Gail Runnells

Researcher

UAMS

Also affiliated: Cancer Research Center (2005); Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (2020)

Faculty Researcher

5 h-index 24 pubs 110 cited

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Biomedical Subjects

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Gail Runnells' research program investigates environmental exposures and their association with health outcomes, particularly cancer and metabolic disorders. Her work examines the impact of low-level environmental heavy metals on obesity among postmenopausal women and explores the link between carcinogenic air pollutants and breast cancer risk within the Arkansas Rural Community Health Study (ARCH). Runnells has also studied cumulative arsenic exposure, its relation to individual arsenic levels in saliva, and its association with the genome-wide DNA methylation landscape. Her publications also address early-onset breast cancer in relation to geospatial indicators of exposure and the connection between heavy metal toxicity and mammographic breast density. She has collaborated with researchers including Shelbie Stahr, Lora J. Rogers, Tung-Chin Chiang, and P. C. Hsu at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom she shares multiple publications.

Metrics

h-index: 5
Publications: 24
Citations: 110

Selected Publications

Carcinogenic air pollutants and breast cancer risk in the Arkansas rural community health study: A nested case-control study (2025)

Environmental Pollution 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Cumulative arsenic exposure from residential histories and its association with individual arsenic levels in saliva (2024)

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Early-Onset Breast Cancer and Geospatial Indicators of Exposures in the Arkansas Rural Community Health Study (ARCH) (2023)

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Genome-wide DNA methylation landscape associated with high arsenic exposure (2023)

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Abstract 1443: Environmental heavy metal toxicity and mammographic breast density in a Mississippi Delta southern state (2022)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Abstract 1450: Interactions of <i>DNMTs</i> genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk (2022)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Low-Level Environmental Heavy Metals are Associated with Obesity Among Postmenopausal Women in a Southern State (2021)

Exposure and Health 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
Abstract D097: Association between high mammographic density and environmental chromium and arsenic exposure in a pilot study of women living in rural communities (2020)

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention DOI OpenAlex
Abstract C049: The association between breast cancer and physical activity levels by race in a prospective cohort study (2020)

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention DOI OpenAlex
Abstract C062: Racial differences in genome-wide DNA methylation profiles by county poverty levels among women residing in Arkansas (2020)

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention DOI OpenAlex
Abstract 4180: Association between genetic polymorphisms of DNMT genes and breast cancer in a nested case-control study of African Americans (2019)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Association between breast cancer risk and leisure physical activity in a rural cohort population (2019)

Translational Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
County poverty levels influence genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in African American and European American women (2019)

Translational Cancer Research 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Mobile Mammography Screening as an Opportunity to Increase Access of Rural Women to Breast Cancer Research Studies (2019)

Breast Cancer Basic and Clinical Research 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
Abstract 4180: Association between genetic polymorphisms of DNMT genes and breast cancer in a nested case-control study of African Americans (2019)

Epidemiology DOI OpenAlex