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  • Genome-wide association study for subclinical atherosclerosis in major arterial territories in the NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study
    O'Donnell, Christopher; Cupples, L Adrienne; D'Agostino, Ralph; Fox, Caroline; Hoffmann, Udo; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Ingellson, Erik; Liu, Chunyu; Murabito, Joanne; Polak, Joseph; et al. (2007)
    INTRODUCTION:Subclinical atherosclerosis (SCA) measures in multiple arterial beds are heritable phenotypes that are associated with increased incidence of cardiovascular disease. We conducted a genome-wide ...
  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Variants in ARL15 that Influence Adiponectin Levels
    Richards, J. Brent; Waterworth, Dawn; O'Rahilly, Stephen; Hivert, Marie-France; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Perry, John R. B.; Tanaka, Toshiko; Timpson, Nicholas John; Semple, Robert K.; Soranzo, Nicole; Song, Kijoung; Rocha, Nuno; Grundberg, Elin; Dupuis, Josée; Florez, Jose C.; Langenberg, Claudia; Prokopenko, Inga; Saxena, Richa; Sladek, Robert; Aulchenko, Yurii; Evans, David; Waeber, Gerard; Erdmann, Jeanette; Burnett, Mary-Susan; Sattar, Naveed; Devaney, Joseph; Willenborg, Christina; Hingorani, Aroon; Witteman, Jaquelin C. M.; Vollenweider, Peter; Glaser, Beate; Hengstenberg, Christian; Ferrucci, Luigi; Melzer, David; Stark, Klaus; Deanfield, John; Winogradow, Janina; Grassl, Martina; Hall, Alistair S.; Egan, Josephine M.; Thompson, John R.; Ricketts, Sally L.; König, Inke R.; Reinhard, Wibke; Grundy, Scott; Wichmann, H-Erich; Barter, Phil; Mahley, Robert; Kesaniemi, Y. Antero; Rader, Daniel J.; Reilly, Muredach P.; Epstein, Stephen E.; Stewart, Alexandre F. R.; Van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Schunkert, Heribert; Burling, Keith; Deloukas, Panos; Pastinen, Tomi; Samani, Nilesh J.; McPherson, Ruth; Davey Smith, George; Frayling, Timothy M.; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Meigs, James B.; Mooser, Vincent; Spector, Tim D. (Public Library of Science, 2009-12-11)
    The adipocyte-derived protein adiponectin is highly heritable and inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD). We meta-analyzed 3 genome-wide association studies for ...
  • Genome-Wide Association to Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference: The Framingham Heart Study 100K Project
    Fox, Caroline S; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Cupples, L Adrienne; Dupuis, Josée; Vasan, Ramachandran S; Atwood, Larry D (BioMed Central, 2007-9-19)
    BACKGROUND: Obesity is related to multiple cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors as well as CVD and has a strong familial component. We tested for association between SNPs on the Affymetrix 100K SNP GeneChip and measures ...
  • Genome-Wide Association with Bone Mass and Geometry in the Framingham Heart Study
    Kiel, Douglas P; Demissie, Serkalem; Dupuis, Josée; Lunetta, Kathryn L; Murabito, Joanne M; Karasik, David (BioMed Central, 2007-9-19)
    BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and compromised bone structure, heritable traits that contribute to fracture risk. There have been no genome-wide association and linkage studies for these traits ...
  • Genome-wide association with bone mass and geometry in the Framingham Heart Study
    Kiel, Douglas; Demissie, Serkalem; Dupuis, Josee; Lunetta, Kathryn; Murabito, Joanne; Karasik, David (2007)
    BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and compromised bone structure, heritable traits that contribute to fracture risk. There have been no genome-wide association and linkage studies ...
  • Genome-Wide Association with Diabetes-Related Traits in the Framingham Heart Study
    Meigs, James B; Manning, Alisa K; Fox, Caroline S; Florez, Jose C; Liu, Chunyu; Cupples, L Adrienne; Dupuis, Josée (BioMed Central, 2007-9-19)
    BACKGROUND: Susceptibility to type 2 diabetes may be conferred by genetic variants having modest effects on risk. Genome-wide fixed marker arrays offer a novel approach to detect these variants. METHODS: We used the ...
