Alicia R. Martin

Employment

• Massachusetts General Hospital Assistant Professor
  2020 - Present
• Broad Institute Associate Member
  2020 - Present
• Massachusetts General Hospital Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2015 - 2020
• Broad Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2015 - 2020

Education

• Stanford University MS
  2012 - 2013
• Stanford University PhD
  2010 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (48)

• All of Us diversity and scale yield context-dependent improvements in polygenic prediction
  Nature Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02734-4
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• Dissecting pleiotropy to gain mechanistic insights into human disease
  Nature Reviews Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-025-00908-0
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• Genome-wide association studies in a large Korean cohort identify quantitative trait loci for 36 traits and illuminate their genetic architectures
  Nature Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59950-5
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• Large-scale admixture mapping in the All of Us Research Program improves the characterization of cross-population phenotypic differences
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.02.25325115
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• Causal variant capture in genotype discovery approaches drives polygenic prediction performance across traits and populations
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.18.644029
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• All of Us diversity and scale improve polygenic prediction contextually with greatest improvements for under-represented populations
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.06.606846
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• Mapping and annotating genomic loci to prioritize genes and implicate distinct polygenic adaptations for skin color
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49031-4
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• Genome-wide association studies in a large Korean cohort identify novel quantitative trait loci for 36 traits and illuminate their genetic architectures
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.17.24307550
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• Aspiring toward equitable benefits from genomic advances to individuals of ancestrally diverse backgrounds
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.04.002
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• Admix-kit: An Integrated Toolkit and Pipeline for Genetic Analyses of Admixed Populations
  2024 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae148
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• Prediction and stratification of longitudinal risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease across smoking behaviors
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44047-8
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• HAPNEST: efficient, large-scale generation and evaluation of synthetic datasets for genotypes and phenotypes
  Bioinformatics 2023 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad535
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• Prediction and stratification of longitudinal risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease across smoking behaviors
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.04.23288086
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• HAPNEST: efficient, large-scale generation and evaluation of synthetic datasets for genotypes and phenotypes
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.22.521552
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• Polygenic scores in biomedical research
  Nature Reviews Genetics 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-022-00470-z
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• Increasing diversity in genomics requires investment in equitable partnerships and capacity building
  Alicia R. Martin, Rocky E. Stroud, Tamrat Abebe +21 more
  Nature Genetics 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01095-y
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• Publisher Correction: Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities
  Nature Genetics 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00797-z
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• Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis yields novel genetic discoveries and ancestry-specific associations
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.23.441003
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• Low-coverage sequencing cost-effectively detects known and novel variation in underrepresented populations
  Alicia R. Martin, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Sinéad B. Chapman +36 more
  The American Journal of Human Genetics 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.03.012
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• Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power
  Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Adam X. Maihofer, Masahiro Kanai +11 more
  Nature Genetics 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-00766-y
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