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  • 2005 - C.W. Cotterman Award, American Society of Human Genetics

Overview

Eric Jorgenson is a researcher affiliated with Kaiser Permanente in the United States, with a focus on genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, ophthalmology, epidemiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their main research topics involve genetic associations and epidemiology, glaucoma and retinal disorders, retinal diseases and treatments, cancer genomics and diagnostics, nonmelanoma skin cancer studies, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric Jorgenson include:

  • Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants, 2021, Nature
  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases, 2020, Cell
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations, 2020, Cell
  • Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022, Nature
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Hélène Choquet
  • Gonçalo R. Abecasis
  • Jie Yin
  • Thomas J. Hoffmann
  • John D. Overton

Eric Jorgenson has published extensively in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Genetics

Their research integrates broad aspects of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a strong emphasis on understanding the genetic bases of diseases and traits.

In 2005, Eric Jorgenson received the C.W. Cotterman Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Positional cloning of the human quantitative trait locus underlying taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide

    Un kyung Kim;Eric Jorgenson;Hilary Coon;Mark Leppert

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • 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

  • Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants.

    Joshua D. Backman;Alexander H. Li;Anthony Marcketta;Dylan Sun

  • Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology

    Manuel A. Ferreira;Judith M. Vonk;Hansjörg Baurecht;Ingo Marenholz;Ingo Marenholz

  • Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations

    Madeline H Kowalski;Huijun Qian;Ziyi Hou;Jonathan D Rosen

  • Characterizing Race/Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort

    Yambazi Banda;Mark N. Kvale;Thomas J. Hoffmann;Stephanie E. Hesselson

  • A large electronic-health-record-based genome-wide study of serum lipids.

    Thomas J. Hoffmann;Elizabeth Theusch;Tanushree Haldar;Dilrini K. Ranatunga

  • Meta-analysis of 542,934 subjects of European ancestry identifies new genes and mechanisms predisposing to refractive error and myopia

    Pirro G Hysi;Pirro G Hysi;Hélène Choquet;Anthony P Khawaja;Anthony P Khawaja;Robert Wojciechowski

  • A Polymorphism in the β1 Adrenergic Receptor Is Associated with Resting Heart Rate

    Koustubh Ranade;Eric Jorgenson;Wayne H.-H. Sheu;Dee Pei

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci for Paclitaxel-Induced Sensory Peripheral Neuropathy in CALGB 40101

    R. Michael Baldwin;Kouros Owzar;Hitoshi Zembutsu;Aparna Chhibber

  • Genotyping Informatics and Quality Control for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort

    Mark N. Kvale;Stephanie Hesselson;Thomas J. Hoffmann;Yang Cao

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts

    Guiyan Ni;Jian Zeng;Joana A. Revez;Ying Wang

  • Pan-cancer study detects genetic risk variants and shared genetic basis in two large cohorts

    Sara R. Rashkin;Rebecca E. Graff;Rebecca E. Graff;Linda Kachuri;Khanh K. Thai

  • A multiethnic genome-wide association study of primary open-angle glaucoma identifies novel risk loci.

    Hélène Choquet;Seyyedhassan Paylakhi;Stephen C. Kneeland;Khanh K. Thai

  • Genome-wide association studies in pharmacogenomics: successes and lessons

    Alison A. Motsinger-Reif;Eric Jorgenson;Mary V. Relling;Deanna L. Kroetz;Deanna L. Kroetz

  • Targeted Genomic Profiling of Acral Melanoma.

    Iwei Yeh;Eric Jorgenson;Ling Shen;Mengshu Xu

  • 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

Neil Risch
Neil Risch University of California, San Francisco
John S. Witte
John S. Witte Stanford University
Carlos Iribarren
Carlos Iribarren Kaiser Permanente
Yun Li
Yun Li University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nicholas L. Smith
Nicholas L. Smith University of Washington
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Pirro G. Hysi
Pirro G. Hysi King's College London
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Laura M. Raffield
Laura M. Raffield University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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