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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2009 - Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

James B. Meigs is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including genetics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum, including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

James B. Meigs has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with research papers appearing in leading journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Host and gut microbial tryptophan metabolism and type 2 diabetes: an integrative analysis of host genetics, diet, gut microbiome and circulating metabolites in cohort studies, 2021, Gut
  • Cardiometabolic risk factors for COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: A Mendelian randomization analysis, 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Diabetes Prevalence and Its Relationship With Education, Wealth, and BMI in 29 Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2020, Diabetes Care

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Josée Dupuis, Jerome I. Rotter, José C. Florez, Aaron Leong, and Alisa K. Manning, each contributing to numerous joint studies.

The venues where their work frequently appears are:

  • Diabetes
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Diabetes Care
  • Nature Genetics

James B. Meigs has been recognized with awards such as the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association in 2009 and is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2011 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2008 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Wayne Rosamond;Katherine Flegal;Karen Furie;Alan Go

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2010 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams;Todd M. Brown;Mercedes Carnethon

  • Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee.

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon;Giovanni De Simone

  • Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis.

    Kunihiro Matsushita;Marije van der Velde;Brad C. Astor;Mark Woodward

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2010 Update

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams;Todd M. Brown

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 Update

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2007 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Wayne Rosamond;Katherine Flegal;Gary Friday;Karen Furie

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Thomas Thom;Nancy Haase;Wayne Rosamond

  • Abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue compartments: association with metabolic risk factors in the Framingham Heart Study.

    Caroline S. Fox;Joseph M. Massaro;Udo Hoffmann;Karla M. Pou

  • 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

  • Metabolic Syndrome as a Precursor of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Peter W.F. Wilson;Ralph B. D’Agostino;Helen Parise;Lisa Sullivan

  • 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

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • 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

  • 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

  • Adiposity, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Vitamin D Status: The Framingham Heart Study

    Susan Cheng;Joseph M. Massaro;Joseph M. Massaro;Caroline S. Fox;Caroline S. Fox;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez Harvard University
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Inga Prokopenko
Inga Prokopenko University of Surrey
Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
James S. Pankow
James S. Pankow University of Minnesota

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