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Overview

Teri A. Manolio is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with extensive work in biochemistry and public health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, they have specialized subfields such as:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering

The scientist's primary research topics involve:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts

Teri A. Manolio has co-authored publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Gail P. Jarvik
  • Robb Rowley
  • Ozan Dikilitas
  • Dan M. Roden
  • Wendy K. Chung

Their work has been published across a range of prominent scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • UNC Libraries
  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics in Medicine

Recent significant papers by Teri A. Manolio include:

  • "Strategic vision for improving human health at The Forefront of Genomics" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Predictive Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease in Three Major Racial and Ethnic Groups" (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Selection, optimization and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse US populations" (2024), published in Nature Medicine
  • "Returning integrated genomic risk and clinical recommendations: The eMERGE study" (2023), published in Genetics in Medicine
  • "eXclusionarY: 10 years later, where are the sex chromosomes in GWASs?" (2023), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics

Best Publications

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

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

  • Carotid-Artery Intima and Media Thickness as a Risk Factor for Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in Older Adults

    Daniel H. O'Leary;Joseph F. Polak;Richard A. Kronmal;Teri A. Manolio

  • Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits

    Lucia A. Hindorff;Praveen Sethupathy;Heather A. Junkins;Erin M. Ramos

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Thomas Thom;Nancy Haase;Wayne Rosamond

  • The cardiovascular health study: Design and rationale

    Linda P. Fried;Nemat O. Borhani;Paul Enright;Curt D. Furberg

  • The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

    Danielle Welter;Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Joannella Morales;Tony Burdett

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • Genomewide Association Studies and Assessment of the Risk of Disease

    Teri A. Manolio

  • Clinical Correlates of White Matter Findings on Cranial Magnetic Resonance Imaging of 3301 Elderly People: The Cardiovascular Health Study

    W.T. Longstreth;Teri A. Manolio;Alice Arnold;Gregory L. Burke

  • Incidence of and Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults

    Bruce M. Psaty;Teri A. Manolio;Lewis H. Kuller;Richard A. Kronmal

  • Ankle-arm index as a marker of atherosclerosis in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Cardiovascular Heart Study (CHS) Collaborative Research Group.

    Anne B. Newman;David S. Siscovick;Teri A. Manolio;Joseph Polak

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects (the Cardiovascular Health Study)

    Curt D. Furberg;Bruce M. Psaty;Teri A. Manolio;Julius M. Gardin

  • Guidelines for investigating causality of sequence variants in human disease

    D G MacArthur;T A Manolio;D P Dimmock;H L Rehm

  • How to interpret a genome-wide association study.

    Thomas A. Pearson;Teri A. Manolio

  • A HapMap harvest of insights into the genetics of common disease

    Teri A. Manolio;Lisa D. Brooks;Francis S. Collins

  • Ankle-Arm Index as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in the Cardiovascular Health Study

    Anne B. Newman;Lynn Shemanski;Teri A. Manolio;Mary Cushman

  • Case definitions for acute coronary heart disease in epidemiology and clinical research studies: a statement from the AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; AHA Statistics Committee; World Heart Federation Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Epidemiology and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

    Russell V. Luepker;Fred S. Apple;Robert H. Christenson;Richard S. Crow

  • Genome-partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

    Jian Yang;Teri A. Manolio;Louis R. Pasquale;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Elevations of Inflammatory and Procoagulant Biomarkers in Elderly Persons With Renal Insufficiency

    Michael G. Shlipak;Linda F. Fried;Casey Crump;Anthony J. Bleyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail P. Jarvik
Gail P. Jarvik University of Washington
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Gregory L. Burke
Gregory L. Burke Wake Forest University
Rex L. Chisholm
Rex L. Chisholm Northwestern University
Curt D. Furberg
Curt D. Furberg Wake Forest University
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Marylyn D. Ritchie
Marylyn D. Ritchie University of Pennsylvania
Joshua C. Denny
Joshua C. Denny National Institutes of Health
Anne B. Newman
Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh

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