Dr. Amit Khera, MD

• Cardiology

• Internal Medicine

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• University Of Pennsylvania Perelman School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 2010

• Rare Genetic Variants Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death in Adults, 2019-11-11

• BMI-adjusted adipose tissue volumes exhibit depot-specific and divergent associations with cardiometabolic diseases, 2023-01-17

• Volanesorsen, Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome, and Thrombocytopenia, 2019-12-26

• Phenotypic Characterization of Genetically Lowered Human Lipoprotein(a) Levels, 2016-12-27

• Machine learning enables new insights into genetic contributions to liver fat accumulation, 2021-12-08

• Genetics of Blood Lipids Among ~300,000 Multi-Ethnic Participants of the Million Veteran Program, 2018-10-01

• Association of the Interaction Between Familial Hypercholesterolemia Variants and Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle With Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Lifestyle, and Risk of CAD, 2022-03-16

• Diagnostic Yield of Sequencing Familial Hypercholesterolemia Genes in Severe Hypercholesterolemia, 2016-04-03

• Analysis of predicted loss-of-function variants in UK Biobank identifies variants protective for disease, 2018-04-24

• Deep-coverage whole genome sequences and blood lipids among 16,324 individuals, 2018-08-23

• ANGPTL3 Deficiency and Protection Against Coronary Artery Disease, 2017-04-03

• Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy, 2020-05-07

• A genetic predictor to identify individuals with high lipoprotein(a) concentrations, 2021-02-01

• Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations, 2018-08-13

• A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height, 2022-10-12

• Polygenic background modifies penetrance of monogenic variants for tier 1 genomic conditions, 2020-08-20

• A missense variant in Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 gene and protection against liver disease, 2020-04-13

• Inherited basis of visceral, abdominal subcutaneous and gluteofemoral fat depots, 2022-06-30

• Neurocognitive trajectory and proteomic signature of inherited risk for Alzheimer's disease, 2022-09-01

• A single cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue, 2022-03-16

• Limitations of Contemporary Guidelines for Managing Patients at High Genetic Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, 2020-06-09

• Polygenic basis and biomedical consequences of telomere length variation, 2021-10-05

• Rare, Damaging DNA Variants inCORINand Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Insights from Functional Genomics and Large-scale Sequencing Analyses, 2021-10-01

• Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis, 2022-12-27

• Genetic Association of Finger Photoplethysmography-Derived Arterial Stiffness Index with Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Disease, 2019-04-01

• Genetic Analysis in UK Biobank Links Insulin Resistance and Transendothelial Migration Pathways to Coronary Artery Disease, 2017-07-17

• A Genetic Variant Associated with Five Vascular Diseases Is a Distal Regulator of Endothelin-1 Gene Expression, 2017-07-27

• Electronic health record-based genome-wide meta-analysis provides insights on the genetic architecture of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, 2021-11-03

• Author Correction: A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics, 2021-02-03

• Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals, 2017-10-30

• Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies, 2021-03-10

• Plasma ApoC-III Levels, Triglycerides, and Coronary Artery Calcification in Type 2 Diabetics, 2015-06-11

• Transethnic Transferability of a Genome-wide Polygenic Score for Coronary Artery Disease, 2020-12-07

• Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022-12-06

• Rare protein-truncating variants inAPOB, lower LDL-C, and protection against coronary heart disease APOBvariants with LDL and CHD, 2020-02-19

• Polygenic risk for type 2 diabetes, lifestyle, metabolic health, and cardiovascular disease: a prospective UK Biobank study, 2022-07-14

• Silhouette images enable estimation of body fat distribution and associated cardiometabolic risk, 2022-07-27

• Randomized prospective evaluation of genome sequencing versus standard-of-care as a first molecular diagnostic test, 2021-05-11

• Genetic inactivation ofANGPTL4improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes, 2018-06-13

• Polygenic prediction of weight and obesity trajectories from birth to adulthood, 2019-04-18

• Design and user experience testing of a polygenic score report: a qualitative study of prospective users, 2021-10-01

• What is familial hypercholesterolemia and why does it matter?, 2020-06-01

• Concordance of a High Polygenic Score Among Relatives: Implications for Genetic Counseling and Cascade Screening, 2021-04-02

• CYP2C19genotyping in anticoagulated patients post-percutaneous coronary intervention: should it be routine?, 2022-03-07

• Single-cell transcriptomics: an emerging tool in the study of cardiometabolic disease, 2014-11-06

• Cholesterol Efflux Capacity, HDL Particle Number, and Incident Cardiovascular Events An Analysis From the JUPITER Trial (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin), 2017-04-27

• Quantifying and understanding the higher risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease among South Asians - results from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study, 2021-07-12

• Polygenic score assessed in young adulthood and onset of subclinical atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, 2022-07-19

• Prediction performance and fairness heterogeneity in cardiovascular risk models, 2022-07-22

• Genome-wide Polygenic Score and Cardiovascular Outcomes with Evacetrapib in Patients with High-risk Vascular Disease: A Nested Case-control Study, 2020-01-03

• A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics, 2020-05-27

• Developing Genome-wide Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians, 2020-08-11

• Analyzing human knockouts to validateGPR151as a therapeutic target for reduction of body mass index, 2022-04-05

• Rare Protein-Truncating Variants inAPOB, Lower Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, and Protection Against Coronary Heart Disease, 2019-05-21

• A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation, 2022-06-02

• Author Correction: The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids, 2023-07-07

• Whole genome sequencing to characterize monogenic and polygenic contributions in patients hospitalized with early-onset myocardial infarction, 2019-03-26

• Association of genetic variation with cirrhosis: a multi-trait genome-wide association and gene-environment interaction study, 2020-12-11

• Titin truncating variants in adults without known congestive heart failure, 2020-03-17

• The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids, 2021-12-09

• A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease, 2023-07-06

• Low coverage whole genome sequencing enables accurate assessment of common variants and calculation of genome-wide polygenic scores, 2019-11-26

• Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Quantifying and understanding the increased risk of coronary artery disease among South Asians - results from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study”, 2022-01-31

• Associations between polygenic risk of coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes, lifestyle, and cardiovascular mortality: A prospective UK Biobank study, 2022-08-17

• A Genome-wide Polygenic Score, Clinical Risk Factors, and Long-term Trajectories of Coronary Artery Disease, 2020-09-22

• Performance of Atrial Fibrillation Risk Prediction Models in Over Four Million Individuals, 2020-12-09

• Association of Habitual Alcohol Intake With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Association of Habitual Alcohol Intake With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, 2022-03-25

• Phenotypic Consequences of a Genetic Predisposition to Enhanced Nitric Oxide Signaling, 2017-10-05

• The potential of polygenic scores to improve cost and efficiency of clinical trials, 2022-05-25

• Clinical Implementation of Combined Monogenic and Polygenic Risk Disclosure for Coronary Artery Disease, 2022-08-16

• Lipoprotein(a) concentrations and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: new insights from a large national biobank, 2020-10-29

• Polygenic risk score predicts sudden death in patients with coronary disease and preserved systolic function, 2022-08-30

• Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank, 2020-07-06

• Heterozygous ATP-binding Cassette Transporter G5 Gene Deficiency and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, 2020-08-30