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Joshua D. Backman
Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore
Publications - 30
Citations - 2088
Joshua D. Backman is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Exome. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 677 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua D. Backman include University of Maryland, College Park.
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Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.
Sonia Shah,Albert Henry,Carolina Roselli,Honghuang Lin,G Sveinbjörnsson,Ghazaleh Fatemifar,Åsa K. Hedman,Jemma B. Wilk,Morley Mp,Mark Chaffin,Anna Helgadottir,Niek Verweij,Niek Verweij,Abbas Dehghan,Peter Almgren,C. Andersson,Krishna G. Aragam,Krishna G. Aragam,Johan Ärnlöv,Johan Ärnlöv,Joshua D. Backman,Mary L. Biggs,Heather L. Bloom,Jeff Brandimarto,Michael R. Brown,Leonard Buckbinder,David J. Carey,Daniel I. Chasman,Xu Chen,Jonathan H. Chung,William A. Chutkow,James P. Cook,Graciela E. Delgado,Spiros Denaxas,Alex S. F. Doney,Marcus Dörr,Samuel C. Dudley,Michael E. Dunn,Gunnar Engström,T Esko,T Esko,Stephan B. Felix,Chris Finan,Ian Ford,Mohsen Ghanbari,Sahar Ghasemi,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Franco Giulianini,John S. Gottdiener,Stefan Gross,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Rebecca Gutmann,Christopher M. Haggerty,P. van der Harst,Craig L. Hyde,Erik Ingelsson,Joop Jukema,Maryam Kavousi,Khaw K-T.,Marcus E. Kleber,Lars Køber,Andrea Koekemoer,Claudia Langenberg,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Barry London,Luca A. Lotta,Ruth C. Lovering,Jian'an Luan,Patrick K.E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Kenneth B. Margulies,März W,März W,März W,Olle Melander,Ify R. Mordi,Thomas M. Morgan,Thomas M. Morgan,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Alanna C. Morrison,Michael W. Nagle,Christopher P. Nelson,Alexander Niessner,Teemu J. Niiranen,Teemu J. Niiranen,Michelle L. O'Donoghue,Anjali T. Owens,Palmer Cna.,Helen M. Parry,Markus Perola,Eliana Portilla-Fernandez,Bruce M. Psaty,Kenneth Rice,Paul M. Ridker,Paul M. Ridker,Romaine Spr.,Jerome I. Rotter,Perttu Salo,Veikko Salomaa,J. van Setten,Alaa Shalaby,Diane T. Smelser,Nicholas L. Smith,Steen Stender,David J. Stott,Per Svensson,Tammesoo M-L.,Kent D. Taylor,Maris Teder-Laving,Alexander Teumer,Guðmundur Thorgeirsson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Christian Torp-Pedersen,Stella Trompet,Benoit Tyl,André G. Uitterlinden,André G. Uitterlinden,Abirami Veluchamy,Uwe Völker,Adriaan A. Voors,Xianyuan Wang,Nicholas J. Wareham,Dawn M. Waterworth,P.E Weeke,Raul Weiss,Kerri L. Wiggins,Huilin Xing,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Bing Yu,Faiez Zannad,Jing Hua Zhao,Harry Hemingway,Nilesh J. Samani,McMurray Jjv.,Jian Yang,Peter M. Visscher,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Anders Mälarstig,Anders Mälarstig,Hilma Holm,Steven A. Lubitz,Steven A. Lubitz,Naveed Sattar,Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Thomas P. Cappola,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Aroon D. Hingorani,Karoline Kuchenbaecker,Patrick T. Ellinor,Patrick T. Ellinor,Chim C. Lang,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,J. G. Smith,J. G. Smith,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Daniel I. Swerdlow,R. T. Lumbers +167 more
TL;DR: Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension.
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Exome sequencing and characterization of 49,960 individuals in the UK Biobank.
