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  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Rex L. Chisholm is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields such as genetics, molecular biology, surgery, economics and econometrics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The researcher's principal topics include genomics and rare diseases, particularly focusing on BRCA gene mutations in cancer. Other areas covered by their publications are genetic associations and epidemiology, biomedical text mining and ontologies, health systems with economic evaluations and quality of life, as well as bioinformatics and genomic networks, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Rex L. Chisholm has published research in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics

Some recent research papers authored or coauthored by Chisholm are:

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2023, 2023, Genetics
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2023, Nature
  • Genetic regulation of OAS1 nonsense-mediated decay underlies association with COVID-19 hospitalization in patients of European and African ancestries, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Author Correction: A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2024, Nature

This scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Gail P. Jarvik
  • Maureen E. Smith
  • Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik
  • Robb Rowley
  • Teri A. Manolio

Rex L. Chisholm was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the year 2000.

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.

    Harris Ma;Clark J;Ireland A;Lomax J

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • Systematic comparison of phenome-wide association study of electronic medical record data and genome-wide association study data

    Joshua C. Denny;Lisa Bastarache;Marylyn D. Ritchie;Robert J. Carroll

  • The eMERGE Network: a consortium of biorepositories linked to electronic medical records data for conducting genomic studies.

    Catherine A McCarty;Rex L Chisholm;Christopher G Chute;Iftikhar J Kullo

  • The Gene Ontology project in 2008

    Midori A Harris;Jennifer I. Deegan;Amelia Ireland;Jane Lomax

  • The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network: past, present, and future

    Omri Gottesman;Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp;W. Andrew Faucett

  • Implementing genomic medicine in the clinic: the future is here

    Teri A. Manolio;Rex L Chisholm;Brad Ozenberger;Dan M. Roden

  • Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource

    Harris Ma;J. Clark;A. Ireland;J. Lomax

  • Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium

    Abel N. Kho;Jennifer A. Pacheco;Peggy L. Peissig;Luke Rasmussen

  • The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

    Corinne N. Simonti;Benjamin Vernot;Lisa Bastarache;Erwin Bottinger

  • Pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms: A multidisciplinary research program supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute******

    Momtaz Wassef;B. Timothy Baxter;Rex L. Chisholm;Ronald L. Dalman

  • Use of diverse electronic medical record systems to identify genetic risk for type 2 diabetes within a genome-wide association study

    Abel N. Kho;M. Geoffrey Hayes;Laura Rasmussen-Torvik;Jennifer A. Pacheco

  • Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology

    John D. Osborne;Jared M. Flatow;Michelle Holko;Simon M. Lin

  • Variants Near FOXE1 Are Associated with Hypothyroidism and Other Thyroid Conditions: Using Electronic Medical Records for Genome- and Phenome-wide Studies

    Joshua C. Denny;Dana C. Crawford;Marylyn D. Ritchie;Suzette J. Bielinski

  • The Gene Ontology: Enhancements for 2011

    J. A. Blake;M. Dolan;H. Drabkin;D. P. Hill

  • Protocols for growth and development of Dictyostelium discoideum

    Petra Fey;Anthony S Kowal;Pascale Gaudet;Karen E Pilcher

  • Design and anticipated outcomes of the eMERGE-PGx project: a multicenter pilot for preemptive pharmacogenomics in electronic health record systems.

    Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik;Sarah C. Stallings;Adam S. Gordon;Berta Almoguera

  • Insights into morphogenesis from a simple developmental system.

    Rex L. Chisholm;Richard A. Firtel

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascale Gaudet
Pascale Gaudet Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Marylyn D. Ritchie
Marylyn D. Ritchie University of Pennsylvania
Joshua C. Denny
Joshua C. Denny National Institutes of Health
Teri A. Manolio
Teri A. Manolio National Institutes of Health
Gail P. Jarvik
Gail P. Jarvik University of Washington
Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik
Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik Northwestern University
Christopher G. Chute
Christopher G. Chute Johns Hopkins University
Catherine A. McCarty
Catherine A. McCarty University of Minnesota
Dana C. Crawford
Dana C. Crawford Case Western Reserve University

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