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Overview

Jamie E. Craig is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and has an extensive body of research focused primarily on ophthalmology, with a particular emphasis on glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Their publication record highlights a significant presence in several key fields including medicine, ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, genetics, and epidemiology. The subfields most represented in their work are ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, genetics, and epidemiology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Retinal diseases and treatments
  • Retinal imaging and analysis
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Retinal development and disorders
  • Ophthalmology and visual impairment studies

Jamie E. Craig's most frequent coauthors include:

  • Alex W. Hewitt
  • Stuart MacGregor
  • Owen M. Siggs
  • David A. Mackey
  • Emmanuelle Souzeau

Their research has been published repeatedly in specific venues known for ophthalmological and genetics research, including:

  • Ophthalmology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ophthalmology Glaucoma
  • JAMA Ophthalmology
  • Ophthalmology Science

Among recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Jamie E. Craig are:

  • Multitrait analysis of glaucoma identifies new risk loci and enables polygenic prediction of disease susceptibility and progression, 2020, published in Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility, 2020, published in Nature Genetics
  • Genetic variation affects morphological retinal phenotypes extracted from UK Biobank optical coherence tomography images, 2021, published in PLoS Genetics
  • Large-scale multitrait genome-wide association analyses identify hundreds of glaucoma risk loci, 2023, published in Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

    Lars G. Fritsche;Wilmar Igl;Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Felix Grassmann

  • Analysis of Myocilin Mutations in 1703 Glaucoma Patients From Five Different Populations

    John H. Fingert;Elise Héon;Jeffrey M. Liebmann;Tetsuya Yamamoto

  • Retinopathy of prematurity: recent advances in our understanding

    C M Wheatley;J L Dickinson;D A Mackey;J E Craig

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia

    Virginie J M Verhoeven;Pirro G Hysi;Robert Wojciechowski;Robert Wojciechowski;Qiao Fan

  • Genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for open angle glaucoma at TMCO1 and CDKN2B-AS1

    Kathryn P Burdon;Stuart Macgregor;Alex W Hewitt;Alex W Hewitt;Shiwani Sharma

  • Common variants near CAV1 and CAV2 are associated with primary open-angle glaucoma

    Gudmar Thorleifsson;G Bragi Walters;Alex W Hewitt;Alex W Hewitt;Gisli Masson

  • Mutations in LRP5 or FZD4 underlie the common familial exudative vitreoretinopathy locus on chromosome 11q.

    Carmel Toomes;Helen M. Bottomley;Richard M. Jackson;Katherine V. Towns

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify multiple loci associated with central corneal thickness and keratoconus.

    Yi Lu;Veronique Vitart;Kathryn P. Burdon;Chiea Chuen Khor

  • Null mutations in LTBP2 cause primary congenital glaucoma.

    Manir Ali;Martin McKibbin;Martin McKibbin;Adam Booth;David A. Parry

  • A spectrum of FOXC1 mutations suggests gene dosage as a mechanism for developmental defects of the anterior chamber of the eye

    Darryl Y. Nishimura;Charles C. Searby;Wallace L. Alward;David Walton

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2 , ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

    Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Stephanie J. Loomis;Jae H. Kang;R. Rand Allingham

  • Multitrait analysis of glaucoma identifies new risk loci and enables polygenic prediction of disease susceptibility and progression

    Jamie E. Craig;Xikun Han;Xikun Han;Ayub Qassim;Mark Hassall

  • A systematic meta-analysis of genetic association studies for diabetic retinopathy.

    Sotoodeh Abhary;Alex W. Hewitt;Kathryn P. Burdon;Jamie E. Craig

  • Genome-wide analysis of multi-ancestry cohorts identifies new loci influencing intraocular pressure and susceptibility to glaucoma

    Pirro G Hysi;Ching-Yu Cheng;Henriët Springelkamp;Stuart Macgregor

  • Evaluation of optineurin sequence variations in 1,048 patients with open-angle glaucoma.

    Wallace L.M Alward;Young H Kwon;Kazuhide Kawase;Jamie E Craig;Jamie E Craig

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma

    Matthew H. Law;D. Timothy Bishop;Jeffrey E. Lee;Myriam Brossard

  • Common variants near ABCA1, AFAP1 and GMDS confer risk of primary open-angle glaucoma

    Puya Gharahkhani;Kathryn P. Burdon;Kathryn P. Burdon;Rhys Fogarty;Shiwani Sharma

  • Mutations in TSPAN12 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy

    James A. Poulter;Manir Ali;David F. Gilmour;Aine Rice

  • Assessment of polygenic effects links primary open-angle glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration

    Gabriel Cuellar-Partida;Jamie E Craig;Kathryn Penelope Burdon;Jie Jin Wang

  • Genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for open angle glaucoma at TMCO1 and CDKN2B-AS1

    K. P. Burdon;S. MacGregor;A. W. Hewitt;S. Sharma

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Mackey
David A. Mackey University of Western Australia
Kathryn P. Burdon
Kathryn P. Burdon University of Tasmania
Alex W. Hewitt
Alex W. Hewitt University of Tasmania
John Landers
John Landers University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Stuart MacGregor
Stuart MacGregor QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell University of Sydney
Jie Jin Wang
Jie Jin Wang University of Sydney
Janey L. Wiggs
Janey L. Wiggs Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Tin Aung
Tin Aung National University of Singapore
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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