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Karl Skorecki is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work largely focuses on nephrology and related disciplines.

The main fields of study in which Karl Skorecki has published include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader areas, their research has covered several subfields such as:

  • Nephrology
  • Genetics
  • General Health Professions
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Health and Conflict Studies

Karl Skorecki has authored and co-authored numerous papers. Some recent publications are:

  • Covid-19 infection and mortality: a physiologist's perspective enlightening clinical features and plausible interventional strategies, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • Is there an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on male fertility? The ACE2 connection, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • ACE2, COVID-19 Infection, Inflammation, and Coagulopathy: Missing Pieces in the Puzzle, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • A Personalized Approach to Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Renal Manifestations of Covid-19: Physiology and Pathophysiology, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Asaf Vivante
  • Zaid Abassi
  • Ronit Calderon-Margalit
  • Etty Kruzel-Davila
  • Pravin C. Singhal

Frequent publication venues where Karl Skorecki's work appears are:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Pediatric Nephrology
  • Kidney International Reports

Best Publications

  • Insulin production by human embryonic stem cells.

    Suheir Assady;Gila Maor;Michal Amit;Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor

  • Missense mutations in the APOL1 gene are highly associated with end stage kidney disease risk previously attributed to the MYH9 gene

    Shay Tzur;Saharon Rosset;Revital Shemer;Guennady Yudkovsky

  • Preliminary Report: Missense mutations in the APOL gene family are associated with end stage kidney disease risk previously attributed to the MYH9 gene

    Shay Tzur;Saharon Rosset;Revital Shemer;Guennady Yudkovsky

  • The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

    Doron M. Behar;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Mait Metspalu;Ene Metspalu

  • Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

    Mait Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Ene Metspalu;Juri Parik

  • Interindividual Heterogeneity in the Hypoxic Regulation of VEGF Significance for the Development of the Coronary Artery Collateral Circulation

    Aylit Schultz;Lena Lavie;Irit Hochberg;Rafael Beyar

  • Body Mass Index in 1.2 Million Adolescents and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease

    Asaf Vivante;Eliezer Golan;Dorit Tzur;Adi Leiba

  • Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”

    Mark G. Thomas;Tudor Parfitt;Deborah A. Weiss;Karl Skorecki

  • The genetic legacy of religious diversity and intolerance: paternal lineages of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula.

    Susan M. Adams;Elena Bosch;Patricia L. Balaresque;Stéphane J. Ballereau

  • Origins of Old Testament priests.

    Mark Thomas;Karl Skorecki;H Ben-Ami;Tudor Parfitt

  • Response of the kidney to furosemide. I. Effects of salt intake and renal compensation.

    C S Wilcox;W E Mitch;R A Kelly;K Skorecki

  • Mitochondrial Hsp60 Chaperonopathy Causes an Autosomal-Recessive Neurodegenerative Disorder Linked to Brain Hypomyelination and Leukodystrophy

    Daniella Magen;Costa Georgopoulos;Peter Bross;Debbie Ang

  • The epithelial sodium-hydrogen antiporter Na+/H+ exchanger 3 accumulates and is functional in recycling endosomes

    Sudhir D'Souza;Ana Garcia-Cabado;Frank Yu;Ken Teter

  • Hypomethylation of subtelomeric regions in ICF syndrome is associated with abnormally short telomeres and enhanced transcription from telomeric regions

    Shiran Yehezkel;Yardena Segev;Evani Viegas-Péquignot;Karl Skorecki

  • Persistent Asymptomatic Isolated Microscopic Hematuria in Israeli Adolescents and Young Adults and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease

    Asaf Vivante;Arnon Afek;Yael Frenkel-Nir;Dorit Tzur

  • Kidney-specific Overexpression of Sirt1 Protects against Acute Kidney Injury by Retaining Peroxisome Function

    Kazuhiro Hasegawa;Shu Wakino;Kyoko Yoshioka;Satoru Tatematsu

  • Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase and the Small GTP-binding Protein, Rac, Contribute to the Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-β1 on Gene Expression

    Istvan Mucsi;Karl L. Skorecki;Howard J. Goldberg

  • Reduced glomerular angiotensin II receptor density in early untreated diabetes mellitus in the rat.

    B. J. Ballermann;K. L. Skorecki;B. M. Brenner

  • Induction of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 by Oncogenic Ras in Human Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

    Lynn E. Heasley;Seth Thaler;Michael Nicks;Brenda Price

  • The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event

    Doron M. Behar;Ene Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Alessandro Achilli

Frequent Co-Authors

Doron M. Behar
Doron M. Behar University of Tartu
Saharon Rosset
Saharon Rosset Tel Aviv University
Dennis A. Ausiello
Dennis A. Ausiello Harvard University
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Alan S. Verkman
Alan S. Verkman University of California, San Francisco
Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer University of Arizona
Ene Metspalu
Ene Metspalu University of Tartu
Moin A. Saleem
Moin A. Saleem University of Bristol
Barry I. Freedman
Barry I. Freedman Wake Forest University
Alan R. Templeton
Alan R. Templeton Washington University in St. Louis

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