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Overview

Andrew D. Johnson is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific output spans multiple subfields, including genetics, hematology, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and cancer research.

Their research primarily addresses a variety of topics, notably genetic associations and epidemiology, platelet disorders and treatments, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, blood coagulation and thrombosis mechanisms, acute myeloid leukemia research, antiplatelet therapy and cardiovascular diseases, and myeloproliferative neoplasms diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Ming-Huei Chen, Bruce M. Psaty, Florian Thibord, Nicholas L. Smith, and Jerome I. Rotter, each contributing to a substantial number of joint publications.

Andrew D. Johnson has published repeatedly in selected venues, with the most frequent being UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Nature Communications, and Blood.

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Johnson are:

  • "Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program", 2021, Nature
  • "Clonal haematopoiesis and risk of chronic liver disease", 2023, Nature
  • "Interleukin-6 Signaling Effects on Ischemic Stroke and Other Cardiovascular Outcomes", 2020, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
  • "Clonal hematopoiesis associated with epigenetic aging and clinical outcomes", 2021, Aging Cell
  • "De novo mutations across 1,465 diverse genomes reveal mutational insights and reductions in the Amish founder population", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • SNAP: a web-based tool for identification and annotation of proxy SNPs using HapMap

    Andrew D. Johnson;Robert E. Handsaker;Sara L. Pulit;Marcia M. Nizzari

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Veronique Vitart

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Cristian Pattaro;Carsten A. Böger;Christian Fuchsberger

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction

    Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Hong Hee Won;Anders Berg Jørgensen

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • Allelic expression imbalance of human mu opioid receptor (OPRM1) caused by variant A118G.

    Ying Zhang;Danxin Wang;Andrew D. Johnson;Audrey C. Papp

  • Multidrug resistance polypeptide 1 (MDR1, ABCB1) variant 3435C>T affects mRNA stability.

    Danxin Wang;Andrew D Johnson;Audrey C Papp;Deanna L Kroetz

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

    Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsu

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital

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