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Overview

Andrea Dunaif is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with a specific emphasis on reproductive medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, as well as molecular biology.

The research topics addressed by Andrea Dunaif primarily cover ovarian function and disorders, reproductive biology and fertility, sexual differentiation and disorders, ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, sperm and testicular function, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Andrea Dunaif has contributed extensively to academic journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Reproduction
  • Nature Communications

Significant recent papers by Andrea Dunaif include:

  • Body mass index stratified meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of polycystic ovary syndrome in women of European ancestry, 2024, BMC Genomics
  • Distinct subtypes of polycystic ovary syndrome with novel genetic associations: An unsupervised, phenotypic clustering analysis, 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, 2021, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
  • A Polygenic and Phenotypic Risk Prediction for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Evaluated by Phenome-Wide Association Studies, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • The contribution of rare genetic variants to the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome, 2020, Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research

Andrea Dunaif has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ryan Sisk
  • Kelly Brewer
  • Jenny A. Visser
  • Joop S.E. Laven
  • Yvonne V. Louwers

Among their distinctions, Andrea Dunaif is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Insulin resistance and the polycystic ovary syndrome: mechanism and implications for pathogenesis.

    Andrea Dunaif

  • Insulin Resistance in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

    Carol-Beth Book;Andrea Dunaif

  • Profound Peripheral Insulin Resistance, Independent of Obesity, in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

    Andrea Dunaif;Karen R Segal;Walter Futterweit;Areta Dobrjansky

  • Prevalence and predictors of risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in polycystic ovary syndrome: A prospective, controlled study in 254 affected women

    Richard S. Legro;Allen R. Kunselman;William C. Dodson;Andrea Dunaif

  • Consensus on women's health aspects of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): The Amsterdam ESHRE/ASRM-Sponsored 3rd PCOS Consensus Workshop Group

    Bart C.J.M. Fauser;Basil C. Tarlatzis;Robert W. Rebar;Richard S. Legro

  • Insulin Resistance and the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Revisited: An Update on Mechanisms and Implications

    Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis;Andrea Dunaif

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome.

    Ricardo Azziz;Enrico Carmina;Zijiang Chen;Andrea Dunaif

  • A FASTING GLUCOSE TO INSULIN RATIO IS A USEFUL MEASURE OF INSULIN SENSITIVITY IN WOMEN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

    Richard S. Legro;Diane Finegood;Andrea Dunaif

  • Evidence for a genetic basis for hyperandrogenemia in polycystic ovary syndrome

    Richard S. Legro;Deborah Driscoll;Jerome F. Strauss;Janis Fox

  • THE INSULIN-SENSITIZING AGENT TROGLITAZONE IMPROVES METABOLIC AND REPRODUCTIVE ABNORMALITIES IN THE POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

    Andrea Dunaif;Denise Scott;Diane Finegood;Benjamin Quintana

  • Prevalence and predictors of dyslipidemia in Women with polycystic ovary syndrome

    Richard S Legro;Allen R Kunselman;Andrea Dunaif

  • Characterization of Groups of Hyperaiidrogenic Women with Acanthosis Nigricans, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, and/or Hyperinsulinemia

    Andrea Dunaif;Magaret Graf;John Mandeli;Vimla Laumas

  • Excessive insulin receptor serine phosphorylation in cultured fibroblasts and in skeletal muscle. A potential mechanism for insulin resistance in the polycystic ovary syndrome.

    Andrea Dunaif;Jinru Xia;Carol Beth Book;Esther Schenker;Esther Schenker

  • Insulin/IGF-1 and TNF-α stimulate phosphorylation of IRS-1 at inhibitory Ser307 via distinct pathways

    Liangyou Rui;Vincent Aguirre;Jason K. Kim;Gerald I. Shulman

  • Evidence for Distinctive and Intrinsic Defects in Insulin Action in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

    Andrea Dunaif;Karen R Segal;Donna R Shelley;Georgette Green

  • Menstrual Cycle Irregularity and Risk for Future Cardiovascular Disease

    Caren G. Solomon;Frank B. Hu;Andrea Dunaif;Janet E. Rich-Edwards

  • THIRTY-SEVEN CANDIDATE GENES FOR POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME : STRONGEST EVIDENCE FOR LINKAGE IS WITH FOLLISTATIN

    Margrit Urbanek;Richard S. Legro;Deborah A. Driscoll;Ricardo Azziz

  • Beta-cell dysfunction independent of obesity and glucose intolerance in the polycystic ovary syndrome.

    Andrea Dunaif;Diane T. Finegood

  • Adolescent Girls with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Have an Increased Risk of the Metabolic Syndrome Associated with Increasing Androgen Levels Independent of Obesity and Insulin Resistance

    Andrea D. Coviello;Richard S. Legro;Andrea Dunaif

  • Defects in insulin receptor signaling in vivo in the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

    Andrea Dunaif;Xinqi Wu;Anna Lee;Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Legro
Richard S. Legro Pennsylvania State University
Richard S. Spielman
Richard S. Spielman University of Pennsylvania
Ricardo Azziz
Ricardo Azziz University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jerome F. Strauss
Jerome F. Strauss University of Pennsylvania
Mark O. Goodarzi
Mark O. Goodarzi Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
William F. Crowley
William F. Crowley Harvard University
Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis
Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Robert E. Scully
Robert E. Scully Harvard University

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