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Evangelos Evangelou

Evangelos Evangelou

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
40508
World Ranking
6775
National Ranking
18

Overview

Evangelos Evangelou is affiliated with the University of Ioannina in Greece and has made significant contributions to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research covers a broad range of topics, including genetic associations, epidemiology, and the molecular basis of diseases.

Their work spans several subfields such as Genetics, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Evangelou's research interest extends to specific topics like Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Nutritional Studies and Diet, and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism.

They have frequently published in notable venues including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • BMC Medicine

Evangelou's recent papers illustrate a focus on genetic and clinical epidemiology as well as disease prognosis:

  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases, 2020, Cell
  • Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and cancer prognosis: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score-Enhanced Prediction Model vs a Clinical Risk Score for Coronary Artery Disease, 2020, JAMA
  • Evidence-based prevention of Alzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of 243 observational prospective studies and 153 randomised controlled trials, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • A population-based phenome-wide association study of cardiac and aortic structure and function, 2020, Nature Medicine

Evangelou collaborates regularly with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Ioanna Tzoulaki
  • Konstantinos K. Tsilidis
  • Paul Elliott
  • Abbas Dehghan
  • Fotios Koskeridis

Best Publications

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

    Karol Estrada;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Evangelos Evangelou;Yi-Hsiang Hsu

  • Uncertainty in heterogeneity estimates in meta-analyses

    John P A Ioannidis;Nikolaos A Patsopoulos;Evangelos Evangelou

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Sensitivity of between-study heterogeneity in meta-analysis: proposed metrics and empirical evaluation

    Nikolaos A Patsopoulos;Evangelos Evangelou;John P A Ioannidis;John P A Ioannidis;John P A Ioannidis

  • Seven new loci associated with age-related macular degeneration

    Lars G. Fritsche;Lars G. Fritsche;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Matthew Schu;Brian L. Yaspan

  • An atlas of genetic influences on osteoporosis in humans and mice

    John A Morris;John P Kemp;John P Kemp;Scott E Youlten;Laetitia Laurent

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • Environmental risk factors and multiple sclerosis: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

    Lazaros Belbasis;Vanesa Bellou;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;John P A Ioannidis

  • The polygenic and monogenic basis of blood traits and diseases

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

  • Meta-analysis Methods for Genome-Wide Association Studies and Beyond

    Evangelos Evangelou;John P. A. Ioannidis

  • 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

  • Association analyses based on false discovery rate implicate new loci for coronary artery disease.

    Christopher P Nelson;Christopher P Nelson;Anuj Goel;Anuj Goel;Adam S Butterworth;Stavroula Kanoni

  • Risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: An exposure-wide umbrella review of meta-analyses.

    Vanesa Bellou;Lazaros Belbasis;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

    Helen R Warren;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Claudia P Cabrera;He Gao

  • Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): A genome-wide association study

    E Zeggini;K Panoutsopoulou

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Environmental risk factors and Parkinson's disease: An umbrella review of meta-analyses.

    Vanesa Bellou;Lazaros Belbasis;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou

  • 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

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

    Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ioanna Tzoulaki
Ioanna Tzoulaki Imperial College London
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
John P. A. Ioannidis
John P. A. Ioannidis Stanford University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital

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