School of Medicine Publications and Presentations
Open access research published by the UTRGV School of Medicine-affiliated faculty, residents, fellows, and students. For all publications, please visit this page.
Submissions from 2018
A genetic association study of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and plaque in Mexican Americans and European Americans with rheumatoid arthritis, Rector Arya, Agustin Escalante, Vidya S. Farook, Jose F. Restrepo, Daniel F. Battafarano, Marcio Almeida, Mark Kos, Marcel Fourcaudot, Srinivas Mummidi, Satish Kumar, Joanne E. Curran, Christopher Jenkinson, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, and Inmaculada Del Rincon
GFRA1: A Novel Molecular Target for the Prevention of Osteosarcoma Chemoresistance, Mihwa Kim and Dae Joon Kim
Intraabdominal pressure in women during CrossFit exercises and the effect of age and parity, Luura Faye Gephart, Karen M. Doersch, Michelle Reyes, Thomas J. Kuehl, and Jill M. Danford
Neurologist–patient communication about epilepsy in the United States, Spain, and Germany, John M. Stern, Fernando Cendes, Frank G. Gilliam, Patrick Kwan, Philippe Ryvlin, Joseph Sirven, Brien Smith, Aleksandra Adomas, and Lauren Walter
Obesity and obesogenic growth are both highly heritable and modified by diet in a nonhuman primate model, the African green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus), C. A. Schmitt, S. K. Service, A. J. Jasinska, Thomas D. Dyer, M. J. Jorgensen, R. M. Cantor, G. M. Weinstock, John Blangero, J. R. Kaplan, and N. B. Freimer
The Diabetes Gene and Wnt Pathway Effector TCF7L2 Regulates Adipocyte Development and Function, Xi Chen, Iriscilla Ayala, Chris Shannon, Marcel Fourcaudot, Nikhil K. Acharya, Christopher Jenkinson, Sami Heikkinen, and Luke Norton
A Guide to Competencies, Educational Goals, and Learning Objectives for Teaching Human Embryology in an Undergraduate Medical Education Setting, Manas Das, Kerin M. Claeson, D. J. Lowrie Jr, David L. Bolender, John R. Fredieu, Geoffrey D. Guttmann, Marianne L. Conway, Tamojit Ghosh, Anna C. Edmondson, and Padmanabhan Rengasamy
A protocol for custom CRISPR Cas9 donor vector construction to truncate genes in mammalian cells using pcDNA3 backbone, Neftali Vasquez, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Eduardo Martinez, Victor Fanniel, Alma Lopez, Andrea Salinas, Itzel Flores, Jesse Hirshmann, Robert Gilkerson, Erin Schuenzel, Robert Dearth, Reginald Halaby, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
Clinical Practice Guideline: Hoarseness (Dysphonia) (Update), Robert J. Stachler, David O. Francis, Seth R. Schwartz, Cecelia C. Damask, German P. Digoy, Helene J. Krouse, Scott J. McCoy, Daniel R. Ouellette, Rita R. Patel, and Charles (Charlie) W. Reavis
Deficits in visual working-memory capacity and general cognition in African Americans with psychosis, Samuel R. Mathias, Emma E. Knowles, Jennifer Barrett, Tamara Beetham, Olivia Leach, Sebastiano Buccheri, Katrina Aberizk, John Blangero, Russell A. Poldrack, and David C. Glahn
Optic neuropathy and congenital glaucoma associated with probable Zika virus infection in Venezuelan patients, C Gustavo De Moraes, Michele Petitto, Juan B. Yepez, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Etienne Simon-Loriere, Mussaret B. Zaidi, Matthieu Prot, Claude Ruffie, Susan S. Kim, and Gladys E. Maestre
Plain Language Summary: Hoarseness (Dysphonia), Helene J. Krouse, Charles (Charlie) W. Reavis, Robert J. Stachler, David O. Francis, and Sarah O’Connor
Tannic Acid Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Mediated Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer, Prashanth K.B. Nagesh, Elham Hatami, Pallabita Chowdhury, Vivek Kumar Kashyap, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu
Verbal Memory Performance and Reduced Cortical Thickness of Brain Regions Along the Uncinate Fasciculus in Young Adult Cannabis Users, Nina Levar, Alan N. Francis, Matthew J. Smith, Wilson C. Ho, and Jodi M. Gilman
