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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dana C. Crawford is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research work spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Nephrology, and Ophthalmology.

Their recent scholarly contributions reflect a focus on genetic epidemiology, disease modeling, and cancer research. Notable papers include:

  • Modelling kidney disease using ontology: insights from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (2020) published in Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • A Germline Variant at 8q24 Contributes to Familial Clustering of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry (2020) published in European Urology
  • A Rare Germline HOXB13 Variant Contributes to Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry (2022) published in European Urology
  • A user-friendly tool for cloud-based whole slide image segmentation with examples from renal histopathology (2022) published in Communications Medicine
  • Evidence of Novel Susceptibility Variants for Prostate Cancer and a Multiancestry Polygenic Risk Score Associated with Aggressive Disease in Men of African Ancestry (2023) published in European Urology

Research topics covered in their work include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Frequent coauthors in Crawford's publications are:

  • William S. Bush
  • Jay H. Fowke
  • Christopher A. Haiman
  • Esther M. John
  • Luc Multigner

The venues where Dana C. Crawford has published most frequently include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Urology
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Frontiers in Genetics

In terms of recognition, Dana C. Crawford was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • PheWAS: demonstrating the feasibility of a phenome-wide scan to discover gene-disease associations.

    Joshua C. Denny;Marylyn D. Ritchie;Melissa A. Basford;Jill M. Pulley

  • Systematic comparison of phenome-wide association study of electronic medical record data and genome-wide association study data

    Joshua C. Denny;Lisa Bastarache;Marylyn D. Ritchie;Robert J. Carroll

  • FMR1 and the fragile X syndrome: Human genome epidemiology review

    Dana C Crawford;Juan M Acuña;Juan M Acuña;Stephanie L Sherman

  • Definition and Clinical Importance of Haplotypes

    Dana C. Crawford;Deborah A. Nickerson

  • Quality control procedures for genome-wide association studies.

    Stephen Turner;Loren L. Armstrong;Yuki Bradford;Christopher S. Carlson

  • Operational implementation of prospective genotyping for personalized medicine: The design of the Vanderbilt PREDICT project

    J. M. Pulley;J. C. Denny;J. F. Peterson;G. R. Bernard

  • Novel genetic loci identified for the pathophysiology of childhood obesity in the Hispanic population.

    Anthony G. Comuzzie;Shelley A. Cole;Sandra L. Laston;V. Saroja Voruganti

  • Warfarin pharmacogenetics: a single VKORC1 polymorphism is predictive of dose across 3 racial groups

    Nita A. Limdi;Mia Wadelius;Larisa Cavallari;Niclas Eriksson

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

    David V. Conti;Burcu F. Darst;Lilit C. Moss;Edward J. Saunders

  • Robust Replication of Genotype-Phenotype Associations across Multiple Diseases in an Electronic Medical Record

    Marylyn D. Ritchie;Joshua C. Denny;Dana C. Crawford;Andrea H. Ramirez

  • Evidence for substantial fine-scale variation in recombination rates across the human genome.

    Dana C Crawford;Tushar Bhangale;Na Li;Na Li;Garrett Hellenthal

  • Genetic variants associated with warfarin dose in African- American individuals: a genome-wide association study

    Minoli A Perera;Larisa H Cavallari;Nita A Limdi;Eric R Gamazon

  • Variants Near FOXE1 Are Associated with Hypothyroidism and Other Thyroid Conditions: Using Electronic Medical Records for Genome- and Phenome-wide Studies

    Joshua C. Denny;Dana C. Crawford;Marylyn D. Ritchie;Suzette J. Bielinski

  • Unravelling the human genome-phenome relationship using phenome-wide association studies

    William S. Bush;Matthew T. Oetjens;Dana C. Crawford

  • Generalization and Dilution of Association Results from European GWAS in Populations of Non-European Ancestry: The PAGE Study

    Christopher S. Carlson;Tara C. Matise;Kari E. North;Christopher A. Haiman

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in African Americans Provides Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Type 2 Diabetes

    Maggie C Y Ng;Daniel Shriner;Brian H Chen;Jiang Li

  • Haplotype Diversity across 100 Candidate Genes for Inflammation, Lipid Metabolism, and Blood Pressure Regulation in Two Populations

    Dana C. Crawford;Christopher S. Carlson;Mark J. Rieder;Dana P. Carrington

  • Pattern of Sequence Variation Across 213 Environmental Response Genes

    Robert J. Livingston;Andrew von Niederhausern;Anil G. Jegga;Dana C. Crawford

Frequent Co-Authors

Marylyn D. Ritchie
Marylyn D. Ritchie University of Pennsylvania
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center
William S. Bush
William S. Bush Case Western Reserve University
Joshua C. Denny
Joshua C. Denny National Institutes of Health
Steven Buyske
Steven Buyske Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ulrike Peters
Ulrike Peters University of Washington
Tara C. Matise
Tara C. Matise Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Charles Kooperberg
Charles Kooperberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kari E. North
Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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