Author

Riku Takei

University of Alabama at BirminghamORCID 0000-0002-1243-2535Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

Click to filter author papers

Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 2

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

Click to filter · or open tag

Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Raymond MerrimaniD· 2 shared Amanda J. Phipps‐GreeniD· 1 shared Ben Morgan· 1 shared Daniel E. WeeksiD· 1 shared Emily M. RusselliD· 1 shared Frances King· 1 shared Guangyun Sun· 1 shared Hong ChengiD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2021-2025 · peak 1/yr

Co-Author Collaboration Network

10 top collaborators · 37 mutual co-author links

Click any collaborator node to inspect or filter shared papers

Focal author (center)Selected co-authorORCID co-authorUnlinked name

Curved chords = mutual co-authorship

2 shared papersGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Tony Raymond MerrimanORCID

Mutual co-authors in cluster

Author profile →

2 papers

Recent·Most cited

Genetic & Genomic MedicineGout Urate and Crystal Deposition DiseasePeer-reviewedOct 13, 2025

Testing for Causal Association between Serum Urate, Gout, and Prostatic Cancer in European Males

Sumanth R Chandrupatla, Nicholas A. Sumpter, Riku Takei…·Jasvinder A. Singh

The paper uses Mendelian randomization to test causal links between serum urate, gout, and prostate cancer in European males, finding a causal effect of gout on prostate cancer but not of urate.

DOI 10.3390/gucdd3040020

humanGWAS summary statistics

𝕏 PostBluesky

Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintSep 11, 2021

A population-specific missense variant rs1597000001 in CETP promotes a favorable lipid profile and reduces CETP activity.

Jaye Moors, Mohanraj Krishnan, Nick Sumpter…·Megan Leask

The paper identifies a population-specific missense variant in CETP that lowers CETP activity and improves lipid profile, similar to loss-of-function mutations.

DOI 10.1101/2021.09.11.21263438

humanstatistical model

𝕏 PostBluesky