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Best Female Scientists

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113
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43557
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782
National Ranking
475

Genetics

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115
Citations
44294
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456
National Ranking
234

Medicine

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115
Citations
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World Ranking
4584
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Cynthia C. Morton is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. The primary subfields of study include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sensory Systems, and Reproductive Medicine.

Their published works cover a variety of topics such as hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, genomics and rare diseases, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, uterine myomas and treatments, hearing loss and rehabilitation, endometriosis research and treatment, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss (2022, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • Disease-specific ACMG/AMP guidelines improve sequence variant interpretation for hearing loss (2021, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Maternal and Newborn Hospital Outcomes of Perinatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A National Registry (2023, PEDIATRICS)
  • Low-pass genome sequencing-based detection of absence of heterozygosity: validation in clinical cytogenetics (2021, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Long-term health-related quality of life and symptom severity following hysterectomy, myomectomy, or uterine artery embolization for the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids (2023, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cynthia C. Morton include Zirui Dong, Sami S. Amr, Kwong Wai Choy, Jun Shen, and Margaret A. Kenna.

The primary publication venues where their research appears frequently are The American Journal of Human Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Innovation in Aging, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Human Genetics.

They have contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media: Chromosome Structural Variants: Epidemiology, Identification and Contribution to Human Diseases (2022).

Cynthia C. Morton was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Newborn Hearing Screening — A Silent Revolution

    Cynthia C Morton;Walter E Nance

  • Translocation of the c-myc gene into the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus in human Burkitt lymphoma and murine plasmacytoma cells

    R Taub;I Kirsch;C Morton;G Lenoir

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from human blastocysts.

    Chad A. Cowan;Irinha Klimanskaya;Jill Mcmahon;Jocelyn Atienza

  • Mutations in the gene encoding B1 subunit of H+-ATPase cause renal tubular acidosis with sensorineural deafness

    FE Karet;KE Finberg;RD Nelson;A Nayir

  • Disruption of Neurexin 1 Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Hyung Goo Kim;Shotaro Kishikawa;Anne W. Higgins;Ihn Sik Seong

  • Sequencing Chromosomal Abnormalities Reveals Neurodevelopmental Loci that Confer Risk across Diagnostic Boundaries

    Michael E. Talkowski;Jill A. Rosenfeld;Ian Blumenthal;Vamsee Pillalamarri

  • Pleiotropic defects in ataxia-telangiectasia protein-deficient mice

    Ari Elson;Yaoqi Wang;Cathie J. Daugherty;Cynthia C. Morton

  • Unrepaired DNA breaks in p53-deficient cells lead to oncogenic gene amplification subsequent to translocations.

    Chengming Zhu;Kevin D. Mills;David O. Ferguson;Charles Lee

  • Tumor-Associated Endothelial Cells with Cytogenetic Abnormalities

    Kyoko Hida;Yasuhiro Hida;Dhara N. Amin;Alan F. Flint

  • Disruption of the architectural factor HMGI-C: DNA-binding AT hook motifs fused in lipomas to distinct transcriptional regulatory domains

    H R Ashar;M S Fejzo;A Tkachenko;X Zhou

  • Association of Unconventional Myosin MYO15 Mutations with Human Nonsyndromic Deafness DFNB3

    Aihui Wang;Yong Liang;Robert A. Fridell;Frank J. Probst

  • Different TBX5 interactions in heart and limb defined by Holt–Oram syndrome mutations

    Craig T. Basson;Taosheng Huang;Robert C. Lin;David R. Bachinsky

  • Mutation of a gene encoding a protein with extracellular matrix motifs in Usher syndrome type IIa

    James D. Eudy;Michael D. Weston;Su Fang Yao;Denise M. Hoover

  • Mutations in a novel cochlear gene cause DFNA9, a human nonsyndromic deafness with vestibular dysfunction

    N G Robertson;L Lu;S Heller;S N Merchant

  • Mutation in transcription factor POU4F3 associated with inherited progressive hearing loss in humans.

    Oz Vahava;Robert Morell;Eric D. Lynch;Sigal Weiss

  • Diagnostic Relevance of Clonal Cytogenetic Aberrations in Malignant Soft-Tissue Tumors

    Jonathan A. Fletcher;Harry P. Kozakewich;Fredric A. Hoffer;Janice M. Lage

  • Genes for the tumor necrosis factors alpha and beta are linked to the human major histocompatibility complex.

    Thomas Spies;Cynthia C. Morton;Sergei A. Nedospasov;Walter Fiers

  • Hodgkin's disease, lymphomatoid papulosis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma derived from a common T-cell clone

    Thomas H. Davis;Cynthia C. Morton;Robert Miller-Cassman;Steven P. Balk

  • Human Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Genes Map to a Region of Translocations in Malignant B Lymphocytes

    Ilan R. Kirsch;Cynthia C. Morton;Kenneth Nakahara;Philip Leder;Philip Leder

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislawa Weremowicz
Stanislawa Weremowicz Harvard University
James F. Gusella
James F. Gusella Harvard University
Michael E. Talkowski
Michael E. Talkowski Harvard University
Jonathan A. Fletcher
Jonathan A. Fletcher Brigham and Women's Hospital
Azra H. Ligon
Azra H. Ligon Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paola Dal Cin
Paola Dal Cin Harvard Medical School
Charles Lee
Charles Lee The Jackson Laboratory
Richard L. Maas
Richard L. Maas Brigham and Women's Hospital
Yiping Shen
Yiping Shen Boston Children's Hospital
Anne Giersch
Anne Giersch University of Strasbourg

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