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Joel Naom Hirschhorn, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital
Concordia Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.
Genetics of skeletal proportions across two different populations.
Authors: Authors: Bartell E, Lin K, Tsuo K, Gan W, Vedantam S, Cole JB, Baronas JM, Yengo L, Marouli E, Amariuta T, Chen Z, Li L, Renthal NE, Jacobsen CM, Salem RM, Walters RG, Hirschhorn JN.
Am J Hum Genet
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Blood DNA methylation markers are associated with diabetic kidney disease progression in type 1 diabetes.
Authors: Authors: Syreeni A, Dahlström EH, Smyth LJ, Hill C, Mutter S, Harjutsalo V, Chen Z, Natarajan R, Krolewski AS, Hirschhorn JN, Florez JC, Maxwell AP, Groop PH, McKnight AJ, Sandholm N.
Diabetologia
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Genomic analyses implicate hormonal and metabolic dysregulation in polycystic ovary syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Moolhuijsen LME, Zhu J, Mullin BH, Pujol-Gualdo N, Actkins KV, Mack JA, Rao H, Trivedi B, Kentistou KA, Zhao Y, Westergaard D, Tyrmi JS, Thorleifsson G, Zhang Y, Wittemans L, DeVries A, Brewer K, Sisk R, Danning R, Preuss MH, Jones MR, Ruth KS, Andersen M, Azziz R, Banasik K, Boehnke M, Broer L, Brunak S, Chan YM, Chasman DI, Daly M, Ehrmann DA, Fauser BC, Fritsche LG, Hayes MG, He C, Huang H, Kowalska I, Kraft P, Legro RS, Lin N, Loos RJ, Louwers YV, Magi R, McCarthy MI, Morin-Papunen L, Morrison JV, Morton C, Nadkarni GN, Neale BM, Nielsen HS, Nyegaard M, Ostrowski SR, Pedersen OBV, Sørensen E, Mikkelsen C, Erikstrup C, Kaspersen KA, Bruun MT, Aagaard B, Ullum H, Obermayer-Pietsch B, Palotie A, Reeve MP, Salumets A, Saxena R, Spector TD, Stuckey BGA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Uitterlinden AG, Urbanek M, Zöllner S, van Heel DA, Hirschhorn JN, Stefansson K, Perry JRB, Styrkarsdottir U, Wilson SG, Piltonen T, Laisk T, Jarvelin MR, Burns K, Justice AE, Laivuori H, Ong KK, Goodarzi MO, Davis LK, Dunaif A, Lindgren CM, Laven JSE, Franks S, Visser JA, Welt CK, Karaderi T, Day FR.
Nat Genet
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Genetics of skeletal proportions across two different populations.
Authors: Authors: Bartell E, Lin K, Tsuo K, Gan W, Vedantam S, Cole JB, Baronas JM, Yengo L, Marouli E, Amariuta T, Chen Z, Li L, Renthal NE, Jacobsen CM, Salem RM, Walters RG, Hirschhorn JN.
Am J Hum Genet
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Weight-independent effects of dietary carbohydrate-to-fat ratio on metabolomic profiles: secondary outcomes of a 5-month randomized controlled feeding trial.
Authors: Authors: Angelidi AM, Bartell E, Huang Y, Zeleznik OA, Estanyol-Torres N, Mi MY, Bhupathiraju SN, Kelly RS, Wittenbecher C, Lasky-Su J, Clish CB, Ludwig DS, Ebbeling CB, Hirschhorn JN.
Nat Commun
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Exome-Wide Analysis Identifies a Rare EXD3 Missense Variant Associated With Diabetic Kidney Disease.
