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Anand Swaroop is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. A significant portion of their work centers on ophthalmology and retinal biology, with a focus on retinal development, disorders, and therapeutic approaches.

Swaroop's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broader areas, their subfields of study cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Genetics

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Retinal Imaging and Analysis
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Glaucoma and Retinal Disorders
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Among their frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • eLife
  • Ophthalmology
  • Stem Cell Reports

Swaroop has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Emily Y. Chew
  • Anupam K. Mondal
  • Jacob Nellissery
  • Milton A. English
  • Jayshree Advani

Some representative publications in their recent work include:

  • Dietary Nutrient Intake and Progression to Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Age-Related Eye Disease Studies 1 and 2, 2020, Ophthalmology
  • Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Organoids for Disease Modeling and Development of Therapies, 2020, Stem Cells
  • Deep-Learning-Based Prediction of Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration Progression, 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Gene Therapy of Dominant CRX-Leber Congenital Amaurosis using Patient Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Organoids, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Primary Cilia Biogenesis and Associated Retinal Ciliopathies, 2020, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

In addition to journal articles, Swaroop has contributed to book publications. Notably, they have authored a book titled Age-related Macular Degeneration, published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods.

    Sayantan Das;Lukas Forer;Sebastian Schönherr;Carlo Sidore;Carlo Sidore

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

    Lars G. Fritsche;Wilmar Igl;Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Felix Grassmann

  • Retinal Repair by Transplantation of Photoreceptor Precursors

    R. E. MacLaren;R. A. Pearson;A. MacNeil;R. H. Douglas

  • Nrl is required for rod photoreceptor development

    Alan J. Mears;Mineo Kondo;Mineo Kondo;Prabodha K. Swain;Yuichiro Takada

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Seven new loci associated with age-related macular degeneration

    Lars G. Fritsche;Lars G. Fritsche;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Matthew Schu;Brian L. Yaspan

  • The centrosomal protein nephrocystin-6 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and activates transcription factor ATF4

    John A. Sayer;John A. Sayer;Edgar A. Otto;John F. O'Toole;Gudrun Nurnberg

  • Transcriptional regulation of photoreceptor development and homeostasis in the mammalian retina.

    Anand Swaroop;Douglas Kim;Douglas Kim;Douglas Forrest

  • Genetic variants near TIMP3 and high-density lipoprotein–associated loci influence susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration

    Wei Chen;Dwight Stambolian;Albert O. Edwards;Kari E. Branham

  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Genetics and Biology Coming Together

    Lars G. Fritsche;Robert N. Fariss;Dwight Stambolian;Gonçalo R. Abecasis

  • A variant of mitochondrial protein LOC387715/ARMS2, not HTRA1, is strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration.

    Atsuhiro Kanda;Wei Chen;Mohammad Othman;Kari E. H. Branham

  • Strong Association of the Y402H Variant in Complement Factor H at 1q32 with Susceptibility to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    Sepideh Zareparsi;Kari E.H. Branham;Mingyao Li;Sapna Shah

  • Nephrocystin-5, a ciliary IQ domain protein, is mutated in Senior-Loken syndrome and interacts with RPGR and calmodulin

    Edgar A. Otto;Bart Loeys;Hemant Khanna;Jan Hellemans

  • Mutation of a gene encoding a protein with extracellular matrix motifs in Usher syndrome type IIa

    James D. Eudy;Michael D. Weston;Su Fang Yao;Denise M. Hoover

  • In-frame deletion in a novel centrosomal/ciliary protein CEP290/NPHP6 perturbs its interaction with RPGR and results in early-onset retinal degeneration in the rd16 mouse

    Bo Chang;Hemant Khanna;Norman Hawes;David Jimeno

  • A conserved retina-specific gene encodes a basic motif/leucine zipper domain

    Anand Swaroop;Junzhe Xu;Hemant Pawar;Anne Jackson

  • CFH haplotypes without the Y402H coding variant show strong association with susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration

    Mingyao Li;Pelin Atmaca-Sonmez;Mohammad Othman;Kari E H Branham

  • Targeting of GFP to newborn rods by Nrl promoter and temporal expression profiling of flow-sorted photoreceptors.

    Masayuki Akimoto;Hong Cheng;Dongxiao Zhu;Joseph A. Brzezinski

Frequent Co-Authors

Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Debasis Bagchi
Debasis Bagchi University of Houston
Samuel G. Jacobson
Samuel G. Jacobson University of Pennsylvania
Emily Y. Chew
Emily Y. Chew National Institutes of Health
John R. Heckenlively
John R. Heckenlively University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Donald J. Zack
Donald J. Zack Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul A. Sieving
Paul A. Sieving University of California, Davis
Dwight Stambolian
Dwight Stambolian University of Pennsylvania
Artur V. Cideciyan
Artur V. Cideciyan University of Pennsylvania
Robert N. Fariss
Robert N. Fariss National Institutes of Health

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