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Paul W. Franks

Paul W. Franks

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Medicine
Sweden
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
145
Citations
94911
World Ranking
1369
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Paul W. Franks is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has established a significant presence in the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research output spans multiple subfields, notably molecular biology, genetics, physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work primarily focuses on areas including diet and metabolism studies, genetic associations and epidemiology, nutritional studies and diet, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, obesity, physical activity, diet, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Recent publications by Paul W. Franks include:

  • Attributes and predictors of long COVID, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals, 2020, Nature Metabolism

Paul W. Franks frequently publishes in several journals and venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diabetologia
  • Diabetes
  • Nature Medicine
  • Diabetes Care

The scientist often collaborates with notable co-authors such as:

  • Tim D. Spector
  • Jonathan Wolf
  • Andrew T. Chan
  • Ewan R. Pearson
  • Sarah Berry

This research profile reflects a multidisciplinary approach, integrating molecular biology, genetics, and epidemiology with clinical factors related to diet, metabolism, and chronic diseases. The publication record indicates active engagement with contemporary health topics including COVID-19 and precision nutrition, presented in several high-impact scientific journals.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Attributes and predictors of long COVID.

    Carole H. Sudre;Carole H. Sudre;Benjamin Murray;Thomas Varsavsky;Mark S. Graham

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

    Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Childhood obesity, other cardiovascular risk factors, and premature death.

    Paul W. Franks;Robert L. Hanson;William C. Knowler;Maurice L. Sievers

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance.

    Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Robert A. Scott;Jonna L. Grimsby

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Reliability and validity of the combined heart rate and movement sensor actiheart

    Soren Brage;N. Brage;P. W. Franks;U. Ekelund

  • Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity

    Vincent T. van Hees;Vincent T. van Hees;Lukas Gorzelniak;Emmanuel Carlos Dean León;Martin Eder

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez Harvard University
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University

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