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Overview

Mark O. Goodarzi is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States and has a strong research focus in medicine, particularly at the intersection of genetics, endocrinology, and metabolic disorders. Their work encompasses a range of studies in medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research spans several subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, and physiology. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into complex biological systems and disease mechanisms.

Key research topics in their portfolio include genetic associations and epidemiology, diabetes and associated disorders, pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes management and research, diet and metabolism studies, diabetes treatment and management, and nutritional studies and diet.

Goodarzi has co-authored extensively with several researchers, with frequent collaborators including Jerome I. Rotter, Stephen S. Rich, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Xiuqing Guo, and Kent D. Taylor. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial body of research publications.

The scientist's work has been published frequently in venues such as Communications Medicine, Diabetes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Gastroenterology, and UNC Libraries, demonstrating a consistent presence in both clinical and biomedical research literature.

Representative recent publications include:

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, and Stroke (2020), published in Diabetes
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (2024), published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • The effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on clinical and biochemical parameters of critically ill patients with COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial (2021), published in Journal of Translational Medicine
  • Second international consensus report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine (2023), published in Nature Medicine
  • Causes and Consequences of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Insights From Mendelian Randomization (2021), published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • 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

  • 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

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome: etiology, pathogenesis and diagnosis

    Mark O. Goodarzi;Daniel A. Dumesic;Gregorio Chazenbalk;Ricardo Azziz

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in > 300,000 individuals

    Dajiang J Liu;Gina M Peloso;Gina M Peloso;Haojie Yu;Adam S Butterworth;Adam S Butterworth

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

    Felix R. Day;Katherine S. Ruth;Deborah J Thompson;Kathryn L. Lunetta

  • Genetics of obesity: what genetic association studies have taught us about the biology of obesity and its complications

    Mark O Goodarzi

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria.

    Felix Day;Tugce Karaderi;Tugce Karaderi;Michelle R Jones;Cindy Meun

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • Type 3c (pancreatogenic) diabetes mellitus secondary to chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer

    Phil A Hart;Melena D Bellin;Dana K Andersen;David Bradley

  • Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

    Anubha Mahajan;Jennifer Wessel;Sara M. Willems;Wei Zhao

  • Genome-wide association of polycystic ovary syndrome implicates alterations in gonadotropin secretion in European ancestry populations

    M. Geoffrey Hayes;Margrit Urbanek;David A. Ehrmann;Loren L. Armstrong

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
yiider ida chen
yiider ida chen UCLA Medical Center
Xiuqing Guo
Xiuqing Guo Lundquist Institute
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Ricardo Azziz
Ricardo Azziz University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University

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