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Overview

Stephen J. Chanock is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these disciplines, their work covers subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics of their scientific contributions include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Stephen J. Chanock has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Graham G. Giles (73 co-authored works)
  • Christopher A. Haiman (71 co-authored works)
  • Montserrat García-Closas (55 co-authored works)
  • Sonja I. Berndt (55 co-authored works)
  • Loïc Le Marchand (53 co-authored works)

Their research output has been published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries (39 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (26 publications)
  • Cancer Research (18 publications)
  • Nature Communications (17 publications)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (17 publications)

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "LDlinkR: An R Package for Rapidly Calculating Linkage Disequilibrium Statistics in Diverse Populations," 2020, Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing," 2021, Nature
  • "An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk," 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genome-wide association study reveals genetic risk underlying Parkinson's disease

    Javier Simón-Sánchez;Claudia Schulte;Jose M Bras;Jose M Bras;Manu Sharma

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Assessing the Probability That a Positive Report is False: An Approach for Molecular Epidemiology Studies

    Sholom Wacholder;Stephen Chanock;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Laure El ghormli

  • LDlink: a web-based application for exploring population-specific haplotype structure and linking correlated alleles of possible functional variants

    Mitchell J. Machiela;Stephen J. Chanock

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • 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

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Sonja I. Berndt
Sonja I. Berndt National Institutes of Health
Zhaoming Wang
Zhaoming Wang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria

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