Kristin L. Young

Kristin L. Young

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 27

North America-United States

About Kristin L. Young

Kristin L. Young, With an exceptional h-index of 27 and a recent h-index of 23 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in the field of genetic epidemiology, GxE, complex disease, statistical genetics, anthropological genetics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Study of Gene-Sleep Duration Interactions for Blood Pressure in 811,405 Individuals from Diverse Populations

Trans-population two-sample Mendelian randomization study of circulating metabolites and prostate cancer risk

Genetic and transcriptomic landscape of colonic diverticulosis

T22. SHARED GENETIC LOCI UNDERLYING SMOKING CONSUMPTION, ALCOHOL USE, AND BODY MASS INDEX: EVIDENCE FROM LARGE MULTI-ETHNIC GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

Influence of alcohol consumption and alcohol metabolism variants on breast cancer risk among Black women: results from the AMBER consortium

Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

Dietary and supplemental intake of vitamins C and E is associated with altered DNA methylation in an epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis

Kristin L. Young Information

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Citations(all)

4864

Citations(since 2020)

4003

Cited By

2186

hIndex(all)

27

hIndex(since 2020)

23

i10Index(all)

54

i10Index(since 2020)

41

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Kristin L. Young Skills & Research Interests

genetic epidemiology

GxE

complex disease

statistical genetics

anthropological genetics

Top articles of Kristin L. Young

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

Yilun Li

Kin Yau Wong

Annie Green Howard

Penny Gordon-Larsen

Heather M Highland

...

2024/1/11

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Study of Gene-Sleep Duration Interactions for Blood Pressure in 811,405 Individuals from Diverse Populations

medRxiv

Pavithra Nagarajan

Thomas W Winkler

Amy R Bentley

Clint L Miller

Aldi T Kraja

...

2024

Trans-population two-sample Mendelian randomization study of circulating metabolites and prostate cancer risk

Cancer Research

Harriett Fuller

Rebecca Rohde

Heather Highland

Jiayi Shen

Bing Yu

...

2024/3/22

Genetic and transcriptomic landscape of colonic diverticulosis

Gut

Jungkyun Seo

Hongwei Liu

Kristin Young

Xinruo Zhang

Temitope O Keku

...

2024/3/5

T22. SHARED GENETIC LOCI UNDERLYING SMOKING CONSUMPTION, ALCOHOL USE, AND BODY MASS INDEX: EVIDENCE FROM LARGE MULTI-ETHNIC GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Baiyu Qi

Heather Highland

Kristin Young

Mariaelisa Graff

Sonja Berndt

...

2023/10/1

Influence of alcohol consumption and alcohol metabolism variants on breast cancer risk among Black women: results from the AMBER consortium

Breast Cancer Research

Kristin L Young

Andrew F Olshan

Kathryn Lunetta

Mariaelisa Graff

Lindsay A Williams

...

2023/6/12

Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

Nature genetics

Fang Chen

Xingyan Wang

Seon-Kyeong Jang

Bryan C Quach

J Dylan Weissenkampen

...

2023/2

Dietary and supplemental intake of vitamins C and E is associated with altered DNA methylation in an epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis

Epigenetics

Amena Keshawarz

Roby Joehanes

Jiantao Ma

Gha Young Lee

Ricardo Costeira

...

2023/12/31

Whole-exome sequence analysis of anthropometric traits illustrates challenges in identifying effects of rare genetic variants

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

Kristin L Young

Virginia Fisher

Xuan Deng

Jennifer A Brody

Misa Graff

...

2023/1/12

Associations between avocado intake and measures of glucose and insulin homeostasis in Hispanic individuals with and without type 2 diabetes: Results from the Hispanic …

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

MacKenzie K Senn

Mark O Goodarzi

Gautam Ramesh

Matthew A Allison

Mariaelisa Graff

...

2023/12/1

Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts

Human genetics

Mohammad Yaser Anwar

Mariaelisa Graff

Heather M Highland

Roelof Smit

Zhe Wang

...

2023/10

A large‐scale transcriptome‐wide association study (TWAS) of 10 blood cell phenotypes reveals complexities of TWAS fine‐mapping

Genetic epidemiology

Amanda L Tapia

Bryce T Rowland

Jonathan D Rosen

Michael Preuss

Kris Young

...

2022/2

A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Nature

Loïc Yengo

Sailaja Vedantam

Eirini Marouli

Julia Sidorenko

Eric Bartell

...

2022/10/27

Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention

Nature genetics

Zhe Wang

Andrew Emmerich

Nicolas J Pillon

Tim Moore

Daiane Hemerich

...

2022/9

Do adverse childhood experiences and genetic obesity risk interact in relation to body mass index in young adulthood? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of …

Pediatric obesity

Yosuke Inoue

Mariaelisa Graff

Annie Green Howard

Heather M Highland

Kristin L Young

...

2022/6

Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes

Mariaelisa Graff

Victoria L Buchanan

Anne E Justice

Heather M Highland

...

2022/4/14

Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

Nature

Gretchen RB Saunders

Xingyan Wang

Fang Chen

Seon-Kyeong Jang

Mengzhen Liu

...

2022/12/22

Predicted gene expression in ancestrally diverse populations leads to discovery of susceptibility loci for lifestyle and cardiometabolic traits

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Heather M Highland

Genevieve L Wojcik

Mariaelisa Graff

Katherine K Nishimura

Chani J Hodonsky

...

2022/4/7

Rare genetic variants explain missing heritability in smoking

Nature human behaviour

Seon-Kyeong Jang

Luke Evans

Allison Fialkowski

Donna K Arnett

Allison E Ashley-Koch

...

2022/11

Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Mariaelisa Graff

Anne E Justice

Kristin L Young

Eirini Marouli

Xinruo Zhang

...

2021/4/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 162
Ruth Loos

Ruth Loos

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

H-index: 115
Karen Mohlke

Karen Mohlke

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 100
Kari North

Kari North

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 78
Kathleen Mullan Harris

Kathleen Mullan Harris

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 66
Ching-Ti Liu

Ching-Ti Liu

Boston University

H-index: 37
Christy Avery

Christy Avery

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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