Cristopher V. Van Hout,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Joshua D. Backman,Joshua D. Hoffman,Daren Liu,Ashutosh K. Pandey,Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui,Shareef Khalid,Bin Ye,Nilanjana Banerjee,Alexander H. Li,Colm O'Dushlaine,Anthony Marcketta,Jeffrey Staples,Claudia Schurmann,Claudia Schurmann,Alicia Hawes,Evan Maxwell,Leland Barnard,Alexander Lopez,John Penn,Lukas Habegger,Andrew Blumenfeld,Xiaodong Bai,Sean O'Keeffe,Ashish Yadav,Kavita Praveen,Marcus B. Jones,William J Salerno,Wendy K. Chung,Ida Surakka,Cristen J. Willer,Kristian Hveem,Joseph B. Leader,David J. Carey,David H. Ledbetter,Lon R. Cardon,George D. Yancopoulos,Aris N. Economides,Giovanni Coppola,Alan R. Shuldiner,Suganthi Balasubramanian,Michael N. Cantor,Matthew R. Nelson,John C. Whittaker,Jeffrey G. Reid,Jonathan Marchini,John D. Overton,Robert A. Scott,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Aris Baras +52 more
TL;DR: The release of exome-sequence data for the first 49,960 study participants, revealing approximately 4 million coding variants, illustrating the power of characterizing LOF variants in this population through association analyses across 1,730 phenotypes and demonstrating the value of genome sequencing in large population-based studies.
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Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits.
Joelle Mbatchou,Leland Barnard,Joshua D. Backman,Anthony Marcketta,Jack A. Kosmicki,Andrey Ziyatdinov,Christian Benner,Colm O'Dushlaine,Mathew Barber,Boris Boutkov,Lukas Habegger,Manuel A. R. Ferreira,Aris Baras,Jeffrey S. Reid,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Evan Maxwell,Jonathan Marchini +16 more
TL;DR: RegenerIE as mentioned in this paper is a whole-genome regression method based on ridge regression that enables highly parallelized analysis of quantitative and binary traits in biobank-scale data with reduced computational requirements.
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Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants.
Joshua D. Backman,Alexander H. Li,Anthony Marcketta,Dylan Sun,Joelle Mbatchou,Michael D. Kessler,Christian Benner,Daren Liu,Adam E. Locke,Suganthi Balasubramanian,Ashish Yadav,Nilanjana Banerjee,Christopher E. Gillies,Amy Damask,Simon Liu,Xiaodong Bai,Alicia Hawes,Evan Maxwell,Lauren Gurski,Kyoko Watanabe,Jack A. Kosmicki,Veera M. Rajagopal,Jason Mighty,Marcus B. Jones,Lyndon J. Mitnaul,Eli A. Stahl,Giovanni Coppola,Eric Jorgenson,Lukas Habegger,William J Salerno,Alan R. Shuldiner,Luca A. Lotta,John D. Overton,Michael N. Cantor,Jeffrey G. Reid,George D. Yancopoulos,Hyun Min Kang,Jonathan Marchini,Aris Baras,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Manuel A. R. Ferreira +40 more
TL;DR: This paper used exome sequencing to explore protein altering variants and their consequences in 454,787 UK Biobank study participants and identified 12 million coding variants, including ~1 million loss-of-function and ~1.8 million deleterious missense variants.
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Computationally efficient whole genome regression for quantitative and binary traits
Joelle Mbatchou,Leland Barnard,Joshua D. Backman,Anthony Marcketta,Jack A. Kosmicki,Andrey Ziyatdinov,Christian Benner,Colm O'Dushlaine,Mathew Barber,Boris Boutkov,Lukas Habegger,Manuel A. R. Ferreira,Jeffrey S. Reid,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Evan Maxwell,Jonathan Marchini +15 more
TL;DR: A novel machine learning method called REGENIE for fitting a whole genome regression model that is orders of magnitude faster than alternatives, while maintaining statistical efficiency, is presented.