Area of research
Genetics · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.
Whole genome sequencing analysis of body mass index identifies novel African ancestry-specific risk allele
Rare variant contribution to the heritability of coronary artery disease
A methylation risk score for chronic kidney disease: a HyperGEN study
Strong protective effect of the APOL1 p.N264K variant against G2-associated focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and kidney disease
Mendelian randomization study of diabetes and dementia in the Million Veteran Program
Genome-wide study investigating effector genes and polygenic prediction for kidney function in persons with ancestry from Africa and the Americas
Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data
Protein prediction for trait mapping in diverse populations
A Diabetes Genetic Risk Score Is Associated With All-Cause Dementia and Clinically Diagnosed Vascular Dementia in the Million Veteran Program
Epigenome-wide association study of kidney function identifies trans-ethnic and ethnic-specific loci
DNAm-based signatures of accelerated aging and mortality in blood are associated with low renal function
Variant-specific inflation factors for assessing population stratification at the phenotypic variance level
Genetic Contributors of Incident Stroke in 10,700 African Americans With Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis From the Genetics of Hypertension Associated Treatments and Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Studies
Coagulation factor VIII: Relationship to cardiovascular disease risk and whole genome sequence and epigenome‐wide analysis in African Americans
Interferon gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10) and cardiovascular disease in African Americans
Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations
REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants
Platelet-Related Variants Identified by Exomechip Meta-analysis in 157,293 Individuals
Exome Genotyping Identifies Pleiotropic Variants Associated with Red Blood Cell Traits
Genome-wide association of familial prostate cancer cases identifies evidence for a rare segregating haplotype at 8q24.21
Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility
Rare coding variants and X-linked loci associated with age at menarche
Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Rare and Low-Frequency Coding Variants Associated with LDL Cholesterol
Large multiethnic Candidate Gene Study for C-reactive protein levels: identification of a novel association at CD36 in African Americans
Association analysis of 9,560 prostate cancer cases from the International Consortium of Prostate Cancer Genetics confirms the role of reported prostate cancer associated SNPs for familial disease
Germline Mutations in <i>HOXB13</i> and Prostate-Cancer Risk
HOXB13 is a susceptibility gene for prostate cancer: results from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG)
Imputation of Exome Sequence Variants into Population- Based Samples and Blood-Cell-Trait-Associated Loci in African Americans: NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project