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Aleksandar Rajkovic is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work covers specific subfields such as Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include:

  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Rajkovic has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Genetics in Medicine Open
  • Human Reproduction

Frequent co-authors in their work include Svetlana A. Yatsenko, Mahmoud Aarabi, Selma F. Witchel, Devereux N. Saller, and Anthony R. Gregg.

Notable recent papers by Aleksandar Rajkovic include:

  • "Screening for autosomal recessive and X-linked conditions during pregnancy and preconception: a practice resource of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)", 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • "Testis formation in XX individuals resulting from novel pathogenic variants in Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1) gene", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Female reproductive tract has low concentration of SARS-CoV2 receptors", 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Reproductive outcomes in individuals with chromosomal reciprocal translocations", 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • "Single-cell sequencing reveals novel cellular heterogeneity in uterine leiomyomas", 2022, Human Reproduction

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

  • Breast cancer after use of estrogen plus progestin in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Lewis H. Kuller;Ross L. Prentice;Marcia L. Stefanick

  • NOBOX DEFICIENCY DISRUPTS EARLY FOLLICULOGENESIS AND OOCYTE-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION

    Aleksandar Rajkovic;Stephanie A. Pangas;Daniel Ballow;Nobuhiro Suzumori

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

  • X-linked TEX11 mutations, meiotic arrest, and azoospermia in infertile men.

    Alexander N. Yatsenko;Andrew P. Georgiadis;Albrecht Röpke;Andrea J. Berman

  • Ovarian differentiation and gonadal failure.

    Joe Leigh Simpson;Aleksandar Rajkovic

  • Oogenesis requires germ cell-specific transcriptional regulators Sohlh1 and Lhx8.

    Stephanie A. Pangas;Youngsok Choi;Daniel J. Ballow;Yangu Zhao

  • TEX14 is essential for intercellular bridges and fertility in male mice

    Michael P. Greenbaum;Wei Yan;Meng-Hsieh Wu;Yi-Nan Lin

  • Pancreatic cancer risk and ABO blood group alleles : results from the pancreatic cancer cohort consortium

    Brian M. Wolpin;Peter Kraft;Myron Gross;Kathy Helzlsouer

  • NOBOX Homeobox Mutation Causes Premature Ovarian Failure

    Yingying Qin;Youngsok Choi;Han Zhao;Han Zhao;Joe Leigh Simpson

  • Sohlh1 is essential for spermatogonial differentiation.

    D. Ballow;M.L. Meistrich;M. Matzuk;A. Rajkovic

  • Correction to: Screening for autosomal recessive and X-linked conditions during pregnancy and preconception: a practice resource of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG).

    Anthony R. Gregg;Mahmoud Aarabi;Mahmoud Aarabi;Susan Klugman;Natalia T. Leach

  • Hormad1 mutation disrupts synaptonemal complex formation, recombination, and chromosome segregation in mammalian meiosis.

    Yong Hyun Shin;Youngsok Choi;Serpil Uckac Erdin;Svetlana A. Yatsenko

  • Transcription Factor FIGLA is Mutated in Patients with Premature Ovarian Failure

    Han Zhao;Zi-Jiang Chen;Yingying Qin;Yuhua Shi

  • Exome sequencing reveals MCM8 mutation underlies ovarian failure and chromosomal instability.

    Saleh AlAsiri;Sulman Basit;Michelle A. Wood-Trageser;Svetlana A. Yatsenko

  • Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis of a Fetal Microdeletion Syndrome

    David Peters;Tianjiao Chu;Svetlana A. Yatsenko;Nancy Hendrix

  • MCM9 Mutations Are Associated with Ovarian Failure, Short Stature, and Chromosomal Instability

    Michelle A. Wood-Trageser;Fatih Gurbuz;Svetlana A. Yatsenko;Elizabeth P. Jeffries

  • Nobox is a homeobox-encoding gene preferentially expressed in primordial and growing oocytes

    Nobuhiro Suzumori;Changning Yan;Martin M. Matzuk;Aleksandar Rajkovic

  • Genetics of human female infertility

    Svetlana A Yatsenko;Aleksandar Rajkovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Urvashi Surti
Urvashi Surti University of Pittsburgh
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Harvard University
Martin M. Matzuk
Martin M. Matzuk Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin B. Jacobs
Kevin B. Jacobs Progenity (United States)
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Dominique S. Michaud
Dominique S. Michaud Tufts University
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Charles Kooperberg
Charles Kooperberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Susan E. Hankinson
Susan E. Hankinson University of Massachusetts Amherst

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