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Jonathan Stephens is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses multiple scientific fields, concentrating primarily on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these main fields, Stephens has published extensively on subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work addresses various scientific topics including Genomics and Rare Diseases, Forensic and Genetic Research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Platelet Disorders and Treatments, and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Stephens include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection, 2021, Nature
  • Age-related immune response heterogeneity to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine BNT162b2, 2021, Nature
  • Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 to mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies, 2021, Nature
  • Nuclear-mitochondrial DNA segments resemble paternally inherited mitochondrial DNA in humans, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mutational and phenotypic characterization of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, 2020, Blood

Stephens has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Nicholas Gleadall
  • Willem H. Ouwehand
  • Ernest Turro
  • Nathalie Kingston
  • Luca Stefanucci

Their publications appear mainly in journals such as Nature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Blood, Nature Communications, and the European Journal of Human Genetics.

Best Publications

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection.

    Steven A. Kemp;Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Rawlings P. Datir;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Age-related immune response heterogeneity to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine BNT162b2.

    Dami A Collier;Dami A Collier;Isabella A T M Ferreira;Prasanti Kotagiri;Rawlings P Datir;Rawlings P Datir

  • A genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci associated with eight hematological parameters in the HaemGen consortium

    Nicole Soranzo;Nicole Soranzo;Tim D Spector;Massimo Mangino;Brigitte Kühnel

  • Genome-wide association study of ulcerative colitis identifies three new susceptibility loci, including the HNF4A region

    Jeffrey C Barrett;James C Lee;Charles W Lees;Natalie J Prescott

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system.

    E Turro;W J Astle;W J Astle;K Megy;S Gräf

  • FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

    Jian Yang;Jian Yang;Ruth J F Loos;Ruth J F Loos;Joseph E. Powell;Joseph E. Powell;Sarah E. Medland

  • Leukemia-Associated Somatic Mutations Drive Distinct Patterns of Age-Related Clonal Hemopoiesis

    Thomas McKerrell;Naomi Park;Thaidy Moreno;Carolyn S. Grove

  • New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation

    Christian Gieger;Aparna Radhakrishnan;Ana Cvejic;Weihong Tang

  • Compound inheritance of a low-frequency regulatory SNP and a rare null mutation in exon-junction complex subunit RBM8A causes TAR syndrome

    Cornelis A. Albers;Cornelis A. Albers;Cornelis A. Albers;Dirk S. Paul;Harald Schulze;Kathleen Freson

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

    Ernest Turro;William J Astle;Karyn Megy;Stefan Graf

  • Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

    Pim Van Der Harst;Weihua Zhang;Irene Mateo Leach;Augusto Rendon

  • Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

    Matthew R. Robinson;Aaron Kleinman;Mariaelisa Graff;Anna A.E. Vinkhuyzen

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Analysis Identifies Novel Variants for Coronary Artery Disease

    Adam S. Butterworth;Peter S. Braund;Martin Farrall;Robert J. Hardwick

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Scans for Human Adult Stature Identifies Novel Loci and Associations with Measures of Skeletal Frame Size

    Nicole Soranzo;Nicole Soranzo;Fernando Rivadeneira;Usha Chinappen-Horsley;Ida Malkina

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

  • Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

    Pim van der Harst;Weihua Zhang;Irene Mateo Leach;Augusto Rendon

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Alison H. Goodall
Alison H. Goodall University of Leicester
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Michael Laffan
Michael Laffan Imperial College London
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Matthew A. Brown
Matthew A. Brown Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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