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Michèle Ramsay is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a primary focus on genetics and molecular biology subfields. Ramsay's work addresses multiple areas including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Genetics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research
  • Genomics and rare diseases
  • Diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins
  • Lipoproteins and cardiovascular health
  • Chronic kidney disease and diabetes
  • Blood pressure and hypertension studies

Michèle Ramsay has contributed extensively to the scientific literature with notable recent papers including:

  • "High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health," published in 2020 in Nature
  • "African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda," published in 2021 in Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers," published in 2021 in Nature Communications
  • "Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda: a multicentre cohort study," published in 2022 in The Lancet Global Health
  • "Bantu-speaker migration and admixture in southern Africa," published in 2020 in Human Molecular Genetics

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, which includes:

  • Ananyo Choudhury
  • Scott Hazelhurst
  • Palwendé Romuald Boua
  • Godfred Agongo
  • Lisa K. Micklesfield

Ramsay's publications appear often in several key venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Nature Communications
  • Human Molecular Genetics

Best Publications

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

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

  • Runs of homozygosity: windows into population history and trait architecture.

    Francisco C Ceballos;Peter K Joshi;David W Clark;Michèle Ramsay

  • Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

    Charles Rotimi;Akin Abayomi;Alash'le Abimiku;Victoria May Adabayeri

  • High polymorphism at the human melanocortin 1 receptor locus.

    Brinda K. Rana;David Hewett-Emmett;Li Jin;Benny H J Chang

  • Lipoid proteinosis maps to 1q21 and is caused by mutations in the extracellular matrix protein 1 gene (ECM1)

    Takahiro Hamada;W. H. Irwin McLean;Michele Ramsay;Gabrielle H. S. Ashton

  • APOL1 Risk Variants Are Strongly Associated with HIV-Associated Nephropathy in Black South Africans

    Alex N. Kasembeli;Raquel Duarte;Michèle Ramsay;Pulane Mosiane

  • High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health

    Ananyo Choudhury;Shaun Aron;Laura R. Botigué;Dhriti Sengupta

  • Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians

    Ning Yu;Feng Chi Chen;Feng Chi Chen;Satoshi Ota;Lynn B. Jorde

  • HUMAN PIGMENTATION GENETICS : THE DIFFERENCE IS ONLY SKIN DEEP

    Richard A. Sturm;Neil F. Box;Michele Ramsay

  • Mutation Detection in the ABCC6 Gene and Genotype-Phenotype Analysis in a Large International Case Series Affected by Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum

    Ellen G Pfendner;Olivier M Vanakker;Sharon F Terry;Sophia Vourthis

  • Exposure of Mouse Embryos to Ethanol During Preimplantation Development: Effect on DNA Methylation in the H19 Imprinting Control Region

    Philip C. Haycock;Michéle Ramsay

  • Worldwide DNA sequence variation in a 10-kilobase noncoding region on human chromosome 22

    Zhongming Zhao;Li Jin;Yun Xin Fu;Michele Ramsay

  • H3Africa AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre: a resource to study the interplay between genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in four sub-Saharan African countries.

    M Ramsay;N Crowther;E Tambo;G Agongo

  • Rufous Oculocutaneous Albinism in Southern African Blacks Is Caused by Mutations in the TYRP1 Gene

    P. Manga;J.G.R. Kromberg;N.F. Box;R.A. Sturm

  • Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci

    Tin Aung;Tin Aung;Mineo Ozaki;Mei Chin Lee;Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt

  • The tyrosinase-positive oculocutaneous albinism locus maps to chromosome 15q11.2-q12.

    M Ramsay;M A Colman;G Stevens;E Zwane

  • The Effect of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Epigenetic Remodeling of the H19 and Rasgrf1 Imprinting Control Regions in Mouse Offspring

    Jaysen Gregory Knezovich;Michèle Ramsay

  • Global Patterns of Human DNA Sequence Variation in a 10-kb Region on Chromosome 1

    Ning Yu;Z. Zhao;Y. X. Fu;N. Sambuughin

  • African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda.

    Luisa Pereira;Leon Mutesa;Paulina Tindana;Michèle Ramsay

  • Clinical and molecular characterization of lipoid proteinosis in Namaqualand, South Africa.

    W Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken;Ien Chan;T Hamada;H Thornton

Frequent Co-Authors

Trefor Jenkins
Trefor Jenkins University of the Witwatersrand
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Charles N. Rotimi
Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Sue Povey
Sue Povey University College London
Michael A. Hauser
Michael A. Hauser Duke University
Tin Aung
Tin Aung National University of Singapore
André Reis
André Reis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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