Eimear Kenny, Ph.D.
Director
Dr. Eimear Kenny, PhD is the Director of the Center for Genomic Health. She is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and a member of the Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
She is a statistical and population geneticist, who has pioneered the application of population science and medical genomics for improved clinical care. Her own research program focuses on developing genomic technologies and machine-learning methods to explore the link between genetics, ancestry, and disease. She has published over 60 papers, is principle investigator on many National Institute of Health funded programs in genomic medicine, and is scientific advisor to genomic medicine initiatives in government, non-profit and industry worldwide.
Dr. Kenny earned her PhD in computational genomics from Rockefeller University, and completed postdoctoral training in population genomics at Stanford University.
Twitter: @EimearEKenny
Publications
Personalized Medicine and the Power of Electronic Health Records.
Cell. 2019 Mar 21;177(1):58-69. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.039. Review.
PMID: 30901549
Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations.
Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 20;10(1):880. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08469-7.
PMID: 30787307
Worldwide Frequencies of APOL1 Renal Risk Variants.
Nadkarni GN, Gignoux CR, Sorokin EP, Daya M, Rahman R, Barnes KC, Wassel CL, Kenny EE.
N Engl J Med. 2018 Dec 27;379(26):2571-2572. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1800748. No abstract available.
PMID: 30586505
The Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research Consortium: Integrating Genomic Sequencing in Diverse and Medically Underserved Populations.
Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Sep 6;103(3):319-327. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.08.007.
PMID: 30193136
Imputation-Aware Tag SNP Selection To Improve Power for Large-Scale, Multi-ethnic Association Studies.
G3 (Bethesda). 2018 Oct 3;8(10):3255-3267. doi: 10.1534/g3.118.200502.
PMID: 30131328
Genetic diversity in populations across Latin America: implications for population and medical genetic studies.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2018 Dec;53:98-104. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2018.07.006. Epub 2018 Aug 17. Review.
PMID: 30125792
Disease Heritability Inferred from Familial Relationships Reported in Medical Records.
Cell. 2018 Jun 14;173(7):1692-1704.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.032. Epub 2018 May 17.
PMID: 29779949
Population structure in Argentina.
PLoS One. 2018 May 1;13(5):e0196325. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196325. eCollection 2018.
PMID: 29715266
Institutional profile: translational pharmacogenomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Pharmacogenomics. 2017 Oct;18(15):1381-1386. doi: 10.2217/pgs-2017-0137. Epub 2017 Oct 6. Review.
PMID: 28982267