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155
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World Ranking
934
National Ranking
533

Overview

Erik Ingelsson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research profile spanning multiple fields related to genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work includes a strong focus on cardiovascular health, genetic associations, and disease mechanisms.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics such as heart failure, cardiovascular proteins, atherosclerosis, and liver disease outcomes. Notable papers include:

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Pro-efferocytic nanoparticles are specifically taken up by lesional macrophages and prevent atherosclerosis, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Prevalence, characteristics and mortality outcomes of obese, nonobese and lean NAFLD in the United States, 1999-2016, 2020, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Clonally expanding smooth muscle cells promote atherosclerosis by escaping efferocytosis and activating the complement cascade, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Lars Lind, Andrew P. Morris, Stefan Gustafsson, Andrea Ganna, and Themistocles L. Assimes.

Erik Ingelsson's publications are often found in venues such as UNC Libraries, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and PLoS ONE.

Their main fields of study are:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these areas, subfields they contribute to include:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Epidemiology

The major topics covered in Erik Ingelsson's research include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Congenital heart defects research

Best Publications

  • Diabetes mellitus, fasting blood glucose concentration, and risk of vascular disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 102 prospective studies

    N Sarwar;P Gao;Seshasai Srk.

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

    Thomas J. Wang;Michael J. Pencina;Sarah L. Booth;Paul F. Jacques

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • 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

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • 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

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Sensitivity Analyses for Robust Causal Inference from Mendelian Randomization Analyses with Multiple Genetic Variants

    Stephen Burgess;Jack Bowden;Tove Fall;Erik Ingelsson

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

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

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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