| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Diabetes and Cancer | Diabetes Care | 2010 | 1,618 |
| 2 | Alternative Dietary Indices Both Strongly Predict Risk of Chronic Disease | Journal of Nutrition | 2012 | 1,337 |
| 3 | American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2012 | 1,134 |
| 4 | Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci | Nature | 2017 | 1,099 |
| 5 | Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2016 | 1,000 |
| 6 | Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2018 | 970 |
| 7 | 2016 US lymphoid malignancy statistics by World Health Organization subtypes | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2016 | 791 |
| 8 | Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2019 | 711 |
| 9 | Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 652 |
| 10 | Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality in a Large Prospective Study | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2016 | 602 |
| 11 | Lung Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Associated with Ambient Air Pollution and Cigarette Smoke: Shape of the Exposure–Response Relationships | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2011 | 583 |
| 12 | Human oral microbiome and prospective risk for pancreatic cancer: a population-based nested case-control study | Gut | 2018 | 536 |
| 13 | Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 519 |
| 14 | Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 513 |
| 15 | Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2010 | 507 |
| 16 | A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 493 |
| 17 | Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 492 |
| 18 | Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis | PLoS Medicine | 2012 | 491 |
| 19 | Cigarette smoking and the oral microbiome in a large study of American adults | ISME Journal | 2016 | 445 |
| 20 | Flavonoid intake and cardiovascular disease mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2012 | 441 |
| 21 | Long-term Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in a Large Cohort of Never-Smokers | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 439 |
| 22 | The role of aspirin in cancer prevention | Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology | 2012 | 424 |
| 23 | A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 408 |
| 24 | Annual Report to the Nation on the status of cancer, 1975‐2008, featuring cancers associated with excess weight and lack of sufficient physical activity | Cancer | 2012 | 396 |
| 25 | Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative–specific breast cancer risk loci | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 374 |
| 26 | Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 360 |
| 27 | The landscape of recombination in African Americans | Nature | 2011 | 319 |
| 28 | Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Related Components of U.S. Fine Particle Air Pollution | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2016 | 309 |
| 29 | A Pooled Analysis of Waist Circumference and Mortality in 650,000 Adults | Mayo Clinic Proceedings | 2014 | 307 |
| 30 | Estimates of benefits and harms of prophylactic use of aspirin in the general population | Annals of Oncology | 2015 | 303 |
| 31 | Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40–59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies | PLoS Medicine | 2014 | 299 |
| 32 | Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 294 |
| 33 | Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer | Nature Genetics | 2017 | 289 |
| 34 | Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 286 |
| 35 | Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in California | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 284 |
| 36 | A common variant at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus is associated with estrogen receptor–negative breast cancer | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 279 |
| 37 | Oral Microbiome Composition Reflects Prospective Risk for Esophageal Cancers | Cancer Research | 2017 | 279 |
| 38 | Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 265 |
| 39 | Waist Circumference and All-Cause Mortality in a Large US Cohort | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2010 | 262 |
| 40 | Genome-Wide Association Study in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers Identifies Novel Loci Associated with Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk | PLoS Genetics | 2013 | 244 |
| 41 | A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 232 |
| 42 | Determining Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Starting Age of Screening Based on Lifestyle, Environmental, and Genetic Factors | Gastroenterology | 2018 | 226 |
| 43 | Active Smoking and Breast Cancer Risk: Original Cohort Data and Meta-Analysis | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2013 | 224 |
| 44 | Genome-wide association study of glioma and meta-analysis | Human Genetics | 2012 | 222 |
| 45 | Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3 | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 220 |
| 46 | Association of Oral Microbiome With Risk for Incident Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer | JAMA Oncology | 2018 | 218 |
| 47 | Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry identifies a susceptibility locus at 17q21 | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 198 |
| 48 | Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer | Nature Communications | 2018 | 188 |
| 49 | A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 184 |
| 50 | Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 179 |
