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Alisa M. Goldstein

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  309
Citations -  24663

Alisa M. Goldstein is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 297 publications receiving 22773 citations. Previous affiliations of Alisa M. Goldstein include United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Increased risk of pancreatic cancer in melanoma-prone kindreds with p16INK4 mutations.

TL;DR: The development of pancreatic cancer in kindreds prone to melanoma may require a p16M mutation, and genetic factors, such as the kind of mutation found in p16INK4, may explain the inconsistent occurrence of other cancers in these kindreds.
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A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

Maria Teresa Landi, +67 more
TL;DR: A lung cancer GWAS identified a distinct hereditary contribution to adenocarcinoma, and previously reported association signals on 15q25 and 6p21 were refined, but no additional loci reached genome-wide significance.
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Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

Kevin B. Jacobs, +208 more
- 01 Jun 2012 - 
TL;DR: In an analysis of 31,717 cancer cases and 26,136 cancer-free controls from 13 genome-wide association studies, this paper observed large chromosomal abnormalities in a subset of clones in DNA obtained from blood or buccal samples.