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William Klitz is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, neurology, and infectious diseases.

The main topics covered in their work include viral infections and immunology research, RNA regulation and disease, diabetes and associated disorders, T-cell and B-cell immunology, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic diversity and population structure, and trace elements in health.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by William Klitz are:

  • Demographic history and selection at HLA loci in Native Americans, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Picornavirus Identified in Alzheimer's Disease Brains: A Pathogenic Path?, 2020, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports
  • Effectiveness of Antivirals in a Type 1 Diabetes Model and the Move Toward Human Trials, 2020, Viral Immunology
  • Picornavirus May Be Linked to Parkinson's Disease through Viral Antigen in Dopamine-Containing Neurons of Substantia Nigra, 2022, Microorganisms
  • Extending the Enterovirus Lead: Could a Related Picornavirus be Responsible for Diabetes in Humans?, 2020, Microorganisms

Frequent publication venues for Klitz's research include:

  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports
  • Microorganisms
  • PLoS ONE
  • Viral Immunology

Collaborative efforts feature several co-authors with multiple joint publications. Frequent co-authors include Bo Niklasson, Lars Lindquist, Elisabet Englund, Richard M. Single, and Diogo Meyer.

Best Publications

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

    Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon

  • Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans

    Sijia Wang;Cecil M. Lewis;Mattias Jakobsson;Sohini Ramachandran

  • The role of HLA class II genes in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: molecular analysis of 180 Caucasian, multiplex families.

    J A Noble;A M Valdes;M Cook;W Klitz

  • Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos

    Sijia Wang;Nicolas Ray;Winston Rojas;María V. Parra

  • High-resolution HLA alleles and haplotypes in the United States population.

    Martin Maiers;Loren Gragert;William Klitz

  • HLA DR-DQ associations with cervical carcinoma show papillomavirus-type specificity.

    Raymond J. Apple;Henry A. Erlich;William Klitz;M. Michele Manos

  • Ancestral Asian source(s) of new world Y-chromosome founder haplotypes.

    Tatiana Karafet;S. L. Zegura;O. Posukh;L. Osipova

  • Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

    Peter H. Sudmant;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Bradley J. Nelson;Fereydoun Hormozdiari

  • A Genomewide Admixture Map for Latino Populations

    Alkes L. Price;Nick Patterson;Fuli Yu;Fuli Yu;David R. Cox

  • Corrigendum: Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon

  • High-resolution patterns of meiotic recombination across the human major histocompatibility complex.

    Michael Cullen;Michael Cullen;Stephen P. Perfetto;William Klitz;William Klitz;George Nelson

  • Association of HLA class I and II alleles and extended haplotypes with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Taiwan

    Allan Hildesheim;Raymond J. Apple;Chien-Jen Chen;Sophia S. Wang

  • Association Mapping of Disease Loci, by Use of a Pooled DNA Genomic Screen

    Lisa F. Barcellos;William Klitz;L. Leigh Field;Rose Tobias

  • Common and well-documented HLA alleles: report of the Ad-Hoc committee of the american society for histocompatiblity and immunogenetics.

    Pedro Cano;William Klitz;Steven J. Mack;Martin Maiers

  • Common and well-documented HLA alleles: 2012 update to the CWD catalogue.

    Steven J. Mack;Pedro Cano;Jill A. Hollenbach;Jun He

  • Antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis is associated with HLA-DR molecules that bind a Borrelia burgdorferi peptide

    Allen C. Steere;William Klitz;William Klitz;Elise E. Drouin;Ben A. Falk

  • HLA class II alleles and susceptibility and resistance to insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in Mexican-American families

    H A Erlich;A Zeidler;J Chang;S Shaw

  • A Multilocus Genotyping Assay for Candidate Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk

    Suzanne Cheng;Michael A. Grow;Céline Pallaud;William Klitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Maiers
Martin Maiers Medical College of Wisconsin
Glenys Thomson
Glenys Thomson University of California, Berkeley
Henry A. Erlich
Henry A. Erlich UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Andrés Ruiz-Linares
Andrés Ruiz-Linares Fudan University
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Elliott Vichinsky
Elliott Vichinsky University of California, San Francisco
Marcelo Fernandez-Vina
Marcelo Fernandez-Vina Stanford University
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University

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