World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
80
Citations
60425
World Ranking
1544
National Ranking
718

Medicine

D-Index
80
Citations
60370
World Ranking
16851
National Ranking
8446

Overview

Dan L. Nicolae is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Subfields of study commonly associated with their work include Statistics and Probability, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Asthma and respiratory diseases, Statistical Methods and Inference, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Pediatric health and respiratory diseases.

Dan L. Nicolae has published research extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Expression quantitative trait locus fine mapping of the 17q12-21 asthma locus in African American children: a genetic association and gene expression study, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Epigenetic landscape links upper airway microbiota in infancy with allergic rhinitis at 6 years of age, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Chromosome 17q12-21 Variants Are Associated with Multiple Wheezing Phenotypes in Childhood, 2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Multi-omics colocalization with genome-wide association studies reveals a context-specific genetic mechanism at a childhood onset asthma risk locus, 2021, Genome Medicine
  • Longitudinal data reveal strong genetic and weak non-genetic components of ethnicity-dependent blood DNA methylation levels, 2020, Epigenetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dan L. Nicolae include:

  • Carole Ober
  • James E. Gern
  • Chris McKennan
  • Matthew C. Altman
  • Katherine A. Naughton

Their work appears regularly in notable publication venues such as:

  • Current Pediatrics Reports
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Genome Medicine
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • A frameshift mutation in NOD2 associated with susceptibility to Crohn's disease

    Yasunori Ogura;Denise K. Bonen;Naohiro Inohara;Dan L. Nicolae

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

    Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

    Richard H. Duerr;Kent D. Taylor;Steven R. Brant;Steven R. Brant;John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

    John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux;Ramnik J. Xavier;Kent D. Taylor;Mark S. Silverberg

  • A Gene-Based Association Method for Mapping Traits Using Reference Transcriptome Data

    Eric R Gamazon;Heather E Wheeler;Kaanan P Shah;Sahar V Mozaffari

  • Trait-associated SNPs are more likely to be eQTLs: annotation to enhance discovery from GWAS.

    Dan L. Nicolae;Eric R. Gamazon;Wei Zhang;Shiwei Duan

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Synchronized age-related gene expression changes across multiple tissues in human and the link to complex diseases

    Jialiang Yang;Tao Huang;Francesca Petralia;Quan Long

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • 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

  • Rhinovirus Wheezing Illness and Genetic Risk of Childhood-Onset Asthma

    Minal Çalışkan;Yury A. Bochkov;Eskil Kreiner-Møller;Klaus Bønnelykke

  • Genetic variants associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis susceptibility and mortality: a genome-wide association study

    Imre Noth;Yingze Zhang;Shwu Fan Ma;Carlos Flores

  • Effect of Variation in CHI3L1 on Serum YKL-40 Level, Risk of Asthma, and Lung Function

    Carole Ober;Zheng Tan;Ying Sun;Jennifer D. Possick

  • 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

  • Crohn's disease-associated NOD2 variants share a signaling defect in response to lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan.

    Denise K. Bonen;Yasunori Ogura;Dan L. Nicolae;Naohiro Inohara

  • Loci on chromosomes 2 (NIDDM1) and 15 interact to increase susceptibility to diabetes in Mexican Americans.

    Nancy J. Cox;Mike Frigge;Dan L. Nicolae;Dan L. Nicolae;Patrick Concannon

  • Identification of novel susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease on chromosomes 1p, 3q, and 4q: Evidence for epistasis between 1p and IBD1

    Judy H. Cho;Dan L. Nicolae;Leslee H. Gold;Carter T. Fields

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Nancy J. Cox
Nancy J. Cox Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Benjamin A. Raby
Benjamin A. Raby Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eric R. Gamazon
Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

If you're interested in studying Genetics, you may also want to explore online healthcare degrees that offer flexible and affordable options. Many students choose to pursue nursing or advanced practitioner pathways, which can open doors to dynamic and rewarding careers.

For example, those seeking to become nurse practitioners can consider affordable online fnp programs, which provide specialized training with budget-friendly tuition. Cost is often a deciding factor, and you can compare how much is nursing school online by referencing programs designed to reduce financial barriers.

Advanced nursing roles are also accessible through dnp programs, paving the way for leadership positions in the healthcare sector. If you're an RN looking to advance your qualifications quickly, there are rn to bsn online cheap and fast pathways available as well.

Exploring these related online degrees can help you align your Genetics studies with in-demand healthcare careers, offering both affordability and flexibility as you build your professional future.

Best Scientists Citing Dan L. Nicolae

Trending Scientists