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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
Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits.
Authors: Authors: Yang J, Ferreira T, Morris AP, Medland SE, Madden PA, Heath AC, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Weedon MN, Loos RJ, Frayling TM, McCarthy MI, Hirschhorn JN, Goddard ME, Visscher PM.
Nat Genet
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Gencrypt: one-way cryptographic hashes to detect overlapping individuals across samples.
Authors: Authors: Turchin MC, Hirschhorn JN.
Bioinformatics
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Genetic defect in CYP24A1, the vitamin D 24-hydroxylase gene, in a patient with severe infantile hypercalcemia.
Authors: Authors: Dauber A, Nguyen TT, Sochett E, Cole DE, Horst R, Abrams SA, Carpenter TO, Hirschhorn JN.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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Absence of functional LIN28B mutations in a large cohort of patients with idiopathic central precocious puberty.
Authors: Authors: Silveira-Neto AP, Leal LF, Emerman AB, Henderson KD, Piskounova E, Henderson BE, Gregory RI, Silveira LF, Hirschhorn JN, Nguyen TT, Beneduzzi D, Tusset C, Reis AC, Brito VN, Mendonca BB, Palmert MR, Antonini SR, Latronico AC.
Horm Res Paediatr
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Genome-wide association studies of asthma in population-based cohorts confirm known and suggested loci and identify an additional association near HLA.
Authors: Authors: Ramasamy A, Kuokkanen M, Vedantam S, Gajdos ZK, Couto Alves A, Lyon HN, Ferreira MA, Strachan DP, Zhao JH, Abramson MJ, Brown MA, Coin L, Dharmage SC, Duffy DL, Haahtela T, Heath AC, Janson C, Kähönen M, Khaw KT, Laitinen J, Le Souef P, Lehtimäki T, Madden PA, Marks GB, Martin NG, Matheson MC, Palmer CD, Palotie A, Pouta A, Robertson CF, Viikari J, Widen E, Wjst M, Jarvis DL, Montgomery GW, Thompson PJ, Wareham N, Eriksson J, Jousilahti P, Laitinen T, Pekkanen J, Raitakari OT, O'Connor GT, Salomaa V, Jarvelin MR, Hirschhorn JN.
PLoS One
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The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits.
Authors: Authors: Voight BF, Kang HM, Ding J, Palmer CD, Sidore C, Chines PS, Burtt NP, Fuchsberger C, Li Y, Erdmann J, Frayling TM, Heid IM, Jackson AU, Johnson T, Kilpeläinen TO, Lindgren CM, Morris AP, Prokopenko I, Randall JC, Saxena R, Soranzo N, Speliotes EK, Teslovich TM, Wheeler E, Maguire J, Parkin M, Potter S, Rayner NW, Robertson N, Stirrups K, Winckler W, Sanna S, Mulas A, Nagaraja R, Cucca F, Barroso I, Deloukas P, Loos RJ, Kathiresan S, Munroe PB, Newton-Cheh C, Pfeufer A, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Hirschhorn JN, Altshuler D, McCarthy MI, Abecasis GR, Boehnke M.
PLoS Genet
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Genome-wide association of copy-number variation reveals an association between short stature and the presence of low-frequency genomic deletions.
Authors: Authors: Dauber A, Yu Y, Turchin MC, Chiang CW, Meng YA, Demerath EW, Patel SR, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Schreiner PJ, Wilson JG, Shen Y, Wu BL, Hirschhorn JN.
Am J Hum Genet
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Common variants show predicted polygenic effects on height in the tails of the distribution, except in extremely short individuals.
Authors: Authors: Chan Y, Holmen OL, Dauber A, Vatten L, Havulinna AS, Skorpen F, Kvaløy K, Silander K, Nguyen TT, Willer C, Boehnke M, Perola M, Palotie A, Salomaa V, Hveem K, Frayling TM, Hirschhorn JN, Weedon MN.
PLoS Genet
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The efficacy of detecting variants with small effects on the Affymetrix 6.0 platform using pooled DNA.
Authors: Authors: Chiang CW, Gajdos ZK, Korn JM, Butler JL, Hackett R, Guiducci C, Nguyen TT, Wilks R, Forrester T, Henderson KD, Le Marchand L, Henderson BE, Haiman CA, Cooper RS, Lyon HN, Zhu X, McKenzie CA, Palmert MR, Hirschhorn JN.
Hum Genet
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Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of Loci associated with adult height in individuals of african ancestry.
Authors: Authors: N'Diaye A, Chen GK, Palmer CD, Ge B, Tayo B, Mathias RA, Ding J, Nalls MA, Adeyemo A, Adoue V, Ambrosone CB, Atwood L, Bandera EV, Becker LC, Berndt SI, Bernstein L, Blot WJ, Boerwinkle E, Britton A, Casey G, Chanock SJ, Demerath E, Deming SL, Diver WR, Fox C, Harris TB, Hernandez DG, Hu JJ, Ingles SA, John EM, Johnson C, Keating B, Kittles RA, Kolonel LN, Kritchevsky SB, Le Marchand L, Lohman K, Liu J, Millikan RC, Murphy A, Musani S, Neslund-Dudas C, North KE, Nyante S, Ogunniyi A, Ostrander EA, Papanicolaou G, Patel S, Pettaway CA, Press MF, Redline S, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Rotimi C, Rybicki BA, Salako B, Schreiner PJ, Signorello LB, Singleton AB, Stanford JL, Stram AH, Stram DO, Strom SS, Suktitipat B, Thun MJ, Witte JS, Yanek LR, Ziegler RG, Zheng W, Zhu X, Zmuda JM, Zonderman AB, Evans MK, Liu Y, Becker DM, Cooper RS, Pastinen T, Henderson BE, Hirschhorn JN, Lettre G, Haiman CA.
PLoS Genet
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