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Patrick T. Ellinor

Patrick T. Ellinor

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Medicine

D-Index
124
Citations
83098
World Ranking
3155
National Ranking
1742

Overview

Patrick T. Ellinor is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a primary focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. Additional subfields of their work include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery.

The scientist's main topics of study address areas such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Patrick T. Ellinor's frequent publication venues include:

  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Nature Communications
  • European Heart Journal

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Steven A. Lubitz
  • Shaan Khurshid
  • James P. Pirruccello
  • Sean J. Jurgens
  • Seung Hoan Choi

Recent publications represent a range of significant contributions to genomic and cardiovascular research. These include:

  • The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans (2020, Nature)
  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program (2021, Nature)
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes (2023, Nature)
  • COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets (2021, Nature)
  • Transfer learning enables predictions in network biology (2023, Nature)

Best Publications

  • 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Craig T. January;L. Samuel Wann;Joseph S. Alpert;Hugh Calkins

  • 2017 HRS / EHRA / ECAS / APHRS / SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

    Hugh Calkins;Gerhard Hindricks;Riccardo Cappato;Young Hoon Kim

  • 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Craig T. January;L. Samuel Wann;Hugh Calkins;Lin Y. Chen

  • 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society in Collaboration With the Society of Thoracic Surgeons

    Craig T. January;L. Samuel Wann;Hugh Calkins;Lin Y. Chen

  • Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations

    Amit V. Khera;Mark Chaffin;Krishna G. Aragam;Mary E. Haas

  • 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary

    Craig T. January;L. Samuel Wann;Joseph S. Alpert

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

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

  • HRS/EHRA Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for the Channelopathies and Cardiomyopathies: This document was developed as a partnership between the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

    Michael J. Ackerman;Silvia G. Priori;Stephan Willems;Charles Berul

  • 50 year trends in atrial fibrillation prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study: a cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Xiaoyan Yin;Philimon Gona;Martin G Larson

  • Development of a risk score for atrial fibrillation (Framingham Heart Study): a community-based cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Lisa M Sullivan;Daniel Levy;Michael J Pencina

  • Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;David O Arnar;Anna Helgadottir;Solveig Gretarsdottir

  • HRS/EHRA expert consensus statement on the state of genetic testing for the channelopathies and cardiomyopathies

    Michael J. Ackerman;Silvia G. Priori;Stephan Willems;Charles Berul

  • Mutations in the desmosomal protein plakophilin-2 are common in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

    Brenda Gerull;Brenda Gerull;Arnd Heuser;Arnd Heuser;Thomas Wichter;Matthias Paul

  • Macrophages facilitate electrical conduction in the heart

    Maarten Hulsmans;Sebastian Clauss;Sebastian Clauss;Ling Xiao;Aaron D. Aguirre

  • Molecular determinants of Ca2+ selectivity and ion permeation in L-type Ca2+ channels.

    Jian Yang;P. T. Ellinor;W. A. Sather;Ji-Fang Zhang

  • Molecular diversity of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels

    Richard W. Tsien;Patrick T. Ellinor;William A. Horne

  • Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium

    Alvaro Alonso;Bouwe P. Krijthe;Thor Aspelund;Katherine A. Stepas

  • Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction.

    Rajalakshmi Santhanakrishnan;Na Wang;Martin G. Larson;Jared W. Magnani

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

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

  • Risk stratification in the long-QT syndrome.

    Patrick T Ellinor;David J Milan;Calum A MacRae

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Lubitz
Steven A. Lubitz Harvard University
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Honghuang Lin
Honghuang Lin Boston University
Susan R. Heckbert
Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington
Alvaro Alonso
Alvaro Alonso Emory University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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