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Talin Haritunians is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical and biochemical fields, with notable contributions to genetics, epidemiology, immunology, surgery, and molecular biology. The scientist's work addresses several complex topics related to human health and disease mechanisms.

They have contributed extensively to research on inflammatory bowel diseases and related immunological and genetic factors. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders

Their publications appear frequently in specialized journals. The venues where they have published most often are:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

Notable recent papers by Talin Haritunians include:

  • Large-scale sequencing identifies multiple genes and rare variants associated with Crohn's disease susceptibility, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Western diet induces Paneth cell defects through microbiome alterations and farnesoid X receptor and type I interferon activation, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Inflamed Ulcerative Colitis Regions Associated With MRGPRX2-Mediated Mast Cell Degranulation and Cell Activation Modules, Defining a New Therapeutic Target, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Altered Intestinal ACE2 Levels Are Associated With Inflammation, Severe Disease, and Response to Anti-Cytokine Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Pleiotropic ZIP8 A391T implicates abnormal manganese homeostasis in complex human disease, 2020, JCI Insight

Talin Haritunians has collaborated with several other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dermot McGovern
  • Dalin Li
  • Shaohong Yang
  • Emebet Mengesha
  • Shishir Dube

Their research makes extensive use of genetic and molecular biology techniques to understand disease pathology. The educational and investigative scope covers:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • 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

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

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

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

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Cristian Pattaro;Carsten A. Böger;Christian Fuchsberger

  • Deep resequencing of GWAS loci identifies independent rare variants associated with inflammatory bowel disease.

    Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Mélissa Beaudoin;Agnes Gardet;Christine Stevens

  • Genome-wide association identifies multiple ulcerative colitis susceptibility loci

    Dermot P.B. McGovern;Agnès Gardet;Leif Törkvist;Philippe Goyette

  • Multiple loci associated with indices of renal function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Nicole L. Glazer;Abbas Dehghan;Shih Jen Hwang

  • Fine-mapping inflammatory bowel disease loci to single-variant resolution

    Hailiang Huang;Hailiang Huang;Ming Fang;Luke Jostins;Maša Umićević Mirkov

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Genomewide Association Studies of Stroke

    M. Arfan Ikram;Sudha Seshadri;Joshua C. Bis;Myriam Fornage

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • A common missense variant in NUDT15 confers susceptibility to thiopurine-induced leukopenia

    Suk-Kyun Yang;Myunghee Hong;Jiwon Baek;Hyunchul Choi

  • FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

    Jian Yang;Jian Yang;Ruth J F Loos;Ruth J F Loos;Joseph E. Powell;Joseph E. Powell;Sarah E. Medland

  • 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

Dermot P.B. McGovern
Dermot P.B. McGovern Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Stephan R. Targan
Stephan R. Targan Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Marla Dubinsky
Marla Dubinsky Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University

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