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Overview

Celeste Eng is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work delves into several subfields including Physiology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics related to respiratory health and genetic epidemiology. Key topics in their work include Asthma and respiratory diseases, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Respiratory viral infections research, and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research.

Their recent scientific papers demonstrate a focus on genetics, respiratory illnesses, and their biological mechanisms. Notable publications include:

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program (2021, Nature)
  • Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement (2020, Nature)
  • Type 2 and interferon inflammation regulate SARS-CoV-2 entry factor expression in the airway epithelium (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Single-Cell and Population Transcriptomics Reveal Pan-epithelial Remodeling in Type 2-High Asthma (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks (2021, Nature)

Celeste Eng's collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Esteban G. Burchard, Scott Huntsman, José Rodríguez-Santana, Donglei Hu, and Angel C. Y. Mak. These collaborations emphasize the interdisciplinary and multi-institutional nature of their research projects.

Their research has been published in several prominent venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nature Communications, and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • 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

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • 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

  • Human cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) deficiency has a hypercholesterolemic phenotype

    Clive R. Pullinger;Celeste Eng;Gerald Salen;Sarah Shefer

  • 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

  • The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Juan Carlos Fernández-López;Fouad Zakharia

  • Assembly of a pan-genome from deep sequencing of 910 humans of African descent

    Rachel M. Sherman;Juliet Forman;Juliet Forman;Valentin Antonescu;Daniela Puiu

  • Reconstructing the population genetic history of the Caribbean.

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Simon Gravel;Simon Gravel;Fouad Zakharia;Jacob L. McCauley

  • ORMDL3 gene is associated with asthma in three ethnically diverse populations.

    Joshua Mark Galanter;Shweta Choudhry;Celeste Eng;Sylvette Nazario

  • Sparse PCA corrects for cell type heterogeneity in epigenome-wide association studies.

    Elior Rahmani;Noah Zaitlen;Yael Baran;Celeste Eng

  • Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

    Joshua Mark Galanter;Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez;Christopher R. Gignoux;Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

  • Dissecting childhood asthma with nasal transcriptomics distinguishes subphenotypes of disease

    Alex Poole;Cydney Urbanek;Celeste Eng;Jeoffrey Schageman

  • Novel Susceptibility Variants at 10p12.31-12.2 for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Ethnically Diverse Populations

    Heng Xu;Wenjian Yang;Virginia Perez-Andreu;Meenakshi Devidas

  • Fast and accurate inference of local ancestry in Latino populations

    Yael Baran;Bogdan Pasaniuc;Bogdan Pasaniuc;Sriram Sankararaman;Sriram Sankararaman;Dara G. Torgerson

  • The landscape of genomic imprinting across diverse adult human tissues

    Yael Baran;Meena Subramaniam;Anne Biton;Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen

  • ARID5B Genetic Polymorphisms Contribute to Racial Disparities in the Incidence and Treatment Outcome of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    Heng Xu;Cheng Cheng;Meenakshi Devidas;Deqing Pei

  • A genome-wide association study on African-ancestry populations for asthma.

    Rasika A. Mathias;Audrey V. Grant;Nicholas Rafaels;Tracey Hand

  • Apolipoprotein L gene family: tissue-specific expression, splicing, promoter regions; discovery of a new gene

    Philippe N. Duchateau;Clive R. Pullinger;Min H. Cho;Celeste Eng

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Pedro C. Avila
Pedro C. Avila Northwestern University
Rajesh Kumar
Rajesh Kumar Lurie Children's Hospital
Christopher R. Gignoux
Christopher R. Gignoux University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Ryan D. Hernandez
Ryan D. Hernandez McGill University
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Noah Zaitlen
Noah Zaitlen University of California, Los Angeles
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University

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