Ruth Loos

Ruth Loos

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

H-index: 162

North America-United States

About Ruth Loos

Ruth Loos, With an exceptional h-index of 162 and a recent h-index of 120 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, specializes in the field of Epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, obesity, public health, metabolic disease.

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

Genome-wide study investigating effector genes and polygenic prediction for kidney function in persons with ancestry from Africa and the Americas

MagicalRsq-X: A cross-cohort transferable genotype imputation quality metric

Genetic Variation and Obesity

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

Prioritization of Kidney Cell Types Highlights Myofibroblast Cells in Regulating Human Blood Pressure

Methylation patterns associated with C-reactive protein in racially and ethnically diverse populations

Elucidating pathways to pediatric obesity: a study evaluating obesity polygenic risk scores related to appetitive traits in children

Polygenic Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans

Ruth Loos Information

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Citations(all)

130771

Citations(since 2020)

62610

Cited By

92377

hIndex(all)

162

hIndex(since 2020)

120

i10Index(all)

505

i10Index(since 2020)

429

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Ruth Loos Skills & Research Interests

Epidemiology

genetic epidemiology

obesity

public health

metabolic disease

Top articles of Ruth Loos

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Genome-wide study investigating effector genes and polygenic prediction for kidney function in persons with ancestry from Africa and the Americas

Cell genomics

Odessica Hughes

Amy R Bentley

Charles E Breeze

Francois Aguet

Xiaoguang Xu

...

2024/1/10

MagicalRsq-X: A cross-cohort transferable genotype imputation quality metric

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Quan Sun

Yingxi Yang

Jonathan D Rosen

Jiawen Chen

Xihao Li

...

2024/4/9

Genetic Variation and Obesity

Ruth JF Loos

2024

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

Nature Genetics

Xiangrui Meng

Georgina Navoly

Olga Giannakopoulou

Daniel F Levey

Dora Koller

...

2024/1/4

Prioritization of Kidney Cell Types Highlights Myofibroblast Cells in Regulating Human Blood Pressure

Kidney International Reports

Mahboube Ganji-Arjenaki

Zoha Kamali

Evangelos Evangelou

Helen R Warren

He Gao

...

2024/3/13

Methylation patterns associated with C-reactive protein in racially and ethnically diverse populations

Epigenetics

Jessica I Lundin

Ulrike Peters

Yao Hu

Farah Ammous

Christy L Avery

...

2024/12/31

Elucidating pathways to pediatric obesity: a study evaluating obesity polygenic risk scores related to appetitive traits in children

International Journal of Obesity

Timothy J Renier

Dabin Yeum

Jennifer A Emond

Reina K Lansigan

Grace A Ballarino

...

2024/1

Polygenic Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans

Diabetes

Marguerite R Irvin

Tian Ge

Amit Patki

Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra

Nicole D Armstrong

...

2024/3/12

Genomic and proteomic evidence for hormonal and metabolic foundations of polycystic ovary syndrome

medRxiv

Loes ME Moolhuijsen

Jia Zhu

Benjamin H Mullin

Natalia Pujol-Gualdo

KyEra V Actkins

...

2024

Genome-wide analysis in over 1 million individuals of European ancestry yields improved polygenic risk scores for blood pressure traits

Helen Warren

Todd Edwards

Ahmad Vaez

Jacob Keaton

Zoha Kamali

...

2022/3/10

Persistent thinness and anorexia nervosa differ on a genomic level

European Journal of Human Genetics

Christopher Hübel

Mohamed Abdulkadir

Moritz Herle

Alish B Palmos

Ruth JF Loos

...

2024/1

Selection, optimization and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse US populations

Nature Medicine

Niall J Lennon

Leah C Kottyan

Christopher Kachulis

Noura S Abul-Husn

Josh Arias

...

2024/2/19

Time-to-Event Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Cardiovascular Disease in People With Type 2 Diabetes

medRxiv

Soo Heon Kwak

Ryan B Hernandez-Cancela

Daniel A DiCorpo

David E Condon

Jordi Merino

...

2023/7/28

Genomic and phenotypic correlates of mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood

medRxiv

Yasminka A Jakubek

Xiaolong Ma

Adrienne M Stilp

Fulong Yu

Jason Bacon

...

2024

Understanding risk and causal mechanisms for developing obesity in infants and young children: A National Institutes of Health workshop

Kjersti M Aagaard

Shari L Barkin

Charles F Burant

Susan Carnell

Ellen Demerath

...

2024/1/11

Genetic underpinnings of fasting and oral glucose-stimulated based insulin sensitivity indices

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Sufyan Suleman

Anne L Madsen

Lars H Ängquist

Mikkel Schubert

Allan Linneberg

...

2024/4/18

Protocol for the combined cardiometabolic deep phenotyping and registry-based 20-year follow-up study of the Inter99 cohort

BMJ open

Kirsten Schroll Bjørnsbo

Charlotte Brøns

Mette Aadahl

Freja Bach Kampmann

Camilla Friis Bryde Nielsen

...

2024/1/1

Whole genome sequence analysis of apparent treatment resistant hypertension status in participants from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program

Frontiers in Genetics

Nicole D Armstrong

Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra

Farah Ammous

Themistocles L Assimes

Amber L Beitelshees

...

2023/12/13

Ancestral diversity in lipoprotein (a) studies helps address evidence gaps

Open Heart

Moa P Lee

Sofia F Dimos

Laura M Raffield

Zhe Wang

Anna F Ballou

...

2023/8/1

Epigenome-wide DNA methylation association study of circulating IgE levels identifies novel targets for asthma

EBioMedicine

Kathryn Recto

Priyadarshini Kachroo

Tianxiao Huan

David Van Den Berg

Gha Young Lee

...

2023/9/1

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