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Peter White is affiliated with Nationwide Children's Hospital in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields primarily within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The focus areas of their research include Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in Peter White's research work include:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments

Among their recent publications are:

  • "An interactive online dashboard for tracking COVID-19 in U.S. counties, cities, and states in real time" (2020), published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • "Characteristics of patients ≥10 years of age with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a report from the International DIPG/DMG Registry" (2021), published in Neuro-Oncology
  • "Bayesian reconstruction of household transmissions to infer the serial interval of COVID-19 by variants of concern: analysis from a prospective community cohort study (Virus Watch)" (2022), published in The Lancet
  • "A survey of informatics approaches to whole-exome and whole-genome clinical reporting in the electronic health record" (2020), published by UNC Libraries
  • "Investigation of a Catenane with a Responsive Noncovalent Network: Mimicking Long-Range Responses in Proteins" (2020), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Peter White frequently publishes in venues such as Genetics in Medicine Open, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Neuro-Oncology, The Lancet, and UNC Libraries. Genetics in Medicine Open is a particularly common venue, with three publications.

The scientist has collaborated often with several coauthors, notably Kathleen M. Schieffer, Mariam Mathew, Marco L. Leung, Yassmine Akkari, and Melanie Babcock. Each of these collaborators has coauthored four papers alongside Peter White.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease

    Samir Zaidi;Murim Choi;Hiroko Wakimoto;Lijiang Ma

  • Rare structural variants found in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are preferentially associated with neurodevelopmental genes

    J. Elia;X. Gai;H. M. Xie;J. C. Perin

  • Loss of heterozygosity for the short arm of chromosome 1 in human neuroblastomas: correlation with N-myc amplification.

    Chin-To Fong;Nicholas C. Dracopoli;Peter S. White;Pauline T. Merrill

  • The Multifunctional Properties and Characteristics of Vitamin D-binding Protein

    Peter White;Nancy Cooke

  • Genome-wide copy number variation study associates metabotropic glutamate receptor gene networks with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Josephine Elia;Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Nagahide Takahashi

  • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge.

    Catherine A. Brownstein;Alan H. Beggs;Nils Homer;Barry Merriman

  • High-resolution mapping and analysis of copy number variations in the human genome: A data resource for clinical and research applications

    Tamim H. Shaikh;Xiaowu Gai;Juan C. Perin;Joseph T. Glessner

  • Establishment of Intestinal Identity and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Signaling by Cdx2

    Nan Gao;Peter White;Klaus H. Kaestner

  • Control of Pancreatic β Cell Regeneration by Glucose Metabolism

    Shay Porat;Noa Weinberg-Corem;Sharona Tornovsky-Babaey;Rachel Schyr-Ben-Haroush

  • Perlecan, the major proteoglycan of basement membranes, is altered in patients with Schwartz-Jampel syndrome (chondrodystrophic myotonia).

    Nicole S;Davoine Cs;Topaloglu H;Cattolico L

  • A region of consistent deletion in neuroblastoma maps within human chromosome 1p36.2-36.3

    White Ps;Maris Jm;Beltinger C;Sulman E

  • Biology and genetics of human neuroblastomas.

    Garrett M. Brodeur;John M. Maris;Darrell J. Yamashiro;Michael D. Hogarty

  • Allelic deletion at 11q23 is common in MYCN single copy neuroblastomas.

    Chun Guo;Peter S White;Matthew J Weiss;Michael D Hogarty

  • Pancreatic β Cells Require NeuroD to Achieve and Maintain Functional Maturity

    Chunyan Gu;Gretchen H. Stein;Ning Pan;Sandra Goebbels

  • A combined linkage-physical map of the human genome.

    X. Kong;K. Murphy;T. Raj;C. He

  • Increased Frequency of De Novo Copy Number Variants in Congenital Heart Disease by Integrative Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array and Exome Sequence Data

    Joseph T. Glessner;Alexander G. Bick;Kaoru Ito;Jason G. Homsy

Frequent Co-Authors

Garrett M. Brodeur
Garrett M. Brodeur Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Richard K. Wilson
Richard K. Wilson Nationwide Children's Hospital
John M. Maris
John M. Maris Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Elaine R. Mardis
Elaine R. Mardis The Ohio State University
Daniel C. Koboldt
Daniel C. Koboldt The Ohio State University
Vincent Magrini
Vincent Magrini The Ohio State University
Klaus H. Kaestner
Klaus H. Kaestner University of Pennsylvania
Michael D. Hogarty
Michael D. Hogarty Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Julie M. Gastier-Foster
Julie M. Gastier-Foster Baylor College of Medicine

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