2026 Sekar Kathiresan: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	151	131	127	68	67	439	111408
Medicine	152	1063	977	611	548	480	112143

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2018 - Curt Stern Award, American Society of Human Genetics
2017 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association

Overview

Sekar Kathiresan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their scholarly output highlights significant engagement with molecular biology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology, and surgery.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects including genetic associations and epidemiology, CRISPR and genetic engineering, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, RNA modifications and cancer, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, systemic lupus erythematosus research, and RNA regulation and disease.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their work. These include:

In vivo CRISPR base editing of PCSK9 durably lowers cholesterol in primates, 2021, Nature
Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
Efficacy and Safety of an Investigational Single-Course CRISPR Base-Editing Therapy Targeting PCSK9 in Nonhuman Primate and Mouse Models, 2022, Circulation
A missense variant in Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 gene and protection against liver disease, 2020, PLoS Genetics
Limitations of Contemporary Guidelines for Managing Patients at High Genetic Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sekar Kathiresan include:

Amit V. Khera
Andrew M. Bellinger
Ellen Rohde
Mark Chaffin
John Danesh

Publication venues where Sekar Kathiresan has regularly contributed include:

Circulation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
PLoS Genetics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their research has been recognized with awards such as the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2018 and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association in 2017.

Best Publications

Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

4411
Citations
Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

3980
Citations
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

3540
Citations
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

3259
Citations
Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Triglyceride Levels

Richa Saxena;Benjamin F. Voight;Valeriya Lyssenko;Noël P. Burtt

3019
Citations
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

2514
Citations
Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations

Amit V. Khera;Mark Chaffin;Krishna G. Aragam;Mary E. Haas

2423
Citations
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

2358
Citations
Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

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

2167
Citations
Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

2138
Citations
Clonal Hematopoiesis and risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pradeep Natarajan;Pradeep Natarajan;Alexander J. Silver;Christopher J. Gibson

2130
Citations
Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

1713
Citations
Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Candace Guiducci;Aarti Surti

1607
Citations
Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Cristen J. Willer;Gina M. Peloso;Serkalem Demissie

1556
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

1462
Citations
Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease

Amit V. Khera;Connor A. Emdin;Isabel Drake;Pradeep Natarajan

1366
Citations
From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus

Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Alanna Strong;Maria Frank-Kamenetsky;Noemi E. Lee

1293
Citations
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

1232
Citations
A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

722
Citations
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School

Gina M. Peloso Boston University

Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Tonu Esko University of Tartu

Amit Khera Harvard University

Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania

Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich

Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

External Links

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