • "Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • "Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers" (2021) published in Nature Genetics
  • "Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes" (2022) published in JAMA Oncology

The scientist's research is frequently published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

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

  • Assessing the Probability That a Positive Report is False: An Approach for Molecular Epidemiology Studies

    Sholom Wacholder;Stephen Chanock;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Laure El ghormli

  • 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

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

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

  • 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

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

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

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Etiology of Hormone Receptor–Defined Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    Michelle D. Althuis;Jennifer H. Fergenbaum;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Louise A. Brinton

  • 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

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

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

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

  • Developing and evaluating polygenic risk prediction models for stratified disease prevention

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;Jianxin Shi;Montserrat García-Closas

  • 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

  • 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

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto

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