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Overview

David J. Roberts is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Hematology, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Their research topics encompass a range of areas related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, genetic associations, blood disorders, and transfusion practices. Main topics covered in their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Blood donation and transfusion practices
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Blood transfusion and management

David J. Roberts has contributed extensively to scientific literature with papers published across several respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transfusion Medicine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Nature Communications

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Roberts are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection, 2021, published in Nature
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations, 2020, published in Cell
  • Antibody testing for COVID-19: A report from the National COVID Scientific Advisory Panel, 2020, published in Wellcome Open Research
  • Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID-19: a living systematic review, 2021, published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Neutralising antibodies in Spike mediated SARS-CoV-2 adaptation, 2020, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors highlight collaborations with researchers in related fields. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Emanuele Di Angelantonio
  • John Danesh
  • Lise J Estcourt
  • Willem H. Ouwehand
  • Adam S. Butterworth

David J. Roberts' work integrates multiple subfields of Medicine to address both the clinical and genetic aspects of infectious diseases, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The combination of genetics, hematology, and molecular biology supports a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding disease mechanisms and improving patient outcomes related to blood disorders and transfusion practices.

Best Publications

  • Genomic atlas of the human plasma proteome.

    Benjamin Sun;Joseph C Maranville;James E Peters;James E Peters;David Stacey

  • The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease

    William J. Astle;Heather Elding;Heather Elding;Tao Jiang;Dave Allen

  • Switches in expression of Plasmodium falciparum var genes correlate with changes in antigenic and cytoadherent phenotypes of infected erythrocytes.

    Joseph D. Smith;Chetan E. Chitnis;Alistar G. Craig;David J. Roberts

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection.

    Steven A. Kemp;Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Rawlings P. Datir;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira

  • Rapid switching to multiple antigenic and adhesive phenotypes in malaria

    David J. Roberts;Alister G. Craig;Anthony R. Berendt;Robert Pinches

  • Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes modulate the maturation of dendritic cells.

    Britta C. Urban;David J. P. Ferguson;Arnab Pain;Nick Willcox

  • The polygenic and monogenic basis of blood traits and diseases

    Dragana Vuckovic;Erik L. Bao;Parsa Akbari;Caleb A. Lareau

  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations.

    Ming-Huei Chen;Laura M Raffield;Abdou Mousas;Saori Sakaue

  • Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing

    Alejandro Sifrim;Marc-Phillip Hitz;Anna Wilsdon;Jeroen Breckpot

  • Rare loss-of-function variants in SETD1A are associated with schizophrenia and developmental disorders

    Tarjinder Singh;Mitja I Kurki;David Curtis;Shaun M Purcell

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • Mortality in Sickle Cell Anemia in Africa: A Prospective Cohort Study in Tanzania

    Julie Makani;Julie Makani;Sharon E. Cox;Sharon E. Cox;Deogratius Soka;Albert N. Komba

  • A role for CD36 in the regulation of dendritic cell function

    Britta C. Urban;Nick Willcox;David J. Roberts

  • Platelet-mediated clumping of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes is a common adhesive phenotype and is associated with severe malaria.

    Arnab Pain;David J. P. Ferguson;Oscar Kai;Britta C. Urban

  • Performance characteristics of five immunoassays for SARS-CoV-2: a head-to-head benchmark comparison

    M Ainsworth;M Andersson;M Andersson;K Auckland;J K Baillie

  • Genome-wide association study of primary sclerosing cholangitis identifies new risk loci and quantifies the genetic relationship with inflammatory bowel disease

    Sun Gou Ji;Brian D. Juran;Sören Mucha;Trine Folseraas

  • Malarial anemia: of mice and men.

    Abigail A. Lamikanra;Douglas Brown;Alexandre Potocnik;Climent Casals-Pascual;Climent Casals-Pascual

  • Malaria and the Red Cell

    David J. Weatherall;Louis H. Miller;Dror I. Baruch;Kevin Marsh

  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases

    Dragana Vuckovic;Dragana Vuckovic;Erik L. Bao;Erik L. Bao;Parsa Akbari;Caleb A. Lareau;Caleb A. Lareau

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
Adam S. Butterworth
Adam S. Butterworth University of Cambridge
Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Emanuele Di Angelantonio University of Cambridge
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Asoke K. Nandi
Asoke K. Nandi Brunel University London
Nicholas A. Watkins
Nicholas A. Watkins NHS Blood and Transplant
Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
Michael F. Murphy
Michael F. Murphy NHS Blood and Transplant
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter

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