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Overview

Robert N. Hoover is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with notable emphasis on Cancer Research, Genetics, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers a range of topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cancer Risks and Factors, Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Birth, Development, and Health, Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment, and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Collaborations have occurred extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Stephen J. Chanock (10 collaborations)
  • Graham G. Giles (9 collaborations)
  • James E. Mensah (8 collaborations)
  • Laura E. Beane Freeman (7 collaborations)
  • Federico Canzian (7 collaborations)

Representative recent publications include:

  • Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in Patients With Osteosarcoma, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors With Breast Cancer Risk, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Association of the Age at Menarche with Site-Specific Cancer Risks in Pooled Data from Nine Cohorts, 2021, Cancer Research
  • Trends and Patterns of Testosterone Therapy among U.S. Male Medicare Beneficiaries, 1999 to 2014, 2020, The Journal of Urology
  • Common variants in breast cancer risk loci predispose to distinct tumor subtypes, 2022, Breast Cancer Research

Robert N. Hoover has been recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Epidemiologic Evidence Showing That Human Papillomavirus Infection Causes Most Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia

    Mark H. Schiffman;Heidi M. Bauer;Robert N. Hoover;Andrew G. Glass

  • 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

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

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

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

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Meredith Yeager;Nick Orr;Richard B Hayes;Kevin B Jacobs

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

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

  • Increased Risk of Lymphoma in Sicca Syndrome

    Stuart S. Kassan;Terry L. Thomas;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos;Robert Hoover

  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

    N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

  • Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Peter Kraft

  • Solid Cancers after Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Rochelle E. Curtis;Philip A. Rowlings;H. Joachim Deeg;Donna A. Shriner

  • Mammographic Features and Breast Cancer Risk: Effects With Time, Age, and Menopause Status

    Celia Byrne;Catherine Schairer;John Wolfe;Navin Parekh

  • 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

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • The Risk of Breast Cancer after Estrogen and Estrogen-Progestin Replacement

    LElF Bergkvist;Hans-Olgy Adami;Ingemar Persson;Robert Hoover

  • Agricultural Herbicide Use and Risk of Lymphoma and Soft-Tissue Sarcoma

    Shelia K. Hoar;Aaron Blair;Frederick F. Holmes;Cathy D. Boysen

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

    Madigan Mp;Ziegler Rg;Benichou J;Byrne C

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Adam S. Kibel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Joseph F. Fraumeni
Joseph F. Fraumeni National Institutes of Health
Louise A. Brinton
Louise A. Brinton National Institutes of Health
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Regina G. Ziegler
Regina G. Ziegler National Institutes of Health
Patricia Hartge
Patricia Hartge National Institutes of Health
Susan E. Hankinson
Susan E. Hankinson University of Massachusetts Amherst

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