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Overview

Kirk A. Rockett is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine with a focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, hematology, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The topics of Rockett's work include:

  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Blood groups and transfusion
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

They have published research extensively in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • eLife

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Dominic Kwiatkowski
  • Thomas N. Williams
  • Christina Hubbart
  • Gavin Band
  • Carolyne Ndila

Notable recent papers by Rockett include:

  • "Genome variation and population structure among 1142 mosquitoes of the African malaria vector species Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii", 2020, Genome Research
  • "Genetic surveillance in the Greater Mekong subregion and South Asia to support malaria control and elimination", 2021, eLife
  • "Red blood cell tension protects against severe malaria in the Dantu blood group", 2020, Nature
  • "Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype", 2021, Nature
  • "Malaria is a cause of iron deficiency in African children", 2021, Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

    Deepti Gurdasani;Tommy Carstensen;Tommy Carstensen;Fasil Tekola-Ayele;Luca Pagani

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

    Magnus Manske;Magnus Manske;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto;Susana Campino;Susana Campino;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn

  • Multiple populations of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia

    Olivo Miotto;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Jacob Almagro-Garcia;Magnus Manske;Bronwyn MacInnis

  • Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

    Alistair Miles;Alistair Miles;Nicholas J. Harding;Giordano Bottà;Giordano Bottà;Chris S. Clarkson;Chris S. Clarkson

  • Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

    Muminatou Jallow;Yik Ying Teo;Yik Ying Teo;Kerrin S. Small;Kerrin S. Small;Kirk A. Rockett;Kirk A. Rockett

  • Killing of Plasmodium falciparum in vitro by nitric oxide derivatives

    K A Rockett;M M Awburn;W B Cowden;I A Clark

  • 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Induces Nitric Oxide Synthase and Suppresses Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Human Macrophage-Like Cell Line

    Kirk A. Rockett;Roger Brookes;Irina Udalova;Vincent Vidal

  • Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

    Thorsten Thye;Fredrik O. Vannberg;Sunny H. Wong;Ellis Owusu-Dabo

  • Severe anemia in Malawian children.

    Job Cj Calis;Kamija S Phiri;E Brian Faragher;Bernard J Brabin

  • Evolution and expansion of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a genomic epidemiology study

    William L Hamilton;William L Hamilton;Roberto Amato;Roberto Amato;Rob W van der Pluijm;Rob W van der Pluijm;Christopher G Jacob

  • In vivo characterization of regulatory polymorphisms by allele-specific quantification of RNA polymerase loading.

    Julian C. Knight;Julian C. Knight;Brendan J. Keating;Kirk A. Rockett;Dominic P. Kwiatkowski;Dominic P. Kwiatkowski

  • Reappraisal of known malaria resistance loci in a large multicenter study.

    Kirk A. Rockett;Geraldine M. Clarke;Kathryn Fitzpatrick

  • Common variation in the ABO glycosyltransferase is associated with susceptibility to severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Andrew Evan Fry;Michael J. Griffiths;Michael J. Griffiths;Sarah Auburn;Mahamadou Diakite

  • Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians.

    Angels Natividad;Angels Natividad;Jeremy Hull;Gaia Luoni;Martin Holland;Martin Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Taane G. Clark
Taane G. Clark London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Susana Campino
Susana Campino London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sarah Auburn
Sarah Auburn Charles Darwin University
Malcolm E. Molyneux
Malcolm E. Molyneux Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
David J. Conway
David J. Conway London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Margaret Pinder
Margaret Pinder Durham University
Philip Bejon
Philip Bejon University of Oxford
Giorgio Sirugo
Giorgio Sirugo University of Pennsylvania

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