  • Genome-Wide Association with Select Biomarker Traits in the Framingham Heart Study
    Benjamin, Emelia J; Dupuis, Josée; Larson, Martin G; Lunetta, Kathryn L; Booth, Sarah L; Govindaraju, Diddahally R; Kathiresan, Sekar; Keaney, John F; Keyes, Michelle J; Lin, Jing-Ping; Meigs, James B; Robins, Sander J; Rong, Jian; Schnabel, Renate; Vita, Joseph A; Wang, Thomas J; Wilson, Peter WF; Wolf, Philip A; Vasan, Ramachandran S (BioMed Central, 2007-9-19)
    BACKGROUND: Systemic biomarkers provide insights into disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, and risk stratification. Many systemic biomarker concentrations are heritable phenotypes. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide ...
  • Genome-Wide Linkage and Association Scans for Quantitative Trait Loci of Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase-The Framingham Heart Study
    Lin, Jing-Ping; Zheng, Gang; Joo, Jungnam; Cupples, L. Adrienne (SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research, 2010-09-01)
    Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is used in diagnosing many diseases and is significantly determined by genetic factors. Three genes coding for LDH isoenzymes were mapped to chromosome 11q15 and 12p12. We used 330 Framingham ...
  • Genome-Wide Significance for a Modifier of Age at Neurological Onset in Huntington's Disease at 6q23-24: The HD MAPS Study
    Li, Jian-Liang; Hayden, Michael R; Warby, Simon C; Durr, Alexandra; Morrison, Patrick J; Nance, Martha; Ross, Christopher A; Margolis, Russell L; Rosenblatt, Adam; Squitieri, Ferdinando; Frati, Luigi; Gómez-Tortosa, Estrella; García, Carmen Ayuso; Suchowersky, Oksana; Klimek, Mary Lou; Trent, Ronald JA; McCusker, Elizabeth; Novelletto, Andrea; Frontali, Marina; Paulsen, Jane S; Jones, Randi; Ashizawa, Tetsuo; Lazzarini, Alice; Wheeler, Vanessa C; Prakash, Ranjana; Xu, Gang; Djoussé, Luc; Mysore, Jayalakshmi Srinidhi; Gillis, Tammy; Hakky, Michael; Cupples, L Adrienne; Saint-Hilaire, Marie H; Cha, Jang-Ho J; Hersch, Steven M; Penney, John B; Harrison, Madaline B; Perlman, Susan L; Zanko, Andrea; Abramson, Ruth K; Lechich, Anthony J; Duckett, Ayana; Marder, Karen; Conneally, P Michael; Gusella, James F; MacDonald, Marcy E; Myers, Richard H (BioMed Central, 2006-8-17)
    BACKGROUND: Age at onset of Huntington's disease (HD) is correlated with the size of the abnormal CAG repeat expansion in the HD gene; however, several studies have indicated that other genetic factors also contribute to ...
  • Geocoding Rural Addresses in a Community Contaminated by Pfoa: A Comparison of Methods
    Vieira, Verónica M; Howard, Gregory J; Gallagher, Lisa G; Fletcher, Tony (BioMed Central, 2010-4-21)
    BACKGROUND: Location is often an important component of exposure assessment, and positional errors in geocoding may result in exposure misclassification. In rural areas, successful geocoding to a street address is limited ...
  • The GirlStars Program: Challenges to Recruitment and Retention in a Physical Activity and Health Education Program for Adolescent Girls Living in Public Housing
    Strunin, Lee; Douyon, Maisha; Chavez, Maria; Bunte, Doris; Horsburgh, C. Robert (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010-2-15)
    BACKGROUND. Although physical inactivity is a concern for all adolescents, physical activity levels are especially low among minority adolescents and minimal among girls from low-income families. After-school programs can ...
  • The Global Health System: Linking Knowledge with Action—Learning from Malaria
    Keusch, Gerald T.; Kilama, Wen L.; Moon, Suerie; Szlezák, Nicole A.; Michaud, Catherine M. (Public Library of Science, 2010-1-19)
    In the third in a series of articles on the changing nature of global health institutions, Gerald Keusch and colleagues examine institutional arrangements for malaria research.
