Publications
Role of Rare and Low-Frequency Variants in Gene-Alcohol Interactions on Plasma Lipid Levels. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2020 ;13(4):e002772.
. Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 ;188(6):1033-1054.
. Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity. Nat Commun. 2019 ;10(1):376.
. Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction. Nature. 2015 ;518(7537):102-6.
. Variants for HDL-C, LDL-C, and triglycerides identified from admixture mapping and fine-mapping analysis in African American families. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015 ;8(1):106-13.
. Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. Am J Hum Genet. 2014 ;94(2):223-32.
. Genome-wide association analyses suggest NELL1 influences adverse metabolic response to HCTZ in African Americans. Pharmacogenomics J. 2014 ;14(1):35-40.
. APOE modulates the correlation between triglycerides, cholesterol, and CHD through pleiotropy, and gene-by-gene interactions. Genetics. 2013 ;195(4):1397-405.
. Longitudinal study shows increasing obesity and hyperglycemia in micronesia. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 ;21(9):E421-7.
. Atypical angiopoietin-like protein that regulates ANGPTL3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 ;109(48):19751-6.
. Dissociation between APOC3 variants, hepatic triglyceride content and insulin resistance. Hepatology. 2011 ;53(2):467-74.
. A preliminary report on the feeding of cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) with a high-sugar high-fat diet for 33 weeks. J Med Primatol. 2011 ;40(5):335-41.
. Carbohydrate intake modifies associations between ANGPTL4[E40K] genotype and HDL-cholesterol concentrations in White men from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 2009 ;203(1):214-20.
. Rare loss-of-function mutations in ANGPTL family members contribute to plasma triglyceride levels in humans. J Clin Invest. 2009 ;119(1):70-9.
. ESR1 polymorphism is associated with plasma lipid and apolipoprotein levels in Caucasians of the Rochester Family Heart Study. J Lipid Res. 2008 ;49(8):1701-6.
. . Population-based resequencing of ANGPTL4 uncovers variations that reduce triglycerides and increase HDL. Nat Genet. 2007 ;39(4):513-6.
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APOA5 polymorphisms influence plasma triglycerides in young, healthy African Americans and whites of the CARDIA Study. J Lipid Res. 2005 ;46(3):564-71.
. Demographic, environmental, and genetic predictors of metabolic side effects of hydrochlorothiazide treatment in hypertensive subjects. Am J Hypertens. 2005 ;18(8):1077-83.
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