Christopher Gignoux, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Informatics

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Department: Biomedical Informatics

Publications

  • Wiley LK, Shortt JA, Roberts ER, Lowery J, Kudron E, Lin M, Mayer D, Wilson M, Brunetti TM, Chavan S, Phang TL, Pozdeyev N, Lesny J, Wicks SJ, Moore ET, Morgenstern JL, Roff AN, Shalowitz EL, Stewart A, Williams C, Edelmann MN, Hull M, Patton JT, Axell L, Ku L, Lee YM, Jirikowic J, Tanaka A, Todd E, White S, Peterson B, Hearst E, Zane R, Greene CS, Mathias R, Coors M, Taylor M, Ghosh D, Kahn MG, Brooks IM, Aquilante CL, Kao D, Rafaels N, Crooks KR, Hess S, Barnes KC, Gignoux CR. Building a vertically integrated genomic learning health system: The biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine. Am J Hum Genet. 2024 Jan 4;111(1):11-23. PubMed PMID: 38181729
  • Barnes KC, De La Vega FM, Bustamante CD, Gignoux CR, Kenny E, Mathias RA, Pasaniuc B. Session Introduction: Overcoming health disparities in precision medicine. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2023;28:181-185. PubMed PMID: 36540975
  • Shemirani R, Belbin GM, Burghardt K, Lerman K, Avery CL, Kenny EE, Gignoux CR, Ambite JL. Selecting Clustering Algorithms for Identity-By-Descent Mapping. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2023;28:121-132. PubMed PMID: 36540970
  • Arehart CH, Sterrett JD, Garris RL, Quispe-Pilco RE, Gignoux CR, Evans LM, Stanislawski MA. Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis. mSystems. 2023 Dec 14;:e0067723. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38095449
  • Maldonado BL, Piqué DG, Kaplan RC, Claw KG, Gignoux CR. Genetic risk prediction in Hispanics/Latinos: milestones, challenges, and social-ethical considerations. J Community Genet. 2023 Dec;14(6):543-553. PubMed PMID: 37962783
  • Chan TF, Rui X, Conti DV, Fornage M, Graff M, Haessler J, Haiman C, Highland HM, Jung SY, Kenny EE, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, North KE, Tao R, Wojcik G, Gignoux CR, Chiang CWK, Mancuso N. Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Nov 2;110(11):1853-1862. PubMed PMID: 37875120
  • Araujo DS, Nguyen C, Hu X, Mikhaylova AV, Gignoux C, Ardlie K, Taylor KD, Durda P, Liu Y, Papanicolaou G, Cho MH, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Im HK, Manichaikul A, Wheeler HE. Multivariate adaptive shrinkage improves cross-population transcriptome prediction and association studies in underrepresented populations. HGG Adv. 2023 Oct 12;4(4):100216. PubMed PMID: 37869564
  • Sohail M, Palma-Martínez MJ, Chong AY, Quinto-Cortés CD, Barberena-Jonas C, Medina-Muñoz SG, Ragsdale A, Delgado-Sánchez G, Cruz-Hervert LP, Ferreyra-Reyes L, Ferreira-Guerrero E, Mongua-Rodríguez N, Canizales-Quintero S, Jimenez-Kaufmann A, Moreno-Macías H, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Auckland K, Cortés A, Acuña-Alonzo V, Gignoux CR, Wojcik GL, Ioannidis AG, Fernández-Valverde SL, Hill AVS, Tusié-Luna MT, Mentzer AJ, Novembre J, García-García L, Moreno-Estrada A. Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries. Nature. 2023 Oct;622(7984):775-783. PubMed PMID: 37821706
