Douglas F. Easton FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who conducts research on the genetics of human cancers.
[2] Easton's research focuses on identifying single-nucleotide polymorphisms that increase the risk of common human cancers, in part through the use of genome-wide association studies.
[1] In 2007, he and his colleagues reported that they had found four genes associated with breast cancer, based on a study of almost 50,000 women.
[5] This finding was described by New Scientist as "...the most significant advance in the genetics of breast cancer since researchers implicated the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2".
[10] In 2019 (March 14), the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Medicine.