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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Michael Boehnke is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans various topics primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Over their career, they have produced significant work in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment.

Frequent collaborators include Markku Laakso, Karen L. Mohlke, Laura J. Scott, Anne Jackson, and Lori L. Bonnycastle.

Boehnke has published extensively in various venues with the highest concentration of publications in:

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

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans," 2020, Nature
  • "Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program," 2021, Nature
  • "Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics," 2020, Nature
  • "A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes," 2023, Nature

Michael Boehnke has been recognized by several professional organizations. They were made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2002, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.

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

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

  • Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods.

    Sayantan Das;Lukas Forer;Sebastian Schönherr;Carlo Sidore;Carlo Sidore

  • 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

  • A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants.

    Laura J. Scott;Karen L. Mohlke;Lori L. Bonnycastle;Cristen J. Willer

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • 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

  • LocusZoom: regional visualization of genome-wide association scan results

    Randall J. Pruim;Ryan P. Welch;Serena Sanna;Tanya M. Teslovich

  • Rare-Variant Association Testing for Sequencing Data with the Sequence Kernel Association Test

    Michael C. Wu;Seunggeun Lee;Tianxi Cai;Yun Li

  • 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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

    Maria Eriksson;W. Ted Brown;Leslie B. Gordon;Leslie B. Gordon;Michael W. Glynn

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anne U. Jackson
Anne U. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Karen L. Mohlke
Karen L. Mohlke University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Johanna Kuusisto
Johanna Kuusisto University of Eastern Finland
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University

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