  • Thomas M, Su YR, Rosenthal EA, Sakoda LC, Schmit SL, Timofeeva MN, Chen Z, Fernandez-Rozadilla C, Law PJ, Murphy N, Carreras-Torres R, Diez-Obrero V, van Duijnhoven FJB, Jiang S, Shin A, Wolk A, Phipps AI, Burnett-Hartman A, Gsur A, Chan AT, Zauber AG, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Um CY, Tangen CM, Gignoux C, Newton C, Haiman CA, Qu C, Bishop DT, Buchanan DD, Crosslin DR, Conti DV, Kim DH, Hauser E, White E, Siegel E, Schumacher FR, Rennert G, Giles GG, Hampel H, Brenner H, Oze I, Oh JH, Lee JK, Schneider JL, Chang-Claude J, Kim J, Huyghe JR, Zheng J, Hampe J, Greenson J, Hopper JL, Palmer JR, Visvanathan K, Matsuo K, Matsuda K, Jung KJ, Li L, Le Marchand L, Vodickova L, Bujanda L, Gunter MJ, Matejcic M, Jenkins MA, Slattery ML, D'Amato M, Wang M, Hoffmeister M, Woods MO, Kim M, Song M, Iwasaki M, Du M, Udaltsova N, Sawada N, Vodicka P, Campbell PT, Newcomb PA, Cai Q, Pearlman R, Pai RK, Schoen RE, Steinfelder RS, Haile RW, Vandenputtelaar R, Prentice RL, Küry S, Castellví-Bel S, Tsugane S, Berndt SI, Lee SC, Brezina S, Weinstein SJ, Chanock SJ, Jee SH, Kweon SS, Vadaparampil S, Harrison TA, Yamaji T, Keku TO, Vymetalkova V, Arndt V, Jia WH, Shu XO, Lin Y, Ahn YO, Stadler ZK, Van Guelpen B, Ulrich CM, Platz EA, Potter JD, Li CI, Meester R, Moreno V, Figueiredo JC, Casey G, Lansdorp Vogelaar I, Dunlop MG, Gruber SB, Hayes RB, Pharoah PDP, Houlston RS, Jarvik GP, Tomlinson IP, Zheng W, Corley DA, Peters U, Hsu L. Combining Asian and European genome-wide association studies of colorectal cancer improves risk prediction across racial and ethnic populations. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 2;14(1):6147. PubMed PMID: 37783704
  • Pozdeyev N, Dighe M, Barrio M, Raeburn C, Smith H, Fisher M, Chavan S, Rafaels N, Shortt JA, Lin M, Leu MG, Clark T, Marshall C, Haugen BR, Subramanian D, Crooks K, Gignoux C, Cohen T. Thyroid cancer polygenic risk score improves classification of thyroid nodules as benign or malignant. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Sep 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37683082
  • Anwar MY, Graff M, Highland HM, Smit R, Wang Z, Buchanan VL, Young KL, Kenny EE, Fernandez-Rhodes L, Liu S, Assimes T, Garcia DO, Daeeun K, Gignoux CR, Justice AE, Haiman CA, Buyske S, Peters U, Loos RJF, Kooperberg C, North KE. Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts. Hum Genet. 2023 Oct;142(10):1477-1489. PubMed PMID: 37658231
  • Lee MP, Dimos SF, Raffield LM, Wang Z, Ballou AF, Downie CG, Arehart CH, Correa A, de Vries PS, Du Z, Gignoux CR, Gordon-Larsen P, Guo X, Haessler J, Howard AG, Hu Y, Kassahun H, Kent ST, Lopez JAG, Monda KL, North KE, Peters U, Preuss MH, Rich SS, Rhodes SL, Yao J, Yarosh R, Tsai MY, Rotter JI, Kooperberg CL, Loos RJF, Ballantyne C, Avery CL, Graff M. Ancestral diversity in lipoprotein(a) studies helps address evidence gaps. Open Heart. 2023 Aug;10(2). PubMed PMID: 37648373
  • Cullina S, Wojcik GL, Shemirani R, Klarin D, Gorman BR, Sorokin EP, Gignoux CR, Belbin GM, Pyarajan S, Asgari S, Tsao PS, Damrauer SM, Abul-Husn NS, Kenny EE. Admixture mapping of peripheral artery disease in a Dominican population reveals a putative risk locus on 2q35. Front Genet. 2023;14:1181167. PubMed PMID: 37600667