Authors: Authors: Sandholm N, Cole JB, Nair V, Brennan E, Giardini E, Haukka JK, Ha E, Syreeni A, Dahlström EH, Salem RM, Fermin D, Mercader J, Smyth L, Hill C, Mychaleckyj J, McGurnaghan S, Miller RG, Costacou T, Klein BEK, Snell-Bergeon J, Paterson AD, Verkauskiene R, Sokolovska J, Panduru NM, Zerbini G, Brismar K, Krolewski AS, Harjutsalo V, Rossing P, Hadjadj S, McKay G, McKnight AJ, Maxwell AP, Susztak K, Godson C, Kretzler M, Hirschhorn JN, Florez JC, Groop PH.
Kidney Int Rep
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Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries.
Authors: Authors: Smit RAJ, Wade KH, Hui Q, Arias JD, Yin X, Christiansen MR, Yengo L, Preuss MH, Nakabuye M, Rocheleau G, Graham SE, Buchanan VL, Chittoor G, Graff M, Guindo-Martínez M, Lu Y, Marouli E, Sakaue S, Spracklen CN, Vedantam S, Wilson EP, Chen SH, Ferreira T, Ji Y, Karaderi T, Lüll K, Machado M, Malden DE, Medina-Gomez C, Moore A, Rüeger S, Akiyama M, Allison MA, Alvarez M, Andersen MK, Appadurai V, Arbeeva L, Bartell E, Bhaskar S, Bielak LF, Bis JC, Bollepalli S, Bork-Jensen J, Bradfield JP, Bradford Y, Brandl C, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Burgdorf KS, Cade BE, Cai Q, Camarda S, Campbell A, Cañadas-Garre M, Chai JF, Chesi A, Choi SH, Christofidou P, Couture C, Cuellar-Partida G, Danning R, Degenhardt F, Delgado GE, Delitala A, Demirkan A, Deng X, Dietl A, Dimitriou M, Dimitrov L, Dorajoo R, Eichelmann F, Eliasen AU, Engmann JE, Erdos MR, Fairhurst-Hunter Z, Farmaki AE, Faul JD, Fernandez-Lopez JC, Forer L, Frank M, Freitag-Wolf S, Fritsche LG, Fuchsberger C, Galesloot TE, Gao Y, Geller F, Giannakopoulou O, Giulianini F, Gjesing AP, Goel A, Gordon SD, Gorski M, Grove J, Guo X, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hansen TF, Havulinna AS, Haworth SJ, Heard-Costa N, Hemerich D, Highland HM, Hindy G, Ho YL, Hofer E, Holliday E, Horn K, Hornsby WE, Hottenga JJ, Huang H, Huang J, Huerta-Chagoya A, Huo S, Hwang MY, Hwu CM, Iha H, Ikeda DD, Isono M, Jackson AU, Jansen IE, Jiang Y, Johansson I, Jonsson A, Jørgensen T, Kalafati IP, Kanai M, Kanoni S, Kårhus LL, Kasturiratne A, Katsuya T, Kawaguchi T, Kember RL, Kentistou KA, Kim D, Kim HN, Kim YJ, Kleber ME, Knol MJ, Kurbasic A, Lauzon M, Le P, Lea R, Lee JY, Lee WJ, Leonard HL, Li H, Li SA, Li X, Li X, Liang J, Lin H, Lin K, Liu J, Liu X, Lo KS, Long J, Lores-Motta L, Luan J, Lyssenko V, Lyytikäinen LP, Mahajan A, Malik MZ, Mamakou V, Mangino M, Manichaikul A, Marten J, Mattheisen M, McDaid AF, Mei Q, Meiselbach H, Melendez TL, Milaneschi Y, Miller JE, Millwood IY, Mishra PP, Mitchell RE, Møllehave LT, Mononen N, Mucha S, Munz M, Mykkänen J, Nakatochi M, Nardone GG, Nelson CP, Nethander M, Nho CW, Nielsen AA, Nolte IM, Nongmaithem SS, Noordam R, Ntalla I, Nutile T, Pandit A, Pauper M, Petersen ERB, Petersen LV, Piluso F, Polašek O, Poveda A, Pyarajan S, Raffield LM, Rakugi H, Ramirez J, Rasheed A, Raven D, Rayner NW, Riveros C, Rohde R, Ruggiero D, Ruotsalainen SE, Ryan KA, Sabater-Lleal M, Santin A, Saxena R, Scholz M, Shen B, Shi J, Shin JH, Sidore C, Sidorenko