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Overview

Charles Kooperberg is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant amount of their work published in medicine-related disciplines as well.

Their main areas of study include genetics, molecular biology, hematology, cancer research, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. These subfields are reflected in a diverse range of research topics covered in their work, such as genetic associations and epidemiology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genomics and rare diseases, acute myeloid leukemia research, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, RNA modifications and cancer, and bioinformatics and genomic networks.

Charles Kooperberg has contributed to a number of scientific papers, including the following notable publications:

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program, 2021, Nature
  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Association of Clonal Hematopoiesis With Incident Heart Failure, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Their frequent co-authors include Jerome I. Rotter, Stephen S. Rich, Laura M. Raffield, Bruce M. Psaty, and Alexander P. Reiner. This indicates active collaboration within research communities specializing in genetics, cardiovascular medicine, and epidemiology.

Publishing venues where Charles Kooperberg's research commonly appears are diverse and include UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, The American Journal of Human Genetics, and Circulation. These venues highlight a focus on both preprint dissemination and peer-reviewed journals within genetics and cardiovascular fields.

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

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

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

  • Assembly of protein tertiary structures from fragments with similar local sequences using simulated annealing and Bayesian scoring functions

    Kim T. Simons;Charles Kooperberg;Enoch Huang;David Baker

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

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

  • Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the women's health initiative randomized trials

    Jo Ann E. Manson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Marcia L. Stefanick;Aaron K. Aragaki

  • Effect of estrogen plus progestin on stroke in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative: a randomized trial.

    Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller;Susan Hendrix;Marian Limacher;Gerardo Heiss

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

    Karol Estrada;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Evangelos Evangelou;Yi-Hsiang Hsu

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • The histone modification pattern of active genes revealed through genome-wide chromatin analysis of a higher eukaryote

    Dirk Schübeler;David M. MacAlpine;David Scalzo;Christiane Wirbelauer

  • Regional and cellular gene expression changes in human Huntington's disease brain.

    Angela Kaye Hodges;Andrew D. Strand;Aaron K. Aragaki;Alexandre Kuhn

  • On conditional and intrinsic autoregressions

    Julian Besag;Charles Kooperberg

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Recreational physical activity and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: The Women's Health Initiative cohort study

    Anne McTiernan;Charles Kooperberg;Emily White;Sara Wilcox

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • Outcomes ascertainment and adjudication methods in the women's health initiative

    J.David Curb;Anne Mctiernan;Susan R Heckbert;Charles Kooperberg

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ulrike Peters
Ulrike Peters University of Washington
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Rebecca D. Jackson
Rebecca D. Jackson The Ohio State University
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Kari E. North
Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Myriam Fornage
Myriam Fornage The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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