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Heather M. Highland

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Publications

46

Citations

5.3K

H-Index

25

Active since

2013

Affiliations

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(Current)

University of Washington

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Heather M. Highland is an author at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in genetics, life sciences, and human genetics.

Publications per year

2013–2025

46

Publications

46

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

Genevieve L. Wojcik, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K. Nishimura et al. · Nature · 2019 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +16

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Christian Fuchsberger, Jason Flannick, Tanya M. Teslovich et al. · Nature · 2016 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +14

Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

Eirini Marouli, Mariaelisa Graff, Carolina Medina‐Gómez et al. · Nature · 2017 · 654 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +14

Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

Valérie Turcot, Yingchang Lu, Heather M. Highland et al. · Nature Genetics · 2017 · 428 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data

Pierrick Wainschtein, Deepti Jain, Zhili Zheng et al. · Nature Genetics · 2022 · 359 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

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