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Italy
2026

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Genetics

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118
Citations
101819
World Ranking
394
National Ranking
2

Medicine

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118
Citations
103414
World Ranking
3954
National Ranking
112

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Serena Sanna is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, focusing on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology.

Their work covers several main topics, notably Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Birth, Development, and Health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Serena Sanna's recent papers include:

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Impact of commonly used drugs on the composition and metabolic function of the gut microbiota (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Environmental factors shaping the gut microbiome in a Dutch population (2022, Nature)
  • Effect of host genetics on the gut microbiome in 7,738 participants of the Dutch Microbiome Project (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Serena Sanna include:

  • Cisca Wijmenga
  • Lude Franke
  • Raúl Aguirre-Gamboa
  • Yang Li
  • Iris H. Jonkers

Serena Sanna has published extensively in several venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in the University of Groningen research database, UNC Libraries, and bioRxiv. Other frequent publication outlets include Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

Best Publications

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • LocusZoom: regional visualization of genome-wide association scan results

    Randall J. Pruim;Ryan P. Welch;Serena Sanna;Tanya M. Teslovich

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

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

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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Genome-wide association scan shows genetic variants in the FTO gene are associated with obesity-related traits.

    Angelo Scuteri;Serena Sanna;Wei-Min Chen;Manuela Uda

  • Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease

    Cristen J. Willer;Serena Sanna;Anne U. Jackson;Angelo Scuteri

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

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

  • 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

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

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David Schlessinger
David Schlessinger National Institutes of Health
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University

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