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Overview

Eimear E. Kenny is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States, with a primary focus on research in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Physiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, and Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program (2021) published in Nature
  • A draft human pangenome reference (2023) published in Nature
  • A brief history of human disease genetics (2020) published in Nature
  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes (2020) published in Nature
  • The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity (2022) published in Nature

Eimear E. Kenny frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Ruth J. F. Loos, Noura S. Abul-Husn, Charles Kooperberg, Laura M. Raffield, and Sabrina A. Suckiel, indicating a network of substantial cooperative research activity.

The primary venues for their publications are as follows:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes

    Jacob A. Tennessen;Abigail W. Bigham;Timothy D. O'Connor;Wenqing Fu

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations

    Alicia R. Martin;Christopher R. Gignoux;Raymond K. Walters;Genevieve L. Wojcik

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

  • Textpresso: an ontology-based information retrieval and extraction system for biological literature.

    Hans-Michael Müller;Eimear E Kenny;Paul W Sternberg

  • RFMix: a discriminative modeling approach for rapid and robust local-ancestry inference.

    Brian K. Maples;Simon Gravel;Simon Gravel;Eimear E. Kenny;Carlos D. Bustamante

  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes.

    Alexander G Bick;Joshua S Weinstock;Satish K Nandakumar;Satish K Nandakumar;Charles P Fulco;Charles P Fulco

  • WormBase: a multi‐species resource for nematode biology and genomics

    Todd W. Harris;Nansheng Chen;Fiona Cunningham;Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz

  • A brief history of human disease genetics.

    Melina Claussnitzer;Melina Claussnitzer;Melina Claussnitzer;Judy H Cho;Rory Collins;Nancy J Cox

  • The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Juan Carlos Fernández-López;Fouad Zakharia

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Personalized Medicine and the Power of Electronic Health Records.

    Noura S. Abul-Husn;Eimear E. Kenny

  • ImmunoChip Study Implicates Antigen Presentation to T Cells in Narcolepsy

    Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Eimear E. Kenny

  • Mapping and Characterization of Structural Variation in 17,795 Human Genomes

    Haley J Abel;David E Larson;Allison A Regier;Colby Chiang

  • Genome‐wide association study of schizophrenia in Ashkenazi Jews

    Fernando S. Goes;John McGrath;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Paula Wolyniec

  • WormBase: a comprehensive data resource for Caenorhabditis biology and genomics

    Nansheng Chen;Todd W. Harris;Igor Antoshechkin;Carol Bastiani

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Gignoux
Christopher R. Gignoux University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Erwin P. Bottinger
Erwin P. Bottinger Hasso Plattner Institute
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Judy H. Cho
Judy H. Cho Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University

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