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60
Citations
24504
World Ranking
11679
National Ranking
5025

Overview

Alexander Gusev is affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant contributions to the subfields of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work focuses on topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies, and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

Alexander Gusev has published multiple papers in high-impact journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Prostate cancer reactivates developmental epigenomic programs during metastatic progression, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked - an emerging disease, 2024, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • Identity-by-descent detection across 487,409 British samples reveals fine scale population structure and ultra-rare variant associations, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genetic Ancestry Contributes to Somatic Mutations in Lung Cancers from Admixed Latin American Populations, 2020, Cancer Discovery

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics

Alexander Gusev's research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Stefan Groha, Yevgeniy R. Semenov, Matthew L. Freedman, Noah Zaitlen, and Bogdan Paşaniuc, indicating a strong network within the genetics and oncology research communities.

Best Publications

  • An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits.

    Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K Finucane;Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Alexander Gusev

  • Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics.

    Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Alexander Gusev;Gosia Trynka

  • Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

    Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Arthur Ko;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.

    Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Yakir A Reshef;Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Kamil Slowikowski;Kamil Slowikowski;Kamil Slowikowski

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Whole population, genome-wide mapping of hidden relatedness

    Alexander Gusev;Jennifer K. Lowe;Markus Stoffel;Mark J. Daly

  • Contrasting genetic architectures of schizophrenia and other complex diseases using fast variance-components analysis

    Po-Ru Loh;Po-Ru Loh;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia;Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Hilary K Finucane

  • Linkage disequilibrium-dependent architecture of human complex traits shows action of negative selection.

    Steven Gazal;Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Nicholas A Furlotte;Po-Ru Loh;Po-Ru Loh

  • Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights

    Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Nicholas Mancuso;Hyejung Won;Maria Kousi

  • Probabilistic fine-mapping of transcriptome-wide association studies.

    Nicholas Mancuso;Malika K Freund;Ruth Johnson;Huwenbo Shi

  • Integrating Gene Expression with Summary Association Statistics to Identify Genes Associated with 30 Complex Traits

    Nicholas Mancuso;Huwenbo Shi;Pagé Goddard;Gleb Kichaev

  • Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels

    Douglas W. Yao;Luke J. O’Connor;Luke J. O’Connor;Alkes L. Price;Alkes L. Price;Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev

  • Prostate cancer reactivates developmental epigenomic programs during metastatic progression

    Mark M. Pomerantz;Xintao Qiu;Yanyun Zhu;David Y. Takeda;David Y. Takeda

  • Fast and accurate imputation of summary statistics enhances evidence of functional enrichment

    Bogdan Pasaniuc;Noah Zaitlen;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia

  • A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

    Lang Wu;Wei Shi;Jirong Long;Xingyi Guo

  • Leveraging molecular quantitative trait loci to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits.

    Farhad Hormozdiari;Farhad Hormozdiari;Steven Gazal;Steven Gazal;Bryce van de Geijn;Bryce van de Geijn;Hilary K. Finucane;Hilary K. Finucane

  • Quantifying Missing Heritability at Known GWAS Loci.

    Alexander Gusev;Gaurav Bhatia;Noah Zaitlen;Bjarni J. Vilhjalmsson;Bjarni J. Vilhjalmsson

  • Large-scale transcriptome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer risk regions.

    Nicholas Mancuso;Simon Gayther;Alexander Gusev;Wei Zheng

  • The Architecture of Long-Range Haplotypes Shared within and across Populations

    Alexander Gusev;Pier Francesco Palamara;Gregory Aponte;Zhong Zhuang

Frequent Co-Authors

Alkes L. Price
Alkes L. Price Harvard University
Hilary K. Finucane
Hilary K. Finucane Harvard University
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Bogdan Pasaniuc University of California, Los Angeles
Po-Ru Loh
Po-Ru Loh Harvard Medical School
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Matthew L. Freedman
Matthew L. Freedman Harvard University
Noah Zaitlen
Noah Zaitlen University of California, Los Angeles
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Itsik Pe'er
Itsik Pe'er Columbia University
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

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