  • Caggiano C, Boudaie A, Shemirani R, Mefford J, Petter E, Chiu A, Ercelen D, He R, Tward D, Paul KC, Chang TS, Pasaniuc B, Kenny EE, Shortt JA, Gignoux CR, Balliu B, Arboleda VA, Belbin G, Zaitlen N. Disease risk and healthcare utilization among ancestrally diverse groups in the Los Angeles region. Nat Med. 2023 Jul;29(7):1845-1856. PubMed PMID: 37464048
  • Kachuri L, Mak ACY, Hu D, Eng C, Huntsman S, Elhawary JR, Gupta N, Gabriel S, Xiao S, Keys KL, Oni-Orisan A, Rodríguez-Santana JR, LeNoir MA, Borrell LN, Zaitlen NA, Williams LK, Gignoux CR, Burchard EG, Ziv E. Gene expression in African Americans, Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans reveals ancestry-specific patterns of genetic architecture. Nat Genet. 2023 Jun;55(6):952-963. PubMed PMID: 37231098
  • Chan TF, Rui X, Conti DV, Fornage M, Graff M, Haessler J, Haiman C, Highland HM, Jung SY, Kenny E, Kooperberg C, Marchland LL, North KE, Tao R, Wojcik G, Gignoux CR, Chiang CWK, Mancuso N. Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 18. PubMed PMID: 37131817
  • Jin J, Zhan J, Zhang J, Zhao R, O'Connell J, Jiang Y, Buyske S, Gignoux C, Haiman C, Kenny EE, Kooperberg C, North K, Koelsch BL, Wojcik G, Zhang H, Chatterjee N. MUSSEL: Enhanced Bayesian Polygenic Risk Prediction Leveraging Information across Multiple Ancestry Groups. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 21. PubMed PMID: 37090648
  • Cullina S, Wojcik GL, Shemirani R, Klarin D, Gorman BR, Sorokin EP, Gignoux CR, Belbin GM, Pyarajan S, Asgari S, Tsao PS, Damrauer SM, Abul-Husn NS, Kenny EE. Admixture Mapping of Peripheral Artery Disease in a Dominican Population Reveals a Novel Risk Locus on 2q35. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 29. PubMed PMID: 37034679
  • Marker KM, Mathias RA, Gignoux CR. The importance of studying genetic ancestry in eosinophilic esophagitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2023 May;151(5):1244-1245. PubMed PMID: 36963618
  • Hou K, Ding Y, Xu Z, Wu Y, Bhattacharya A, Mester R, Belbin GM, Buyske S, Conti DV, Darst BF, Fornage M, Gignoux C, Guo X, Haiman C, Kenny EE, Kim M, Kooperberg C, Lange L, Manichaikul A, North KE, Peters U, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wheeler HE, Wojcik GL, Zhou Y, Sankararaman S, Pasaniuc B. Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals. Nat Genet. 2023 Apr;55(4):549-558. PubMed PMID: 36941441
  • Araujo DS, Nguyen C, Hu X, Mikhaylova AV, Gignoux C, Ardlie K, Taylor KD, Durda P, Liu Y, Papanicolaou G, Cho MH, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Im HK, Manichaikul A, Wheeler HE. Multivariate adaptive shrinkage improves cross-population transcriptome prediction for transcriptome-wide association studies in underrepresented populations. bioRxiv. 2023 May 20. PubMed PMID: 36798214
  • Thomas M, Su YR, Rosenthal EA, Sakoda LC, Schmit SL, Timofeeva MN, Chen Z, Fernandez-Rozadilla C, Law PJ, Murphy N, Carreras-Torres R, Diez-Obrero V, van Duijnhoven FJ, Jiang S, Shin A, Wolk A, Phipps AI, Burnett-Hartman A, Gsur A, Chan AT, Zauber AG, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Um CY, Tangen CM, Gignoux C, Newton C, Haiman CA, Qu C, Bishop DT, Buchanan DD, Crosslin DR, Conti DV, Kim DH, Hauser E, White E, Siegel E, Schumacher FR, Rennert G, Giles GG, Hampel H, Brenner H, Oze I, Oh JH, Lee JK, Schneider JL, Chang-Claude