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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Graeme I. Bell is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Genetics, Surgery, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.

Their research focuses on several key topics such as pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, genomics and rare diseases, metabolism, diabetes and cancer, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, congenital heart defects research, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

They have contributed to various publication venues, including UNC Libraries, Molecular Metabolism, Diabetes Care, Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, and Population Medicine.

  • In celebration of a century with insulin - Update of insulin gene mutations in diabetes (2021), Molecular Metabolism
  • Insight on Diagnosis and Treatment From Over a Decade of Research Through the University of Chicago Monogenic Diabetes Registry (2021), Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
  • The Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network (RADIANT) Study: Design and Early Results (2023), Diabetes Care
  • Microcephaly, epilepsy, and neonatal diabetes due to compound heterozygous mutations in IER3IP1: Insights into the natural history of a rare disorder (2024), UNC Libraries
  • Implementing genetic testing in diabetes: Knowledge, perceptions of healthcare professionals, and barriers in a developing country (2024), Population Medicine

Frequent collaborators include Rochelle N. Naylor, José C. Florez, Jennifer Abrams, Louis H. Philipson, and Siri Atma W. Greeley.

Graeme I. Bell has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2011 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α gene in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY3)

    Kazuya Yamagata;Hiroto Furuta;Naohisa Oda;Pamela J. Kaisaki

  • Genetic variation in the gene encoding calpain-10 is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    Y Horikawa;N Oda;N J Cox;X Li;X Li

  • Control of Pancreas and Liver Gene Expression by HNF Transcription Factors

    Duncan T. Odom;Nora Zizlsperger;D. Benjamin Gordon;George W. Bell

  • Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Pathophysiology of Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young

    Stefan S. Fajans;Graeme I. Bell;Kenneth S. Polonsky

  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.

    E. Pairo-Castineira;E. Pairo-Castineira;S. Clohisey;L. Klaric;A. D. Bretherick

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Molecular Biology of Mammalian Glucose Transporters

    Graeme I Bell;Toshiaki Kayano;John B Buse;Charles F Burant

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • Polymorphic DNA region adjacent to the 5' end of the human insulin gene

    Graeme I. Bell;John H. Karam;William J. Rutter

  • Mutation in hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 beta gene (TCF2) associated with MODY.

    Yukio Horikawa;Naoko Iwasaki;Manami Hara;Hiroto Furuta

  • A polymorphic locus near the human insulin gene is associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

    Graeme I Bell;Graeme I Bell;Shiro Horita;John H Karam

  • Familial Hyperglycemia Due to Mutations in Glucokinase -- Definition of a Subtype of Diabetes Mellitus

    Froguel P;Zouali H;Vionnet N;Velho G

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Cloning and functional characterization of a family of human and mouse somatostatin receptors expressed in brain, gastrointestinal tract, and kidney.

    Yuichiro Yamada;Steven R. Post;Kenneth Wang;Howard S. Tager

  • Cloning and functional comparison of kappa and delta opioid receptors from mouse brain

    Kazuki Yasuda;Karen Raynor;Haeyoung Kong;Christopher D. Breder

  • Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus - a genetically programmed failure of the beta cell to compensate for insulin resistance.

    Kenneth S. Polonsky;Jeppe Sturis;Graeme I. Bell

  • Nonsense mutation in the glucokinase gene causes early-onset non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

    N. Vionnet;M. Stoffel;J. Takeda;K. Yasuda

  • Pharmacological characterization of the cloned kappa-, delta-, and mu-opioid receptors.

    K. Raynor;Hayeoung Kong;Yan Chen;K. Yasuda

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy J. Cox
Nancy J. Cox Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Susumu Seino
Susumu Seino Kobe University
Craig L. Hanis
Craig L. Hanis The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Kenneth S. Polonsky
Kenneth S. Polonsky University of Chicago
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Louis H. Philipson
Louis H. Philipson University of Chicago
William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter University of California, San Francisco
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Pål R. Njølstad
Pål R. Njølstad University of Bergen
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva

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