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Niwa, Shelley

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Top Publications Authored or Co-Authored by "Niwa, Shelley"

A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer
Nature Genetics, Volume 46, No. 10, Year 2014, Citations 426
Prostate cancer susceptibility in men of African ancestry at 8q24
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 108, No. 7, Year 2016, Citations 104
A Rare Germline HOXB13 Variant Contributes to Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry
European Urology, Volume 81, No. 5, Year 2022, Citations 100
Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation
Nature Communications, Volume 7, Article 10979, Year 2016, Citations 100
Integration of multiethnic fine-mapping and genomic annotation to prioritize candidate functional SNPs at prostate cancer susceptibility regions
Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 24, No. 19, Year 2015, Citations 88

Institutional Spectrum

Most Recent Affiliations

Institution	Country	Start Year	End Year	Affiliated Years
Westat, Inc.	United States	1994	2023	30
National Cancer Institute NCI	United States	1997	2017	21
National Institutes of Health NIH	United States	2017	2017	1
School of Public Health	United States	1994	1994	1
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	1994	1994	1

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