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Nathaniel Rothman is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans several fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of cancer, toxicology, and genomics, focusing on molecular biology, cancer research, and health impacts related to environmental exposures.

Rothman's recent published works include:

  • Geographic variation of mutagenic exposures in kidney cancer genomes, 2024, Nature
  • Body Mass Index and Thyroid Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of Half a Million Men and Women in the Asia Cohort Consortium, 2021, Thyroid
  • Integrative analysis of 3604 GWAS reveals multiple novel cell type-specific regulatory associations, 2022, Genome biology
  • Epigenetic aging biomarkers and occupational exposure to benzene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde, 2021, Environment International
  • Occupational exposure to carbon black nanoparticles increases inflammatory vascular disease risk: an implication of an ex vivo biosensor assay, 2020, Particle and Fibre Toxicology

The frequent co-authors with whom Nathaniel Rothman collaborates include Qing Lan, Roel Vermeulen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wei Hu, and Debra T. Silverman.

Typical publication venues where Rothman's work appears include:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine

The main fields of study represented in Rothman's work are:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these disciplines, their research focuses heavily on subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Oncology

Key topics studied by Nathaniel Rothman include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-1 polymorphisms associated with increased risk of gastric cancer

    Emad M. El-Omar;Emad M. El-Omar;Mary Carrington;Wong Ho Chow;Kenneth E.L. McColl

  • 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

  • International patterns and trends in thyroid cancer incidence, 1973–2002

    Briseis A. Kilfoy;Briseis A. Kilfoy;Tongzhang Zheng;Theodore R. Holford;Xuesong Han

  • Hematotoxicity in Workers Exposed to Low Levels of Benzene

    Qing Lan;Luoping Zhang;Guilan Li;Roel Vermeulen

  • 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

  • Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Water Disinfection By-Products through Ingestion, Bathing, Showering, and Swimming in Pools

    Cristina M. Villanueva;Kenneth P. Cantor;Joan O. Grimalt;Nuria Malats

  • Improved Identification of von Hippel-Lindau Gene Alterations in Clear Cell Renal Tumors

    Michael L. Nickerson;Erich Jaeger;Yangu Shi;Jeffrey A. Durocher

  • The Agricultural Health Study.

    Michael C. R. Alavanja;Dale P. Sandler;Suzanne B. McMaster;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • 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

  • Population stratification in epidemiologic studies of common genetic variants and cancer: quantification of bias.

    Sholom Wacholder;Nathaniel Rothman;Neil Caporaso

  • The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: A Nested Case–Control Study of Lung Cancer and Diesel Exhaust

    Debra T. Silverman;Claudine M. Samanic;Jay H. Lubin;Aaron E. Blair

  • 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

  • The Shanghai Women's Health Study: Rationale, Study Design, and Baseline Characteristics

    Wei Zheng;Wong Ho Chow;Gong Yang;Fan Jin

  • Reporting, Appraising, and Integrating Data on Genotype Prevalence and Gene-Disease Associations

    Julian Little;Linda Bradley;Molly S Bray;Mindy Clyne

  • Benzene poisoning, a risk factor for hematological malignancy, is associated with the NQO1 609C-->T mutation and rapid fractional excretion of chlorzoxazone.

    Nathaniel Rothman;Martyn T. Smith;Richard B. Hayes;Robert D. Traver

  • High Concentrations of the Carcinogen 2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo-[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) Occur in Chicken but Are Dependent on the Cooking Method

    Rashmi Sinha;Nathaniel Rothman;Ellen D. Brown;Cynthia P. Salmon

  • Collection of genomic DNA from adults in epidemiological studies by buccal cytobrush and mouthwash.

    Montserrat García-Closas;Kathleen M. Egan;Jeannine Abruzzo;Polly A. Newcomb;Polly A. Newcomb

  • Cancer Survivorship—Genetic Susceptibility and Second Primary Cancers: Research Strategies and Recommendations

    Lois B. Travis;Charles S. Rabkin;Linda Morris Brown;James M. Allan

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Qing Lan
Qing Lan National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Mark P. Purdue
Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health
Debra T. Silverman
Debra T. Silverman National Institutes of Health
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Núria Malats
Núria Malats Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health

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