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Steven A. McCarroll

Steven A. McCarroll

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Genetics

D-Index
128
Citations
201342
World Ranking
265
National Ranking
139

Overview

Steven A. McCarroll is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology.

The scientist has extensively contributed to the study of topics such as Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

McCarroll's recent published papers include the following:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia (2022, Nature)
  • Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse (2021, Nature)
  • A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex (2021, Nature)
  • Innovations present in the primate interneuron repertoire (2020, Nature)
  • Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals compromised immune microenvironment in precursor stages of multiple myeloma (2020, Nature Cancer)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McCarroll include:

  • Giulio Genovese
  • Robert E. Handsaker
  • Fenna M. Krienen
  • Melissa Goldman
  • Po-Ru Loh

The researcher has published predominantly in notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

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

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets

    Evan Z. Macosko;Evan Z. Macosko;Anindita Basu;Anindita Basu;Rahul Satija;Rahul Satija;James Nemesh;James Nemesh

  • Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

    Michael S. Lawrence;Petar Stojanov;Petar Stojanov;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

    Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

  • 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

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

    Giulio Genovese;Anna K. Kähler;Robert E. Handsaker;Johan Lindberg

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

    Aswin Sekar;Aswin Sekar;Allison R. Bialas;Heather de Rivera;Heather de Rivera;Avery Davis;Avery Davis

  • 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

  • Genes that act downstream of DAF-16 to influence the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Coleen T. Murphy;Steven A. McCarroll;Cornelia I. Bargmann;Andrew Fraser

  • Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

    Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

    Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert E. Handsaker
Robert E. Handsaker Harvard University
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School
Giulio Genovese
Giulio Genovese Broad Institute
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer L. Moran
Jennifer L. Moran Broad Institute
Menachem Fromer
Menachem Fromer Broad Institute

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