Kala Visvanathan
Johns Hopkins University
333 Papers
1.2K Citations
Kala Visvanathan is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 255 publications. Previous affiliations of Kala Visvanathan include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & National Institutes of Health.
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Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship
Hannah Arem,Steven C. Moore,Alpa V. Patel,Patricia Hartge,Amy Berrington de Gonzalez,Kala Visvanathan,Peter T. Campbell,M. Freedman,Elisabete Weiderpass,Hans-Olov Adami,Hans-Olov Adami,Martha S. Linet,I. Min Lee,Charles E. Matthews +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the dose-response association between leisure time physical activity and mortality and define the upper limit of benefit or harm associated with increased levels of physical activity.
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Genetic/familial high-risk assessment: Breast, ovarian, and pancreatic, version 2.2021
Mary B. Daly,Tuya Pal,Michael Berry,Saundra S. Buys,Patricia I. Dickson,Susan M. Domchek,Ahmed Elkhanany,Susan Hatters Friedman,Michael Goggins,Mollie L. Hutton,Beth Y. Karlan,Seema A. Khan,Catherine Klein,Wendy Kohlmann,Allison W. Kurian,Christine Laronga,Jennifer K. Litton,Julie S. Mak,Carolyn S. Menendez,Sofia D. Merajver,Barbara S. Norquist,Kenneth Offit,Holly J. Pederson,Gwen Reiser,Leigha Senter-Jamieson,Kristen M. Shannon,Rebecca Shatsky,Kala Visvanathan,Jeffrey N. Weitzel,Myra J. Wick,Kari B. Wisinski,Matthew B. Yurgelun,Susan Darlow,Mary A. Dwyer +33 more
TL;DR: The NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic focus primarily on assessment of pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants associated with increased risk of breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer and recommended approaches to genetic testing/counseling and management strategies as mentioned in this paper.
Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis
Steven C. Moore,Alpa V. Patel,Charles E. Matthews,Amy Berrington de Gonzalez,Yikyung Park,Hormuzd A. Katki,Martha S. Linet,Elisabete Weiderpass,Kala Visvanathan,Kathy J. Helzlsouer,Michael J. Thun,Susan M. Gapstur,Patricia Hartge,I-Min Lee +13 more
TL;DR: Analyzing data from over 650,000 individuals, Dr. Steven Moore and colleagues report that greater amounts of leisure-time physical activity were associated with higher life expectancy across a wide range of activity levels and body mass index groups.
Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer
Kevin B. Jacobs,Kevin B. Jacobs,Meredith Yeager,Meredith Yeager,Weiyin Zhou,Weiyin Zhou,Sholom Wacholder,Zhaoming Wang,Zhaoming Wang,Benjamín Rodríguez-Santiago,Amy Hutchinson,Amy Hutchinson,Xiang Deng,Xiang Deng,Chenwei Liu,Chenwei Liu,Marie Josephe Horner,Michael Cullen,Michael Cullen,Caroline G. Epstein,Laurie Burdett,Laurie Burdett,Michael Dean,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Joshua N. Sampson,Charles C. Chung,Joseph Kovaks,Susan M. Gapstur,Victoria L. Stevens,Lauren T. Teras,Mia M. Gaudet,Demetrius Albanes,Stephanie J. Weinstein,Jarmo Virtamo,Philip R. Taylor,Neal