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Steve E. Humphries is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions focus primarily on medicine, with substantial work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's publications span several important topics including lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, genetic associations and epidemiology, health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Additional areas of interest include genetic factors in colorectal cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins, as well as genomics and rare diseases.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steve E. Humphries include Marta Futema, Nadeem Qureshi, Elena Tremoli, Stephen Weng, and Tomáš Freiberger.

The venues where this scientist has published most often are:

  • Atherosclerosis
  • Atherosclerosis Plus
  • "The biomedical & life sciences collection."
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Steve E. Humphries include:

  • The Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Familial Hypercholesterolemia Variant Curation Expert Panel consensus guidelines for LDLR variant classification, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Familial hypercholesterolaemia in children and adolescents from 48 countries: a cross-sectional study, 2023, The Lancet
  • PCSK6 Is a Key Protease in the Control of Smooth Muscle Cell Function in Vascular Remodeling, 2020, Circulation Research
  • Genome-wide association study of circulating interleukin 6 levels identifies novel loci, 2021, Human Molecular Genetics
  • Genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolemia-past, present, and future, 2021, Journal of Lipid Research

Steve E. Humphries has also contributed to book publications, including Genetics of Common Diseases published in 2020 by Garland Science eBooks.

Their work intersects with several subfields such as surgery, cancer research, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and economics and econometrics.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Familial hypercholesterolaemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the general population: guidance for clinicians to prevent coronary heart disease: consensus statement of the European Atherosclerosis Society

    Borge G. Nordestgaard;M. John Chapman;Steve E. Humphries;Henry N. Ginsberg

  • Inflammation, obesity, stress and coronary heart disease: is interleukin-6 the link?

    John S Yudkin;Meena Kumari;Steve E Humphries;Vidya Mohamed-Ali

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    K Walter;J L Min;J Huang

  • Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: new insights and guidance for clinicians to improve detection and clinical management. A position paper from the Consensus Panel on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia of the European Atherosclerosis Society

    Marina Cuchel;Eric Bruckert;Henry N. Ginsberg;Frederick J. Raal

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

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

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

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Children and Adolescents: Gaining Decades of Life by Optimizing Detection and Treatment

    Albert Wiegman;Samuel S. Gidding;Gerald F Watts;M John Chapman

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Genetic Causes of Monogenic Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: A HuGE Prevalence Review

    Melissa A. Austin;Carolyn M. Hutter;Ron L. Zimmern;Steve E. Humphries

  • Localization of stromelysin gene expression in atherosclerotic plaques by in situ hybridization.

    Adriano M. Henney;Philip R. Wakeley;Michael J. Davies;Keith Foster

  • A review on the diagnosis, natural history, and treatment of familial hypercholesterolaemia.

    Dalya Marks;Margaret Thorogood;H.Andrew W Neil;Steve E Humphries

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippa J. Talmud
Philippa J. Talmud University College London
Jackie A. Cooper
Jackie A. Cooper University College London
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten Karolinska Institute
Aroon D. Hingorani
Aroon D. Hingorani University College London
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Ulf de Faire
Ulf de Faire Karolinska Institute
Juan P. Casas
Juan P. Casas Boston University
Elena Tremoli
Elena Tremoli University of Milan
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge

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