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Anna L. Gloyn is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work prominently intersects the fields of surgery, genetics, molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and physiology.

The scientist's research topics concentrate on pancreatic function and diabetes, covering areas such as diabetes and associated disorders, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic associations and epidemiology, metabolism, diabetes, and cancer, along with diabetes management and research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anna L. Gloyn include Han Sun, Mark I. McCarthy, Patrick E. MacDonald, Nicole A. J. Krentz, and Varsha Rajesh. Their work has been published consistently in multiple venues, with the most frequent journals including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Genetics, Diabetes Care, Diabetes, and Genome Biology.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals, 2020, Nature
  • Monogenic diabetes: a gateway to precision medicine in diabetes, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Genetic variant effects on gene expression in human pancreatic islets and their implications for T2D, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Endocrine-Exocrine Signaling Drives Obesity-Associated Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2020, Cell
  • Diabetes mellitus-Progress and opportunities in the evolving epidemic, 2024, Cell

Best Publications

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Activating Mutations in the Gene Encoding the ATP-Sensitive Potassium-Channel Subunit Kir6.2 and Permanent Neonatal Diabetes

    Anna L Gloyn;Ewan R. Pearson;Jennifer F. Antcliff;Peter Proks

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Large-Scale Association Studies of Variants in Genes Encoding the Pancreatic β-Cell KATP Channel Subunits Kir6.2 (KCNJ11) and SUR1 (ABCC8) Confirm That the KCNJ11 E23K Variant Is Associated With Type 2 Diabetes

    Anna L. Gloyn;Michael N. Weedon;Katharine R. Owen;Martina J. Turner

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Update on mutations in glucokinase (GCK), which cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young, permanent neonatal diabetes, and hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia.

    Kara K. Osbak;Kevin Colclough;Cecile Saint-Martin;Nicola L. Beer

  • Pancreatic islet enhancer clusters enriched in type 2 diabetes risk-associated variants

    Lorenzo Pasquali;Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Santiago A Rodríguez-Seguí;Loris Mularoni

  • Mutations in PTF1A cause pancreatic and cerebellar agenesis.

    Gabrielle S Sellick;Karen T Barker;Irene Stolte-Dijkstra;Christina Fleischmann

  • Human β Cell Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers lncRNAs That Are Tissue-Specific, Dynamically Regulated, and Abnormally Expressed in Type 2 Diabetes

    Ignasi Morán;İldem Akerman;Martijn van de Bunt;Martijn van de Bunt;Ruiyu Xie

  • The P446L variant in GCKR associated with fasting plasma glucose and triglyceride levels exerts its effect through increased glucokinase activity in liver

    Nicola L. Beer;Nicholas D. Tribble;Laura J. McCulloch;Charlotta Roos;Charlotta Roos

  • Genome-Wide Association Identifies Nine Common Variants Associated With Fasting Proinsulin Levels and Provides New Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes

    R J Strawbridge;J Dupuis;I Prokopenko;A Barker

  • Permanent neonatal diabetes due to mutations in KCNJ11 encoding Kir6.2: patient characteristics and initial response to sulfonylurea therapy.

    Jørn V. Sagen;Helge Ræder;Eba Hathout;Naim Shehadeh

  • Mutations in ATP-Sensitive K+ Channel Genes Cause Transient Neonatal Diabetes and Permanent Diabetes in Childhood or Adulthood

    Sarah E. Flanagan;Ann-Marie Patch;Deborah J.G. Mackay;Emma L. Edghill

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew T. Hattersley
Andrew T. Hattersley University of Exeter
Sian Ellard
Sian Ellard University of Exeter
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Timothy M. Frayling
Timothy M. Frayling University of Geneva
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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