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79
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53555
World Ranking
1606
National Ranking
739

Overview

Karol Estrada is affiliated with BioMarin in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Surgery.

The scientist's main research topics cover Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Phenome-wide Mendelian randomization mapping the influence of the plasma proteome on complex diseases, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Meta-Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Human Brain Transcriptome and Functional Dissection in Mouse Models, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Harnessing peripheral DNA methylation differences in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) to reveal novel biomarkers of disease, 2020, Clinical Epigenetics
  • Differences in the Presentation and Progression of Parkinson's Disease by Sex, 2020, Movement Disorders

Frequent co-authors working with Karol Estrada include Joseph Maranville, Robert Graham, Nicole Renaud, Clément Chatelain, and Tomi P. Mäkelä.

Karol Estrada's research has been published primarily in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Genetics, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Nature Communications.

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

    Karol Estrada;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Evangelos Evangelou;Yi-Hsiang Hsu

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • 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

  • Twenty bone mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Fernando Rivadeneira;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Karol Estrada;Bjarni V. Halldorsson

  • Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

    Cecilia M. Lindgren;Iris M. Heid;Joshua C. Randall;Claudia Lamina

  • Whole-genome sequence variation, population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population

    Laurent C. Francioli;Androniki Menelaou;Sara L. Pulit;Freerk van Dijk

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Wouter van Rheenen;Aleksey Shatunov;Annelot M. Dekker;Russell L. McLaughlin

  • Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance.

    Jian Yang;Michael N Weedon;Shaun Purcell;Shaun Purcell;Guillaume Lettre

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies EN1 as a determinant of bone density and fracture.

    Hou Feng Zheng;Vincenzo Forgetta;Yi Hsiang Hsu;Yi Hsiang Hsu;Karol Estrada

  • The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Juan Carlos Fernández-López;Fouad Zakharia

  • 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

  • Phenome-wide Mendelian randomization mapping the influence of the plasma proteome on complex diseases.

    Jie Zheng;Valeriia Haberland;Denis A Baird;Venexia M Walker

  • Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study.

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Mark Eijgelsheim;Kenneth M Rice;Paul I W de Bakker;Paul I W de Bakker

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Rivadeneira
Fernando Rivadeneira Erasmus University Rotterdam
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Claes Ohlsson
Claes Ohlsson University of Gothenburg
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Carolina Medina-Gomez
Carolina Medina-Gomez Erasmus University Rotterdam
Najaf Amin
Najaf Amin University of Oxford

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