J, Kim J, Huyghe JR, Zheng J, Hampe J, Greenson J, Hopper JL, Palmer JR, Visvanathan K, Matsuo K, Matsuda K, Jung KJ, Li L, Marchand LL, Vodickova L, Bujanda L, Gunter MJ, Matejcic M, Jenkins MA, Slattery ML, D'Amato M, Wang M, Hoffmeister M, Woods MO, Kim M, Song M, Iwasaki M, Du M, Udaltsova N, Sawada N, Vodicka P, Campbell PT, Newcomb PA, Cai Q, Pearlman R, Pai RK, Schoen RE, Steinfelder RS, Haile RW, Vandenputtelaar R, Prentice RL, Küry S, Castellví-Bel S, Tsugane S, Berndt SI, Lee SC, Brezina S, Weinstein SJ, Chanock SJ, Jee SH, Kweon SS, Vadaparampil S, Harrison TA, Yamaji T, Keku TO, Vymetalkova V, Arndt V, Jia WH, Shu XO, Lin Y, Ahn YO, Stadler ZK, Van Guelpen B, Ulrich CM, Platz EA, Potter JD, Li CI, Meester R, Moreno V, Figueiredo JC, Casey G, Vogelaar IL, Dunlop MG, Gruber SB, Hayes RB, Pharoah PDP, Houlston RS, Jarvik GP, Tomlinson IP, Zheng W, Corley DA, Peters U, Hsu L. Combining Asian-European Genome-Wide Association Studies of Colorectal Cancer Improves Risk Prediction Across Race and Ethnicity. medRxiv. 2023 Jan 19. PubMed PMID: 36789420
  • Barnes KC, De La Vega FM, Bustamante CD, Gignoux CR, Kenny E, Mathias RA, Pasaniuc B. Session Introduction: Overcoming health disparities in precision medicine. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2023;28:181-185. PubMed PMID: 36540975
  • Brice AN, Vanderlinden LA, Marker KM, Mayer D, Lin M, Rafaels N, Shortt JA, Romero A, Lowery JT, Gignoux CR, Johnson RK. COVID-19 Mortality in the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine Biobank. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 29;20(3). PubMed PMID: 36767733
  • Shemirani R, Belbin GM, Burghardt K, Lerman K, Avery CL, Kenny EE, Gignoux CR, Ambite JL. Selecting Clustering Algorithms for Identity-By-Descent Mapping. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2023;28:121-132. PubMed PMID: 36540970
  • Hayhurst J, Buniello A, Harris L, Mosaku A, Chang C, Gignoux CR, Hatzikotoulas K, Karim MA, Lambert SA, Lyon M, McMahon A, Okada Y, Pirastu N, Rayner NW, Schwartzentruber J, Vaughan R, Verma S, Wilder SP, Cunningham F, Hindorff L, Wiley K, Parkinson H, Barroso I. A community driven GWAS summary statistics standard. Medrxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.15.500230
  • Arehart CH, Daya M, Campbell M, Boorgula MP, Rafaels N, Chavan S, David G, Hanifin J, Slifka MK, Gallo RL, Hata T, Schneider LC, Paller AS, Ong PY, Spergel JM, Guttman-Yassky E, Leung DYM, Beck LA, Gignoux CR, Mathias RA, Barnes KC. Polygenic prediction of atopic dermatitis improves with atopic training and filaggrin factors. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jan;149(1):145-155. PubMed PMID: 34111454
  • Wade KJ, Tisa S, Barrington C, Henriksen JC, Crooks KR, Gignoux CR, Almand AT, Steel JJ, Sitko JC, Rohrer JW, Wickert DP, Almand EA, Pollock DD, Rissland OS. Phylodynamics of a regional SARS-CoV-2 rapid spreading event in Colorado in late 2020. PLoS One. 2022;17(10):e0274050. PubMed PMID: 36194597
  • Arnold CG, Konigsberg I, Adams JY, Sharma S, Aggarwal N, Hopkinson A, Vest A, Campbell M, Boorgula M, Yang I, Gignoux C, Barnes KC, Monte AA. Epigenetics may characterize asymptomatic COVID-19 infection. Hum Genomics. 2022 Jul 27;16(1):27. PubMed PMID: 35897116
