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Michele Ramsay · Sankore

University of the Witwatersrand

Michele Ramsay

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0002-4156-4801

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Publications

97

Citations

1,266

h-index

20

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i10-index

33

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University of the Witwatersrand37 works
National Health Laboratory Service14 works
South African Medical Research Council1 works

Publications

34 works in the graph, newest first.

A Stratification Method for Identifying Subgroups at High-Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa
2026Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen accessCorresponding1 citations10.1038/s41467-026-73226-6
Dose–response association between vegetable consumption and dyslipidaemia among continental Africans in five countries: evidence from the SIREN and AWI-Gen studies
2026Cardiovascular ResearchJournalOpen access0 citations10.1093/cvr/cvag032
Participant attrition in a multi-regional population-based study in Africa: insights from the AWI-Gen study
2026BMC Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding0 citations10.1186/s12889-026-28794-z
Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa
2025NatureJournalOpen access68 citations10.1038/s41586-024-08485-8

Incident type 2 diabetes and its risk factors in men and women aged 40–60 years from four sub-Saharan African countries: results from the AWI-Gen study

2025The Lancet Global HealthJournalOpen access13 citations10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00520-5

Genome-wide association study identifying novel risk variants associated with glycaemic traits in the continental African AWI-Gen cohort

2025DiabetologiaJournalOpen access6 citations10.1007/s00125-025-06395-6

Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: An H3Africa AWI-Gen study

2025PLoS ONEJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding3 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0316527

Leveraging data science to understand and address multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: the MADIVA protocol

2025BMJ Health & Care InformaticsJournalOpen access2 citations10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101294

Novel Association of rs17111557(T) in PCSK9 with Higher Diastolic Blood Pressure in Northern Ghanaian Adults: Candidate Gene Analysis from an AWI-Gen Sub-Study

2025BioMedJournalOpen access0 citations10.3390/biomed5030015

A multi-cohort genome-wide association study in African ancestry individuals reveals risk loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

2024CellJournalOpen access74 citations10.1016/j.cell.2023.12.006

Cohort Profile: Africa Wits-INDEPTH partnership for Genomic studies (AWI-Gen) in four sub-Saharan African countries

2024International Journal of EpidemiologyJournalOpen accessCorresponding9 citations10.1093/ije/dyae173

Factors associated with frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among selected sub-Saharan African populations: evidence from the Cardiovascular H3Africa Innovation Resource Project

2024International Journal of EpidemiologyJournalOpen access9 citations10.1093/ije/dyad171

The Value Proposition of Coordinated Population Cohorts Across Africa

2024Annual Review of Biomedical Data ScienceJournalOpen accessFirst author6 citations10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-020722-015026

Genetic association and transferability for urinary albumin-creatinine ratio as a marker of kidney disease in four Sub-Saharan African populations and non-continental individuals of African ancestry

2024Frontiers in GeneticsJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding4 citations10.3389/fgene.2024.1372042

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of blood pressure traits and hypertension in sub-Saharan African populations: an AWI-Gen study

2023Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding32 citations10.1038/s41467-023-44079-0

Identifying the prevalence and correlates of multimorbidity in middle-aged men and women: a cross-sectional population-based study in four African countries

2023BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author27 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067788

Diabetes care cascade and associated factors in 10 700 middle-aged adults in four sub-Saharan African countries: a cross-sectional study

2023BMJ OpenJournalOpen access25 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069193

Cardiometabolic disease risk factors in pre- and postmenopausal women from four sub-Saharan African countries: A cross-sectional study

2023MaturitasJournalOpen access16 citations10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.04.005

Characterization of CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations

2023Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsJournalOpen access9 citations10.1002/cpt.3124

Physical Activity and Its Association With Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in Middle-Aged Adults From 4 Sub-Saharan African Countries

2023Journal of Physical Activity and HealthJournalOpen access7 citations10.1123/jpah.2022-0539

Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda: a multicentre cohort study

2022The Lancet Global HealthJournalOpen access94 citations10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00239-x

Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen access93 citations10.1038/s41467-021-27917-x

Meta-analysis of sub-Saharan African studies provides insights into genetic architecture of lipid traits

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding55 citations10.1038/s41467-022-30098-w

Characterization of CYP2D6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations

2022Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsJournalOpen access48 citations10.1002/cpt.2749

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Common Carotid Intima‐Media Thickness: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐Analysis

2022Journal of the American Heart AssociationJournalOpen access30 citations10.1161/jaha.121.023704

Genetic associations with carotid intima-media thickness link to atherosclerosis with sex-specific effects in sub-Saharan Africans

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen accessCorresponding29 citations10.1038/s41467-022-28276-x

Apolipoprotein L1 High-Risk Genotypes and Albuminuria in Sub-Saharan African Populations

2022Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding25 citations10.2215/cjn.14321121

Carotid Atherosclerosis, Microalbuminuria, and Estimated 10-Year Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa

2022JAMA Network OpenJournalOpen access24 citations10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.7559

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and associated risk in rural South Africa: a population-based cohort study

2022Wellcome Open ResearchJournalOpen access24 citations10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18016.2

Perspectives on returning individual and aggregate genomic research results to study participants and communities in Kenya: a qualitative study

2022BMC Medical EthicsJournalOpen access17 citations10.1186/s12910-022-00767-y

Non-HDL-C and LDL-C/HDL-C are associated with self-reported cardiovascular disease in a rural West African population: Analysis of an array of lipid metrics in an AWI-Gen sub-study

2022PLoS ONEJournalOpen access15 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0278375

Frequent vegetable consumption is inversely associated with hypertension among indigenous Africans

2022European Journal of Preventive CardiologyJournalOpen access18 citations10.1093/eurjpc/zwac208

Polygenic risk scores for CARDINAL study

2022Nature GeneticsJournalOpen access13 citations10.1038/s41588-022-01074-3

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and associated risk in rural South Africa: a population-based cohort study

2022Wellcome Open ResearchJournalOpen access6 citations10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18016.1