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William K Scott, PhD

Professor

  • 13688 Citations
1990 …2022
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Research interests

Self Communities: none at present; Countries: Argentina and West Africa; Experience working on studies of tuberculosis in communities; Diverse Groups Worked With (USA): African-American individuals in North and South Carolina, Hispanic/Latino individuals in NC, SC, and Amish communities in Indiana and Ohio

Research interests

  • and infectious diseases
  • traits of aging
  • ophthalmological
  • Influence of genetic and environmental factors on age-related
  • neurodegenerative

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Macular Degeneration Medicine & Life Sciences
Parkinson Disease Medicine & Life Sciences
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Medicine & Life Sciences
Genes Medicine & Life Sciences
Alzheimer Disease Medicine & Life Sciences
Amish Medicine & Life Sciences
Genome-Wide Association Study Medicine & Life Sciences
Age of Onset Medicine & Life Sciences

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Projects 1990 2022

Protective Genetic Variants for Alzheimer Disease in the Amish

Scott, W. K. & Pericak-Vance, M. A.

National Institutes of Health

9/15/17 → 6/30/22

Project: Research project

Amish
Alzheimer Disease
Genome
Exome
Genetic Linkage

University of Miami Computational Ocular Genomics Training Program

Scott, W. K.

National Institutes of Health

1/1/13 → 12/31/18

Project: Research project

Genomics
Education
Research Personnel
Medical Genetics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.)

Genetics of Parkinsonism

Scott, W. K., Beecham, G. W., Vance, J. M., Wahlestedt, C. R., Wahlestedt, C. R., Dykxhoorn, D. M., Wahlestedt, C. R. & Dykxhoorn, D. M.

National Institutes of Health

9/15/10 → 8/31/18

Project: Research project

Parkinson Disease
Exome
Parkinsonian Disorders
Genes
Inborn Genetic Diseases

Genetic Studies of Successful Aging in the Amish

Scott, W. K.

National Institutes of Health

7/1/03 → 4/30/10

Project: Research project

Amish
Genes
Disease Susceptibility
Health
Medical Genetics

Genetic Studies of Human Susceptibility to Tuberculosis

Scott, W. K.

National Institutes of Health

9/10/01 → 7/31/07

Project: Research project

Medical Genetics
Tuberculosis
Genes
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction

Research Output 1994 2019

  • 13688 Citations
  • 221 Article
  • 3 Comment/debate
  • 1 Chapter

AMISH EYE STUDY: Baseline Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Characteristics of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Nittala, M. G., Song, Y. E., Sardell, R., Adams, L. D., Pan, S., Velaga, S. B., Horst, V., Dana, D., Caywood, L., Laux, R., Fuzzell, D., Fuzzell, S., Scott, W. K., Cooke Bailey, J. N., Igo, R. P., Haines, J., Pericak-Vance, M. A., Sadda, S. V. R. & Stambolian, D., Aug 1 2019, In : Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.). 39, 8, p. 1540-1550 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Optical Coherence Tomography
Macular Degeneration
Amish
Choroid
Color

Erratum to: Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases (Nature Communications, (2018), 9, 1, (1864), 10.1038/s41467-018-03646-6)

Blue Mountains Eye Study - GWAS group, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2) & NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, Dec 1 2019, In : Nature communications. 10, 1, 155.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
eye diseases
document markup languages
HTML
Eye Diseases
genome

Motivations for participation in Parkinson disease genetic research among hispanics versus non-hispanics

Nuytemans, K., Manrique, C. P., Uhlenberg, A., Scott, W. K., Cuccaro, M., Luca, C. C., Singer, C. & Vance, J. M., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Genetics. 10, JUN, 658.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
Genetic Research
Hispanic Americans
Parkinson Disease
Research

Rare variants and loci for age-related macular degeneration in the Ohio and Indiana Amish

Waksmunski, A. R., Igo, R. P., Song, Y. E., Cooke Bailey, J. N., Laux, R., Fuzzell, D., Fuzzell, S., Adams, L. D., Caywood, L., Prough, M., Stambolian, D., Scott, W. K., Pericak-Vance, M. A. & Haines, J. L., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Human Genetics.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Amish
Macular Degeneration
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
Gene Ontology
2 Citations (Scopus)

Analysis combining correlated glaucoma traits identifies five new risk loci for open-angle glaucoma

Gharahkhani, P., Burdon, K. P., Cooke Bailey, J. N., Hewitt, A. W., Law, M. H., Pasquale, L. R., Kang, J. H., Haines, J. L., Souzeau, E., Zhou, T., Siggs, O. M., Landers, J., Awadalla, M., Sharma, S., Mills, R. A., Ridge, B., Lynn, D., Casson, R., Graham, S. L., Goldberg, I. & 45 others, White, A., Healey, P. R., Grigg, J., Lawlor, M., Mitchell, P., Ruddle, J., Coote, M., Walland, M., Best, S., Vincent, A., Gale, J., Radfordsmith, G., Whiteman, D. C., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G., MacKey, D. A., Wiggs, J. L., MacGregor, S., Craig, J. E., Allingham, R. R., Brilliant, M., Budenz, D. L., Fingert, J. H., Gaasterland, D., Gaasterland, T., Hark, L., Hauser, M., Igo, R. P., Kraft, P., Lee, R. K., Lichter, P. R., Liu, Y., Moroi, S., Pericak-Vance, M. A., Realini, A., Rhee, D., Richards, J. E., Ritch, R., Schuman, J. S., Scott, W. K., Singh, K., Sit, A. J., Vollrath, D., Wollstein, G. & Zack, D. J., Dec 1 2018, In : Scientific Reports. 8, 1, 3124.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Angle Glaucoma
Glaucoma
Genome-Wide Association Study
Eye Diseases
Chromosome Mapping