  • Redondo MJ, Gignoux CR, Dabelea D, Hagopian WA, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Oram RA, Rich SS. Type 1 diabetes in diverse ancestries and the use of genetic risk scores. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2022 Aug;10(8):597-608. PubMed PMID: 35724677
  • Nieves-Colón MA, Badillo Rivera KM, Sandoval K, Villanueva Dávalos V, Enriquez Lencinas LE, Mendoza-Revilla J, Adhikari K, González-Buenfil R, Chen JW, Zhang ET, Sockell A, Ortiz-Tello P, Hurtado GM, Condori Salas R, Cebrecos R, Manzaneda Choque JC, Manzaneda Choque FP, Yábar Pilco GP, Rawls E, Eng C, Huntsman S, Burchard E, Ruiz-Linares A, González-José R, Bedoya G, Rothhammer F, Bortolini MC, Poletti G, Gallo C, Bustamante CD, Baker JC, Gignoux CR, Wojcik GL, Moreno-Estrada A. Clotting factor genes are associated with preeclampsia in high-altitude pregnant women in the Peruvian Andes. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Jun 2;109(6):1117-1139. PubMed PMID: 35588731
  • Wojcik GL, Murphy J, Edelson JL, Gignoux CR, Ioannidis AG, Manning A, Rivas MA, Buyske S, Hendricks AE. Opportunities and challenges for the use of common controls in sequencing studies. Nat Rev Genet. 2022 Nov;23(11):665-679. PubMed PMID: 35581355
  • Johnson RK, Marker KM, Mayer D, Shortt J, Kao D, Barnes KC, Lowery JT, Gignoux CR. COVID-19 Surveillance in the Biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2022 Jun 13;8(6):e37327. PubMed PMID: 35486493
  • Mendoza-Revilla J, Chacón-Duque JC, Fuentes-Guajardo M, Ormond L, Wang K, Hurtado M, Villegas V, Granja V, Acuña-Alonzo V, Jaramillo C, Arias W, Barquera R, Gómez-Valdés J, Villamil-Ramírez H, Silva de Cerqueira CC, Badillo Rivera KM, Nieves-Colón MA, Gignoux CR, Wojcik GL, Moreno-Estrada A, Hünemeier T, Ramallo V, Schuler-Faccini L, Gonzalez-José R, Bortolini MC, Canizales-Quinteros S, Gallo C, Poletti G, Bedoya G, Rothhammer F, Balding D, Fumagalli M, Adhikari K, Ruiz-Linares A, Hellenthal G. Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans. Mol Biol Evol. 2022 Apr 11;39(4). PubMed PMID: 35460423
  • Smith SP, Shahamatdar S, Cheng W, Zhang S, Paik J, Graff M, Haiman C, Matise TC, North KE, Peters U, Kenny E, Gignoux C, Wojcik G, Crawford L, Ramachandran S. Enrichment analyses identify shared associations for 25 quantitative traits in over 600,000 individuals from seven diverse ancestries. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 May 5;109(5):871-884. PubMed PMID: 35349783
  • Null M, Dupuis J, Sheinidashtegol P, Layer RM, Gignoux CR, Hendricks AE. RAREsim: A simulation method for very rare genetic variants. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Apr 7;109(4):680-691. PubMed PMID: 35298919
  • Highland HM, Wojcik GL, Graff M, Nishimura KK, Hodonsky CJ, Baldassari AR, Cote AC, Cheng I, Gignoux CR, Tao R, Li Y, Boerwinkle E, Fornage M, Haessler J, Hindorff LA, Hu Y, Justice AE, Lin BM, Lin D, Stram DO, Haiman CA, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Matise TC, Kenny EE, Carlson CS, Stahl EA, Avery CL, North KE, Ambite JL, Buyske S, Loos RJ, Peters U, Young KL, Bien SA, Huckins LM. Predicted gene expression in ancestrally diverse populations leads to discovery of susceptibility loci for lifestyle and cardiometabolic traits. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Apr 7;109(4):669-679. PubMed PMID: 35263625
