Stig E. Bojesen

Research interests

Publications

• Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants

  Nature Genetics · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01534-4

• Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes

  JAMA Oncology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.6744

• Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

  Nature Genetics · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00748-0

• Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03779-7

• Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

  Nature Genetics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1

• Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

  Nature Genetics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-0609-2

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

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.002

• A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0132-x

• Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24284

• Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

  PLoS ONE · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177875

• Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · 10.1038/ng.3841

• Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · 10.1038/ng.3892

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

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3785

• The OncoArray Consortium: A Network for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Common Cancers

  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-16-0106

• Age- and Tumor Subtype–Specific Breast Cancer Risk Estimates for CH EK 2 *1100delC Carriers

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2016.66.5844

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

  Journal of Medical Genetics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-103839

• Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · 10.1038/ng.3242

• Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

  Nature · 2014 · 10.1038/nature13545

• Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2566

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

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2563

• Statin Use and Reduced Cancer-Related Mortality

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1201735

• Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study

  Nature Genetics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.882

• Low penetrance breast cancer susceptibility loci are associated with specific breast tumor subtypes: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

  Human Molecular Genetics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr228

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

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.354

• Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

  PLoS Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000054

• Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

  Nature · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05887

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

  Nature Genetics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1981

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