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Nicholette D. Palmer

Nicholette D. Palmer

Overview

Nicholette D. Palmer is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on genetic associations, epidemiology, and molecular biology related to diabetes and kidney disease.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields prominently represented in their work are:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nephrology
  • Cancer Research
  • Immunology

The scientific topics frequently addressed in their publications include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Recent publications by Nicholette D. Palmer include:

  • The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: An open access genetic resource dedicated to type 2 diabetes and related traits (2023, Cell Metabolism)
  • Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • The Contribution of Kidney Disease to Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (2020, Current Diabetes Reports)
  • Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits - the Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Mutational signature analyses in multi-child families reveal sources of age-related increases in human germline mutations (2024, Communications Biology)

Nicholette D. Palmer has coauthored work frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Xiuqing Guo
  • Laura M. Raffield
  • John Blangero
  • Stephen S. Rich
  • Barry I. Freedman

Their research has been published across various notable venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Circulation
  • Cell Metabolism
  • Nature Genetics
  • Current Diabetes Reports

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes.

    Alexander G Bick;Joshua S Weinstock;Satish K Nandakumar;Satish K Nandakumar;Charles P Fulco;Charles P Fulco

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations

    Madeline H Kowalski;Huijun Qian;Ziyi Hou;Jonathan D Rosen

  • A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.

    Keri L. Monda;Keri L. Monda;Gary K. Chen;Kira C. Taylor;Kira C. Taylor;Cameron Palmer;Cameron Palmer

  • Metabolomic Profile Associated With Insulin Resistance and Conversion to Diabetes in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study

    Nicholette D. Palmer;Robert D. Stevens;Peter A. Antinozzi;Andrea Anderson

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in African Americans Provides Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Type 2 Diabetes

    Maggie C Y Ng;Daniel Shriner;Brian H Chen;Jiang Li

  • Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Jennifer Wessel;Audrey Y. Chu;Sara M. Willems;Shuai Wang

  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale

    Xihao Li;Zilin Li;Hufeng Zhou;Sheila M Gaynor

  • Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study

    Ervin R. Fox;J. Hunter Young;Yali Li;Albert W. Dreisbach

  • Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Jennifer Wessel;Audrey Y. Chu;Sara M. Willems;Shuai Wang

  • The Trans-Ancestral Genomic Architecture of Glycaemic Traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald W. Bowden
Donald W. Bowden Wake Forest University
Carl D. Langefeld
Carl D. Langefeld Wake Forest University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Lynne E. Wagenknecht
Lynne E. Wagenknecht Wake Forest University
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Xiuqing Guo
Xiuqing Guo Lundquist Institute
yiider ida chen
yiider ida chen UCLA Medical Center
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Susan Redline
Susan Redline Brigham and Women's Hospital

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