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Regina G. Ziegler is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work encompasses significant contributions to genetics, oncology, molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's research topics are centered on genetic associations and epidemiology, with substantial focus on BRCA gene mutations in cancer, cancer risks and factors, global cancer incidence and screening, vitamin D research studies, as well as nutrition, genetics, and disease. Further engagement includes nutritional studies and diet, which complements their analysis of cancer and genetic factors.

Ziegler has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Body size and weight change over adulthood and risk of breast cancer by menopausal and hormone receptor status: a pooled analysis of 20 prospective cohort studies, 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Association of the Age at Menarche with Site-Specific Cancer Risks in Pooled Data from Nine Cohorts, 2021, Cancer Research
  • Evaluating Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry, 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Cross-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identifies six breast cancer loci in African and European ancestry women, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Dairy foods, calcium, and risk of breast cancer overall and for subtypes defined by estrogen receptor status: a pooled analysis of 21 cohort studies, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ziegler include Leslie Bernstein, Esther M. John, Jennifer J. Hu, Michael F. Press, and Elisa V. Bandera, reflecting ongoing partnerships in advancing cancer and genetic research.

The scientist's research has been published predominantly in venues such as UNC Libraries, with 17 publications, Cancer Research and Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention with three publications each, alongside contributions to the European Journal of Epidemiology and Human Molecular Genetics, which also serve as significant channels for their work.

Best Publications

  • A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer

    David J Hunter;David J Hunter;Peter Kraft;Kevin B Jacobs;David G Cox

  • Migration Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk in Asian-American Women

    Regina G. Ziegler;Robert N. Hoover;Malcolm C. Pike;Allan Hildesheim

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Proportion of Breast Cancer Cases in the United States Explained by Well-Established Risk Factors

    Madigan Mp;Ziegler Rg;Benichou J;Byrne C

  • 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

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

  • Dietary diversity and subsequent mortality in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.

    A K Kant;A Schatzkin;T B Harris;R G Ziegler

  • 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

  • Nutrition and lung cancer

    Regina G. Ziegler;Susan Taylor Mayne;Christine A. Swanson

  • Folate intake, alcohol use, and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial

    Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Shih Chen Chang;Michael F. Leitzmann;Karen A. Johnson

  • Breast Cancer Risk From Modifiable and Nonmodifiable Risk Factors Among White Women in the United States.

    Paige Maas;Myrto Barrdahl;Amit D. Joshi;Paul L. Auer;Paul L. Auer

  • Cognitive research enhances accuracy of food frequency questionnaire reports: Results of an experimental validation study

    Frances E. Thompson;Amy F. Subar;Charles C. Brown;Albert F. Smith

  • The landscape of recombination in African Americans

    Anjali G. Hinch;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon;Nick Patterson;Yunli Song

  • Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer in the Epidemiologic Follow-up Study of the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

    Arthur Schatzkin;D. Yvonne Jones;Robert N. Hoover;Philip R. Taylor

  • Diet in the Etiology of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer among Women from the Southern United States

    Deborah M. Winn;Regina G. Ziegler;Linda W. Pickle;Gloria Gridley

  • A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.

    Keri L. Monda;Keri L. Monda;Gary K. Chen;Kira C. Taylor;Kira C. Taylor;Cameron Palmer;Cameron Palmer

  • Serum cholesterol and cancer in the NHANES I epidemiologic followup study. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

    A Schatzkin;R N Hoover;P R Taylor;R G Ziegler

  • Low vitamin D status is associated with physical inactivity, obesity and low vitamin D intake in a large US sample of healthy middle-aged men and women ☆

    K. Brock;W. Y. Huang;D. R. Fraser;L. Ke

  • Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene Association Study of Cigarette Smoking Behaviors

    Neil Caporaso;Fangyi Gu;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Jin Sheng-Chih

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert N. Hoover
Robert N. Hoover National Institutes of Health
Susan E. Hankinson
Susan E. Hankinson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Laurence N. Kolonel
Laurence N. Kolonel University of Hawaii at Manoa
Brian E. Henderson
Brian E. Henderson University of Southern California
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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