Publications
Exome sequence association study of levels and longitudinal change of cardiovascular risk factor phenotypes in European Americans and African Americans from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Genet Epidemiol. 2021 ;45(6):651-663.
. Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction. Nature. 2015 ;518(7537):102-6.
. Exome sequencing in mostly consanguineous Arab families with neurologic disease provides a high potential molecular diagnosis rate. BMC Med Genomics. 2016 ;9(1):42.
. Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls. Nature. 2019 ;570(7759):71-76.
. Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals. Nat Genet. 2017 ;49(12):1758-1766.
. Exon sequencing of PAX3 and T (brachyury) in cases with spina bifida. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2013 ;97(9):597-601.
. An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans. Diabetes. 2017 ;66(11):2888-2902.
. Factor XIIIA Val34Leu polymorphism does not predict risk of coronary heart disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002 ;22(2):348-52.
. 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.
. 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.
. Fat mass and obesity gene and cognitive decline: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Neurology. 2013 ;80(1):92-9.
. FBN1 contributing to familial congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Am J Med Genet A. 2015 ;167A(4):831-6.
. Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms. Nat Genet. 2017 ;49(7):1113-1119.
. Fine mapping the region reveals a common intronic insertion associated to HDL-C. NPJ Aging Mech Dis. 2015 ;1:15011.
. FLAGS: A Flexible and Adaptive Association Test for Gene Sets Using Summary Statistics. Genetics. 2016 ;202(3):919-29.
. Following-up genome-wide association study signals: lessons learned from Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium Targeted Sequencing Study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014 ;7(3):332-4.
. A framework for detecting noncoding rare-variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies. Nat Methods. 2022 ;19(12):1599-1611.
. A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human disease. Nat Genet. 2014 ;46(9):944-50.
. From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part I. Circulation. 2003 ;108(14):1664-72.
. From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II. Circulation. 2003 ;108(15):1772-8.
. Functionally oriented analysis of cardiometabolic traits in a trans-ethnic sample. Hum Mol Genet. 2019 ;28(7):1212-1224.
. Gene by smoking interaction in hypertension: identification of a major quantitative trait locus on chromosome 15q for systolic blood pressure in Mexican-Americans. J Hypertens. 2009 ;27(3):491-501.
. Gene expression profiling and functional proteomic analysis reveal perturbed kinase-mediated signaling in genetic stroke susceptibility. Physiol Genomics. 2003 ;15(1):75-83.
. Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 ;26(6):2111-2125.
. Generalized T2 test for genome association studies. Am J Hum Genet. 2002 ;70(5):1257-68.
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