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Penny Gordon‐Larsen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US
Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Transportation
Research interest
Research interests include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.
h-index
79
citations
31,797
works
525
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes shows context-dependent effects across populations
Nature Communications 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The Circulating Lipidome In Severe Obesity
medRxiv 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Associations of Urban Blue and Green Spaces With Coronary Artery Calcification in Black Individuals and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Circulation 2024cited by 17position: middledoi
Inequalities in urban greenness and epigenetic aging: Different associations by race and neighborhood socioeconomic status
Science Advances 2023cited by 52position: middledoi
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation in Young Adulthood and Future Respiratory Health: The CARDIA Lung Study
The American Journal of Medicine 2021cited by 21position: middledoi
Longitudinal Analysis of Food Insufficiency and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the CARDIA study
American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2021cited by 16position: middledoi
Demographic and sociocultural risk factors for adulthood weight gain in Hispanic/Latinos: results from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
BMC Public Health 2021cited by 11position: middledoi
Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals
Nature 2020cited by 455position: middledoi
What Should I Eat and Why? The Environmental, Genetic, and Behavioral Determinants of Food Choice: Summary from a Pennington Scientific Symposium
Obesity 2020cited by 23position: middledoi
Methylome-Wide Association Study of Central Adiposity Implicates Genes Involved in Immune and Endocrine Systems
Epigenomics 2020cited by 16position: middledoi
Network organization during probabilistic learning via taste outcomes
Physiology & Behavior 2020cited by 10position: middledoi
Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent
Nature Communications 2018cited by 127position: middledoi
Exome chip meta-analysis identifies novel loci and East Asian–specific coding variants that contribute to lipid levels and coronary artery disease
Nature Genetics 2017cited by 173position: middledoi
Association analyses of East Asian individuals and trans-ancestry analyses with European individuals reveal new loci associated with cholesterol and triglyceride levels
Human Molecular Genetics 2017cited by 167position: middledoi
Trans-ethnic fine-mapping of genetic loci for body mass index in the diverse ancestral populations of the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study reveals evidence for multiple signals at established loci
Human Genetics 2017cited by 36position: middledoi
Accuracy of Self-reported Weight in Hispanic/Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Epidemiology 2017cited by 17position: middledoi
25‐year weight gain in a racially balanced sample of <scp>U</scp>.<scp>S</scp>. adults: The <scp>CARDIA</scp> study
Obesity 2016cited by 92position: middledoi
Multiple pathways from the neighborhood food environment to increased body mass index through dietary behaviors: A structural equation-based analysis in the CARDIA study
Health & Place 2015cited by 67position: lastdoi
Combined measure of neighborhood food and physical activity environments and weight-related outcomes: The CARDIA study
Health & Place 2015cited by 61position: lastdoi
Fast food price, diet behavior, and cardiometabolic health: Differential associations by neighborhood SES and neighborhood fast food restaurant availability in the CARDIA study
Health & Place 2015cited by 21position: lastdoi
Neighborhood socioeconomic status and food environment: A 20-year longitudinal latent class analysis among CARDIA participants
Health & Place 2014cited by 81position: lastdoi
Sociodemographic Differences in Fast Food Price Sensitivity
JAMA Internal Medicine 2014cited by 28position: lastdoi
Genome-wide analysis of BMI in adolescents and young adults reveals additional insight into the effects of genetic loci over the life course
Human Molecular Genetics 2013cited by 138position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

James M. Shikany · University of Alabama at Birmingham6 papers (2014–2024)Katie A. Meyer · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill5 papers (2014–2015)Cora E. Lewis · Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital4 papers (2014–2016)Catarina I. Kiefe · University of Alabama at Birmingham4 papers (2014–2021)Janne Boone‐Heinonen · University of San Francisco3 papers (2014–2015)Annie Green Howard · Wake Forest University3 papers (2014–2015)Barry M. Popkin · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill3 papers (2014–2015)Lyn M. Steffen · University of Minnesota2 papers (2014–2021)Drew R. Nannini · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2023–2024)Carmen R. Isasi · Albert Einstein College of Medicine2 papers (2017–2021)Kai Zhang · Indiana University School of Medicine2 papers (2023–2024)Ming Hu · University of Maryland, College Park2 papers (2023–2024)Yinan Zheng · University of Florida2 papers (2023–2024)David R. Jacobs · University at Buffalo, State University of New York2 papers (2016–2021)Daniela Sotres‐Alvarez · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2017–2021)Kari E. North · Uganda Virus Research Institute2 papers (2017–2021)Kyeezu Kim · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2023–2024)Brian Joyce · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2023–2024)Lindsay Fernández‐Rhodes · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2017–2021)Paul R. Smokowski · University of Kansas2 papers (2017–2021)