Publications
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Genome scan for hypertension in nonobese African Americans: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Blood Pressure Program. Am J Hypertens. 2004 ;17(9):834-8.
. Parental history of stroke and myocardial infarction predicts coronary artery calcification: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2004 ;11(5):421-6.
. . 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.
. The soluble epoxide hydrolase gene harbors sequence variation associated with susceptibility to and protection from incident ischemic stroke. Hum Mol Genet. 2005 ;14(19):2829-37.
. Family-based association study of matrix metalloproteinase-3 and -9 haplotypes with susceptibility to ischemic white matter injury. Hum Genet. 2007 ;120(5):671-80.
. Population-based resequencing of ANGPTL4 uncovers variations that reduce triglycerides and increase HDL. Nat Genet. 2007 ;39(4):513-6.
. Relation of PCSK9 mutations to serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in childhood and adulthood (from The Bogalusa Heart Study). Am J Cardiol. 2007 ;100(1):69-72.
. Sequence variation in the soluble epoxide hydrolase gene and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis: interaction with cigarette smoking. Atherosclerosis. 2007 ;190(1):26-34.
. APOE/C1/C4/C2 hepatic control region polymorphism influences plasma apoE and LDL cholesterol levels. Hum Mol Genet. 2008 ;17(13):2039-46.
. Association of the complement factor H Y402H polymorphism with cardiovascular disease is dependent upon hypertension status: The ARIC study. Am J Hypertens. 2008 ;21(5):533-8.
. . The INSIG2 rs7566605 genetic variant does not play a major role in obesity in a sample of 24,722 individuals from four cohorts. BMC Med Genet. 2009 ;10:56.
. Use of wrapper algorithms coupled with a random forests classifier for variable selection in large-scale genomic association studies. J Comput Biol. 2009 ;16(12):1705-18.
. Association of glycemic index and glycemic load with risk of incident coronary heart disease among Whites and African Americans with and without type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Ann Epidemiol. 2010 ;20(8):610-6.
. Estimating population genetic parameters and comparing model goodness-of-fit using DNA sequences with error. Genome Res. 2010 ;20(1):101-9.
. Genetic variants identified in a European genome-wide association study that were found to predict incident coronary heart disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 ;171(1):14-23.
. Genomic variation associated with mortality among adults of European and African ancestry with heart failure: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 ;3(3):248-55.
. Risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity is differentially associated with variation in FTO in whites and African-Americans in the ARIC study. PLoS One. 2010 ;5(5):e10521.
. A weighted false discovery rate control procedure reveals alleles at FOXA2 that influence fasting glucose levels. Am J Hum Genet. 2010 ;86(3):440-6.
. Dissociation between APOC3 variants, hepatic triglyceride content and insulin resistance. Hepatology. 2011 ;53(2):467-74.
. Genome-wide association analysis of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans: a short report. PLoS Genet. 2011 ;7(8):e1002199.
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