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Scott E. Kern is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Oncology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Surgery as subfields. The main topics of their scientific work include Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer, Cancer Risks and Factors, and Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment.

Their published work includes several papers across various journals and venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "The genetics of ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas in the year 2020: dramatic progress, but far to go" (2020), published in Modern Pathology
  • "Larger organ size caused by obesity is a mechanism for higher cancer risk" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Pancreatic cancer pathology viewed in the light of evolution" (2021), published in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews
  • "Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Assessment of Pancreatic Fat Strongly Correlates With Histology-Based Assessment of Pancreas Composition" (2024), published in Pancreas
  • "Organ size increases with obesity and correlates with cancer risk" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequently publishing in journals such as Modern Pathology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Pancreas, Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, and arXiv (Cornell University), Scott E. Kern collaborates regularly with several coauthors. These include Michael Goggins, Ralph H. Hruban, Elizabeth D. Thompson, Nicholas J. Roberts, and Laura D. Wood.

Best Publications

  • Genetic alterations during colorectal-tumor development.

    Bert Vogelstein;Eric R. Fearon;Stanley R. Hamilton;Scott E. Kern

  • Core Signaling Pathways in Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses

    Siân Jones;Xiaosong Zhang;D. Williams Parsons;D. Williams Parsons;Jimmy Cheng Ho Lin

  • DPC4, A Candidate Tumor Suppressor Gene at Human Chromosome 18q21.1

    Stephan A. Hahn;Mieke Schutte;A. T. M. Shamsul Hoque;Christopher A. Moskaluk

  • Definition of a consensus binding site for p53.

    Wafik S. El-Deiry;Scott E. Kern;Jennifer A. Pietenpol;Kenneth W. Kinzler

  • Oncogene-induced Nrf2 transcription promotes ROS detoxification and tumorigenesis

    Gina M. DeNicola;Florian A. Karreth;Timothy J. Humpton;Aarthi Gopinathan

  • Gene expression profiles in normal and cancer cells

    Bert Vogelstein;Kenneth W. Kinzler

  • Identification of a chromosome 18q gene that is altered in colorectal cancers

    Eric R. Fearon;Kathleen R. Cho;Janice M. Nigro;Scott E. Kern

  • Allelotype of colorectal carcinomas

    Bert Vogelstein;Eric R. Fearon;Scott E. Kern;Stanley R. Hamilton

  • Frequent somatic mutations and homozygous deletions of the p16 (MTS1) gene in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

    C Caldas;S A Hahn;L T da Costa;M S Redston

  • Identification of p53 as a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein

    Scott E. Kern;Kenneth W. Kinzler;Arthur Bruskin;David Jarosz

  • Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia: A New Nomenclature and Classification System for Pancreatic Duct Lesions

    R H Hruban;N V Adsay;J Albores-Saavedra;C Compton

  • Human smad3 and smad4 are sequence-specific transcription activators

    Scott Eliot Kern;Leigh Zawel;Jia Le Dai;Bert Vogelstein

  • Oncogenic forms of p53 inhibit p53-regulated gene expression

    Scott E. Kern;Jennifer A. Pietenpol;Sam Thiagalingam;Albert Seymour

  • Progression Model for Pancreatic Cancer

    Ralph H. Hruban;Michael Goggins;Jennifer Parsons;Scott E. Kern

  • DPC4 Gene in Various Tumor Types

    Mieke Schutte;Ralph H. Hruban;Lora Hedrick;Kathleen R. Cho

  • Exomic Sequencing Identifies PALB2 as a Pancreatic Cancer Susceptibility Gene

    Siân Jones;Siân Jones;Ralph H. Hruban;Mihoko Kamiyama;Michael Borges

  • Tumor-suppressive Pathways in Pancreatic Carcinoma

    Ester Rozenblum;Mieke Schutte;Michael Goggins;Stephan A. Hahn

  • Abrogation of the Rb/p16 Tumor-suppressive Pathway in Virtually All Pancreatic Carcinomas

    Mieke Schutte;Ralph H. Hruban;Joseph Geradts;Rob Maynard

  • Prospective risk of pancreatic cancer in familial pancreatic cancer kindreds

    Alison P. Klein;Kieran A. Brune;Gloria M. Petersen;Michael Goggins

  • Evaluation of candidate tumour suppressor genes on chromosome 18 in colorectal cancers.

    Sam Thiagalingam;Christoph Lengauer;Frederick S. Leach;Mieke Schutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph H. Hruban
Ralph H. Hruban Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Charles J. Yeo
Charles J. Yeo Thomas Jefferson University
Michael Goggins
Michael Goggins Johns Hopkins University
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John L. Cameron
John L. Cameron Johns Hopkins University
Anirban Maitra
Anirban Maitra The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jonathan R. Brody
Jonathan R. Brody Thomas Jefferson University
Mark Redston
Mark Redston Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University

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