Amit V. Khera

30.2k total citations · 13 hit papers
104 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Amit V. Khera is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Amit V. Khera has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 35 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Amit V. Khera's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (22 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (12 papers). Amit V. Khera is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (22 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (12 papers). Amit V. Khera collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Amit V. Khera's co-authors include Sekar Kathiresan, Connor A. Emdin, Sekar Kathiresan, Patrick T. Ellinor, Pradeep Natarajan, Krishna G. Aragam, Mary E. Haas, Mark Chaffin, Eric S. Lander and Steven A. Lubitz and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Amit V. Khera

95 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular Disease in the United States

2011 2.4k citations Amit V. Khera et al. Circulation profile →
Mendelian Randomization

2017 2.0k citations Connor A. Emdin, Amit V. Khera et al. profile →
Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations

2018 1.6k citations Amit V. Khera, Mark Chaffin et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease

2016 857 citations Amit V. Khera, Connor A. Emdin et al. profile →
Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories from Birth to Adulthood

2019 432 citations Amit V. Khera, Mark Chaffin et al. profile →
Genetics of coronary artery disease: discovery, biology and clinical translation

2017 401 citations Amit V. Khera, Sekar Kathiresan profile →
Lp(a) (Lipoprotein[a]) Concentrations and Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

2020 295 citations Aniruddh P. Patel, Minxian Wang et al. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology profile →
Polygenic background modifies penetrance of monogenic variants for tier 1 genomic conditions

2020 252 citations Akl C. Fahed, Minxian Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Association of Habitual Alcohol Intake With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

2022 232 citations Mary E. Haas, Minxian Wang et al. profile →
Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review and meta-analysis of observational and Mendelian randomization studies

2021 210 citations Min Seo Kim, Won Jun Kim et al. European Heart Journal profile →
Efficacy and Safety of an Investigational Single-Course CRISPR Base-Editing Therapy Targeting PCSK9 in Nonhuman Primate and Mouse Models

2022 132 citations Sekar Kathiresan, Amit V. Khera et al. Circulation profile →
A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease

2023 98 citations Aniruddh P. Patel, Minxian Wang et al. profile →
GalNAc-Lipid nanoparticles enable non-LDLR dependent hepatic delivery of a CRISPR base editing therapy