D. Freedman,Christian C. Abnet,Alisa M. Goldstein,Nan Hu,Kai Yu,Jian-Min Yuan,Jian-Min Yuan,Linda M. Liao,Ti Ding,You-Lin Qiao,Yu Tang Gao,Woon-Puay Koh,Yong-Bing Xiang,Ze Zhong Tang,Jin-Hu Fan,Melinda C. Aldrich,Christopher I. Amos,William J. Blot,Cathryn H. Bock,Elizabeth M. Gillanders,Curtis C. Harris,Christopher A. Haiman,Brian E. Henderson,Laurence N. Kolonel,Loic Le Marchand,Lorna H. McNeill,Benjamin A. Rybicki,Ann G. Schwartz,Lisa B. Signorello,Margaret R. Spitz,John K. Wiencke,Margaret Wrensch,Xifeng Wu,Krista A. Zanetti,Regina G. Ziegler,Jonine D. Figueroa,Montserrat Garcia-Closas,Núria Malats,Gaëlle Marenne,Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson,Dalsu Baris,Molly Schwenn,Alison Johnson,Maria Teresa Landi,Lynn R. Goldin,Dario Consonni,Pier Alberto Bertazzi,Melissa Rotunno,Preetha Rajaraman,Ulrika Andersson,Laura E. Beane Freeman,Christine D. Berg,Julie E. Buring,Mary Ann Butler,Tania Carreón,Maria Feychting,Anders Ahlbom,J. Michael Gaziano,Graham G. Giles,Graham G. Giles,Göran Hallmans,Susan E. Hankinson,Patricia Hartge,Roger Henriksson,Roger Henriksson,Peter D. Inskip,Christoffer Johansen,Annelie Landgren,Roberta McKean-Cowdin,Dominique S. Michaud,Dominique S. Michaud,Beatrice Melin,Ulrike Peters,Ulrike Peters,Avima M. Ruder,Howard D. Sesso,Gianluca Severi,Gianluca Severi,Xiao-Ou Shu,Kala Visvanathan,Emily White,Emily White,Alicja Wolk,Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte,Wei Zheng,Debra T. Silverman,Manolis Kogevinas,Juan R. González,Olaya Villa,Donghui Li,Eric J. Duell,Harvey A. Risch,Sara H. Olson,Charles Kooperberg,Brian M. Wolpin,Li Jiao,Manal M. Hassan,William Wheeler,Alan A. Arslan,H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita,Charles S. Fuchs,Steven Gallinger,Myron D. Gross,Elizabeth A. Holly,Alison P. Klein,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Margaret T. Mandelson,Margaret T. Mandelson,Gloria M. Petersen,Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault,Paige M. Bracci,Federico Canzian,Kenneth J. Chang,Michelle Cotterchio,Edward Giovannucci,Michael Goggins,Judith A. Hoffman Bolton,Mazda Jenab,Kay-Tee Khaw,Vittorio Krogh,Robert C. Kurtz,Robert R. McWilliams,Julie B. Mendelsohn,Kari G. Rabe,Elio Riboli,Anne Tjønneland,Geoffrey S. Tobias,Dimitrios Trichopoulos,Dimitrios Trichopoulos,Joanne W. Elena,Herbert Yu,Laufey T. Amundadottir,Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon,Peter Kraft,Fredrick R. Schumacher,Daniel O. Stram,Sharon A. Savage,Lisa Mirabello,Irene L. Andrulis,Jay S. Wunder,Ana Patino Garcia,Luis Sierrasesà maga,Donald A. Barkauskas,Richard Gorlick,Mark P. Purdue,Wong Ho Chow,Lee E. Moore,Kendra Schwartz,Faith G. Davis,Ann W. Hsing,Sonja I. Berndt,Amanda Black,Nicolas Wentzensen,Louise A. Brinton,Jolanta Lissowska,Beata Peplonska,Katherine A. McGlynn,Michael B. Cook,Barry I. Graubard,Christian P. Kratz,Christian P. Kratz,Mark H. Greene,Ralph L. Erickson,David J. Hunter,Gilles Thomas,Robert N. Hoover,Francisco X. Real,Francisco X. Real,Joseph F. Fraumeni,Neil E. Caporaso,Margaret A. Tucker,Nathaniel Rothman,Luis A. Pérez-Jurado,Stephen J. Chanock +208 more
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.
Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer
Jeroen R. Huyghe,Stephanie A. Bien,Tabitha A. Harrison,Hyun Min Kang,Sai Chen,Stephanie L. Schmit,David V. Conti,Conghui Qu,Jihyoun Jeon,Christopher K. Edlund,Peyton Greenside,Michael Wainberg,Fredrick R. Schumacher,Joshua D. Smith,David M. Levine,Sarah C. Nelson,Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong,Demetrius Albanes,M. Henar Alonso,Kristin E. Anderson,Coral Arnau-Collell,Volker Arndt,Christina Bamia,Barbara L. Banbury,John A. Baron,Sonja I. Berndt,Stéphane Bézieau,D. Timothy Bishop,Juergen Boehm,Heiner Boeing,Hermann Brenner,Stefanie Brezina,Stephan Buch,Daniel D. Buchanan,Daniel D. Buchanan,Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman,Katja Butterbach,Bette J. Caan,Peter T. Campbell,Christopher S. Carlson,Christopher S. Carlson,Sergi Castellví-Bel,Andrew T. Chan,Andrew T. Chan,Jenny Chang-Claude,Jenny Chang-Claude,Stephen J. Chanock,Maria Dolores Chirlaque,Sang-Hee Cho,Charles M. Connolly,Amanda J. Cross,Katarina Cuk,Keith R. Curtis,Albert de la Chapelle,Kimberly F. Doheny,David Duggan,Douglas F. Easton,Sjoerd G. Elias,Faye Elliott,Dallas R. English,Dallas R. English,Edith J. M. Feskens,Jane C. Figueiredo,Jane C. Figueiredo,Rocky Fischer,Liesel M. FitzGerald,Liesel M. FitzGerald,David Forman,Manish Gala,Steven Gallinger,W. James Gauderman,Graham G. Giles,Graham G. Giles,Elizabeth M. Gillanders,Jian Gong,Phyllis J. Goodman,William M. Grady,John S. Grove,Andrea Gsur,Marc J. Gunter,Robert W. Haile,Jochen Hampe,Heather Hampel,Sophia Harlid,Richard B. Hayes,Philipp Hofer,Michael Hoffmeister,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Wan-Ling Hsu,Wen Yi Huang,Thomas J. Hudson,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Gemma Ibáñez-Sanz,Gregory Idos,Roxann G. Ingersoll,Rebecca D. Jackson,Eric J. Jacobs,Mark A. Jenkins,Amit Joshi,Corinne E. Joshu,Temitope O. Keku,Timothy J. Key,Hyeong Rok Kim,Emiko Kobayashi,Laurence N. Kolonel,Charles Kooperberg,Tilman Kühn,Sébastien Küry,Sun-Seog Kweon,Susanna C. Larsson,Cecelia A. Laurie,Loic Le Marchand,Suzanne M. Leal,Soo-Chin Lee,Flavio Lejbkowicz,Mathieu Lemire,Christopher I. Li,Li Li,Wolfgang Lieb,Yi Lin,Annika Lindblom,Noralane M. Lindor,Hua Ling,Tin Louie,Satu Männistö,Sanford D. Markowitz,Vicente Martín,Giovanna Masala,Caroline McNeil,Marilena Melas,Roger L. Milne,Roger L. Milne,Lorena Moreno,Neil Murphy,Robin Myte,Alessio Naccarati,Polly A. Newcomb,Polly A. Newcomb,Kenneth Offit,Kenneth Offit,Shuji Ogino,Shuji Ogino,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Barbara Pardini,Patrick S. Parfrey,Rachel Pearlman,Vittorio Perduca,Vittorio Perduca,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Mila Pinchev,Elizabeth A. Platz,Ross L. Prentice,Elizabeth W. Pugh,Leon Raskin,Gad Rennert,Gad Rennert,Hedy S. Rennert,Hedy S. Rennert,Elio Riboli,Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco,Jane Romm,Lori C. Sakoda,Lori C. Sakoda,Clemens Schafmayer,Robert E. Schoen,Daniela Seminara,Mitul Shah,Tameka Shelford,Min-Ho Shin,Katerina Shulman,Sabina Sieri,Martha L. Slattery,Melissa C. Southey,Zsofia K. Stadler,Christa Stegmaier,Yu Ru Su,Catherine M. Tangen,Stephen N. Thibodeau,Duncan C. Thomas,Sushma S. Thomas,Amanda E. Toland,Antonia Trichopoulou,Cornelia M. Ulrich,David Van Den Berg,Fränzel J.B. Van Duijnhoven,Bethany Van Guelpen,Henk J. van Kranen,Joseph Vijai,Kala Visvanathan,Pavel Vodicka,Pavel Vodicka,Ludmila Vodickova,Ludmila Vodickova,Veronika Vymetalkova,Veronika Vymetalkova,Korbinian Weigl,Korbinian Weigl,Stephanie J. Weinstein,Emily White,Aung Ko Win,Aung Ko Win,C. Roland Wolf,Alicja Wolk,Alicja Wolk,Michael O. Woods,Anna H. Wu,Syed H.E. Zaidi,Brent W. Zanke,Qing Zhang,Wei Zheng,Peter C. Scacheri,John D. Potter,Michael C. Bassik,Anshul Kundaje,Graham Casey,Victor Moreno,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Deborah A. Nickerson,Stephen B. Gruber,Li Hsu,Li Hsu,Ulrike Peters,Ulrike Peters +224 more
TL;DR: Genome-wide association analyses based on whole-genome sequencing and imputation identify 40 new risk variants for colorectal cancer, including a strongly protective low-frequency variant at CHD1 and loci implicating signaling and immune function in disease etiology.