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Ron Do is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. They have a significant research presence in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work frequently appears in prominent venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Nature Communications, and Nature Genetics.

Ron Do's research spans several subfields, with a major focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Nephrology.

The main topics of their publications include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, and Retinal Diseases and Treatments.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ron Do include:

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Exploiting the GTEx resources to decipher the mechanisms at GWAS loci, 2021, Genome biology
  • Machine learning-based marker for coronary artery disease: derivation and validation in two longitudinal cohorts, 2022, The Lancet
  • Limitations of Contemporary Guidelines for Managing Patients at High Genetic Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Genome-wide association and multi-trait analyses characterize the common genetic architecture of heart failure, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors with whom Ron Do has collaborated include:

  • Girish N. Nadkarni
  • Ha My T. Vy
  • Ghislain Rocheleau
  • Iain S. Forrest
  • Daniel M. Jordan

Best Publications

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases.

    Marie Verbanck;Chia-Yen Chen;Benjamin Neale;Benjamin Neale;Ron Do

  • 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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

    Matthias Meyer;Martin Kircher;Marie Theres Gansauge;Heng Li

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes

    Jacob A. Tennessen;Abigail W. Bigham;Timothy D. O'Connor;Wenqing Fu

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

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

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

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Exome sequencing, ANGPTL3 mutations, and familial combined hypolipidemia.

    Kiran Musunuru;James P. Pirruccello;James P. Pirruccello;James P. Pirruccello;Ron Do;Ron Do;Ron Do;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction

    Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Hong Hee Won;Anders Berg Jørgensen

  • Searching for missing heritability: Designing rare variant association studies

    Or Zuk;Or Zuk;Stephen F. Schaffner;Kaitlin Samocha;Ron Do

  • Inactivating mutations in NPC1L1 and protection from coronary heart disease

    Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Alanna C. Morrison;Gina M. Peloso

  • Exome sequencing and the genetic basis of complex traits

    Adam Kiezun;Kiran Garimella;Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O Stitziel;Nathan O Stitziel

  • Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease

    Nathan O. Stitziel;Kathleen E. Stirrups;Nicholas G. D. Masca;Jeanette Erdmann

  • Bayesian inference analyses of the polygenic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis

    Eli A Stahl;Daniel Wegmann;Gosia Trynka;Javier Gutierrez-Achury

Frequent Co-Authors

Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Gina M. Peloso
Gina M. Peloso Boston University
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Danish Saleheen
Danish Saleheen Columbia University
Muredach P. Reilly
Muredach P. Reilly Columbia University
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University

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