Dr Shona M. Kerr (BSc PhD)
Project Manager QTL in Health & Disease Programme
- MRC Human Genetics Unit
- MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 8748
- Email: shona.kerr@igmm.ed.ac.uk
- twitter @shona_kerr
Background
Shona Kerr is Project Manager of the QTL in Health and Disease group at the MRC Human Genetics Unit. She is also Associate Director of the Edinburgh CRF Genetics Core. Her primary interests are in the genetics of complex traits in human population cohorts and methods development in biomedical collections. Prior to her current post, Shona had an academic career in molecular genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Her PhD was from King’s College London through the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science, University of Glasgow (Biochemsitry, First Class Honours)
PhD, King's College London
Responsibilities & affiliations
Shona chaired the Generation Scotland Access Committee from 2009 to 2012 and is still a member of that Committee.
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Increased ultra-rare variant load in an isolated Scottish population impacts exonic and regulatory regions
In:
PLoS Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008480
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The Genetic Landscape of Scotland and the Isles
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904761116
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
An actionable KCNH2 Long QT Syndrome variant detected by sequence and haplotype analysis in a population research cohort
In:
Scientific Reports, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47436-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Flexible and Scalable Diagnostic Filtering of Genomic Variants using G2P with Ensembl VEP
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10016-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Author Correction: New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries
In:
Nature Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0438-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
Assessment of dried blood spots for DNA methylation profiling
In:
Wellcome Open Research , vol. 4, pp. 44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15136.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations
(14 pages)
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, pp. 494-+
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0342-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and pleiotropy, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, pp. 481–493
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0321-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)