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Nilesh J. Samani

Researcher at University of Leicester

Publications -  836
Citations -  127518

Nilesh J. Samani is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 149, co-authored 779 publications receiving 113545 citations. Previous affiliations of Nilesh J. Samani include University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust & Glenfield Hospital.

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Exome-chip meta-analysis identifies novel loci associated with cardiac conduction, including ADAMTS6

Bram P. Prins, +130 more
- 17 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: Putative functional coding variation associated with changes in the QRS interval duration is identified by combining Illumina HumanExome BeadChip genotype data from 77,898 participants of European ancestry and 7695 of African descent in the discovery cohort, followed by replication in 111,874 individuals from the UK Biobank and deCODE cohorts.
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New Blood Pressure-Associated Loci Identified in Meta-Analyses of 475 000 Individuals

Aldi T. Kraja, +177 more
TL;DR: This analysis highlights several candidate genes with variation that alter protein function or gene expression for potential follow-up in BP and identifies 4 novel loci associated with BP regulation, and 1 independent variant at an established BP locus.
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Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease (vol 374, pg 1134, 2016)

Nathan O. Stitziel, +128 more