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Peter Rudnai is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States with a research focus primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Otorhinolaryngology, Speech and Hearing, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics primarily cover Air Quality and Health Impacts, Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure, Head and Neck Cancer Studies, Noise Effects and Management, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, as well as Occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Frequent publication venues where Rudnai's work has appeared include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Toxics

Some of the recent papers published that reflect the scope of their research are:

  • "Indoor air pollution, physical and comfort parameters related to schoolchildren's health: Data from the European SINPHONIE study," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies," 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "From science to policy: How European HBM indicators help to answer policy questions related to phthalates and DINCH exposure," 2022, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • "Exposure to Phthalates in European Children, Adolescents and Adults since 2005: A Harmonized Approach Based on Existing HBM Data in the HBM4EU Initiative," 2023, Toxics
  • "The influence of air pollution on respiratory allergies, asthma and wheeze in childhood in Hungary," 2022, Minerva Pediatrics

Peter Rudnai often collaborates with other researchers. Some of their frequent co-authors include:

  • Eleonóra Fabiánová
  • Renato Talamini
  • Fabio Levi
  • Joshua Muscat
  • Paolo Boffetta

Their contributions have expanded knowledge in environmental health, focusing on the effects of air pollution, chemical exposures, and occupational hazards on respiratory and other health outcomes. The combination of multidisciplinary approaches in their subfields reflects a comprehensive investigation into factors affecting public health related to environmental exposures.

Best Publications

  • Erratum: Genetic variation in the prostate stem cell antigen gene PSCA confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (991-995))

    Xifeng Wu;Yuanqing Ye;Lambertus A. Kiemeney;Patrick Sulem

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.

    Thorunn Rafnar;Patrick Sulem;Simon N Stacey;Frank Geller

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

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

  • 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

  • Sequence Variant on 8q24 Confers Susceptibility to Urinary Bladder Cancer

    Lambertus A Kiemeney;Steinunn Thorlacius;Patrick Sulem;Frank Geller

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

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

  • Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

    Yufei Wang;James D McKay;Thorunn Rafnar;Zhaoming Wang

  • ASIP and TYR pigmentation variants associate with cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Patrick Sulem;Simon N Stacey;Alisa M Goldstein

  • New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

    Simon N Stacey;Patrick Sulem;Gisli Masson;Sigurjon A Gudjonsson

  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk

    Manuela Marron;Manuela Marron;Paolo Boffetta;Zuo Feng Zhang;David Zaridze

  • Parental smoking and lung function in children : An international study

    Hanns Moshammer;Gerard Hoek;Heike Luttmann-Gibson;Manfred A. Neuberger

  • A germline variant in the TP53 polyadenylation signal confers cancer susceptibility

    Simon N. Stacey;Patrick Sulem;Aslaug Jonasdottir;Gisli Masson

  • Cigarette, Cigar, and Pipe Smoking and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancers: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Annah Wyss;Mia Hashibe;Shu Chun Chuang;Yuan Chin Amy Lee

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

    James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

  • Parental smoking and children's respiratory health: independent effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure

    Sam Pattenden;Temenuga Antova;Manfred Neuberger;Bojidar Nikiforov

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Lenka Foretova
Lenka Foretova Masaryk University
David Zaridze
David Zaridze Russian Cancer Research Center NN Blokhin
Zuo-Feng Zhang
Zuo-Feng Zhang University of California, Los Angeles
Mia Hashibe
Mia Hashibe University of Utah
Rayjean J. Hung
Rayjean J. Hung Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

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