  • The Gly2019Ser Mutation in LRRK2 Is not Fully Penetrant in Familial Parkinson's Disease: The GenePD Study
    Latourelle, Jeanne C; Sun, Mei; Lew, Mark F; Suchowersky, Oksana; Klein, Christine; Golbe, Lawrence I; Mark, Margery H; Growdon, John H; Wooten, G Frederick; Watts, Ray L; Guttman, Mark; Racette, Brad A; Perlmutter, Joel S; Ahmed, Anwar; Shill, Holly A; Singer, Carlos; Goldwurm, Stefano; Pezzoli, Gianni; Zini, Michela; Saint-Hilaire, Marie H; Hendricks, Audrey E; Williamson, Sally; Nagle, Michael W; Wilk, Jemma B; Massood, Tiffany; Huskey, Karen W; Laramie, Jason M; DeStefano, Anita L; Baker, Kenneth B; Itin, Ilia; Litvan, Irene; Nicholson, Garth; Corbett, Alastair; Nance, Martha; Drasby, Edward; Isaacson, Stuart; Burn, David J; Chinnery, Patrick F; Pramstaller, Peter P; Al-hinti, Jomana; Moller, Anette T; Ostergaard, Karen; Sherman, Scott J; Roxburgh, Richard; Snow, Barry; Slevin, John T; Cambi, Franca; Gusella, James F; Myers, Richard H (BioMed Central, 2008-11-5)
    BACKGROUND: We report age-dependent penetrance estimates for leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2)-related Parkinson's disease (PD) in a large sample of familial PD. The most frequently seen LRRK2 mutation, Gly2019Ser ...
  • Glyphosate Results Revisited
    Farmer, Donna R.; Lash, Timothy L.; Acquavella, John F. (National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005-06)
  • Growth of a Human Mammary Tumor Cell Line Is Blocked by Galangin, a Naturally Occurring Bioflavonoid, and Is Accompanied by Down-Regulation of Cyclins D3, E, and A
    Murray, Tessa J; Yang, Xinhai; Sherr, David H (BioMed Central, 2006-3-27)
    INTRODUCTION. This study was designed to determine if and how a non-toxic, naturally occurring bioflavonoid, galangin, affects proliferation of human mammary tumor cells. Our previous studies demonstrated that, in other ...
  • Guest Editorial: Nuclear Power and Public Health
    Clapp, Richard W. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005-11)
  • Handling Linkage Disequilibrium in Linkage Analysis Using Dense Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms
    Cho, Kelly; Yang, Qiong; Dupuis, Josée (BioMed Central, 2007-12-18)
    The presence of linkage disequilibrium violates the underlying assumption of linkage equilibrium in most traditional multipoint linkage approaches. Studies have shown that such violation leads to bias in qualitative trait ...
  • Handling Linkage Disequilibrium in Qualitative Trait Linkage Analysis Using Dense SNPs: A Two-Step Strategy
    Cho, Kelly; Dupuis, Josée (BioMed Central, 2009-8-10)
    BACKGROUND. In affected sibling pair linkage analysis, the presence of linkage disequilibrium (LD) has been shown to lead to overestimation of the number of alleles shared identity-by-descent (IBD) among sibling pairs when ...
  • Haplotype Structure of the ENPP1 Gene and Nominal Association of the K121Q Missense Single Nucleotide Polymorphism With Glycemic Traits in the Framingham Heart Study
    Stolerman, Elliot S.; Manning, Alisa K.; McAteer, Jarred B.; Dupuis, Josée; Fox, Caroline S.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Meigs, James B.; Florez, Jose C. (American Diabetes Association, 2011-12-29)
    OBJECTIVE: A recent meta-analysis demonstrated a nominal association of the ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase 1 (ENPP1) K→Q missense single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at position 121 with type 2 diabetes. ...
  • HFE H63D Polymorphism as a Modifier of the Effect of Cumulative Lead Exposure on Pulse Pressure: The Normative Aging Study
    Zhang, Aimin; Park, Sung Kyun; Wright, Robert O.; Weisskopf, Marc G.; Mukherjee, Bhramar; Nie, Huiling; Sparrow, David; Hu, Howard (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010-09)
    BACKGROUND. Cumulative lead exposure is associated with a widened pulse pressure (PP; the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure), a marker of arterial stiffness and a predictor of cardiovascular disease. ...

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