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Santhi K. Ganesh is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, with significant contributions to the intersection of genetics and cardiovascular health.

Their primary fields of study include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of focus highlighted in their work cover Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Surgery.

Key research topics explored by Santhi K. Ganesh involve:

  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
  • Renal and Vascular Pathologies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Connective tissue disorders research
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Kristina L. Hunker (26 joint publications), Min-Lee Yang (21), Dawn M. Coleman (17), James C. Stanley (14), and Takiy-Eddine Berrandou (14).

Santhi K. Ganesh's research outputs have appeared predominantly in a variety of venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hypertension
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Canadian Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Cohort Study" (2022), Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Chromosome 1q21.2 and additional loci influence risk of spontaneous coronary artery dissection and myocardial infarction" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Genome-wide association meta-analysis of spontaneous coronary artery dissection identifies risk variants and genes related to artery integrity and tissue-mediated coagulation" (2023), Nature Genetics
  • "Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies risk loci for abdominal aortic aneurysm and highlights PCSK9 as a therapeutic target" (2023), Nature Genetics
  • "A System for Phenotype Harmonization in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program" (2021), American Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Association of elevated serum PO(4), Ca x PO(4) product, and parathyroid hormone with cardiac mortality risk in chronic hemodialysis patients.

    Santhi K. Ganesh;Austin G. Stack;Nathan W. Levin;Tempie Hulbert-Shearon

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Current State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

    Sharonne N. Hayes;Esther S.H. Kim;Jacqueline Saw;David Adlam

  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals Without Diabetes

    Richard A. Jensen;Xueling Sim;Xiaohui Li;Mary Frances Cotch

  • Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in > 300,000 individuals

    Dajiang J Liu;Gina M Peloso;Gina M Peloso;Haojie Yu;Adam S Butterworth;Adam S Butterworth

  • Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

    Momoko Horikoshi;Robin N. Beaumont;Felix R. Day;Nicole M. Warrington;Nicole M. Warrington

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure

    Louise V. Wain;Germaine C. Verwoert;Paul F. O'Reilly;Gang Shi

  • New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation

    Christian Gieger;Aparna Radhakrishnan;Ana Cvejic;Weihong Tang

  • First International Consensus on the diagnosis and management of fibromuscular dysplasia.

    Heather L. Gornik;Alexandre Persu;David Adlam;Lucas S. Aparicio

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Multiple loci influence erythrocyte phenotypes in the CHARGE Consortium

    Santhi K. Ganesh;Santhi K. Ganesh;Neil A. Zakai;Frank J A Van Rooij;Nicole Soranzo;Nicole Soranzo

  • Canadian spontaneous coronary artery dissection cohort study: in-hospital and 30-day outcomes.

    Jacqueline Saw;Andrew Starovoytov;Karin Humphries;Tej Sheth

  • Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations

    Madeline H Kowalski;Huijun Qian;Ziyi Hou;Jonathan D Rosen

  • Progressive vascular smooth muscle cell defects in a mouse model of Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome

    Renee Varga;Maria Eriksson;Michael R. Erdos;Michelle Olive

  • Systematic evaluation of coding variation identifies a candidate causal variant in TM6SF2 influencing total cholesterol and myocardial infarction risk

    Oddgeir L Holmen;He-Ming Zhang;Yanbo Fan;Daniel H. Hovelson

  • Mortality Differences by Dialysis Modality among Incident ESRD Patients with and without Coronary Artery Disease

    Santhi K. Ganesh;Tempie Hulbert-Shearon;Friedrich K. Port;Kim Eagle

  • Meta-analysis identifies common and rare variants influencing blood pressure and overlapping with metabolic trait loci

    Chunyu Liu;Aldi T Kraja;Jennifer A Smith;Jennifer A Brody

  • Relevance of Genetics and Genomics for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, the Stroke Council, and the Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Interdisciplinary Working Group

    Donna K. Arnett;Alison E. Baird;Ruth A. Barkley;Craig T. Basson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Tamara B. Harris
Tamara B. Harris National Institutes of Health
Georg B. Ehret
Georg B. Ehret University of Geneva
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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