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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
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  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Panos Deloukas is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant contribution to subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work spans multiple key topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Thyroid Disorders and Treatments, Diabetes and Associated Disorders, Birth, Development, and Health, as well as Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease.

Several recent papers exemplify Deloukas's research scope and focus on complex genetic analyses related to human health conditions. Notable publications include:

  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations, 2021, Cell
  • Fine-mapping, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • 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

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Deloukas include:

  • Eirini Marouli (25 joint works)
  • George Dedoussis (15 joint works)
  • Stavroula Kanoni (13 joint works)
  • David A. van Heel (13 joint works)
  • Alexander Teumer (12 joint works)

Deloukas has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • UNC Libraries (14 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Thyroid (5 publications)
  • Nature Genetics (3 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, an accolade indicating peer acknowledgment in the medical research community.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • 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

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

    John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

    Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • 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

  • Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

    Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London

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