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Ruth Johnson, PhD

Berkowitz Family Living Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Zitnik Lab

Ruth Johnson is a Berkowitz Family Living Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her research focuses on developing computational and statistical methods for understanding the genetic basis of disease, particularly through electronic health records and genomic biobank studies. Ruth received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer science and bachelor's degree also from UCLA in mathematics. During her PhD, she was actively involved in research with the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank and focused on studying genetic disease risk in ancestrally diverse populations.

The UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative: Promoting precision health research in a diverse biobank.
Authors: Johnson R, Ding Y, Bhattacharya A, Knyazev S, Chiu A, Lajonchere C, Geschwind DH, Pasaniuc B.
Cell Genom
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Exome-wide association study to identify rare variants influencing COVID-19 outcomes: Results from the Host Genetics Initiative.
Authors: Butler-Laporte G, Povysil G, Kosmicki JA, Cirulli ET, Drivas T, Furini S, Saad C, Schmidt A, Olszewski P, Korotko U, Quinodoz M, Çelik E, Kundu K, Walter K, Jung J, Stockwell AD, Sloofman LG, Jordan DM, Thompson RC, Del Valle D, Simons N, Cheng E, Sebra R, Schadt EE, Kim-Schulze S, Gnjatic S, Merad M, Buxbaum JD, Beckmann ND, Charney AW, Przychodzen B, Chang T, Pottinger TD, Shang N, Brand F, Fava F, Mari F, Chwialkowska K, Niemira M, Pula S, Baillie JK, Stuckey A, Salas A, Bello X, Pardo-Seco J, Gómez-Carballa A, Rivero-Calle I, Martinón-Torres F, Ganna A, Karczewski KJ, Veerapen K, Bourgey M, Bourque G, Eveleigh RJ, Forgetta V, Morrison D, Langlais D, Lathrop M, Mooser V, Nakanishi T, Frithiof R, Hultström M, Lipcsey M, Marincevic-Zuniga Y, Nordlund J, Schiabor Barrett KM, Lee W, Bolze A, White S, Riffle S, Tanudjaja F, Sandoval E, Neveux I, Dabe S, Casadei N, Motameny S, Alaamery M, Massadeh S, Aljawini N, Almutairi MS, Arabi YM, Alqahtani SA, Al Harthi FS, Almutairi A, Alqubaishi F, Alotaibi S, Binowayn A, Alsolm EA, El Bardisy H, Fawzy M, Cai F, Soranzo N, Butterworth A, Geschwind DH, Arteaga S, Stephens A, Butte MJ, Boutros PC, Yamaguchi TN, Tao S, Eng S, Sanders T, Tung PJ, Broudy ME, Pan Y, Gonzalez A, Chavan N, Johnson R, Pasaniuc B, Yaspan B, Smieszek S, Rivolta C, Bibert S, Bochud PY, Dabrowski M, Zawadzki P, Sypniewski M, Kaja E, Chariyavilaskul P, Nilaratanakul V, Hirankarn N, Shotelersuk V, Pongpanich M, Phokaew C, Chetruengchai W, Tokunaga K, Sugiyama M, Kawai Y, Hasegawa T, Naito T, Namkoong H, Edahiro R, Kimura A, Ogawa S, Kanai T, Fukunaga K, Okada Y, Imoto S, Miyano S, Mangul S, Abedalthagafi MS, Zeberg H, Grzymski JJ, Washington NL, Ossowski S, Ludwig KU, Schulte EC, Riess O, Moniuszko M, Kwasniewski M, Mbarek H, Ismail SI, Verma A, Goldstein DB, Kiryluk K, Renieri A, Ferreira MAR, Richards JB.
PLoS Genet
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Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease.
