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Amit V. Khera

Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec · US
Area of research
Genetics · Surgery
Research interest
Research interests include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.
h-index
65
citations
30,873
works
302
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
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Recent publications

High inherited risk predicts age-associated increases in fibrosis in patients with MASLD
Journal of Hepatology 2025cited by 23position: middledoi
Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome-Attributable Mortality in the United States, From 2010 to 2023
JACC Advances 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Selection, optimization and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse US populations
Nature Medicine 2024cited by 182position: middledoi
Familial Hypercholesterolemia Variant and Cardiovascular Risk in Individuals With Elevated Cholesterol
JAMA Cardiology 2024cited by 24position: middledoi
Physical Activity and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification in Men and Women
JAMA Cardiology 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease
Nature Medicine 2023cited by 244position: lastdoi
Rare penetrant mutations confer severe risk of common diseases
Science 2023cited by 72position: middledoi
South Asian medical cohorts reveal strong founder effects and high rates of homozygosity
Nature Communications 2023cited by 38position: middledoi
Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge Portal: A Community Resource for Cardiovascular Disease Research
Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine 2023cited by 25position: middledoi
Human gain-of-function variants in HNF1A confer protection from diabetes but independently increase hepatic secretion of atherogenic lipoproteins
Cell Genomics 2023cited by 17position: middledoi
Author Correction: A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue
Nature 2023cited by 13position: middledoi
Association of Severe Hypercholesterolemia and Familial Hypercholesterolemia Genotype With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Circulation 2023cited by 12position: middledoi
Rare penetrant mutations confer severe risk of common diseases
medRxiv 2023cited by 5position: middledoi
Polygenic score informed by genome-wide association studies of multiple ancestries and related traits improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease
medRxiv 2023cited by 3position: lastdoi
A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue
Nature 2022cited by 792position: middledoi
Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 674position: middledoi
Association of Habitual Alcohol Intake With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
JAMA Network Open 2022cited by 426position: middledoi
Leveraging fine-mapping and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 277position: middledoi
A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 188position: middledoi
Earlier treatment in adults with high lifetime risk of cardiovascular diseases: What prevention trials are feasible and could change clinical practice? Report of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Workshop
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2022cited by 40position: middledoi
Estimated Yield of Screening for Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia With and Without Genetic Testing in US Adults
Journal of the American Heart Association 2022cited by 18position: middledoi
Gene Sequencing Identifies Perturbation in Nitric Oxide Signaling as a Nonlipid Molecular Subtype of Coronary Artery Disease
Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine 2022cited by 10position: firstdoi
Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies
Nature 2021cited by 486position: middledoi
Polygenic basis and biomedical consequences of telomere length variation
Nature Genetics 2021cited by 362position: middledoi
Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review and meta-analysis of observational and Mendelian randomization studies
European Heart Journal 2021cited by 361position: middledoi
Electronic health record-based genome-wide meta-analysis provides insights on the genetic architecture of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Cell Reports Medicine 2021cited by 248position: middledoi
Machine learning enables new insights into genetic contributions to liver fat accumulation
Cell Genomics 2021cited by 103position: lastdoi
Author Correction: A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics
Nature 2021cited by 17position: middledoi
Lp(a) (Lipoprotein[a]) Concentrations and Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2020cited by 502position: lastdoi
Polygenic background modifies penetrance of monogenic variants for tier 1 genomic conditions
Nature Communications 2020cited by 470position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Patrick T. Ellinor · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai12 papers (2018–2023)Sekar Kathiresan · Massachusetts General Hospital11 papers (2017–2022)Minxian Wang · Beijing Institute of Genomics9 papers (2019–2023)Pradeep Natarajan · Broad Institute8 papers (2016–2023)Connor A. Emdin · Massachusetts Institute of Technology8 papers (2016–2021)Krishna G. Aragam · Broad Institute7 papers (2018–2023)Mark Chaffin · Broad Institute6 papers (2017–2020)Mary E. Haas · University of Pennsylvania6 papers (2018–2022)Steven A. Lubitz · Boston Foundation5 papers (2018–2023)Aniruddh P. Patel · Broad Institute5 papers (2019–2023)Carolina Roselli · Broad Institute5 papers (2017–2023)Anthony Philippakis · Broad Institute5 papers (2019–2021)Alexander G. Bick · Vanderbilt University Medical Center5 papers (2016–2020)Eric S. Lander · Broad Institute5 papers (2018–2020)Sekar Kathiresan · Verve Therapeutics (United States)4 papers (2016–2020)Julian R. Homburger · Stanford University4 papers (2019–2021)Kenney Ng · Cambridge Scientific (United States)4 papers (2019–2020)Akl C. Fahed · Harvard University4 papers (2019–2023)Alicia Y. Zhou · Cancer Research Institute4 papers (2019–2021)James P. Pirruccello · University of San Francisco4 papers (2019–2021)