List of works by Nichola Johnson

11q13 is a susceptibility locus for hormone receptor positive breast cancer

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19p13.1 is a triple-negative-specific breast cancer susceptibility locus

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

9q31.2-rs865686 as a susceptibility locus for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 02 August 2012

A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

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A genome-wide association study to identify genetic susceptibility loci that modify ductal and lobular postmenopausal breast cancer risk associated with menopausal hormone therapy use: a two-stage design with replication

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

A large-scale assessment of two-way SNP interactions in breast cancer susceptibility using 46,450 cases and 42,461 controls from the breast cancer association consortium

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Assessing interactions between the associations of common genetic susceptibility variants, reproductive history and body mass index with breast cancer risk in the breast cancer association consortium: a combined case-control study

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Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Association of ESR1 gene tagging SNPs with breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 06 January 2009

Association of a common AKAP9 variant with breast cancer risk: a collaborative analysis

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Association of genetic susceptibility variants for type 2 diabetes with breast cancer risk in women of European ancestry

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Association of genetic variants at 8q24 with breast cancer risk

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Associations of common variants at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1) with breast cancer risk and heterogeneity by tumor subtype: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 18 August 2011

Associations of obesity and circulating insulin and glucose with breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

article by Xiang Shu et al published 1 October 2018 in International Journal of Epidemiology

BRCA2 Polymorphic Stop Codon K3326X and the Risk of Breast, Prostate, and Ovarian Cancers

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Breast cancer risk and 6q22.33: combined results from Breast Cancer Association Consortium and Consortium of Investigators on Modifiers of BRCA1/2

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CYP3A variation, premenopausal estrone levels, and breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 3 April 2012

CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced levels of 2-hydroxylation pathway oestrogen metabolites

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Candidate locus analysis of the TERT-CLPTM1L cancer risk region on chromosome 5p15 identifies multiple independent variants associated with endometrial cancer risk

scientific article published in February 2015

Combined genetic and splicing analysis of BRCA1 c.[594-2A>C; 641A>G] highlights the relevance of naturally occurring in-frame transcripts for developing disease gene variant classification algorithms

scientific article published on 23 March 2016

Common breast cancer susceptibility variants in LSP1 and RAD51L1 are associated with mammographic density measures that predict breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

Common non-synonymous SNPs associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

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Comparison of 6q25 breast cancer hits from Asian and European Genome Wide Association Studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC)

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Correction: Comparison of 6q25 Breast Cancer Hits from Asian and European Genome Wide Association Studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC)

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Counting potentially functional variants in BRCA1, BRCA2 and ATM predicts breast cancer susceptibility

Cross-Cancer Genome-Wide Analysis of Lung, Ovary, Breast, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancer Reveals Novel Pleiotropic Associations

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Cytochrome P450 Allele CYP3A7*1C Associates with Adverse Outcomes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Breast, and Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Do MDM2 SNP309 and TP53 R72P interact in breast cancer susceptibility? A large pooled series from the breast cancer association consortium

scientific article

Epigenome-wide association study for lifetime estrogen exposure identifies an epigenetic signature associated with breast cancer risk

Erratum: Corrigendum: A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Estimating causal effects of genetic risk variants for breast cancer using marker data from bilateral and familial cases

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Evidence that the 5p12 Variant rs10941679 Confers Susceptibility to Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer through FGF10 and MRPS30 Regulation

scientific article published on 03 September 2016

Family history, genetic testing, and clinical risk prediction: pooled analysis of CHEK2 1100delC in 1,828 bilateral breast cancers and 7,030 controls

scientific article published on January 2009

Fine scale mapping of the 17q22 breast cancer locus using dense SNPs, genotyped within the Collaborative Oncological Gene-Environment Study (COGs).

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

Fine-Mapping of the 1p11.2 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus

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Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 178 high confidence target genes

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Fine-scale mapping of 8q24 locus identifies multiple independent risk variants for breast cancer

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Fine-scale mapping of the 4q24 locus identifies two independent loci associated with breast cancer risk

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Fine-scale mapping of the 5q11.2 breast cancer locus reveals at least three independent risk variants regulating MAP3K1.

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Fine-scale mapping of the FGFR2 breast cancer risk locus: putative functional variants differentially bind FOXA1 and E2F1.

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Five polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: results from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

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Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Gene-body hypermethylation of ATM in peripheral blood DNA of bilateral breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 19 January 2009

Genetic predisposition to in situ and invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast

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Genetic variation at CYP3A is associated with age at menarche and breast cancer risk: a case-control study

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Genetic variation in mitotic regulatory pathway genes is associated with breast tumor grade

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Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

scientific article (publication date: August 2016)

Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

scientific article published on 22 January 2012

Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer

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Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

scientific article published in April 2013

Genome-wide association study identifies a common variant in RAD51B associated with male breast cancer risk

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Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

scientific article published on 28 June 2007

Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization

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Identification and characterization of novel associations in the CASP8/ALS2CR12 region on chromosome 2 with breast cancer risk

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Identification of new genetic susceptibility loci for breast cancer through consideration of gene-environment interactions

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Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Inconsistent association between the STK15 F31I genetic polymorphism and breast cancer risk.

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Inherited variants in the inner centromere protein (INCENP) gene of the chromosomal passenger complex contribute to the susceptibility of ER-negative breast cancer

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Interaction between CHEK2*1100delC and other low-penetrance breast-cancer susceptibility genes: a familial study

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

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MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

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Missense variants in ATM in 26,101 breast cancer cases and 29,842 controls

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

scientific article published on 29 March 2009

No breast cancer association for transforming growth factor-beta pathway colorectal cancer single nucleotide polymorphisms

scientific article published on June 2009

No clinical utility of KRAS variant rs61764370 for ovarian or breast cancer.

scientific article published in May 2015

No evidence that protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with breast cancer risk: implications for gene panel testing

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Novel breast cancer susceptibility locus at 9q31.2: results of a genome-wide association study

scientific article published on 24 January 2011

PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

scientific article published in December 2016

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

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Prediction of breast cancer risk based on profiling with common genetic variants

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Premenopausal mammographic density in relation to cyclic variations in endogenous sex hormone levels, prolactin, and insulin-like growth factors

scientific article published on August 2009

Refined histopathological predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status: a large-scale analysis of breast cancer characteristics from the BCAC, CIMBA, and ENIGMA consortia

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Risk of estrogen receptor-positive and -negative breast cancer and single-nucleotide polymorphism 2q35-rs13387042.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Search for low penetrance alleles for colorectal cancer through a scan of 1467 non-synonymous SNPs in 2575 cases and 2707 controls with validation by kin-cohort analysis of 14 704 first-degree relatives.

scientific article published on 25 September 2006

Sex steroids, growth factors and mammographic density: a cross-sectional study of UK postmenopausal Caucasian and Afro-Caribbean women

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

The insulin-like growth factor system and mammographic features in premenopausal and postmenopausal women

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Unbiased analysis of potential targets of breast cancer susceptibility loci by Capture Hi-C.

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