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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nilesh J. Samani is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span several key areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work extensively covers cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, physiology, genetics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research has addressed a diverse range of topics, including:

  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nilesh J. Samani include:

  • Christopher P. Nelson (52 co-publications)
  • Adriaan A. Voors (41 co-publications)
  • Chim C. Lang (40 co-publications)
  • Leong L. Ng (39 co-publications)
  • Marco Metra (38 co-publications)

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, with notable frequent publication sources such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 19 publications
  • European Journal of Heart Failure - 13 publications
  • Cardiovascular Research - 10 publications
  • Nature Genetics - 7 publications
  • European Heart Journal - 7 publications

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants," 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Circulating plasma concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in men and women with heart failure and effects of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone inhibitors," 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Polygenic basis and biomedical consequences of telomere length variation," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Measurement and initial characterization of leukocyte telomere length in 474,074 participants in UK Biobank," 2022, Nature Aging
  • "Genome-wide Association Analysis in Humans Links Nucleotide Metabolism to Leukocyte Telomere Length," 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Nilesh J. Samani's contributions have been recognized by awards such as the fellowship of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

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

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

  • 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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

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

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

  • 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

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

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • 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

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

Christopher P. Nelson
Christopher P. Nelson University of Leicester
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mark J. Caulfield
Mark J. Caulfield Queen Mary University of London
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London

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