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Overview

Noah Zaitlen is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 228 publications contributing to this area. Within this broad discipline, their work focuses extensively on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Neurology, and Physiology.

The scientist's research explores a range of specialized topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research.

Noah Zaitlen has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators such as Sriram Sankararaman, Alexander Gusev, Christa Caggiano, Richard Border, and Andy Dahl. Their publication record is distributed across multiple venues, with a particular emphasis on bioRxiv from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Zenodo at CERN, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Nature Communications, and Genome Medicine.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism" (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cell type-specific molecular and genetic associations to lupus" (2022), published in Science
  • "TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Toward a fine-scale population health monitoring system" (2021), published in Cell
  • "Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates" (2022), published in Science

Best Publications

  • Variance component model to account for sample structure in genome-wide association studies

    Hyun Min Kang;Jae Hoon Sul;Noah A. Zaitlen

  • Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping

    Hyun Min Kang;Noah A. Zaitlen;Claire M. Wade;Claire M. Wade;Andrew Kirby;Andrew Kirby

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • New approaches to population stratification in genome-wide association studies

    Alkes L. Price;Noah A. Zaitlen;Noah A. Zaitlen;David Reich;Nick Patterson

  • Multiplexed droplet single-cell RNA-sequencing using natural genetic variation

    Hyun Min Kang;Meena Subramaniam;Sasha Targ;Michelle Nguyen

  • Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods

    Jian Yang;Noah A Zaitlen;Michael E Goddard;Peter M Visscher;Peter M Visscher

  • Genome-wide association analysis of metabolic traits in a birth cohort from a founder population

    Chiara Sabatti;Anna-Liisa Hartikainen;Anneli Pouta

  • Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism.

    Luisa N. Borrell;Jennifer R. Elhawary;Elena Fuentes-Afflick;Jonathan Witonsky

  • Using Extended Genealogy to Estimate Components of Heritability for 23 Quantitative and Dichotomous Traits

    Noah Zaitlen;Phillip L. Kraft;Phillip L. Kraft;Nick Patterson;Bogdan Pasaniuc

  • Genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder in European American and African American individuals.

    E. N. Smith;E. N. Smith;C. S. Bloss;J. A. Badner;T. Barrett

  • COPA mutations impair ER-Golgi transport and cause hereditary autoimmune-mediated lung disease and arthritis

    Levi B. Watkin;Birthe Jessen;Wojciech Wiszniewski;Timothy J. Vece

  • Extremely low-coverage sequencing and imputation increases power for genome-wide association studies

    Bogdan Pasaniuc;Bogdan Pasaniuc;Nadin Rohland;Nadin Rohland;Paul J. McLaren;Paul J. McLaren;Kiran Garimella

  • Sparse PCA corrects for cell type heterogeneity in epigenome-wide association studies.

    Elior Rahmani;Noah Zaitlen;Yael Baran;Celeste Eng

  • Transethnic Genetic-Correlation Estimates from Summary Statistics

    Brielin C. Brown;Chun Jimmie Ye;Alkes L. Price;Noah Zaitlen

  • Intersection of population variation and autoimmunity genetics in human T cell activation

    Chun Jimmie Ye;Ting Feng;Ho Keun Kwon;Towfique Raj;Towfique Raj

  • The landscape of genomic imprinting across diverse adult human tissues

    Yael Baran;Meena Subramaniam;Anne Biton;Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen

  • Fast and accurate imputation of summary statistics enhances evidence of functional enrichment

    Bogdan Pasaniuc;Noah Zaitlen;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia

  • Genome-Wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • Intersection of population variation and autoimmunity genetics in human T cell activation

    C. J. Ye;T. Feng;H.-K. Kwon;T. Raj

Frequent Co-Authors

Alkes L. Price
Alkes L. Price Harvard University
Eleazar Eskin
Eleazar Eskin University of California, Los Angeles
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Bogdan Pasaniuc University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander Gusev
Alexander Gusev Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Celeste Eng
Celeste Eng University of California, San Francisco
Eran Halperin
Eran Halperin University of California, Los Angeles
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Po-Ru Loh
Po-Ru Loh Harvard Medical School
Christopher R. Gignoux
Christopher R. Gignoux University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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