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Steven A. Lubitz is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Epidemiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, with notable emphasis on Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias. Other main topics include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steven A. Lubitz are:

  • Patrick T. Ellinor
  • Shaan Khurshid
  • Seung Hoan Choi
  • James P. Pirruccello
  • Lu-Chen Weng

The scientist often publishes in high-impact journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
  • Nature Communications

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals (2020, Nature Metabolism)
  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes (2020, Nature)
  • European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the state of genetic testing for cardiac diseases (2022, EP Europace)
  • 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families (2020, Heart Rhythm)
  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivorship: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2020, Circulation)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • 50 year trends in atrial fibrillation prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study: a cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Xiaoyan Yin;Philimon Gona;Martin G Larson

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

    S Shah;A Henry;C Roselli;H Lin

  • Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium

    Alvaro Alonso;Bouwe P. Krijthe;Thor Aspelund;Katherine A. Stepas

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction.

    Rajalakshmi Santhanakrishnan;Na Wang;Martin G. Larson;Jared W. Magnani

  • Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T Ellinor;Kathryn L Lunetta;Christine M Albert;Christine M Albert;Nicole L Glazer

  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes.

    Alexander G Bick;Joshua S Weinstock;Satish K Nandakumar;Satish K Nandakumar;Charles P Fulco;Charles P Fulco

  • Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T. Ellinor;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Nicole L. Glazer;Arne Pfeufer

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

    Lasse Folkersen;Stefan Gustafsson;Qin Wang;Qin Wang;Daniel Hvidberg Hansen

  • Genome-wide association study of PR interval

    Arne Pfeufer;Charlotte Van Noord;Kristin D. Marciante;Dan E. Arking

  • Variants in ZFHX3 are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry.

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Emelia J. Benjamin;Kenneth M. Rice;Dan E. Arking;Arne Pfeufer

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • Cardiac Involvement in Patients with Sarcoidosis: Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Outpatient Testing

    Davendra Mehta;Steven A. Lubitz;Zev Frankel;Juan P. Wisnivesky

  • Actionable exomic incidental findings in 6503 participants: challenges of variant classification

    Laura M. Amendola;Michael O. Dorschner;Peggy D. Robertson;Joseph S. Salama

  • Association Between Familial Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

    Steven A. Lubitz;Xiaoyan Yin;João D. Fontes;Jared W. Magnani

  • Large-scale analyses of common and rare variants identify 12 new loci associated with atrial fibrillation

    Ingrid E. Christophersen;Ingrid E. Christophersen;Ingrid E. Christophersen;Michiel Rienstra;Carolina Roselli;Carolina Roselli;Xiaoyan Yin;Xiaoyan Yin

  • Lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation according to optimal, borderline, or elevated levels of risk factors: cohort study based on longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study

    Laila Staerk;Laila Staerk;Biqi Wang;Sarah R Preis;Martin G Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick T. Ellinor
Patrick T. Ellinor Harvard University
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Honghuang Lin
Honghuang Lin Boston University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Alvaro Alonso
Alvaro Alonso Emory University
Susan R. Heckbert
Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University

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