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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
Using metabolite profiling to construct and validate a metabolite risk score for predicting future weight gain.
Authors: Authors: Geidenstam N, Hsu YH, Astley CM, Mercader JM, Ridderstråle M, Gonzalez ME, Gonzalez C, Hirschhorn JN, Salem RM.
PLoS One
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for body fat distribution in 694 649 individuals of European ancestry.
Authors: Authors: Pulit SL, Stoneman C, Morris AP, Wood AR, Glastonbury CA, Tyrrell J, Yengo L, Ferreira T, Marouli E, Ji Y, Yang J, Jones S, Beaumont R, Croteau-Chonka DC, Winkler TW, Consortium G, Hattersley AT, Loos RJF, Hirschhorn JN, Visscher PM, Frayling TM, Yaghootkar H, Lindgren CM.
Hum Mol Genet
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Mendelian randomisation analyses find pulmonary factors mediate the effect of height on coronary artery disease.
Authors: Authors: Marouli E, Del Greco MF, Astley CM, Yang J, Ahmad S, Berndt SI, Caulfield MJ, Evangelou E, McKnight B, Medina-Gomez C, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Warren HR, Zhu Z, Hirschhorn JN, Loos RJF, Kutalik Z, Deloukas P.
Commun Biol
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Measuring coverage and accuracy of whole-exome sequencing in clinical context.
Authors: Authors: Kong SW, Lee IH, Liu X, Hirschhorn JN, Mandl KD.
Genet Med
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Disruption of the Igf2 gene alters hepatic lipid homeostasis and gene expression in the newborn mouse.
Authors: Authors: Lopez MF, Zheng L, Miao J, Gali R, Gorski G, Hirschhorn JN.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ~700000 individuals of European ancestry.
Authors: Authors: Yengo L, Sidorenko J, Kemper KE, Zheng Z, Wood AR, Weedon MN, Frayling TM, Hirschhorn J, Yang J, Visscher PM.
Hum Mol Genet
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Burden Testing of Rare Variants Identified through Exome Sequencing via Publicly Available Control Data.
Authors: Authors: Guo MH, Plummer L, Chan YM, Hirschhorn JN, Lippincott MF.
Am J Hum Genet
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Insights and Implications of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Height.
Authors: Authors: Guo MH, Hirschhorn JN, Dauber A.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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GWAS for BMI: a treasure trove of fundamental insights into the genetic basis of obesity.
Authors: Authors: Speakman JR, Loos RJF, O'Rahilly S, Hirschhorn JN, Allison DB.
Int J Obes (Lond)
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A Genome-Wide Association Study of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes.
Authors: Authors: van Zuydam NR, Ahlqvist E, Sandholm N, Deshmukh H, Rayner NW, Abdalla M, Ladenvall C, Ziemek D, Fauman E, Robertson NR, McKeigue PM, Valo E, Forsblom C, Harjutsalo V, Perna A, Rurali E, Marcovecchio ML, Igo RP, Salem RM, Perico N, Lajer M, Käräjämäki A, Imamura M, Kubo M, Takahashi A, Sim X, Liu J, van Dam RM, Jiang G, Tam CHT, Luk AOY, Lee HM, Lim CKP, Szeto CC, So WY, Chan JCN, Ang SF, Dorajoo R, Wang L, Clara TSH, McKnight AJ, Duffy S, Pezzolesi MG, Marre M, Gyorgy B, Hadjadj S, Hiraki LT, Ahluwalia TS, Almgren P, Schulz CA, Orho-Melander M, Linneberg A, Christensen C, Witte DR, Grarup N, Brandslund I, Melander O, Paterson AD, Tregouet D, Maxwell AP, Lim SC, Ma RCW, Tai ES, Maeda S, Lyssenko V, Tuomi T, Krolewski AS, Rich SS, Hirschhorn JN, Florez JC, Dunger D, Pedersen O, Hansen T, Rossing P, Remuzzi G, Brosnan MJ, Palmer CNA, Groop PH, Colhoun HM, Groop LC, McCarthy MI.
Diabetes
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