Family history and obesity in youth, their effect on acylcarnitine/aminoacids metabolomics and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Structural equation modeling approach, Maria Elena Romero-Ibarguengoitia, Felipe Vadillo-Ortega, Augusto Enrique Caballero, Isabel Ibarra-Gonzalez, Arturo Herrera-Rosas, Maria Fabiola Serratos-Canales, Mireya Leon-Hernandez, Antonio Gonzalez-Chavez, Srinivas Mummidi, Ravindranath Duggirala, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
Genetic and environmental (physical fitness and sedentary activity) interaction effects on cardiometabolic risk factors in Mexican American children and adolescents, Rector Arya, Vidya S. Farook, Sharon P. Fowler, Sobha Puppala, Geetha Chittoor, Roy G. Resendez, Srinivas Mummidi, Jairam Vanamala, Laura Almasy, Joanne E. Curran, Donna M. Lehman, Christopher P. Jenkinson, Jane L. Lynch, Ralph A. DeFronzo, John Blangero, Ravindranath Duggirala, and Vincent P. Diego
Protein kinase D1 regulates subcellular localisation and metastatic function of metastasis-associated protein 1, Aditya Ganju, Subhash C. Chauhan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Kyle Doxtater, Manish Tripathi, Nadeem Zafar, Murali M. Yallapu, Rakesh Kumar, and Meena Jaggi
Effects of histone methyltransferase inhibition in endometriosis, Mariano Colón-Caraballo, Annelyn Torres-Reveron, John Lee Soto-Vargas, Steven L. Young, Bruce Lessey, Adalberto Mendoza, Raul Urrutia, and Idhaliz Flores
Additive genetic variation in the craniofacial skeleton of baboons (genus Papio) and its relationship to body and cranial size, Jessica L. Joganic, Katherine E. Willmore, Joan T. Richtsmeier, Kenneth M. Weiss, Michael Mahaney, Jeffrey Rogers, and James M. Cheverud
Data on genetic associations of carotid atherosclerosis markers in Mexican American and European American rheumatoid arthritis subjects, Rector Arya, Agustin Escalante, Vidya S. Farook, Jose F. Restrepo, Daniel F. Battafarano, Marcio Almeida, Mark Kos, Marcel Fourcaudot, Srinivas Mummidi, Satish Kumar, Joanne E. Curran, Christopher Jenkinson, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, and Inmaculada Del Rincon
Diet-induced early-stage atherosclerosis in baboons: lipoproteins, atherogenesis, and arterial compliance, Michael Mahaney, Genesio M. Karere, David L. Rainwater, Venkata Saroja Voruganti, Edward J. Dick Jr, Michael Owston, Karen S. Rice, Laura Cox, Anthony G. Comuzzie, and John L. VandeBerg
Incidence of Dementia in Elderly Latin Americans: Results of the Maracaibo Aging Study, Gladys E. Maestre, Luis J. Mena, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Daniel C. Aguirre-Acevedo, Gloria Pino-Ramírez, Milady Urribarrí, Inara J. Chacon, Carlos A. Chavez, Luis Falque-Madrid, and Ciro A. Gaona
International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Allergic Rhinitis, Sarah K. Wise, Sandra Y. Lin, Elina Toskala, Richard R. Orlandi, Cezmi A. Akdis, Jeremiah A. Alt, Antoine Azar, Fuad M. Baroody, Claus Bachert, and Helene J. Krouse
Joint Analysis of Cortical Area and Thickness as a Replacement for the Analysis of the Volume of the Cerebral Cortex, Anderson M. Winkler, Douglas N. Greve, Knut J. Bjuland, Thomas E. Nichols, Mert R. Sabuncu, Asta K. Håberg, Jon Skranes, and Lars M. Rimol
Neurodegenerative disease biomarkers Aβ1–40, Aβ1–42, tau, and p-tau181 in the vervet monkey cerebrospinal fluid: Relation to normal aging, genetic influences, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Jason A. Chen, Scott C. Fears, Anna J. Jasinska, Alden Huang, Noor B. Al-Sharif, Kevin E. Scheibel, Thomas D. Dyer, Anne M. Fagan, John Blangero, M. J. Jorgensen, J. R. Kaplan, N. B. Freimer, and Giovanni Coppol
Contribution of Inbred Singletons to Variance Component Estimation of Heritability and Linkage, Lucy Blondell, August N. Blackburn, Mark Kos, John Blangero, and Harald HH Goring
