Vladimír Bencko

Research interests

Publications

• Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies

  PLoS ONE · 2018 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0192999

• Significant Locus and Metabolic Genetic Correlations Revealed in Genome-Wide Association Study of Anorexia Nervosa

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16121402

• Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15724

• Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3002

• Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and lung cancer by histological type: A pooled analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO)

  International Journal of Cancer · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.28835

• Increased risk of lung cancer in individuals with a family history of the disease: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium

  European Journal of Cancer · 2012 · 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.01.038

• Influence of common genetic variation on lung cancer risk: meta-analysis of 14 900 cases and 29 485 controls

  Human Molecular Genetics · 2012 · 10.1093/hmg/dds334

• Previous Lung Diseases and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis From the International Lung Cancer Consortium

  American Journal of Epidemiology · 2012 · 10.1093/aje/kws151

• A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

  PLoS Genetics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001333

• Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Inactivation in Sporadic Clear Cell Renal Cancer: Associations with Germline VHL Polymorphisms and Etiologic Risk Factors

  PLoS Genetics · 2011 · 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002312

• Cigarette smoking and lung cancer—relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case–control studies

  International Journal of Cancer · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.27339

• Low human papillomavirus prevalence in head and neck cancer: results from two large case–control studies in high-incidence regions

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2011 · 10.1093/ije/dyq249

• Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.571

• Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · 10.1038/ng.723

• Exposure to Diesel Motor Exhaust and Lung Cancer Risk in a Pooled Analysis from Case-Control Studies in Europe and Canada

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2010 · 10.1164/rccm.201006-0940oc

• Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

  Journal · 2010

• A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06885

• Improved Identification of von Hippel-Lindau Gene Alterations in Clear Cell Renal Tumors

  Clinical Cancer Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-4921

• Investigation of the fine structure of European populations with applications to disease association studies

  European Journal of Human Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ejhg.2008.210

• Multiple ADH genes are associated with upper aerodigestive cancers

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ng.151

• Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.254

• Evidence for an Important Role of Alcohol- and Aldehyde-Metabolizing Genes in Cancers of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract

  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention · 2006 · 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-05-0710

• Large-Scale Investigation of Base Excision Repair Genetic Polymorphisms and Lung Cancer Risk in a Multicenter Study

  JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2005 · 10.1093/jnci/dji101

• Use of human hair as a biomarker in the assessment of exposure to pollutants in occupational and environmental settings

  Toxicology · 1995 · 10.1016/0300-483x(95)03018-b

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