  • Schubert R, Geoffroy E, Gregga I, Mulford AJ, Aguet F, Ardlie K, Gerszten R, Clish C, Van Den Berg D, Taylor KD, Durda P, Johnson WC, Cornell E, Guo X, Liu Y, Tracy R, Conomos M, Blackwell T, Papanicolaou G, Lappalainen T, Mikhaylova AV, Thornton TA, Cho MH, Gignoux CR, Lange L, Lange E, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Manichaikul A, Im HK, Wheeler HE. Protein prediction for trait mapping in diverse populations. PLoS One. 2022;17(2):e0264341. PubMed PMID: 35202437
  • Katz DH, Tahir UA, Bick AG, Pampana A, Ngo D, Benson MD, Yu Z, Robbins JM, Chen ZZ, Cruz DE, Deng S, Farrell L, Sinha S, Schmaier AA, Shen D, Gao Y, Hall ME, Correa A, Tracy RP, Durda P, Taylor KD, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Guo X, Yao J, Ida Chen YD, Manichaikul AW, Jain D, Bouchard C, Sarzynski MA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wang TJ, Wilson JG, Natarajan P, Gerszten RE. Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of the Plasma Proteome in Black Adults Provides Novel Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation. 2022 Feb;145(5):357-370. PubMed PMID: 34814699
  • Harrison GF, Leaton LA, Harrison EA, Kichula KM, Viken MK, Shortt J, Gignoux CR, Lie BA, Vukcevic D, Leslie S, Norman PJ. Allele imputation for the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor KIR3DL1/S1. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Feb;18(2):e1009059. PubMed PMID: 35192601
  • Arehart CH, Daya M, Campbell M, Boorgula MP, Rafaels N, Chavan S, David G, Hanifin J, Slifka MK, Gallo RL, Hata T, Schneider LC, Paller AS, Ong PY, Spergel JM, Guttman-Yassky E, Leung DYM, Beck LA, Gignoux CR, Mathias RA, Barnes KC. Polygenic prediction of atopic dermatitis improves with atopic training and filaggrin factors. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jan;149(1):145-155. PubMed PMID: 34111454
  • Kousathanas A, Pairo-Castineira E, Rawlik K, Stuckey A, Odhams CA, Walker S, Russell CD, Malinauskas T, Wu Y, Millar J, Shen X, Elliott KS, Griffiths F, Oosthuyzen W, Morrice K, Keating S, Wang B, Rhodes D, Klaric L, Zechner M, Parkinson N, Siddiq A, Goddard P, Donovan S, Maslove D, Nichol A, Semple MG, Zainy T, Maleady-Crowe F, Todd L, Salehi S, Knight J, Elgar G, Chan G, Arumugam P, Patch C, Rendon A, Bentley D, Kingsley C, Kosmicki JA, Horowitz JE, Baras A, Abecasis GR, Ferreira MAR, Justice A, Mirshahi T, Oetjens M, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, Verma A, Fowler TA, Shankar-Hari M, Summers C, Hinds C, Horby P, Ling L, McAuley D, Montgomery H, Openshaw PJM, Elliott P, Walsh T, Tenesa A, Fawkes A, Murphy L, Rowan K, Ponting CP, Vitart V, Wilson JF, Yang J, Bretherick AD, Scott RH, Hendry SC, Moutsianas L, Law A, Caulfield MJ, Baillie JK. Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19. Nature. 2022 Jul;607(7917):97-103. PubMed PMID: 35255492
  • . A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature. 2022 Aug;608(7921):E1-E10. PubMed PMID: 35922517
  • Reiner AP, Raffield LM, Franceschini N, Auer PL, Lange EM, Nickerson DA, Zakai NA, Correa A, Olson N. Effect of Sickle Cell Trait and APOL1 Genotype on the Association of Soluble uPAR with Kidney Function Measures in Black Americans. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Feb 8;16(2):287-289. PubMed PMID: 33268503
