Grant W. Montgomery

Research focus

Recurring themes across recent publications include Genome-Wide Association, Analyses Identify, Number Confirmed, Identifies Additional. Work appears regularly in Nature Genetics, Nature. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.

Recent publications

1. Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height2010 · Nature Genetics · 4820 citationsDOI
2. Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids2010 · Nature · 3678 citationsDOI
3. Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets2016 · Nature Genetics · 3383 citationsDOI
4. Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression2018 · Nature Genetics · 3270 citationsDOI
5. Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci2010 · Nature Genetics · 2576 citationsDOI
6. Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression2021 · Nature Genetics · 2110 citationsDOI
7. Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits2012 · Nature Genetics · 1923 citationsDOI
8. Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations2013 · Nature Genetics · 1766 citationsDOI
9. Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence2018 · Nature Genetics · 1397 citationsDOI
10. Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 472011 · Nature Genetics · 1352 citationsDOI

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External profiles

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-8139
• OpenAlex: openalex.org

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