Publications
Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach. PLoS Med. 2017 ;14(1):e1002215.
. Association of sickle cell trait with measures of cognitive function and dementia in African Americans. eNeurologicalSci. 2019 ;16:100201.
. Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function. Nat Commun. 2019 ;10(1):2068.
. Blood lead concentrations in Jamaican children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 ;12(1):83-105.
. Blood Leukocyte DNA Methylation Predicts Risk of Future Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. 2019 ;140(8):645-657.
. DNA Methylation Analysis Identifies Loci for Blood Pressure Regulation. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 ;101(6):888-902.
. DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death. Aging (Albany NY). 2016 ;8(9):1844-1865.
. Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Cognitive Function in African American Adults in Midlife: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020 ;75(3):473-480.
. Epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) of BMI, BMI change and waist circumference in African American adults identifies multiple replicated loci. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 ;24(15):4464-79.
. Factors associated with blood lead concentrations of children in Jamaica. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2015 ;50(6):529-39.
. Fat mass and obesity gene and cognitive decline: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Neurology. 2013 ;80(1):92-9.
. Genetic variants associated with risk of Alzheimer's disease contribute to cognitive change in midlife: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2017 ;174(3):269-282.
. 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.
. Global DNA methylation and risk of subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults: the Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) study. Atherosclerosis. 2011 ;219(2):958-62.
. Incident Heart Failure and Cognitive Decline: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. J Card Fail. 2017 ;23(1):47-55.
. 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.
. Interaction between GSTT1 and GSTP1 allele variants as a risk modulating-factor for autism spectrum disorders. Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2015 ;12:1-9.
. Interaction between manganese and in relation to autism spectrum disorder while controlling for exposure to mixture of lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium. Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2018 ;55:50-63.
. Maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with childhood autism in Jamaica. J Autism Dev Disord. 2012 ;42(9):1928-38.
. Maternal Exposures Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Jamaican Children. J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 ;48(8):2766-2778.
. Methylome-wide association study of central adiposity implicates genes involved in immune and endocrine systems. Epigenomics. 2020 ;12(17):1483-1499.
. Prospective Study of Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in the ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities). Circ Genom Precis Med. 2018 ;11(3):e001937.
. 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.
. The role of drinking water sources, consumption of vegetables and seafood in relation to blood arsenic concentrations of Jamaican children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders. Sci Total Environ. 2012 ;433:362-70.
. Seafood consumption and blood mercury concentrations in Jamaican children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Neurotox Res. 2013 ;23(1):22-38.
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