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Vineeta Agarwala

Researcher at Cardiovascular Institute of the South

Publications -  14
Citations -  17791

Vineeta Agarwala is an academic researcher from Cardiovascular Institute of the South. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Cas9. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 14 publications receiving 14709 citations. Previous affiliations of Vineeta Agarwala include Broad Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

TL;DR: A set of tools for Cas9-mediated genome editing via nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or homology-directed repair (HDR) in mammalian cells, as well as generation of modified cell lines for downstream functional studies are described.

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Christian Fuchsberger, +300 more
TL;DR: Large-scale sequencing does not support the idea that lower-frequency variants have a major role in predisposition to type 2 diabetes, but most fell within regions previously identified by genome-wide association studies.