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Danish Saleheen is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Pancreatic function and diabetes, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Lipid metabolism and disorders, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.

Saleheen has co-authored research with a number of frequent collaborators, including Marijana Vujković, Amit V. Khera, John Danesh, Asif Rasheed, and Shareef Khalid.

They have published regularly in venues like UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics, and Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Saleheen include:

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Genomics and phenomics of body mass index reveals a complex disease network (2022, Nature Communications)
  • A missense variant in Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 gene and protection against liver disease (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • Genetic analysis in European ancestry individuals identifies 517 loci associated with liver enzymes (2021, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • 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

  • 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

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • 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

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis and risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pradeep Natarajan;Pradeep Natarajan;Alexander J. Silver;Christopher J. Gibson

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University

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