Dr Shona M. Kerr (BSc PhD)
Project Manager QTL in Health & Disease Programme
- MRC Human Genetics Unit
- MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 8748
- Email: shona.kerr@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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Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects
In:
Nature Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01062-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related phenotypes: polygenic risk scores in population-based and case-control cohorts
(13 pages)
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 8, pp. 696-708
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30101-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Increased ultra-rare variant load in an isolated Scottish population impacts exonic and regulatory regions
(30 pages)
In:
PLoS Genetics, vol. 15, pp. 1-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008480
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, pp. 1459–1474
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0504-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles
(7 pages)
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, pp. 19064-19070
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904761116
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
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) -
A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals
(16 pages)
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, pp. 957-972
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0407-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Flexible and scalable diagnostic filtering of genomic variants using G2P with Ensembl VEP
(10 pages)
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10016-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)