J, Sim X, Slieker RC, Smith AV, Smith JA, Smyth LJ, Southam L, Steinthorsdottir V, Sun L, Takeuchi F, Taylor KD, Tayo BO, Tcheandjieu C, Terzikhan N, Tesolin P, Teumer A, Theusch E, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Timmers PRHJ, Trompet S, Turman C, Vaccargiu S, van der Laan SW, van der Most PJ, van Klinken JB, van Setten J, Verma SS, Verweij N, Veturi Y, Wang CA, Wang C, Wang JS, Wang L, Wang YX, Wang Z, Warren HR, Bin Wei W, Wen W, Wheeler WA, Wickremasinghe AR, Wielscher M, Winsvold BS, Wong A, Wuttke M, Xia R, Yamamoto K, Yang J, Yao J, Young H, Yousri NA, Yu L, Zeng L, Zhang W, Zhang X, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zhou W, Zimmermann ME, Zoledziewska M, 't Hart LM, Adair LS, Adams HHH, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Al-Mulla F, Arnett DK, Asselbergs FW, Åsvold BO, Attia J, Banas B, Bandinelli S, Beilin LJ, Bennett DA, Bergler T, Bharadwaj D, Biino G, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Borja JB, Bouchard C, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Brumpton B, Buring JE, Caulfield MJ, Chambers JC, Chandak GR, Chanock SJ, Chaturvedi N, Ida Chen YD, Chen Z, Cheng CY, Cho YS, Christensen K, Christophersen IE, Ciullo M, Cole JW, Collins FS, Concas MP, Cooper RS, Cruz M, Cucca F, Cutler MJ, Damrauer SM, Dantoft TM, de Borst GJ, de Geus EJC, de Groot LCPGM, De Jager PL, de Kleijn DPV, de Silva HJ, Dedoussis GV, den Hollander AI, Du S, Easton DF, Eckardt KU, Elders PJM, Eliassen AH, Ellinor PT, Elmståhl S, Erdmann J, Evans MK, Fatkin D, Feenstra B, Feitosa MF, Ferrucci L, Florez JC, Ford I, Fornage M, Franke A, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Gieger C, Girotto G, Golightly YM, et al.
Nat Med
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Baseline metabolomic profile as potential biomarker for weight change after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery.
Authors: Authors: Thaker V, Gu W, Deng S, Stylopoulos N, Clish C, Hirschhorn J, Salem R.
Res Sq
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Genome-Wide Association Study of Quantitative Kidney Function in 52,531 Individuals with Diabetes Identifies Five Diabetes-Specific Loci.
Authors: Authors: Cole JB, Dahlström EH, Fermin D, Gupta Y, Hill C, Smyth LJ, Liu H, Kreienkamp RJ, Pezzolesi MG, Cao JJ, Valo E, Chen WM, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Rich SS, Brennan EP, Andrews D, Kennedy C, Gu HF, Stechemesser L, Weitgasser R, Sokolovska J, Radzeviciene L, Verkauskiene R, Panduru NM, Rossing P, Ahluwalia TS, Zerbini G, Marre M, Hadjadj S, Costacou T, Miller RG, Klein BE, Lee KE, Snell-Bergeon JK, Caramori ML, Mauer M, Brismar K, Bjornstad P, McKnight AJ, McKay G, Nair V, Salem RM, Groop PH, Godson C, Susztak K, Kretzler M, Maxwell AP, Krolewski A, Paterson A, Sandholm-Lafferre N, Florez JC, Hirschhorn JN.
J Am Soc Nephrol
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The genetic basis of human height.
Authors: Authors: Bicknell LS, Hirschhorn JN, Savarirayan R.
Nat Rev Genet
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