Royce Ellen Clifford

The paper identifies genetic factors associated with balance in the elderly through GWAS and multimodal transcriptomic analysis of otolithic organs.

This paper conducts a GWAS meta-analysis of sensorineural hearing loss, identifying 108 loci, including 54 novel genes, and shows substantial genetic overlap between cohorts despite differing phenotypes.

Population-stratified GWAS of 2,068 traits in 635,969 Million Veteran Program participants, 29% genetically non-European, yields 98,485 associations and 57,601 fine-mapped signals with largely shared cross-population architecture.

This study identifies 54 risk loci for hearing loss in adults across multiple cohorts, revealing sex differences, ancestry-specific polygenic risks, and interactions with environmental factors like noise and smoking.