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Overview

Benjamin Glaser is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans across biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 118 publications in these fields. Medicine is also a prominent domain in their work, represented by 90 publications.

The scientist's primary subfields of study include molecular biology, genetics, surgery, cancer research, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their research topics cover a range of areas, including epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer genomics and diagnostics, pancreatic function and diabetes, genomics and rare diseases, diabetes and associated disorders, RNA modifications and cancer, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Benjamin Glaser:

  • The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans, 2020, Nature
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2023, Nature
  • A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types, 2023, Nature
  • Transcript expression-aware annotation improves rare variant interpretation, 2020, Nature
  • Characterising the loss-of-function impact of 5' untranslated region variants in 15,708 individuals, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yuval Dor, with 46 joint publications
  • Ruth Shemer, with 40 joint publications
  • Tommy Kaplan, with 20 joint publications
  • Gil Atzmon, with 19 joint publications
  • Daniel Neiman, with 17 joint publications

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 16 publications
  • Nature Communications, 8 publications
  • Nature, 6 publications
  • Molecular Metabolism, 4 publications
  • Nature Biotechnology, 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Pendred syndrome is caused by mutations in a putative sulphate transporter gene (PDS)

    Lorraine A. Everett;Benjamin Glaser;John C. Beck;Jacquelyn R. Idol

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

  • p57(KIP2) expression in normal islet cells and in hyperinsulinism of infancy.

    S. A. Kassem;I. Ariel;P. S. Thornton;K. Hussain

  • Familial Hyperinsulinism Caused by an Activating Glucokinase Mutation

    B Glaser;P Kesavan;M Heyman;E Davis

  • Comprehensive human cell-type methylation atlas reveals origins of circulating cell-free DNA in health and disease

    Joshua Moss;Judith Magenheim;Daniel Neiman;Hai Zemmour

  • Induction of Long-Term Glycemic Control in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Transient Intensive Insulin Treatment

    Hasan Ilkova;Benjamin Glaser;Aydin Tunçkale;Nazif Bagriaçik

  • Adenosine diphosphate as an intracellular regulator of insulin secretion

    Colin Nichols;S. L. Shyng;A. Nestorowicz;B. Glaser

  • Identification of tissue-specific cell death using methylation patterns of circulating DNA.

    Roni Lehmann-Werman;Daniel Neiman;Hai Zemmour;Joshua Moss

  • Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

    Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Nicola L. Beer;Nicola L. Beer;Suzanne B R Jacobs

  • Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Mexico

    A. L. Williams Amy;A. L. Williams Amy;S. B R Jacobs Suzanne;Hortensia Moreno-Macías;Alicia Huerta-Chagoya

  • Common variants in WFS1 confer risk of type 2 diabetes

    Manjinder S Sandhu;Manjinder S Sandhu;Michael N Weedon;Katherine A Fawcett;Jon Wasson

  • Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: A soft clustering analysis.

    Miriam S Udler;Jaegil Kim;Marcin von Grotthuss;Sílvia Bonàs-Guarch

  • Beta-cell proliferation and apoptosis in the developing normal human pancreas and in hyperinsulinism of infancy.

    S A Kassem;I Ariel;P S Thornton;I Scheimberg

  • Pancreatic beta-cell glucokinase: closing the gap between theoretical concepts and experimental realities.

    F M Matschinsky;B Glaser;M A Magnuson

  • Genome-wide survey reveals predisposing diabetes type 2-related DNA methylation variations in human peripheral blood

    Gidon Toperoff;Dvir Aran;Jeremy D. Kark;Michael Rosenberg

  • A recessive contiguous gene deletion causing infantile hyperinsulinism, enteropathy and deafness identifies the Usher type 1C gene

    Maria Bitner-Glindzicz;Keith J. Lindley;Paul Rutland;Diana Blaydon

  • Control of Pancreatic β Cell Regeneration by Glucose Metabolism

    Shay Porat;Noa Weinberg-Corem;Sharona Tornovsky-Babaey;Rachel Schyr-Ben-Haroush

  • A Common Polymorphism in the Upstream Promoter Region of the Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-4α Gene on Chromosome 20q Is Associated With Type 2 Diabetes and Appears to Contribute to the Evidence for Linkage in an Ashkenazi Jewish Population

    Latisha D. Love-Gregory;Jonathon Wasson;Jiyan Ma;Carol H. Jin

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

  • Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

    Jason Flannick;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Nicola L. Beer;Suzanne B. R. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuval Dor
Yuval Dor Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gil Atzmon
Gil Atzmon Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Jason Flannick
Jason Flannick Broad Institute
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez Harvard University
Jianjun Liu
Jianjun Liu Genome Institute of Singapore

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