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Overview

Cristen J. Willer is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions focused on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Birth, Development, and Health, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.

They have published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 30 papers, UNC Libraries with 25 papers, Nature Genetics with 14 papers, Nature Communications with 12 papers, and Circulation with 6 papers.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19, 2021, Nature
  • A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Exome sequencing and characterization of 49,960 individuals in the UK Biobank, 2020, Nature
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations, 2021, Cell

Frequent co-authors that collaborate with Cristen J. Willer include:

  • Ben Brumpton
  • Kristian Hveem
  • Wei Zhou
  • Ida Surakka
  • Brooke N. Wolford

Best Publications

  • METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans.

    Cristen J. Willer;Yun Li;Gonçalo R. Abecasis

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • 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

  • A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants.

    Laura J. Scott;Karen L. Mohlke;Lori L. Bonnycastle;Cristen J. Willer

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • LocusZoom: regional visualization of genome-wide association scan results

    Randall J. Pruim;Ryan P. Welch;Serena Sanna;Tanya M. Teslovich

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

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

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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • MaCH: using sequence and genotype data to estimate haplotypes and unobserved genotypes

    Yun Li;Cristen J. Willer;Jun Ding;Paul A Scheet

  • 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

  • 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

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease

    Cristen J. Willer;Serena Sanna;Anne U. Jackson;Angelo Scuteri

  • 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

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

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

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

  • 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

Kristian Hveem
Kristian Hveem Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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