Jerome I. Rotter

Research focus

Recurring themes across recent publications include Genome-Wide Association, Susceptibility Loci, Crohn Disease, Inflammatory Bowel. Work appears regularly in Nature Genetics, Science, Nature. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.

Recent publications

1. Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease2012 · Nature · 4831 citationsDOI
2. A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene2006 · Science · 2981 citationsDOI
3. Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease2008 · Nature Genetics · 2624 citationsDOI
4. Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci2010 · Nature Genetics · 2576 citationsDOI
5. Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain2018 · Science · 2010 citationsDOI
6. Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis2007 · Nature Genetics · 1749 citationsDOI
7. Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes2018 · Nature Genetics · 1705 citationsDOI
8. Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension2009 · Nature Genetics · 1379 citationsDOI
9. Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 472011 · Nature Genetics · 1352 citationsDOI
10. Mitochondrial ribosomal RNA mutation associated with both antibiotic–induced and non–syndromic deafness1993 · Nature Genetics · 1182 citationsDOI

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External profiles

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-1723
• OpenAlex: openalex.org

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