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Alicja Wolk

Researcher at Karolinska Institutet

Publications -  829
Citations -  76043

Alicja Wolk is an academic researcher from Karolinska Institutet. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Prospective cohort study. The author has an hindex of 135, co-authored 778 publications receiving 66239 citations. Previous affiliations of Alicja Wolk include United States Department of Agriculture & Uppsala University Hospital.

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A Genome-Wide Gene-Based Gene–Environment Interaction Study of Breast Cancer in More than 90,000 Women

TL;DR: This transcriptome-informed genome-wide gene-environment interaction study of breast cancer found no strong support for the role of gene expression in modifying the associations between established risk factors and breast cancer risk.
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Genetic insights into the biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing

Katherine S. Ruth, +293 more
- 15 Jan 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify 290 genetic determinants of ovarian ageing, assessed using normal variation in age at natural menopause (ANM) in ∼200,000 women of European ancestry.
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Obesity, Diabetes, and Risk of Cancer

TL;DR: This work summarizes the mounting epidemiological studies linking overweight, obesity, and diabetes with cancer incidence and mortality and concludes that obesity dramatically increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk

Joe Dennis, +119 more
TL;DR: In this article , rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions were analyzed for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data.