Dara Torgerson

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2026

Leveraging health records to identify diagnoses associated with recurrent pregnancy loss across two medical centers

iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2026.114633

Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), defined as 2 or more pregnancy losses, affects 5-6% of ever-pregnant individuals. Approximately half of these cases have no identifiable explanation. In this study, we aim to identify diagnoses associated wit…

other 2011

Identification of KIF3A as a novel candidate gene for childhood asthma using RNA expression and population allelic frequencies differences

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023714

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with a strong genetic predisposition. A major challenge for candidate gene association studies in asthma is the selection of biologically relevant genes. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: …