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Overview

Jerome I. Rotter is affiliated with UCLA Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a concentrated focus on genetics and molecular biology as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their prominent areas of study include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Jerome I. Rotter has a significant publication record, with recent notable papers including:

  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases, 2020, published in Cell
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations, 2020, published in Cell
  • Predictors of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, published in Journal of Medical Virology
  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals, 2020, published in Nature
  • Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes, 2021, published in Science

Their frequent collaborators include Stephen S. Rich, Kent D. Taylor, Xiuqing Guo, Bruce M. Psaty, and Eric Boerwinkle.

Jerome I. Rotter has contributed extensively to several publication venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Nature Communications
  • Diabetes

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

    Richard H. Duerr;Kent D. Taylor;Steven R. Brant;Steven R. Brant;John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

    John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux;Ramnik J. Xavier;Kent D. Taylor;Mark S. Silverberg

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Mitochondrial ribosomal RNA mutation associated with both antibiotic-induced and non-syndromic deafness.

    T R Prezant;J V Agapian;M C Bohlman;X Bu

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • 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

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Xiuqing Guo
Xiuqing Guo Lundquist Institute
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
yiider ida chen
yiider ida chen UCLA Medical Center
Tamara B. Harris
Tamara B. Harris National Institutes of Health

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