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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.
617-919-2129
Hirschhorn Lab Website
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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Insights from the largest diverse ancestry sex-specific disease map for genetically predicted height.
Authors: Authors: Papadopoulou A, Litkowski EM, Graff M, Wang Z, Smit RAJ, Chittoor G, Dinsmore I, Josyula NS, Lin M, Shortt J, Zhu W, Vedantam SL, Yengo L, Wood AR, Berndt SI, Holm IA, Mentch FD, Hakonarson H, Kiryluk K, Weng C, Jarvik GP, Crosslin D, Carrell D, Kullo IJ, Dikilitas O, Hayes MG, Wei W-, Edwards DRV, Assimes TL, Hirschhorn JN, Below JE, Gignoux CR, Justice AE, Loos RJF, Sun YV, Raghavan S, Deloukas P, North KE, Marouli E.
NPJ Genom Med
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Associations between phenotypes of childhood and adolescent obesity and incident hypertension in young adulthood.
Authors: Authors: St Fleur RG, Tanofsky-Kraff M, Yanovski JA, Horton NJ, Reich L, Chavarro JE, Hirschhorn JN, Ziobrowski HN, Field AE.
Int J Obes (Lond)
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Blood methylation biomarkers are associated with diabetic kidney disease progression in type 1 diabetes.
Authors: Authors: Syreeni A, Dahlström EH, Smyth LJ, Hill C, Mutter S, Gupta Y, Harjutsalo V, Chen Z, Natarajan R, Krolewski AS, Hirschhorn JN, Florez JC, Maxwell AP, Groop PH, McKnight AJ, Sandholm N.
medRxiv
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Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability.
Authors: Authors: Richard D, Muthuirulan P, Young M, Yengo L, Vedantam S, Marouli E, Bartell E, Hirschhorn J, Capellini TD.
Cell
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A Novel Role for FERM Domain-Containing Protein 3 (FRMD3) in CKD.
Authors: Authors: Kennedy C, Doyle R, Gough O, Mcevoy C, Anallen SM, Hughes M, Sheng X, Crifo B, Andrews D, Gaffney A, Rodriguez J, Kennedy S, Dillon E, Crean D, Zhang W, Yi Z, Nair V, Susztak K, Hirschhorn J, Florez J, Groop PH, Sandholm N, Kretzler M, Mckay GJ, Mcknight AJ, Maxwell AP, Matallanas D, Dorman A, Martin F, Conlon PJ, Sadlier DM, Brennan E, Godson C.
Kidney360
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Non-canonical Wnt signaling triggered by WNT2B drives adrenal aldosterone production.
Authors: Authors: Borges KS, Little DW, de Almeida Magalhães T, Ribeiro C, Dumontet T, Lapensee C, Basham KJ, Seth A, Azova S, Guagliardo NA, Barrett PQ, Berber M, O'Connell AE, Turcu AF, Lerario AM, Mohan DR, Rainey W, Carlone DL, Hirschhorn JN, Salic A, Breault DT, Hammer GD.
bioRxiv
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An integrative framework to prioritize genes in more than 500 loci associated with body mass index.
Authors: Authors: Hemerich D, Svenstrup V, Obrero VD, Preuss M, Moscati A, Hirschhorn JN, Loos RJF.
Am J Hum Genet
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Associations Between Phenotypes of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity and Incident Hypertension in Young Adulthood.
Authors: Authors: Fleur RS, Tanofsky-Kraff M, Yanovski J, Horton N, Reich L, Chavarro J, Hirschhorn J, Ziobrowski H, Field A.
Res Sq
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