Authors: Zhou W, Kanai M, Wu KH, Rasheed H, Tsuo K, Hirbo JB, Wang Y, Bhattacharya A, Zhao H, Namba S, Surakka I, Wolford BN, Lo Faro V, Lopera-Maya EA, Läll K, Favé MJ, Partanen JJ, Chapman SB, Karjalainen J, Kurki M, Maasha M, Brumpton BM, Chavan S, Chen TT, Daya M, Ding Y, Feng YA, Guare LA, Gignoux CR, Graham SE, Hornsby WE, Ingold N, Ismail SI, Johnson R, Laisk T, Lin K, Lv J, Millwood IY, Moreno-Grau S, Nam K, Palta P, Pandit A, Preuss MH, Saad C, Setia-Verma S, Thorsteinsdottir U, Uzunovic J, Verma A, Zawistowski M, Zhong X, Afifi N, Al-Dabhani KM, Al Thani A, Bradford Y, Campbell A, Crooks K, de Bock GH, Damrauer SM, Douville NJ, Finer S, Fritsche LG, Fthenou E, Gonzalez-Arroyo G, Griffiths CJ, Guo Y, Hunt KA, Ioannidis A, Jansonius NM, Konuma T, Lee MTM, Lopez-Pineda A, Matsuda Y, Marioni RE, Moatamed B, Nava-Aguilar MA, Numakura K, Patil S, Rafaels N, Richmond A, Rojas-Muñoz A, Shortt JA, Straub P, Tao R, Vanderwerff B, Vernekar M, Veturi Y, Barnes KC, Boezen M, Chen Z, Chen CY, Cho J, Smith GD, Finucane HK, Franke L, Gamazon ER, Ganna A, Gaunt TR, Ge T, Huang H, Huffman J, Katsanis N, Koskela JT, Lajonchere C, Law MH, Li L, Lindgren CM, Loos RJF, MacGregor S, Matsuda K, Olsen CM, Porteous DJ, Shavit JA, Snieder H, Takano T, Trembath RC, Vonk JM, Whiteman DC, Wicks SJ, Wijmenga C, Wright J, Zheng J, Zhou X, Awadalla P, Boehnke M, Bustamante CD, Cox NJ, Fatumo S, Geschwind DH, Hayward C, Hveem K, Kenny EE, Lee S, Lin YF, Mbarek H, Mägi R, Martin HC, Medland SE, Okada Y, Palotie AV, Pasaniuc B, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, Sanna S, Smoller JW, Stefansson K, van Heel DA, Walters RG, Zöllner S, Martin AR, Willer CJ, Daly MJ, Neale BM.
Cell Genom
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Leveraging genomic diversity for discovery in an electronic health record linked biobank: the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative.
Authors: Johnson R, Ding Y, Venkateswaran V, Bhattacharya A, Boulier K, Chiu A, Knyazev S, Schwarz T, Freund M, Zhan L, Burch KS, Caggiano C, Hill B, Rakocz N, Balliu B, Denny CT, Sul JH, Zaitlen N, Arboleda VA, Halperin E, Sankararaman S, Butte MJ.
Genome Med
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Estimation of regional polygenicity from GWAS provides insights into the genetic architecture of complex traits.
Authors: Johnson R, Burch KS, Hou K, Paciuc M, Pasaniuc B, Sankararaman S.
PLoS Comput Biol
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Pre-existing conditions in Hispanics/Latinxs that are COVID-19 risk factors.
Authors: Chang TS, Ding Y, Freund MK, Johnson R, Schwarz T, Yabu JM, Hazlett C, Chiang JN, Wulf DA.
iScience
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Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data.
Authors: Shi H, Burch KS, Johnson R, Freund MK, Kichaev G, Mancuso N, Manuel AM, Dong N, Pasaniuc B.
Am J Hum Genet
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Probabilistic fine-mapping of transcriptome-wide association studies.
Authors: Mancuso N, Freund MK, Johnson R, Shi H, Kichaev G, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B.
Nat Genet
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A unifying framework for joint trait analysis under a non-infinitesimal model.
Authors: Johnson R, Shi H, Pasaniuc B, Sankararaman S.
Bioinformatics
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Improved methods for multi-trait fine mapping of pleiotropic risk loci.
Authors: Kichaev G, Roytman M, Johnson R, Eskin E, Lindström S, Kraft P, Pasaniuc B.
Bioinformatics
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