Publications
Association Between Whole Blood-Derived Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number, Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 ;12(20):e029090.
. . American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7: Lifestyle Recommendations, Polygenic Risk, and Lifetime Risk of Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. 2022 ;145(11):808-818.
. Blood Leukocyte DNA Methylation Predicts Risk of Future Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. 2019 ;140(8):645-657.
. Mendelian randomization evaluation of causal effects of fibrinogen on incident coronary heart disease. PLoS One. 2019 ;14(5):e0216222.
. Metabolomic Pattern Predicts Incident Coronary Heart Disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019 ;39(7):1475-1482.
. CD163+ macrophages promote angiogenesis and vascular permeability accompanied by inflammation in atherosclerosis. J Clin Invest. 2018 ;128(3):1106-1124.
. . A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease. Sci Transl Med. 2016 ;8(341):341ra76.
. Association of Rare Loss-Of-Function Alleles in HAL, Serum Histidine: Levels and Incident Coronary Heart Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015 ;8(2):351-5.
. Coronary heart disease and genetic variants with low phospholipase A2 activity. N Engl J Med. 2015 ;372(3):295-6.
. . 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.
. Linkage analysis incorporating gene-age interactions identifies seven novel lipid loci: the Family Blood Pressure Program. Atherosclerosis. 2014 ;235(1):84-93.
. Prospective associations of coronary heart disease loci in African Americans using the MetaboChip: the PAGE study. PLoS One. 2014 ;9(12):e113203.
. APOE modulates the correlation between triglycerides, cholesterol, and CHD through pleiotropy, and gene-by-gene interactions. Genetics. 2013 ;195(4):1397-405.
. 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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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.
. . Absence of an interaction between the angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion-deletion polymorphism and pravastatin on cardiovascular disease in high-risk hypertensive patients: the Genetics of Hypertension-Associated Treatment (GenHAT) study. Am Heart J. 2007 ;153(1):54-8.
. Prediction of coronary heart disease risk using a genetic risk score: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 ;166(1):28-35.
. 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.
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