Michael N Cantor

This paper evaluates combining expression-based surrogate variables and genotype-based principal components in differential expression analysis, finding the combined approach improves replicability and biological recall in ALS datasets.

The paper identifies a NOTCH3 variant, p.Arg1231Cys, enriched in South Asians and strongly associated with stroke risk, highlighting the importance of genetic diversity in stroke research.

This paper presents the largest catalog of human protein-coding variation from 985,830 individuals, identifying rare variants and their functional implications for precision medicine.

The paper identifies rare coding variants in CHRNB2 associated with reduced smoking likelihood and links them to downstream smoking-related phenotypes.

This study identifies 53 genetic loci associated with hearing loss, including 15 novel ones, using genome-wide and exome-sequencing data from multiple cohorts.

This study estimates the genetic heritability of COVID-19 infection and severity using Monte Carlo methods on AncestryDNA survey data, finding moderate genetic contribution to infection and low to severity.

The paper examines genetic variation and natural selection at SARS-CoV-2 host genes in diverse populations and links selected variants to clinical phenotypes in COVID-19.

The paper identifies a rare variant that lowers ACE2 expression and reduces COVID-19 risk, and develops a genetic risk score predicting severe disease.

The paper identifies 51 known and 23 novel gene-disease associations using exome sequencing data from 200,000 UK Biobank participants, highlighting high-impact rare variants for 26 diseases and traits.

This study uses exome sequencing of 628,388 individuals to identify genetic variants associated with clonal hematopoiesis and its health outcomes.

This study evaluates polygenic risk scores (PRS) for cancer prediction in a racially diverse biobank, finding moderate improvements in discriminatory accuracy for European ancestry but limited gains for African ancestry.

This study identifies a rare variant in SLC30A10 associated with elevated ALT/AST and hypermanganesemia symptoms, suggesting broader health impacts beyond diagnosed cases.

The paper describes exome sequencing of 200,643 UK Biobank participants, providing a rich resource of coding variants for genetic and drug discovery research.

The paper validates gene-phenotype associations by mapping genes to ICD codes using UMLS relationships, finding 249,764 gene-ICD mappings in a cohort of 92,455 samples.

Multi-ethnic type 2 diabetes (T2D) meta-analysis of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls finds 318 previously unreported loci, 804 expression-colocalized genes, and 13 SNP-by-T2D vascular-outcome interactions.

Exomes of 49,960 UK Biobank participants reveal 231,631 predicted loss-of-function variants (>10-fold more than imputed data); burden tests implicate PIEZO1, MEPE, and COL6A1 in disease traits.