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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Nicole Soranzo is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant contributions in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Hematology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, RNA Research and Splicing, and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Genetics
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Nature

Notable recent publications feature titles, year, and venues as follows:

  • "A brief history of human disease genetics", 2020, Nature
  • "A map of transcriptional heterogeneity and regulatory variation in human microglia", 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis", 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function", 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness", 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Their research collaborations involve frequent coauthors including Adam S. Butterworth, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, John Danesh, David J. Roberts, and Kousik Kundu.

Best Publications

  • Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations

    D M Altshuler;R A Gibbs;L Peltonen

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

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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

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

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

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • 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

  • Genomic atlas of the human plasma proteome.

    Benjamin Sun;Joseph C Maranville;James E Peters;James E Peters;David Stacey

  • An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites

    So-Youn Shin;Eric B Fauman;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Jan Krumsiek

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    K Walter;J L Min;J Huang

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease

    William J. Astle;Heather Elding;Heather Elding;Tao Jiang;Dave Allen

  • Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans

    Jennifer E. Huffman;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Massimo Mangino

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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