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Tara C. Matise is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics and Molecular Biology as primary subfields. Additional subfields include Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Nephrology.

Their main research topics cover a range of genetic and genomic areas such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities. Further topics include Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Tara C. Matise has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, with recent publications including:

  • Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes, 2020, Nature
  • FAVOR: functional annotation of variants online resource and annotator for variation across the human genome, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Centers for Mendelian Genomics: A decade of facilitating gene discovery, 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Multi-ethnic GWAS and fine-mapping of glycaemic traits identify novel loci in the PAGE Study, 2021, Diabetologia

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Steven Buyske, Charles Kooperberg, Kari E. North, Christopher A. Haiman, and Lucia A. Hindorff.

Tara C. Matise's work has been published in a variety of venues, most notably UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The American Journal of Human Genetics, Diabetologia, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • A gene map of the human genome

    G. D. Schuler;M. S. Boguski;E. A. Stewart;L. D. Stein

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • A Physical Map of 30,000 Human Genes

    P. Deloukas;G. D. Schuler;G. Gyapay;E. M. Beasley

  • Widespread RNA Editing of Embedded Alu Elements in the Human Transcriptome

    Dennis D.Y. Kim;Thomas T.Y. Kim;Thomas Walsh;Yoshifumi Kobayashi

  • Automated construction of genetic linkage maps using an expert system (MultiMap): a human genome linkage map.

    Tara Cox Matise;Mark Perlin;Aravinda Chakravarti;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • A genome-wide scan for linkage to human exceptional longevity identifies a locus on chromosome 4

    Annibale A. Puca;Mark J. Daly;Stephanie J. Brewster;Tara C. Matise

  • A second-generation combined linkage–physical map of the human genome

    Tara C. Matise;Fang Chen;Wenwei Chen;Francisco M. De La Vega

  • Genome scan of European-American schizophrenia pedigrees: results of the NIMH Genetics Initiative and Millennium Consortium.

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tara Matise;Dragan Svrakic;John Pepple

  • NIMH genetics initiative millennium schizophrenia consortium: Linkage analysis of African‐American pedigrees

    Charles A. Kaufmann;Brian Suarez;Dolores Malaspina;John Pepple

  • Age-related macular degeneration: Clinical features in a large family and linkage to chromosome 1q

    Michael L. Klein;Dennis W. Schultz;Al Edwards;Tara C. Matise

  • Identity-by-descent and association mapping of a recessive gene for Hirschsprung disease on human chromosome 13q22.

    Erik G.Puffenberger;Erick R.Kauffman;Stacey Bolk;Tara C.Matise

  • A combined linkage-physical map of the human genome.

    X. Kong;K. Murphy;T. Raj;C. He

  • Generalization and Dilution of Association Results from European GWAS in Populations of Non-European Ancestry: The PAGE Study

    Christopher S. Carlson;Tara C. Matise;Kari E. North;Christopher A. Haiman

  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration—a Genome Scan in Extended Families

    Jacek Majewski;Dennis W. Schultz;Richard G. Weleber;Mitchell B. Schain

  • Additional support for schizophrenia linkage on chromosomes 6 and 8: A multicenter study

    Dieter B. Wildenauer;Sibylle G. Schwab;Margot Albus;Joachim Hallmayer

  • Mapping and Characterization of Structural Variation in 17,795 Human Genomes

    Haley J Abel;David E Larson;Allison A Regier;Colby Chiang

  • A high-density integrated genetic linkage and radiation hybrid map of the laboratory rat.

    Robert G. Steen;Anne E. Kwitek-Black;Christopher Glenn;Jo Gullings-Handley

  • Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) for Detection of Pleiotropy within the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Network

    Sarah A. Pendergrass;Kristin Brown-Gentry;Scott Dudek;Alex Frase

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Buyske
Steven Buyske Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Charles Kooperberg
Charles Kooperberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ulrike Peters
Ulrike Peters University of Washington
Dana C. Crawford
Dana C. Crawford Case Western Reserve University
Kari E. North
Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynne R. Wilkens
Lynne R. Wilkens University of Hawaii at Manoa
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christopher S. Carlson
Christopher S. Carlson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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