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Overview

Paul Brennan is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research contributions primarily lie within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans significant subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their recent papers include:

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system, 2020, published in Nature
  • Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor, 2022, published in Cell Genomics
  • Mutational signatures in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from eight countries with varying incidence, 2021, published in Nature Genetics
  • Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis, 2022, published in BMC Medicine
  • Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization, 2020, published in International Journal of Cancer

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Rayjean J. Hung
  • James McKay
  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Geoffrey Liu
  • Paolo Boffetta

Publication venues where Paul Brennan has frequently contributed are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

The main topics covered in Brennan's research encompass:

  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

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

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

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial

    Jörg Ederle;Joanna Dobson;Joanna Dobson;Roland L. Featherstone;Leo H. Bonati;Leo H. Bonati

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium.

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Shu Chun Chuang;Stefania Boccia

  • 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

  • Statistical methods for assessing observer variability in clinical measures.

    P. Brennan;A. Silman

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Alcohol Drinking in Never Users of Tobacco, Cigarette Smoking in Never Drinkers, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Simone Benhamou;Xavier Castellsague

  • 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

  • The promise and peril of chemical probes.

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;James E. Audia;Christopher Austin;Jonathan Baell

  • Somatic retrotransposition alters the genetic landscape of the human brain

    J. Kenneth Baillie;Mark W. Barnett;Kyle R. Upton;Daniel J. Gerhardt

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph Consortium.

    Karin Ekström Smedby;Claire M. Vajdic;Michael Falster;Eric A. Engels

  • Renal cell carcinoma in relation to cigarette smoking: Meta-analysis of 24 studies

    Jay D. Hunt;Jay D. Hunt;Olga L. van der Hel;Garnett P. McMillan;Paolo Boffetta

  • 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

  • Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Rayjean J Hung;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Rayjean J. Hung
Rayjean J. Hung Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Lenka Foretova
Lenka Foretova Masaryk University
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith Structural Genomics Consortium
James McKay
James McKay International Agency For Research On Cancer
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Mattias Johansson
Mattias Johansson International Agency For Research On Cancer
Ghislaine Scelo
Ghislaine Scelo International Agency For Research On Cancer

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