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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Timothy J. Aitman is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with significant contributions spread across related subfields such as Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Otorhinolaryngology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, including Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Head and Neck Cancer Studies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer, and Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances.

Among recent publications, the following papers are notable:

  • "Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system" (2020, Nature)
  • "Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort" (2020, Nature)
  • "Inherited Thoracic Aortic Disease" (2020, Circulation)
  • "Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system" (2021, Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Aitman include:

  • Martyna Adamowicz
  • Iain J. Nixon
  • Alison Meynert
  • Javier Santoyo-López
  • Sophie J. Warlow

Key publication venues where Aitman's work frequently appears encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • Nature
  • Cancer Research
  • Circulation

Their research contributions include 54 publications categorized under Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 53 under Medicine. Subfields with the highest outputs involve Genetics (26 papers), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (17 papers), Molecular Biology (15 papers), Cancer Research (15 papers), and Otorhinolaryngology (8 papers).

Aitman has been recognized with memberships including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2017)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Finding Genes That Underlie Complex Traits

    Anne M. Glazier;Joseph H. Nadeau;Timothy J. Aitman

  • Identification of Cd36 ( Fat ) as an insulin-resistance gene causing defective fatty acid and glucose metabolism in hypertensive rats

    Timothy J. Aitman;Anne M. Glazier;Caroline A. Wallace;Lisa D. Cooper

  • Copy number polymorphism in Fcgr3 predisposes to glomerulonephritis in rats and humans

    Timothy J. Aitman;Rong Dong;Timothy J. Vyse;Penny J. Norsworthy

  • Integrated transcriptional profiling and linkage analysis for identification of genes underlying disease

    Norbert Hubner;Caroline A Wallace;Heike Zimdahl;Enrico Petretto

  • Genetic analysis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes mellitus in mice.

    J A Todd;T J Aitman;R J Cornall;S Ghosh

  • FCGR3B copy number variation is associated with susceptibility to systemic, but not organ-specific, autoimmunity

    Manuela Fanciulli;Penny J Norsworthy;Enrico Petretto;Rong Dong

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system.

    E Turro;W J Astle;W J Astle;K Megy;S Gräf

  • Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study.

    John C Chambers;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Benjamin Lehne;Alexander Drong

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

    Ernest Turro;William J Astle;Karyn Megy;Stefan Graf

  • Progress and prospects in rat genetics: a community view.

    Timothy J Aitman;John K Critser;Edwin Cuppen;Anna Dominiczak

  • Malaria susceptibility and CD36 mutation.

    Timothy J. Aitman;Lisa D. Cooper;Penny J. Norsworthy;Faisal N. Wahid

  • A trans-acting locus regulates an anti-viral expression network and type 1 diabetes risk

    Matthias Heinig;Enrico Petretto;Chris Wallace;Leonardo Bottolo

  • Complete cardiac regeneration in a mouse model of myocardial infarction

    Bernhard Johannes Haubner;Martyna Adamowicz-Brice;Sanjay Khadayate;Viktoria Tiefenthaler

  • Leptin receptor gene variation and obesity: lack of association in a white British male population.

    Gotoda T;Manning Bs;Manning Bs;Goldstone Ap;Imrie H

  • Heritability and Tissue Specificity of Expression Quantitative Trait Loci

    Enrico Petretto;Jonathan Mangion;Nicholas J Dickens;Stuart A Cook

  • Distribution and functional impact of DNA copy number variation in the rat

    Victor Guryev;Kathrin Saar;Tatjana Adamovic;Mark Verheul

  • Transgenic rescue of defective Cd36 ameliorates insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.

    Pravenec M;Landa;Zidek;Musilova A

  • Germline selection shapes human mitochondrial DNA diversity.

    W Wei;S Tuna;M J Keogh;K R Smith

  • Combined sequence-based and genetic mapping analysis of complex traits in outbred rats

    A. Baud;R. Hermsen;V. Guryev;P. Stridh

  • Integrated genomic approaches implicate osteoglycin ( Ogn ) in the regulation of left ventricular mass

    Enrico Petretto;Rizwan Sarwar;Ian Grieve;Han Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Michal Pravenec
Michal Pravenec Czech Academy of Sciences
Enrico Petretto
Enrico Petretto Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Norbert Hubner
Norbert Hubner Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Vladimir Kren
Vladimir Kren Czech Academy of Sciences
Stuart A. Cook
Stuart A. Cook Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
James G. Scott
James G. Scott QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Theodore W. Kurtz
Theodore W. Kurtz University of California, San Francisco
H. Terence Cook
H. Terence Cook Imperial College London
Timothy J. Vyse
Timothy J. Vyse King's College London
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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