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Kelsey Johnson

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Title(s)Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
SchoolKeck School of Medicine of Usc
Address1450 Biggy Street
Health Sciences Campus
Los Angeles CA 90033
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0001-9180-6381 Additional info
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    University of Wisconsin, Madison, WIB.S.05/2012Zoology
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAPh.D.12/2019Cell and Molecular Biology
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MNPostdoc12/2024Human Genetics, Genomics

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    1. Maternal Physical Activity and Its Relationship to the Human Milk Metabolome and Infant Body Composition. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Dec 18; 111(1):129-138. Lu C, Dreyfuss JM, Hua T, Wolfs D, Nagel EM, Peña A, Lock EF, Seburg E, Pierce S, Kyere-Davies G, Johnson KE, Uniyal A, Tu J, Gale CA, Blekhman R, Kiebish M, Aristizabal-Henao JJ, Short KR, Rudolph MC, Demerath EW, Fields DA, Isganaitis E. PMID: 40417941; PMCID: PMC12712960.
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    2. Gestational Diabetes, the Human Milk Metabolome, and Infant Growth and Adiposity. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 12 02; 7(12):e2450467. Nagel EM, Peña A, Dreyfuss JM, Lock EF, Johnson KE, Lu C, Fields DA, Demerath EW, Isganaitis E. PMID: 39666338; PMCID: PMC11638796.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    3. Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome. Cell Genom. 2024 Oct 09; 4(10):100638. Johnson KE, Heisel T, Allert M, Fürst A, Yerabandi N, Knights D, Jacobs KM, Lock EF, Bode L, Fields DA, Rudolph MC, Gale CA, Albert FW, Demerath EW, Blekhman R. PMID: 39265573; PMCID: PMC11602576.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 13     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    4. Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 23; 15(1):6216. Johnson KE, Hernandez-Alvarado N, Blackstad M, Heisel T, Allert M, Fields DA, Isganaitis E, Jacobs KM, Knights D, Lock EF, Rudolph MC, Gale CA, Schleiss MR, Albert FW, Demerath EW, Blekhman R. PMID: 39043677; PMCID: PMC11266569.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    5. Assembly, stability, and dynamics of the infant gut microbiome are linked to bacterial strains and functions in mother's milk. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 28. Allert M, Ferretti P, Johnson KE, Heisel T, Gonia S, Knights D, Fields DA, Albert FW, Demerath EW, Gale CA, Blekhman R. PMID: 38328166; PMCID: PMC10849666.
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    6. Importance of human milk for infants in the clinical setting: Updates and mechanistic links. Nutr Clin Pract. 2023 Oct; 38 Suppl 2:S39-S55. Nagel EM, Elgersma KM, Gallagher TT, Johnson KE, Demerath E, Gale CA. PMID: 37721461; PMCID: PMC10513735.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    7. Human Cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition, the infant gut microbiome, and infant growth. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 19. Johnson KE, Heisel T, Fields DA, Isganaitis E, Jacobs KM, Knights D, Lock EF, Rudolph MC, Gale CA, Schleiss MR, Albert FW, Demerath EW, Blekhman R. PMID: 37503212; PMCID: PMC10370112.
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    8. Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 25. Johnson KE, Heisel T, Allert M, Fürst A, Yerabandi N, Knights D, Jacobs KM, Lock EF, Bode L, Fields DA, Rudolph MC, Gale CA, Albert FW, Demerath EW, Blekhman R. PMID: 36747843; PMCID: PMC9900818.
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    9. Identifying rare variants inconsistent with identity-by-descent in population-scale whole-genome sequencing data. Methods Ecol Evol. 2022 Nov; 13(11):2429-2442. Johnson KE, Adams CJ, Voight BF. PMID: 38938451; PMCID: PMC11210625.
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    10. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Is Associated with Differences in Human Milk Hormone and Cytokine Concentrations in a Fully Breastfeeding United States Cohort. Nutrients. 2022 Feb 04; 14(3). Choi Y, Nagel EM, Kharoud H, Johnson KE, Gallagher T, Duncan K, Kharbanda EO, Fields DA, Gale CA, Jacobs K, Jacobs DR, Demerath EW. PMID: 35277026; PMCID: PMC8838140.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    11. Maternal Dietary Intake of Total Fat, Saturated Fat, and Added Sugar Is Associated with Infant Adiposity and Weight Status at 6 mo of Age. J Nutr. 2021 08 07; 151(8):2353-2360. Nagel EM, Jacobs D, Johnson KE, Foster L, Duncan K, Kharbanda EO, Gregg B, Harnack L, Fields DA, Demerath EW. PMID: 33982119; PMCID: PMC8435996.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    12. The relationship between circulating lipids and breast cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization study. PLoS Med. 2020 09; 17(9):e1003302. Johnson KE, Siewert KM, Klarin D, Damrauer SM, VA Million Veteran Program, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Assimes TL, Maxwell KN, Voight BF. PMID: 32915777; PMCID: PMC7485834.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 79     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    13. Signals of Variation in Human Mutation Rate at Multiple Levels of Sequence Context. Mol Biol Evol. 2019 05 01; 36(5):955-965. Aikens RC, Johnson KE, Voight BF. PMID: 30753705; PMCID: PMC6501879.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 16     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Patterns of shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 04; 2(4):713-720. Johnson KE, Voight BF. PMID: 29459708; PMCID: PMC5866773.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 45     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Without gills: localization of osmoregulatory function in the copepod Eurytemora affinis. Physiol Biochem Zool. 2014 Mar-Apr; 87(2):310-24. Johnson KE, Perreau L, Charmantier G, Charmantier-Daures M, Lee CE. PMID: 24642548.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    16. Feasting in fresh water: impacts of food concentration on freshwater tolerance and the evolution of food × salinity response during the expansion from saline into fresh water habitats. Evol Appl. 2013 Jun; 6(4):673-89. Lee CE, Moss WE, Olson N, Chau KF, Chang YM, Johnson KE. PMID: 23789033; PMCID: PMC3684747.
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