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Thomas W. Blackwell

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US
Area of research
Genetics · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.
h-index
37
citations
10,436
works
142
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk
Nature Genetics 2025cited by 24position: middledoi
Validation of human telomere length multi-ancestry meta-analysis association signals identifies POP5 and KBTBD6 as human telomere length regulation genes
Nature Communications 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
Clonal haematopoiesis and risk of chronic liver disease
Nature 2023cited by 198position: middledoi
Association Between Whole Blood–Derived Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number, Low‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Journal of the American Heart Association 2023cited by 29position: middledoi
Epigenome-wide DNA methylation association study of circulating IgE levels identifies novel targets for asthma
EBioMedicine 2023cited by 19position: middledoi
The genetic determinants of recurrent somatic mutations in 43,693 blood genomes
Science Advances 2023cited by 13position: middledoi
Author Correction: Clonal haematopoiesis and risk of chronic liver disease
Nature 2023cited by 2position: middledoi
A framework for detecting noncoding rare-variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies
Nature Methods 2022cited by 109position: middledoi
Mendelian randomization supports bidirectional causality between telomere length and clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential
Science Advances 2022cited by 89position: middledoi
Whole Genome Association Study of the Plasma Metabolome Identifies Metabolites Linked to Cardiometabolic Disease in Black Individuals
Nature Communications 2022cited by 61position: middledoi
Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 60position: middledoi
Whole genome sequencing identifies structural variants contributing to hematologic traits in the NHLBI TOPMed program
Nature Communications 2022cited by 18position: middledoi
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
Nature 2021cited by 2,264position: middledoi
Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes
Science 2021cited by 406position: middledoi
A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response
Nature Genetics 2021cited by 183position: middledoi
Association of mitochondrial DNA copy number with cardiometabolic diseases
Cell Genomics 2021cited by 59position: middledoi
Genome sequencing unveils a regulatory landscape of platelet reactivity
Nature Communications 2021cited by 51position: middledoi
Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program
The American Journal of Human Genetics 2021cited by 50position: middledoi
Whole-genome association analyses of sleep-disordered breathing phenotypes in the NHLBI TOPMed program
Genome Medicine 2021cited by 34position: middledoi
Robust, flexible, and scalable tests for Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium across diverse ancestries
Genetics 2021cited by 25position: middledoi
Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program
The American Journal of Human Genetics 2021cited by 25position: middledoi
Presence and transmission of mitochondrial heteroplasmic mutations in human populations of European and African ancestry
Mitochondrion 2021cited by 22position: middledoi
Variant-specific inflation factors for assessing population stratification at the phenotypic variance level
Nature Communications 2021cited by 21position: middledoi
Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale
Nature Genetics 2020cited by 289position: middledoi
Asthma and its relationship to mitochondrial copy number: Results from the Asthma Translational Genomics Collaborative (ATGC) of the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program
PLoS ONE 2020cited by 31position: middledoi
Mapping the 17q12–21.1 Locus for Variants Associated with Early-Onset Asthma in African Americans
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2020cited by 27position: middledoi
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019cited by 423position: middledoi
Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls
Nature 2019cited by 337position: middledoi
Association Between Titin Loss-of-Function Variants and Early-Onset Atrial Fibrillation
JAMA 2018cited by 230position: middledoi
Deep-coverage whole genome sequences and blood lipids among 16,324 individuals
Nature Communications 2018cited by 199position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Jerome I. Rotter · IST Research1 papers (2021–2021)Laura M. Raffield · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1 papers (2021–2021)Jean Monlong · Inserm1 papers (2021–2021)Charles Markello · University of California, Santa Cruz1 papers (2021–2021)Jordan M. Eizenga · Genomics (United Kingdom)1 papers (2021–2021)Pi-Chuan Chang · Google (United States)1 papers (2021–2021)Xian Chang · University of California, Santa Cruz1 papers (2021–2021)L. Adrienne Cupples · Child Health and Development Institute1 papers (2021–2021)Stacey Gabriel · Broad Institute1 papers (2021–2021)Benedict Paten · Broad Center1 papers (2021–2021)Jouni Sirén · Wellcome Sanger Institute1 papers (2021–2021)Stephen S. Rich · Antwerp University Hospital1 papers (2021–2021)Andrew Carroll · Google (United States)1 papers (2021–2021)Daniel Levy · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai1 papers (2021–2021)Glenn Hickey · Science for Life Laboratory1 papers (2021–2021)Gonçalo R. Abecasis · University of Regensburg1 papers (2021–2021)Jonas A. Sibbesen · Novo Nordisk (Denmark)1 papers (2021–2021)David Haussler · Innovative Genomics Institute1 papers (2021–2021)Chunyu Liu · Boston University1 papers (2021–2021)Heming Wang · Broad Institute1 papers (2021–2021)