Adebowale A. Adeyemo is a Nigerian physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist specialized in genomics and cardiometabolic disorders. He is the deputy director and chief scientific officer of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Education

Adeyemo completed a

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

at the University of Ibadan in 1987. He graduated with a distinction in anatomy and the departmental prize in surgery. Adeyemo completed a residency in pediatrics and genetics at the University College Hospital, Ibadan from 1989 to 1994. He conducted a postdoctoral education in bioinformatics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Adeyemo conducted a fellowship in genetic epidemiology in the department of preventive medicine and epidemiology at

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Cathol ...

from 1999 to August 2000.

Career

In 2003, Adeyemo joined the faculty at Howard University to work in genetic epidemiology at the National Human Genome Center. He joined the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2008 as a staff scientist. He became an associate investigator at NHGRI in 2016. He is the deputy director and chief scientific officer of the NHGRI Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health. Adeyemo works on the genomics of complex disease, focusing on cardiometabolic disorders and complex disorders of childhood. He has published in genetics and

genetic epidemiology Genetic epidemiology is the study of the role of genetic factors in determining health and disease in families and in populations, and the interplay of such genetic factors with environmental factors. Genetic epidemiology seeks to derive a statist ...

. He was the first author of the papers describing the first genome scan for obesity in an African population, the first genome-wide linkage analysis for serum lipids in an African population, the first study of genetic structure in West Africans using genome-wide markers and the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) for

hypertension Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms. Long-term high bl ...

and

blood pressure Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure results from the heart pumping blood through the circulatory system. When used without qualification, the term "blood pressure" r ...

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. His research also includes genetics of orofacial clefts. In collaborative studies, his research led to findings of novel IRF6 mutations in families with Van Der Woude syndrome and popliteal pterygium syndrome in Africa and helped identify rare functional variants in non-syndromic cleft lip/palate. His research has grown to include genetics of congenital heart defects (CHD). This collaborative study is currently enrolling children with CHD and their parents in Nigeria for genomic studies, including chromosomal arrays and whole exome sequencing. The project facilitates the collection of a

clinical epidemiology Clinical epidemiology is a subfield of epidemiology specifically focused on issues relevant to clinical medicine. The term was first introduced by Jean Paul in his presidential address to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1938. It ...

dataset of congenital heart defects in an African population. Adeyemo is co-chair of the H3Africa Genome Analysis Working Group and serves on the H3ABioNet Scientific Advisory Board. He is a co-creator of the NHGRI electronic atlas of birth defects for diverse populations.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adeyemo, Adebowale A. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Nigerian medical doctors Nigerian emigrants to the United States Howard University faculty National Institutes of Health people Physician-scientists Nigerian epidemiologists Genetic epidemiologists University of Ibadan alumni