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Austin T Hilliard

VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Verified email at stanford.edu
Cited by 1396

Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis

…, TL Assimes, K Lorenz, X Zhu, AT Hilliard… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetic susceptibility via multi-ancestry meta-analysis
of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls in the Million Veteran Program (MVP), DIAMANTE…

Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations

C Tcheandjieu, X Zhu, AT Hilliard, SL Clarke… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of coronary artery disease (CAD)
incorporating nearly a quarter of a million cases, in which existing studies are integrated with data …

Transcriptomic signatures across human tissues identify functional rare genetic variation

…, JR Davis, E Greenwald, GT Hess, AT Hilliard… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The human genome contains tens of thousands of rare (minor allele frequency
<1%) variants, some of which contribute to disease risk. Using 838 samples with whole-…

[PDF][PDF] Molecular microcircuitry underlies functional specification in a basal ganglia circuit dedicated to vocal learning

AT Hilliard, JE Miller, ER Fraley, S Horvath, SA White - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Similarities between speech and birdsong make songbirds advantageous for investigating
the neurogenetics of learned vocal communication—a complex phenotype probably …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide study identifies effector genes and druggable pathways for coronary artery calcification

…, MJ Budoff, MF Feitosa, C Finan, AT Hilliard… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coronary artery calcification (CAC), a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis, predicts future
symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD). Identifying genetic risk factors for CAC may …

[PDF][PDF] A neural basis for control of cichlid female reproductive behavior by prostaglandin F2α

SA Juntti, AT Hilliard, KR Kent, A Kumar, A Nguyen… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
In most species, females time reproduction to coincide with fertility. Thus, identifying factors
that signal fertility to the brain can provide access to neural circuits that control sexual …

[PDF][PDF] A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids

…, KHH Wu, I Ntalla, Q Hui, D Klarin, AT Hilliard… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
A major challenge of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to translate phenotypic
associations into biological insights. Here, we integrate a large GWAS on blood lipids …

[HTML][HTML] Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis

…, KHH Wu, I Ntalla, Q Hui, D Klarin, AT Hilliard… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation
of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are …

Race and ethnicity stratification for polygenic risk score analyses may mask disparities in Hispanics

SL Clarke, RDL Huang, AT Hilliard, C Tcheandjieu… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are central to the development of precision medicine. However,
decades of Euro-centric genomics research have paved the way for disparities in their …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic loci associated with COVID-19 positivity and hospitalization in White, Black, and Hispanic Veterans of the VA Million Veteran Program

…, DC Posner, YL Ho, JJ Zhou, AT Hilliard… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
SARS-CoV-2 has caused symptomatic COVID-19 and widespread death across the globe.
We sought to determine genetic variants contributing to COVID-19 susceptibility and …