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Neil E. Caporaso is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably RNA modifications and cancer, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic associations and epidemiology, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, lung cancer treatments and mutations, and the health impacts of air quality.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Among recent papers authored by Neil E. Caporaso are:

  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (2020, International Journal of Cancer)
  • Genetic and epigenetic intratumor heterogeneity impacts prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Expanding the genetic architecture of nicotine dependence and its shared genetics with multiple traits (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers (2020, Nature Communications)

Neil E. Caporaso has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • John K. Field
  • Rayjean J. Hung
  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Demetrius Albanes
  • Melinda C. Aldrich

Best Publications

  • The national lung screening trial: Overview and study design

    Constantine A. Gatsonis;Denise R. Aberle;Christine D. Berg;William C. Black

  • Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) consistently precedes multiple myeloma: A prospective study

    Ola Landgren;Robert A. Kyle;Ruth M. Pfeiffer;Jerry A. Katzmann

  • Genome-partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

    Jian Yang;Teri A. Manolio;Louis R. Pasquale;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Selection criteria for lung-cancer screening.

    Martin C. Tammemägi;Hormuzd A. Katki;William G. Hocking;Timothy R. Church

  • 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

  • Gene expression signature of cigarette smoking and its role in lung adenocarcinoma development and survival.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Tatiana Dracheva;Melissa Rotunno;Jonine D. Figueroa

  • Tumor Immunobiological Differences in Prostate Cancer between African-American and European-American Men

    Tiffany A. Wallace;Robyn L. Prueitt;Ming Yi;Tiffany M. Howe

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • 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

  • 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

  • Targeting of Low-Dose CT Screening According to the Risk of Lung-Cancer Death

    Stephanie A. Kovalchik;Martin Tammemagi;Christine D. Berg;Neil E. Caporaso

  • 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

  • Cigarette smoking and lung cancer – relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case-control studies

    Beate Pesch;Benjamin Kendzia;Per Gustavsson;Karl Heinz Jöckel

  • Determination of CYP1A2 and NAT2 phenotypes in human populations by analysis of caffeine urinary metabolites.

    M A Butler;N P Lang;J F Young;N E Caporaso

  • Diagnostic criteria for monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis.

    Gerald E. Marti;Andy C. Rawstron;Paolo Ghia;Peter Hillmen

  • Quality control and quality assurance in genotypic data for genome-wide association studies.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Kimberly F. Doheny;Daniel B. Mirel;Elizabeth W. Pugh

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

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

  • Evidence suggesting the role of specific genetic factors in cigarette smoking.

    Caryn Lerman;Neil E. Caporaso;Janet Audrain;David Main

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Teresa Landi
Maria Teresa Landi National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Lynn R. Goldin
Lynn R. Goldin National Institutes of Health
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Dario Consonni
Dario Consonni University of Milan
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Pier Alberto Bertazzi
Pier Alberto Bertazzi University of Milan
Margaret A. Tucker
Margaret A. Tucker National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health

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