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Vincent Mooser is affiliated with McGill University Health Centre in Canada. Their research is primarily situated in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Epidemiology.

Their published work covers a range of topics including Genomics and Rare Diseases, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, and Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases.

Vincent Mooser has contributed to multiple recent papers, with notable publications including:

  • A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19, 2022, Nature
  • From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics, 2023, Nature
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Vitamin D and COVID-19 susceptibility and severity in the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative: A Mendelian randomization study, 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization implicates nephronectin as an actionable mediator of the effect of obesity on COVID-19 severity, 2023, Nature Metabolism

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Mooser include J. Brent Richards, Vincenzo Forgetta, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Sirui Zhou, and Tomoko Nakanishi.

Mooser's research has been published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Nature, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and Nature Human Behaviour, reflecting a diverse dissemination across preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the general population: the HypnoLaus study

    R Heinzer;S Vat;P Marques-Vidal;H Marti-Soler

  • 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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

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

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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 20 loci that influence adult height

    M N Weedon;H Lango;C M Lindgren;C M Lindgren;C Wallace

  • A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance.

    Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Robert A. Scott;Jonna L. Grimsby

  • Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

    Inga Prokopenko;Claudia Langenberg;Jose C. Florez;Jose C. Florez;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • An 18-kDa Translocator Protein (TSPO) polymorphism explains differences in binding affinity of the PET radioligand PBR28

    David R Owen;Astrid J Yeo;Roger N Gunn;Roger N Gunn;Roger N Gunn;Kijoung Song

  • An Abundance of Rare Functional Variants in 202 Drug Target Genes Sequenced in 14,002 People

    Matthew R. Nelson;Daniel Wegmann;Margaret G. Ehm;Darren Kessner

  • Meta-analysis of 28,141 individuals identifies common variants within five new loci that influence uric acid concentrations.

    Melanie Kolz;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Serena Sanna;Alexander Teumer

  • The CoLaus study: a population-based study to investigate the epidemiology and genetic determinants of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome.

    Mathieu Firmann;Vladimir Mayor;Pedro Marques Vidal;Murielle Bochud

  • Atherogenic Dyslipidemia in HIV-Infected Individuals Treated With Protease Inhibitors

    Daniel Périard;Amalio Telenti;Philippe Sudre;Jean Jacques Cheseaux

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • 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

Peter Vollenweider
Peter Vollenweider University of Lausanne
Gérard Waeber
Gérard Waeber University of Lausanne
Dawn M. Waterworth
Dawn M. Waterworth Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Toby Johnson
Toby Johnson Queen Mary University of London
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Sven Bergmann
Sven Bergmann Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Jacques S. Beckmann
Jacques S. Beckmann University of Lausanne

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