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2024

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  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award

Overview

Zdenko Herceg is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions in molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, health toxicology, mutagenesis, oncology, and cancer research.

Their work heavily focuses on epigenetics and DNA methylation, covering topics such as birth, development, and health, as well as health, environment, and cognitive aging. Additional areas include cancer-related gene regulation, RNA modifications in cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and the quality of life of childhood cancer survivors.

Recent significant publications by Zdenko Herceg include:

  • Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement (2020, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology)
  • Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age (2020, Genome Medicine)
  • Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Peripheral Blood and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Specific Transportation Noise and Air Pollution: The SAPALDIA Study (2020, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • The Promises and Challenges of Toxico-Epigenomics: Environmental Chemicals and Their Impacts on the Epigenome (2020, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Profiling of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma from Global High-Incidence Regions Identifies Crucial Genes and Potential Cancer Markers (2021, Cancer Research)

Zdenko Herceg frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Akram Ghantous, Cyrille Cuenin, Vincent Cahais, Rita Khoueiry, and Felicia Fei-Lei Chung. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of studies and publications.

Their work has been published regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancers, Clinical Epigenetics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Environment International.

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • Epigenetic interplay between histone modifications and DNA methylation in gene silencing

    Thomas Vaissière;Carla Sawan;Zdenko Herceg

  • Histone acetylation by Trrap–Tip60 modulates loading of repair proteins and repair of DNA double-strand breaks

    Rabih Murr;Joanna I. Loizou;Yun-Gui Yang;Cyrille Cuenin

  • Functions of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in DNA repair, genomic integrity and cell death.

    Zdenko Herceg;Zhao-Qi Wang

  • Activation and Caspase-mediated Inhibition of PARP: A Molecular Switch between Fibroblast Necrosis and Apoptosis in Death Receptor Signaling

    Marek Los;Malgorzata Mozoluk;Davide Ferrari;Anna Stepczynska

  • Mice lacking the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase gene are resistant to pancreatic beta-cell destruction and diabetes development induced by streptozocin.

    Volker Burkart;Zhao-Qi Wang;Jürgen Radons;Birgit Heller

  • Epigenetics and cancer: towards an evaluation of the impact of environmental and dietary factors

    Zdenko Herceg

  • Carcinogenicity of night shift work

    Elizabeth M Ward;Dori Germolec;Manolis Kogevinas;David McCormick

  • Parthenolide: from plant shoots to cancer roots.

    Akram Ghantous;Ansam Sinjab;Zdenko Herceg;Nadine Darwiche

  • Failure of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Cleavage by Caspases Leads to Induction of Necrosis and Enhanced Apoptosis

    Zdenko Herceg;Zhao-Qi Wang

  • Genetic and epigenetic alterations as biomarkers for cancer detection, diagnosis and prognosis.

    Zdenko Herceg;Pierre Hainaut

  • Quantitative Analysis of DNA Methylation Profiles in Lung Cancer Identifies Aberrant DNA Methylation of Specific Genes and Its Association with Gender and Cancer Risk Factors

    Thomas Vaissière;Rayjean J. Hung;David Zaridze;Anush Moukeria

  • The exposome in practice: Design of the EXPOsOMICS project.

    P. Vineis;M. Chadeau-Hyam;H. Gmuender;J. Gulliver

  • Histone modifications and cancer.

    Carla Sawan;Zdenko Herceg

  • Personalized early detection and prevention of breast cancer: ENVISION consensus statement.

    Nora Pashayan;Antonis C. Antoniou;Urska Ivanus;Laura J. Esserman

  • Epigenetic mechanisms and cancer: an interface between the environment and the genome.

    Zdenko Herceg;Thomas Vaissière

  • Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium

    Gemma C. Sharp;Gemma C. Sharp;Lucas A. Salas;Lucas A. Salas;Claire Monnereau;Claire Monnereau;Catherine Allard

  • Measuring the exposome: A powerful basis for evaluating environmental exposures and cancer risk

    Christopher P. Wild;Augustin Scalbert;Zdenko Herceg

  • Epigenetic drivers and genetic passengers on the road to cancer.

    Carla Sawan;Thomas Vaissière;Rabih Murr;Zdenko Herceg

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Erik Melén
Erik Melén Karolinska Institute
Isabelle Romieu
Isabelle Romieu Emory University
Zhao-Qi Wang
Zhao-Qi Wang Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Caroline L. Relton
Caroline L. Relton University of Bristol
Pierre Hainaut
Pierre Hainaut Grenoble Alpes University
Nicole Probst-Hensch
Nicole Probst-Hensch Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Marie-France Hivert
Marie-France Hivert Harvard University

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