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Anubha Mahajan

Anubha Mahajan

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D-Index
111
Citations
63702
World Ranking
510
National Ranking
261

Overview

Anubha Mahajan is currently affiliated with Genentech in the United States. Their research largely focuses on genetics and molecular biology, with significant contributions to biochemistry, medicine, and related subfields such as endocrinology, diabetes, and epidemiology.

The scientist has a considerable publication record emphasizing genetics, particularly genetic associations and epidemiology. Their work also touches on pancreatic function and diabetes, bioinformatics and genomic networks, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, birth, development and health, diabetes and associated disorders, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Anubha Mahajan are:

  • Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation (2022), published in Nature Genetics
  • Plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health in the UK Biobank (2023), published in Nature
  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Using human genetics to understand the disease impacts of testosterone in men and women (2020), published in Nature Medicine
  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals (2020), published in Nature

Anubha Mahajan frequently collaborates with notable co-authors in their field. These include Mark I. McCarthy, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Jin Fang Chai, and Stavroula Kanoni.

The venues where this researcher has published most frequently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics

The primary fields of study associated with Anubha Mahajan's body of work are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with genetics and molecular biology as core subfields. Their research also engages areas such as endocrinology, diabetes, surgery, and epidemiology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex biological processes and diseases.

Best Publications

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

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • 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

  • 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

  • Causal relationships among the gut microbiome, short-chain fatty acids and metabolic diseases.

    Serena Sanna;Natalie R van Zuydam;Natalie R van Zuydam;Anubha Mahajan;Alexander Kurilshikov

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

  • 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

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

    S Shah;A Henry;C Roselli;H Lin

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

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

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

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

    Nicole M Warrington;Robin N Beaumont;Momoko Horikoshi;Felix R Day

  • The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

    SE Graham;SL Clarke;K-Hh Wu;K Lin

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

    Helen R Warren;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Claudia P Cabrera;He Gao

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

  • 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

Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London

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