2023 93 citations Amit V. Khera, Sekar Kathiresan et al. Nature Communications profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Novel strategies to FIND people living with genetic dyslipidemias: The family heart foundation flag, identify, network, and deliver (FIND) familial hypercholesterolemia collaborative learning network 2025 ·American Journal of Preventive Cardiology ·Shoshana H. Bardach, (unknown), Laurence Sperling, (unknown), Benjamin L. S. Furman, David Kulp, (unknown), Danny J. Eapen, (unknown), (unknown), Mary P. McGowan, Amit V. Khera, Martha Gulati, Zahid Ahmad, (unknown), Brian S. Mittman, Katherine Wilemon	0
2	Coronary Artery Disease–Based Polygenic Risk Score in Early-Onset Acute Myocardial Infarction Subtypes 2025 ·JACC Advances ·Weilai Dong, Yuan Lu, Shu‐Xia Li, Mitsuaki Sawano, César Caraballo, Yuntian Liu, Amit V. Khera, Anthony Philippakis, Rachel P. Dreyer, Judith H. Lichtman, Gail D’Onofrio, Erica S. Spatz, David Herrington, Wendy S. Post, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Harlan M. Krumholz	0
3	Cardiologists' Perceptions of Cardiogenetic Testing and Management 2025 ·JACC Advances ·W.H. Wilson Tang, Quan M. Bui, Allison L. Cirino, Lisa Dellefave‐Castillo, Brendan J. Floyd, Alejandra Guerchicoff, (unknown), Amit V. Khera, Joshua W. Knowles, (unknown), Andrew P. Landstrom, (unknown), Ana Morales, Kate M. Orland, (unknown), Siddharth K. Prakash, (unknown), (unknown)	1
4	Causal effect of adiposity on the risk of 19 gastrointestinal diseases: a Mendelian randomization study 2023 ·Obesity ·Min Seo Kim, (unknown), Soyeon Kim, Beomsu Kim, Wonseok Kang, Jong Yeob Kim, Woojae Myung, (unknown), Ron Do, Amit V. Khera, Hong‐Hee Won	22
5	Polygenic Background Modifies Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Among Individuals With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia 2023 ·JACC Advances ·Laurens F. Reeskamp, Injeong Shim, Jacqueline S. Dron, (unknown), Tycho R. Tromp, Akl C. Fahed, Aniruddh P. Patel, Barbara A. Hutten, Erik S.G. Stroes, G. Kees Hovingh, Amit V. Khera	7
6	Clinical utility of polygenic scores for cardiometabolic disease in Arabs 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Injeong Shim, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, (unknown), Mais Hashem, Lama AlAbdi, Mohamed Abouelhoda, Hong‐Hee Won, Pradeep Natarajan, Patrick T. Ellinor, Amit V. Khera, Xin Gao, Fowzan S. Alkuraya, Akl C. Fahed	5
7	Silhouette images enable estimation of body fat distribution and associated cardiometabolic risk 2022 ·npj Digital Medicine ·Marcus D. R. Klarqvist, Saaket Agrawal, Nathaniel Diamant, Patrick T. Ellinor, Anthony Philippakis, Kenney Ng, Puneet Batra, Amit V. Khera	8
8	Inherited basis of visceral, abdominal subcutaneous and gluteofemoral fat depots 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Saaket Agrawal, Minxian Wang, Marcus D. R. Klarqvist, Kirk Smith, Joseph H. Shin, Hesam Dashti, Nathaniel Diamant, Seung Hoan Choi, Sean J. Jurgens, Patrick T. Ellinor, Anthony Philippakis, Melina Claussnitzer, Kenney Ng, Miriam S. Udler, Puneet Batra, Amit V. Khera	75
9	Association of Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Score for Body Mass Index With Cardiometabolic Health From Childhood Through Midlife 2022 ·Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine ·Mengyao Shi, Wei Chen, Xiao Sun, Lydia Bazzano, Jiang He, Alexander C. Razavi, Changwei Li, Lu Qi, Amit V. Khera, Tanika N. Kelly	5
10	Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review and meta-analysis of observational and Mendelian randomization studies breakdown → 2021 ·European Heart Journal ·Min Seo Kim, Won Jun Kim, Amit V. Khera, Jong Yeob Kim, Dong Keon Yon, Seung Won Lee, Jae Il Shin, Hong‐Hee Won	210
11	Machine learning enables new insights into genetic contributions to liver fat accumulation 2021 ·Cell Genomics ·Mary E. Haas, James P. Pirruccello, Sam Friedman, Minxian Wang, Connor A. Emdin, Veeral Ajmera, Tracey G. Simon, Julian R. Homburger, Xiuqing Guo, Matthew J. Budoff, Kathleen E. Corey, Alicia Y. Zhou, Anthony Philippakis, Patrick T. Ellinor, Rohit Loomba, Puneet Batra, Amit V. Khera	55
12	Selection of 51 predictors from 13,782 candidate multimodal features using machine learning improves coronary artery disease prediction 2021 ·Patterns ·Saaket Agrawal, Marcus D. R. Klarqvist, Connor A. Emdin, Aniruddh P. Patel, Manish Paranjpe, Patrick T. Ellinor, Anthony Philippakis, Kenney Ng, Puneet Batra, Amit V. Khera	29
13	Quantifying and Understanding the Higher Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among South Asian Individuals 2021 ·Circulation ·Aniruddh P. Patel, Minxian Wang, Uri Kartoun, Kenney Ng, Amit V. Khera	101
14	Rare, Damaging DNA Variants in CORIN and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Insights From Functional Genomics and Large-Scale Sequencing Analyses 2021 ·Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine ·Minxian Wang, Vivian S. Lee, Deepak Atri, Nadine H. Elowe, John Yu, Colin W. Garvie, Hong‐Hee Won, Joseph Hadaya, Bryan T. MacDonald, Kevin Trindade, Olle Melander, Daniel J. Rader, Pradeep Natarajan, Sekar Kathiresan, Virendar K. Kaushik, Amit V. Khera, Rajat M. Gupta	9
15	Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy 2020 ·Nature Communications ·James P. Pirruccello, Alexander G. Bick, Minxian Wang, Mark Chaffin, Sam Friedman, Jie Yao, Xiuqing Guo, Bharath Ambale‐Venkatesh, Kent D. Taylor, Wendy S. Post, Stephen S. Rich, João A.C. Lima, Jerome I. Rotter, Anthony Philippakis, Steven A. Lubitz, Patrick T. Ellinor, Amit V. Khera, Sekar Kathiresan, Krishna G. Aragam	129
16	Lp(a) (Lipoprotein[a]) Concentrations and Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease breakdown → 2020 ·Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Aniruddh P. Patel, Minxian Wang, James P. Pirruccello, Patrick T. Ellinor, Kenney Ng, Sekar Kathiresan, Amit V. Khera	295
17	Genetic Association of Finger Photoplethysmography-Derived Arterial Stiffness Index With Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Disease 2019 ·Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Seyedeh M. Zekavat, Krishna G. Aragam, Connor A. Emdin, Amit V. Khera, Derek Klarin, Hongyu Zhao, Pradeep Natarajan	27
18	Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Genetics ·Amit V. Khera, Mark Chaffin, Krishna G. Aragam, Mary E. Haas, Carolina Roselli, Seung Hoan Choi, Pradeep Natarajan, Eric S. Lander, Steven A. Lubitz, Patrick T. Ellinor, Sekar Kathiresan	1631
19	The American Society for Preventive Cardiology Abstracts 2017 ·Clinical Cardiology ·Wilbert S. Aronow, Amit V. Khera, Stephen L. Kopecky, Douglas D. Schocken, Laurence Sperling, James Underberg, José R. Medina‐Inojosa, Mariana García, Sharon L. Mulvagh, Saswati Mahapatra, Francisco López-Jiménez, (unknown), Stephen Cha, Amit Sood, Anjali Bhagra, (unknown), Patrick M. Moriarty, (unknown), (unknown)	1
20	Genetic analysis in UK Biobank links insulin resistance and transendothelial migration pathways to coronary artery disease 2017 ·Nature Genetics ·Derek Klarin, Qiuyu Zhu, Connor A. Emdin, Mark Chaffin, (unknown), Brian J. McMillan, Alison Leed, Michael E. Weale, Chris C. A. Spencer, François Aguet, Ayellet V. Segrè, Kristin Ardlie, Amit V. Khera, Virendar K. Kaushik, Pradeep Natarajan, Sekar Kathiresan	150

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