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Nicholas J. Hand, PhD

Dept. of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Verified email at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Cited by 2541

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

…, H Gil-Marín, JN Grieb, N Hand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined …

Diversity and evolution of protein translocation

M Pohlschröder, E Hartmann, NJ Hand… - Annu. Rev …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
Cells need to translocate proteins into and across hydrophobic membranes in order to
interact with the extracellular environment. Although a subset of proteins are thought to …

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between …

…, K Grabowski, J Guy, N Hand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space
using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147 000 quasars from the …

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier space

…, H Gil-Marín, JN Grieb, N Hand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
(BOSS) Data Release 12 sample, which consists of 1198 006 galaxies in the redshift range …

[PDF][PDF] Epigenetic regulation of the DLK1-MEG3 microRNA cluster in human type 2 diabetic islets

V Kameswaran, NC Bramswig, LB McKenna, M Penn… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex disease characterized by the inability of the
insulin-producing β cells in the endocrine pancreas to overcome insulin resistance in …

Evidence of galaxy cluster motions with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

N Hand, GE Addison, E Aubourg, N Battaglia… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Using high-resolution microwave sky maps made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope,
we for the first time present strong evidence for motions of galaxy clusters and groups via …

From loci to biology: functional genomics of genome-wide association for coronary disease

ST Nurnberg, H Zhang, NJ Hand, RC Bauer… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Genome-wide association studies have provided a rich collection of≈ 58 coronary artery
disease (CAD) loci that suggest the existence of previously unsuspected new biology …

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Fourier space

…, A Font-Ribera, JN Grieb, N Hand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal of the final Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data release (DR12). Our analysis is performed in the Fourier …

nbodykit: An open-source, massively parallel toolkit for large-scale structure

N Hand, Y Feng, F Beutler, Y Li, C Modi… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present nbodykit, an open-source, massively parallel Python toolkit for analyzing large-
scale structure (LSS) data. Using Python bindings of the Message Passing Interface, we …

Circulating microRNA is a biomarker of pediatric Crohn disease

AM Zahm, M Thayu, NJ Hand, A Horner… - Journal of pediatric …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The gold standard for the diagnosis and evaluation of Crohn disease (CD) is
endoscopy/colonoscopy, although this is invasive, costly, and associated with risks to the …