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Muredach P. Reilly

Muredach P. Reilly

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Medicine

D-Index
132
Citations
83332
World Ranking
2280
National Ranking
1288

Overview

Muredach P. Reilly is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable subfields including Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Surgery.

Their work concentrates on several key topics, including:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Immune cells in cancer

Reilly has contributed to multiple publications, among which the following recent papers stand out:

  • Single-Cell Genomics Reveals a Novel Cell State During Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Switching and Potential Therapeutic Targets for Atherosclerosis in Mouse and Human (2020, Circulation)
  • The AIM2 inflammasome exacerbates atherosclerosis in clonal haematopoiesis (2021, Nature)
  • Deep learning enables accurate clustering with batch effect removal in single-cell RNA-seq analysis (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Genome-wide analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • Inflammation and Circulating Natriuretic Peptide Levels (2020, Circulation Heart Failure)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Yuichi J. Shimada
  • Michael A. Fifer
  • Chenyi Xue
  • Matthew J. Maurer
  • Kohei Hasegawa

Reilly publishes consistently in several academic venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in:

  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes.

    Struan F. A. Grant;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Inga Reynisdottir;Rafil Benediktsson

  • 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

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors and the Antiplatelet Effects of Aspirin

    Francesca Catella-Lawson;Muredach P. Reilly;Shiv C. Kapoor;Andrew J. Cucchiara

  • A common variant on chromosome 9p21 affects the risk of myocardial infarction

    Anna Helgadottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Andrei Manolescu;Solveig Gretarsdottir

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Resistin Is an Inflammatory Marker of Atherosclerosis in Humans

    Muredach P. Reilly;Michael Lehrke;Megan L. Wolfe;Anand K Rohatgi

  • Mean platelet volume as a predictor of cardiovascular risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    S. G. Chu;R. C. Becker;P. B. Berger;D. L. Bhatt

  • A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes.

    Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Inga Reynisdottir;Rafn Benediktsson

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Eva Halapi;Anna Helgadottir

  • Triglyceride-mediated pathways and coronary disease : collaborative analysis of 101 studies

    N Sarwar;M S Sandhu

  • Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

    Julius Gudmundsson;Patrick Sulem;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Jon T. Bergthorsson

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Mingyao Li
Mingyao Li University of Pennsylvania
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Ruth McPherson
Ruth McPherson University of Ottawa
Danish Saleheen
Danish Saleheen Columbia University
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford
Christopher P. Nelson
Christopher P. Nelson University of Leicester

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