  • Taliun D, Harris DN, Kessler MD, Carlson J, Szpiech ZA, Torres R, Taliun SAG, Corvelo A, Gogarten SM, Kang HM, Pitsillides AN, LeFaive J, Lee SB, Tian X, Browning BL, Das S, Emde AK, Clarke WE, Loesch DP, Shetty AC, Blackwell TW, Smith AV, Wong Q, Liu X, Conomos MP, Bobo DM, Aguet F, Albert C, Alonso A, Ardlie KG, Arking DE, Aslibekyan S, Auer PL, Barnard J, Barr RG, Barwick L, Becker LC, Beer RL, Benjamin EJ, Bielak LF, Blangero J, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Brody JA, Burchard EG, Cade BE, Casella JF, Chalazan B, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Cho MH, Choi SH, Chung MK, Clish CB, Correa A, Curran JE, Custer B, Darbar D, Daya M, de Andrade M, DeMeo DL, Dutcher SK, Ellinor PT, Emery LS, Eng C, Fatkin D, Fingerlin T, Forer L, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Fuchsberger C, Fullerton SM, Germer S, Gladwin MT, Gottlieb DJ, Guo X, Hall ME, He J, Heard-Costa NL, Heckbert SR, Irvin MR, Johnsen JM, Johnson AD, Kaplan R, Kardia SLR, Kelly T, Kelly S, Kenny EE, Kiel DP, Klemmer R, Konkle BA, Kooperberg C, Köttgen A, Lange LA, Lasky-Su J, Levy D, Lin X, Lin KH, Liu C, Loos RJF, Garman L, Gerszten R, Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, Mak ACY, Manichaikul A, Manning AK, Mathias RA, McManus DD, McGarvey ST, Meigs JB, Meyers DA, Mikulla JL, Minear MA, Mitchell BD, Mohanty S, Montasser ME, Montgomery C, Morrison AC, Murabito JM, Natale A, Natarajan P, Nelson SC, North KE, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Pankratz N, Peloso GM, Peyser PA, Pleiness J, Post WS, Psaty BM, Rao DC, Redline S, Reiner AP, Roden D, Rotter JI, Ruczinski I, Sarnowski C, Schoenherr S, Schwartz DA, Seo JS, Seshadri S, Sheehan VA, Sheu WH, Shoemaker MB, Smith NL, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Stilp AM, Tang W, Taylor KD, Telen M, Thornton TA, Tracy RP, Van Den Berg DJ, Vasan RS, Viaud-Martinez KA, Vrieze S, Weeks DE, Weir BS, Weiss ST, Weng LC, Willer CJ, Zhang Y, Zhao X, Arnett DK, Ashley-Koch AE, Barnes KC, Boerwinkle E, Gabriel S, Gibbs R, Rice KM, Rich SS, Silverman EK, Qasba P, Gan W, Papanicolaou GJ, Nickerson DA, Browning SR, Zody MC, Zöllner S... Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program. Nature. 2021 Feb;590(7845):290-299. PubMed PMID: 33568819
  • Konigsberg IR, Barnes B, Campbell M, Davidson E, Zhen Y, Pallisard O, Boorgula MP, Cox C, Nandy D, Seal S, Crooks K, Sticca E, Harrison GF, Hopkinson A, Vest A, Arnold CG, Kahn MG, Kao DP, Peterson BR, Wicks SJ, Ghosh D, Horvath S, Zhou W, Mathias RA, Norman PJ, Porecha R, Yang IV, Gignoux CR, Monte AA, Taye A, Barnes KC. Host methylation predicts SARS-CoV-2 infection and clinical outcome. Commun Med (London). 2021;1(1):42. PubMed PMID: 35072167
  • Belbin GM, Rutledge S, Dodatko T, Cullina S, Turchin MC, Kohli S, Torre D, Yee MC, Gignoux CR, Abul-Husn NS, Houten SM, Kenny EE. Leveraging health systems data to characterize a large effect variant conferring risk for liver disease in Puerto Ricans. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Nov 4;108(11):2099-2111. PubMed PMID: 34678161
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