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  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Miriam F. Moffatt is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on research in Medicine with a specialization in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Emergency Medical Services, and Oncology.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Moffatt has contributed to several recent scientific papers published in various venues. Notable publications include:

  • "Respiratory Viral Infection Alters the Gut Microbiota by Inducing Inappetence" (2020) in mBio
  • "Neutrophilic inflammation in the respiratory mucosa predisposes to RSV infection" (2020) in Science
  • "The fungal airway microbiome in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis" (2020) in Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
  • "Airway mucins promote immunopathology in virus-exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" (2022) in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "A large-scale genome-wide association analysis of lung function in the Chinese population identifies novel loci and highlights shared genetic aetiology with obesity" (2021) in European Respiratory Journal

Their research outputs are frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Moffatt collaborates frequently with other researchers, with several notable co-authors including William Cookson, Leah Cuthbertson, Sanjay Popat, Saffron A.G. Willis-Owen, and Michael J. Cox.

The scientist has been recognized by the academic community, receiving the award of Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A large-scale, consortium-based genomewide association study of asthma.

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Ivo G. Gut;Florence Demenais;David P. Strachan

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • Disordered Microbial Communities in Asthmatic Airways

    Markus Hilty;Conor Burke;Helder Pedro;Helder Pedro;Paul Cardenas

  • Genetic variants regulating ORMDL3 expression contribute to the risk of childhood asthma

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Michael Kabesch;Liming Liang;Anna L. Dixon

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

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

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • A genome-wide association study of global gene expression

    Anna L Dixon;Anna L Dixon;Liming Liang;Miriam F Moffatt;Wei Chen

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Mapping complex disease traits with global gene expression

    William Cookson;Liming Liang;Gonçalo Abecasis;Miriam Moffatt

  • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis.

    Tasha E. Fingerlin;Elissa Murphy;Weiming Zhang;Anna L. Peljto

  • The Role of Bacteria in the Pathogenesis and Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Phillip L. Molyneaux;Michael J. Cox;Saffron A. G. Willis-Owen;Patrick Mallia

  • A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

    Richard M. Durbin;David L. Altshuler;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David R. Bentley

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Gene polymorphism in Netherton and common atopic disease.

    A J Walley;S Chavanas;M F Moffatt;R M Esnouf

  • Genetic linkage of childhood atopic dermatitis to psoriasis susceptibility loci

    William O.C.M. Cookson;Baljinder Ubhi;Robert Lawrence;Gonçalo R. Abecasis

  • Outgrowth of the Bacterial Airway Microbiome after Rhinovirus Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Philip L. Molyneaux;Patrick Mallia;Michael J. Cox;Joseph Footitt

  • Positional cloning of a novel gene influencing asthma from Chromosome 2q14

    Maxine Allen;Andrea Heinzmann;Emiko Noguchi;Gonçalo Abecasis

  • Extent and Distribution of Linkage Disequilibrium in Three Genomic Regions

    Gonçalo R. Abecasis;Emiko Noguchi;Andrea Heinzmann;James A. Traherne

  • Positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 13q14 that influences immunoglobulin E levels and asthma.

    Youming Zhang;Nicholas I Leaves;Gavin G Anderson;Chris P Ponting

  • Variants of DENND1B Associated with Asthma in Children

    Patrick M. A. Sleiman;James Flory;Marcin Imielinski;Jonathan P. Bradfield

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

William O.C.M. Cookson
William O.C.M. Cookson Imperial College London
Florence Demenais
Florence Demenais Université Paris Cité
Mark Lathrop
Mark Lathrop McGill University
Liming Liang
Liming Liang Harvard University
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David P. Strachan
David P. Strachan St George's, University of London
Erik Melén
Erik Melén Karolinska Institute
Erika von Mutius
Erika von Mutius Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Valérie Siroux
Valérie Siroux Grenoble Alpes University
Catherine Laprise
Catherine Laprise Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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