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Haydeh Payami is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Neurology, demonstrated by 18 publications. Other subfields include Speech and Hearing, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Physiology.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, notably Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, which accounts for the largest share of their publications. Additional areas include Dysphagia Assessment and Management, Gut microbiota and health, Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity, Neurological diseases and metabolism, Nutritional Studies and Diet, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Recent significant publications by Haydeh Payami include:

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Metagenomics of Parkinson's disease implicates the gut microbiome in multiple disease mechanisms, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Characterizing dysbiosis of gut microbiome in PD: evidence for overabundance of opportunistic pathogens, 2020, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genomewide Association Studies of LRRK2 Modifiers of Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Annals of Neurology

Haydeh Payami frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 8 publications, npj Parkinson s Disease with 3, and venues like Nature Genetics and Nature Communications. Other venues include Zenodo at CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Zachary D. Wallen, David G. Standaert, Timothy R. Sampson, Ayşe Demirkan, and Marissa Dean.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease

    Mike A Nalls;Nathan Pankratz;Christina M. Lill;Chuong B. Do

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

  • Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease

    Taye H. Hamza;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Albert Tenesa;Alain Laederach

  • Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease medications have distinct signatures of the gut microbiome

    Erin M. Hill-Burns;Justine W. Debelius;James T. Morton;William T. Wissemann

  • Identification of a Novel LRRK2 Mutation Linked to Autosomal Dominant Parkinsonism: Evidence of a Common Founder across European Populations

    Jennifer Kachergus;Ignacio F. Mata;Mary Hulihan;Julie P. Taylor

  • Pathogenic implications of mutations in the tau gene in pallido-ponto-nigral degeneration and related neurodegenerative disorders linked to chromosome 17

    Lorraine N. Clark;Parvoneh Poorkaj;Zbigniew Wszolek;Daniel H. Geschwind

  • Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: the PDGene database.

    Christina M. Lill;Johannes T. Roehr;Johannes T. Roehr;Matthew B. McQueen;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura

  • Linkage and mutational analysis of familial Alzheimer disease kindreds for the APP gene region

    Kouzin Kamino;Harry T. Orr;Haydeh Payami;Ellen M. Wijsman

  • Apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer's disease

    Shigeji Noguchi;Kaori Murakami;Nobuhiro Yamada;H Payami

  • The Number of Trait Loci in Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease

    E. Warwick Daw;Haydeh Payami;Ellen J. Nemens;David Nochlin

  • Functional variants in the LRRK2 gene confer shared effects on risk for Crohn's disease and Parkinson's disease.

    Ken Y. Hui;Heriberto Fernandez-Hernandez;Jianzhong Hu;Adam Schaffner

  • Meta-analysis of Parkinson's Disease: Identification of a Novel Locus, RIT2

    Nathan Pankratz;Gary W. Beecham;Anita L. Destefano;Ted M. Dawson

  • What should the genome-wide significance threshold be? Empirical replication of borderline genetic associations

    Orestis A. Panagiotou;John P.A. Ioannidis;John P.A. Ioannidis;John P.A. Ioannidis;Joel N. Hirschhorn;Goncalo R. Abecasis

  • Gender difference in apolipoprotein E-associated risk for familial Alzheimer disease: a possible clue to the higher incidence of Alzheimer disease in women.

    Haydeh Payami;Sepideh Zareparsi;Kim R. Montee;Gary J. Sexton

  • Cognitive performance of GBA mutation carriers with early-onset PD The CORE-PD study

    R. N. Alcalay;E. Caccappolo;H. Mejia-Santana;M. X. Tang

  • A clinical pathological comparison of three families with frontotemporal dementia and identical mutations in the tau gene (P301L)

    Thomas D. Bird;David Nochlin;Parvoneh Poorkaj;Monique Cherrier

  • Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Study Identifies Glutamate Receptor Gene GRIN2A as a Parkinson's Disease Modifier Gene via Interaction with Coffee

    Taye H. Hamza;Honglei Chen;Erin M. Hill-Burns;Shannon L. Rhodes

  • Frequency of tau gene mutations in familial and sporadic cases of non-Alzheimer dementia.

    Parvoneh Poorkaj;Murray Grossman;Ellen Steinbart;Haydeh Payami

  • Relative predispositional effects (RPEs) of marker alleles with disease: HLA-DR alleles and Graves disease.

    H. Payami;S. Joe;N. R. Farid;V. Stenszky

  • Association analysis of MAPT H1 haplotype and subhaplotypes in Parkinson's disease

    Cyrus P. Zabetian;Carolyn M. Hutter;Stewart A. Factor;John G. Nutt

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyrus P. Zabetian
Cyrus P. Zabetian University of Washington
Stewart A. Factor
Stewart A. Factor Emory University
Thomas D. Bird
Thomas D. Bird University of Washington
Gerard D. Schellenberg
Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania
John G. Nutt
John G. Nutt Oregon Health & Science University
Jeffrey Kaye
Jeffrey Kaye Oregon Health & Science University
Ali Samii
Ali Samii University of Washington
William K. Scott
William K. Scott University of Miami
Glenys Thomson
Glenys Thomson University of California, Berkeley
Caroline M. Tanner
Caroline M. Tanner University of California, San Francisco

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