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Overview

Caroline S. Fox is affiliated with MSD (United States) and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and related biological sciences. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology, with significant contributions in obstetrics and gynecology as well as pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields within these broader disciplines cover:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Epidemiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The topics most frequently addressed in their publications include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Caroline S. Fox has collaborated regularly with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Heiko Runz
  • Anders Mälarstig
  • Julie Hunkapiller
  • Mark J. Daly
  • Aarno Palotie

Frequent publication venues for this researcher reflect a range of interdisciplinary journals and platforms:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Medicine
  • Nature
  • Cell Metabolism

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Caroline S. Fox are:

  • Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Inherited myeloproliferative neoplasm risk affects haematopoietic stem cells, 2020, Nature
  • The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: An open access genetic resource dedicated to type 2 diabetes and related traits, 2023, Cell Metabolism
  • Genetic Risk Factors Associated With Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, 2023, JAMA Cardiology
  • Integration of questionnaire-based risk factors improves polygenic risk scores for human coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes, 2022, Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)

    R C Turner;R R Holman;C A Cull;I M Stratton

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2014 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Veronique Lee Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2012 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2011 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Executive summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2014 Update: A report from the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis.

    Kunihiro Matsushita;Marije van der Velde;Brad C. Astor;Mark Woodward

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue compartments: association with metabolic risk factors in the Framingham Heart Study.

    Caroline S. Fox;Joseph M. Massaro;Udo Hoffmann;Karla M. Pou

  • Metabolite profiles and the risk of developing diabetes

    Thomas J Wang;Martin G Larson;Martin G Larson;Ramachandran S Vasan;Ramachandran S Vasan;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
L. Adrienne Cupples
L. Adrienne Cupples Boston University
Udo Hoffmann
Udo Hoffmann Harvard University
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Joseph M. Massaro
Joseph M. Massaro Boston University
Shih-Jen Hwang
Shih-Jen Hwang National Institutes of Health
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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