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Genetics

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carole Ober is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Physiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Genetics.

The scientist's work is notably concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Respiratory viral infections research

Their recent publications reflect these themes and include:

  • "Association of respiratory allergy, asthma, and expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2," 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • "Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium," 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Extensive pleiotropism and allelic heterogeneity mediate metabolic effects of IRX3 and IRX5," 2021, Science
  • "A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "Club Cell TRPV4 Serves as a Damage Sensor Driving Lung Allergic Inflammation," 2020, Cell Host & Microbe

Carole Ober frequently publishes in several key venues, most prominently:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • European Respiratory Journal

The scientist has collaborated often with the following co-authors:

  • James E. Gern
  • Rachel L. Miller
  • Daniel J. Jackson
  • Leonard B. Bacharier
  • Marc E. Rothenberg

Among honors received, Carole Ober was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

    F. Baudat;J. Buard;C. Grey;A. Fledel-Alon

  • Genome-wide association study identifies a second prostate cancer susceptibility variant at 8q24.

    Julius Gudmundsson;Patrick Sulem;Andrei Manolescu;Laufey T Amundadottir

  • Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children

    Michelle M. Stein;Cara L. Hrusch;Justyna Gozdz;Justyna Gozdz;Catherine Igartua

  • A genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in ethnically diverse populations

    David G. Marsh;Nancy E. Maestri;Linda R. Freidhoff;Kathleen C. Barnes

  • Genetic Determinants of the Gut Microbiome in UK Twins

    Julia K. Goodrich;Emily R. Davenport;Michelle Beaumont;Matthew A. Jackson

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations

    Laufey T. Amundadottir;Patrick Sulem;Julius Gudmundsson;Agnar Helgason

  • Asthma genetics 2006: the long and winding road to gene discovery.

    C Ober;S Hoffjan

  • Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

    Julius Gudmundsson;Patrick Sulem;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Jon T. Bergthorsson

  • Sex-specific genetic architecture of human disease

    Carole Ober;Dagan A. Loisel;Yoav Gilad

  • The genetics of asthma and allergic disease: a 21st century perspective.

    Carole Ober;Tsung-Chieh Yao

  • Microchimerism and HLA-compatible relationships of pregnancy in scleroderma

    J Lee Nelson;J Lee Nelson;Daniel E Furst;Sean Maloney;Ted Gooley

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Johannes Waage;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • HLA-G and immune tolerance in pregnancy

    Joan S. Hunt;Margaret G. Petroff;Ramsey H. McIntire;Carole Ober

  • Rhinovirus Wheezing Illness and Genetic Risk of Childhood-Onset Asthma

    Minal Çalışkan;Yury A. Bochkov;Eskil Kreiner-Møller;Klaus Bønnelykke

  • Association of respiratory allergy, asthma, and expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2.

    Daniel J. Jackson;William W. Busse;Leonard B. Bacharier;Meyer Kattan

  • Effect of Variation in CHI3L1 on Serum YKL-40 Level, Risk of Asthma, and Lung Function

    Carole Ober;Zheng Tan;Ying Sun;Jennifer D. Possick

  • Paternally inherited HLA alleles are associated with women's choice of male odor.

    Suma Jacob;Martha K. McClintock;Bethanne Zelano;Carole Ober

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • HLA and mate choice in humans.

    Carole Ober;Lowell R. Weitkamp;Nancy Cox;Harvey Dytch

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan L. Nicolae
Dan L. Nicolae University of Chicago
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Robert F. Lemanske
Robert F. Lemanske University of Wisconsin–Madison
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
James E. Gern
James E. Gern University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephanie J. London
Stephanie J. London National Institutes of Health
Mark Abney
Mark Abney University of Chicago
Benjamin A. Raby
Benjamin A. Raby Brigham and Women's Hospital

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