Piekos JA

ORCID: 0000-0002-7062-5052 · 4 papers in corpus
observational 2025
Communications medicine ·doi:10.1038/s43856-025-00884-w

BACKGROUND: The burden of comorbidities in those with uterine fibroids compared to those without fibroids is understudied. We performed a phenome-wide association study to systematically assess the association between fibroids and other con…

other 2025
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing ·doi:10.1142/9789819807024_0021

Uterine leiomyomata (fibroids, UFs) are common, benign tumors in females, having an estimated prevalence of up to 80%. They are fibrous masses growing within the myometrium leading to chronic symptoms like dysmenorrhea, abnormal uterine ble…

review 2023
Annual review of biomedical data science ·doi:10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-020722-105958

The intersection of women's health and data science is a field of research that has historically trailed other fields, but more recently it has gained momentum. This growth is being driven not only by new investigators who are moving into t…

other 2022
Human genetics ·doi:10.1007/s00439-022-02442-z

Uterine fibroids (UF) are common pelvic tumors in women, heritable, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ~ 30 loci associated with increased risk in UF. Using summary statistics from a previously published UF GWAS perf…