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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Jose C. Florez is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant output in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Their scientific contributions address several key topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Pancreatic Function and Diabetes, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Diabetes and Associated Disorders, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Jose C. Florez has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Diabetes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diabetes Care, Nature Communications, and Diabetologia.

Among their recent and notable papers are:

  • The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans, 2020, Nature
  • Genetics of diabetes mellitus and diabetes complications, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2023, Nature
  • Precision Medicine in Diabetes: A Consensus Report From the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), 2020, Diabetes Care
  • Transcript expression-aware annotation improves rare variant interpretation, 2020, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their research include Josep M. Mercader, Miriam S. Udler, Alisa K. Manning, Aaron Leong, and Josée Dupuis.

Jose C. Florez is recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Metabolite profiles and the risk of developing diabetes

    Thomas J Wang;Martin G Larson;Martin G Larson;Ramachandran S Vasan;Ramachandran S Vasan;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng

  • Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Triglyceride Levels

    Richa Saxena;Benjamin F. Voight;Valeriya Lyssenko;Noël P. Burtt

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genetics of diabetes mellitus and diabetes complications.

    Joanne B Cole;Jose C Florez;Jose C Florez

  • TCF7L2 polymorphisms and progression to diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program.

    Jose C. Florez;Kathleen A. Jablonski;Nick Bayley;Toni I. Pollin

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance.

    Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Robert A. Scott;Jonna L. Grimsby

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Genotype Score in Addition to Common Risk Factors for Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes

    James B. Meigs;Peter Shrader;Lisa M. Sullivan;Jarred B. McAteer

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University
Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Alisa K. Manning
Alisa K. Manning Harvard University

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