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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Genetics, PhD., Interpreting disease genetics using functional genomics, University of Groningen
1-Jan-2010 → 17-Sept-2014
Award Date: 17-Sept-2014
External positions
Research fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1-Apr-2014 → 31-Aug-2017
Research fellow, Broad Institute
1-Apr-2014 → 31-Aug-2017
Research fellow, Harvard Medical School
1-Apr-2014 → 31-Aug-2017
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Co-expression in tissue-specific gene networks links genes in cancer-susceptibility loci to known somatic driver genes
Urzúa-Traslaviña, C. G., van Lieshout, T., Boulogne, F., Domanegg, K., Zidan, M., Bakker, O. B., Claringbould, A., de Ridder, J., Zwart, W., Westra, H. J., Deelen, P. & Franke, L., 15-Jul-2024, In: BMC Medical Genomics. 17, 14 p., 186.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Epigenome-wide association study on the plasma metabolome suggests self-regulation of the glycine and serine pathway through DNA methylation
Wu, J., Palasantzas, V., Andreu-Sánchez, S., Plösch, T., Leonard, S., Li, S., Bonder, M. J., Westra, H.-J., van Meurs, J., Ghanbari, M., Franke, L., Zhernakova, A., Fu, J., Hoogerland, J. A. & Zhernakova, D. V., 13-Aug-2024, In: Clinical Epigenetics. 16, 16 p., 104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Identification of rare disease genes as drivers of common diseases through tissue-specific gene regulatory networks
Bakker, O. B., Claringbould, A., Westra, H. J., Wiersma, H., Boulogne, F., Võsa, U., Urzúa-Traslaviña, C. G., Mulcahy Symmons, S., Zidan, M. M. M., Sadler, M. C., Kutalik, Z., Jonkers, I. H., Franke, L. & Deelen, P., Dec-2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 13 p., 30206.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Linking the gut microbiome to host DNA methylation by a discovery and replication epigenome-wide association study
Demirkan, A., van Dongen, J., Finnicum, C. T., Westra, H. J., Jankipersadsing, S., Willemsen, G., Ijzerman, R. G., Boomsma, D. I., Ehli, E. A., Bonder, M. J., Fu, J., Franke, L., Wijmenga, C., de Geus, E. J. C., Kurilshikov, A. & Zhernakova, A., Dec-2024, In: BMC Genomics. 25, 11 p., 1224.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Non-coding autoimmune risk variant defines role for ICOS in T peripheral helper cell development
Kim, T., Martínez-Bonet, M., Wang, Q., Hackert, N., Sparks, J. A., Baglaenko, Y., Koh, B., Darbousset, R., Laza-Briviesca, R., Chen, X., Aguiar, V. R. C., Chiu, D. J., Westra, H. J., Gutierrez-Arcelus, M., Weirauch, M. T., Raychaudhuri, S., Rao, D. A. & Nigrovic, P. A., 9-Mar-2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 14 p., 2150.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Additional file 8 of Correction for both common and rare cell types in blood is important to identify genes that correlate with age
Claringbould, A. (Contributor), Westra, H. J. (Contributor), Ikram, M. A. (Contributor), Pellegrino Coppola, D. (Contributor), Slagboom, P. E. (Contributor), Franke, L. (Contributor), Stutvoet, M. (Contributor) & Boomsma, D. I. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 16-Mar-2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14220884.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.14220884.v1
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Additional file 2 of Correction for both common and rare cell types in blood is important to identify genes that correlate with age
Stutvoet, M. (Contributor), Slagboom, P. E. (Contributor), Pellegrino Coppola, D. (Contributor), Westra, H. J. (Contributor), Boomsma, D. I. (Contributor), Ikram, M. A. (Contributor), Franke, L. (Contributor) & Claringbould, A. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 16-Mar-2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14220866.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.14220866.v1
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Additional file 10 of Correction for both common and rare cell types in blood is important to identify genes that correlate with age
Slagboom, P. E. (Contributor), Boomsma, D. I. (Contributor), Westra, H. J. (Contributor), Ikram, M. A. (Contributor), Claringbould, A. (Contributor), Pellegrino Coppola, D. (Contributor), Franke, L. (Contributor) & Stutvoet, M. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 16-Mar-2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14220857.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.14220857.v1
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Additional file 5 of Correction for both common and rare cell types in blood is important to identify genes that correlate with age
Boomsma, D. I. (Contributor), Franke, L. (Contributor), Claringbould, A. (Contributor), Stutvoet, M. (Contributor), Westra, H. J. (Contributor), Slagboom, P. E. (Contributor), Ikram, M. A. (Contributor) & Pellegrino Coppola, D. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 16-Mar-2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14220875.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084%2Fm9.figshare.14220875.v1
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Data from: Mediation analysis demonstrates that trans-eQTLs are often explained by cis-mediation: a genome-wide analysis among 1,800 South Asians
Pierce, B. L. (Creator), Tong, L. (Creator), Chen, L. S. (Creator), Rahaman, R. (Creator), Argos, M. (Creator), Jasmine, F. (Creator), Roy, S. (Creator), Paul-Brutus, R. (Creator), Westra, H. J. (Creator), Franke, L. (Creator), Esko, T. (Creator), Zaman, R. (Creator), Islam, T. (Creator), Rahman, M. (Creator), Baron, J. A. (Creator), Kibriya, M. G. (Creator) & Ahsan, H. (Creator), University of Groningen, 12-Dec-2014
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tp097
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