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2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Genetics

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141
Citations
105844
World Ranking
178
National Ranking
33

Medicine

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141
Citations
108813
World Ranking
1588
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Massimo Mangino is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on genetics and molecular biology subfields such as immunology, physiology, and public health.

The primary fields of study where Mangino has contributed include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad areas, their work emphasizes several specific subfields:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Immunology
  • Physiology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The scientist's research topics involve:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Mangino has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Vaccine side-effects and SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in users of the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK: a prospective observational study, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals, 2022, Nature Genetics

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Medicine

Massimo Mangino has collaborated with several researchers on numerous publications, including:

  • Tim D. Spector
  • Cristina Menni
  • Jouke-Jan Hottenga
  • Ana M. Valdes
  • Tõnu Esko

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

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

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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19.

    Cristina Menni;Ana M. Valdes;Ana M. Valdes;Maxim B. Freidin;Carole H. Sudre

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • 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

  • 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

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

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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