What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
Her primary scientific interests are in Genetics, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Alzheimer's disease and PICALM.
Her Genetics research includes themes of Case-control study and Late onset.
She interconnects Molecular genetics and Human genetics in the investigation of issues within Late onset.
Her Genome-wide association study study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Cerebellum, Progressive supranuclear palsy, Temporal cortex and Linkage disequilibrium.
Her Single-nucleotide polymorphism research incorporates themes from Odds ratio, Apolipoprotein E and Age of onset.
Minerva M. Carrasquillo combines subjects such as Common disease-common variant, TREM2, Dementia, Human brain and Regulation of gene expression with her study of Alzheimer's disease.
Her most cited work include:
- Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease (2614 citations)
- Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (2556 citations)
- TREM2 Variants in Alzheimer's Disease (1646 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Her scientific interests lie mostly in Genetics, Disease, Genome-wide association study, Alzheimer's disease and Gene.
Her work in Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus, Haplotype, Allele and PICALM is related to Genetics.
Her Single-nucleotide polymorphism research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Odds ratio and Age of onset.
Her Disease research integrates issues from Computational biology, Immunology and Bioinformatics.
Her research in Genome-wide association study intersects with topics in Temporal cortex, Case-control study, Genetic association, Apolipoprotein E and Candidate gene.
Her study in Alzheimer's disease is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both TREM2, Dementia and Oncology.
She most often published in these fields:
- Genetics (48.85%)
- Disease (44.25%)
- Genome-wide association study (33.91%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Disease (44.25%)
- Computational biology (14.94%)
- Gene (17.24%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Minerva M. Carrasquillo mainly investigates Disease, Computational biology, Gene, Gene expression and Neuropathology.
Her research integrates issues of Neurology, Immune system and Bioinformatics in her study of Disease.
Her Computational biology research also works with subjects such as
- Expression quantitative trait loci together with Colocalization, Genotyping, Meta-analysis and Quantitative trait locus,
- Allele, which have a strong connection to Dementia.
Her studies in Gene integrate themes in fields like Cell type and Vascular risk.
The various areas that she examines in her Neuropathology study include Biomarker, Genome-wide association study and Immunology.
Genome-wide association study is a primary field of her research addressed under Genetics.
Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Systematic analysis of dark and camouflaged genes reveals disease-relevant genes hiding in plain sight (60 citations)
- A nonsynonymous mutation in PLCG2 reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, and increases the likelihood of longevity (44 citations)
- Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions. (15 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
Minerva M. Carrasquillo focuses on Computational biology, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Gene and Meta-analysis.
Her Computational biology research incorporates elements of Exon, Cell type, Human genetics and Human genome.
The Genome-wide association study study combines topics in areas such as Immunology, PICALM and Microglia.
Her work carried out in the field of Disease brings together such families of science as Epistasis, Genetics and Autopsy.
Many of her research projects under Gene are closely connected to Molecular medicine with Molecular medicine, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.
She combines Alzheimer's disease and Hippocampal sclerosis in her research.
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