Cordycepin induces apoptosis of human ovarian cancer cells by inhibiting CCL5-mediated Akt/NF-κB signaling pathway, Zhen Yang Cui, Soo Jung Park, Eunbi Jo, In-Hu Hwang, Kyung-Bok Lee, Sung-Woo Kim, Dae Joon Kim, Jong Chun Joo, Seok Hoon Hong, Min-Goo Lee, and Ik-Soon Jang
Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries, Seyedeh M. Zekavat, Sanni Ruotsalainen, Robert E. Handsaker, Maris Alver, Jonathan Bloom, Timothy Poterba, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, Juan M. Peralta, and Harald H. H. Goring
Development of polyvinylpyrrolidone/paclitaxel self-assemblies for breast cancer, Pallabita Chowdhury, Prashanth K.B. Nagesh, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu
Early Events in Diabetic Retinopathy and Intervention Strategies, Andrew Tsin and Jeffery Grigsby
ELUCIDATION THE TOXICITY MECHANISM OF ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE USING MOLECULAR DOCKING APPROACH WITH PROTEINS, Krishna Pal Singh, Anupam Dhasmana, and Qamar Rahman
Endovascular Thrombectomy for Mild Strokes: How Low Should We Go? A Multicenter Cohort Study, Amrou Sarraj, Ameer E. Hassan, Sean I. Savitz, James C. Grotta, Chunyan Cai, Kaushik N. Parsha, Christine M. Farrell, Bita Imam, Clark W. Sitton, and Sujan T. Reddy
Evaluating the contribution of rare variants to type 2 diabetes and related traits using pedigrees, Goo Jun, Alisa K. Manning, Marcio Almeida, Matthew Zawistowski, Andrew R. Wood, Thomas D. Dyer, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, and John Blangero
Exploring the Effect of G6PC2 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Enzyme Activity and Human Health, Lauren M. Bayliss, Bosma J. Karin, James K. Oeser, and Richard M. O'Brien
In silico CD4+, CD8+ & humoral immunity associated antigenic epitope prediction and HLA distribution analysis of HTLV-I, Tasneem Bano, Essam Mohammed Janahi, Anupam Dhasmana, Mohtashim Lohani, Shafiul Haque, Raju K. Mandel, Sajad A. Dar, Arshad Jawed, Mohd Wahid, Naseem Akhter, and Mohammaed Y. Areeshi
Kaposi sarcoma incidence in females is nearly four-fold higher in the Lower Rio Grande Valley compared to the Texas average, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Xiaohui Wang, Nicolas Restrepo, Carlos Salas, Katia Moreno, Alvaro Restrepo, and Megan Keniry
Non-congenital severe ocular complications of Zika virus infection, Mussaret B. Zaidi, c Gustavo De Moraes, Michele Petitto, Juan B. Yepez, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Etienne Simon-Loriere, Matthieu Prot, Claude Ruffie, Susan S. Kim, and Gladys E. Maestre
Pleiotropy of cardiometabolic syndrome with obesity-related anthropometric traits determined using empirically derived kinships from the Busselton Health Study, Gemma Cadby, Phillip E. Melton, Nina S. McCarthy, Marcio Almeida, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Jane F. VandeBerg, Jennie Hui, John Beilby, A. W. Musk, Alan L. James, Joseph Hung, John Blangero, and Eric K. Moses
Radiation Therapy in Metastatic Neuroblastoma, Meenu Gupta and Anupam Dhasmana
Study of Anaemia in children and current update, Sanjeev Kumar Shukla, Shubhra Shukla, Rajesh Kumar Verma, Lakshya Veer Singh, Bashah J. Khan, Vikas Gupta, D. P. Saxena, Shahaj Uddin Ahmed, Anupam Dhasmana, and Naveen Sharma
The PRITE Examinations: Background and Future Directions, Arden D. Dingle, Robert Boland, and Michael Travis
Submissions from 2017
Impact of the G84E variant on HOXB13 gene and protein expression in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded prostate tumours, Liesel M. FitzGerald, Kelsie Raspin, James R. Marthick, Matt A. Field, Roslyn C. Malley, Russell J. Thomson, Nicholas B. Blackburn, Erika Banks, Annette Banks, Jac C. Charlesworth, Shaun Donovan, and Joanne L. Dickinson
Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls, Jason Flannick, Christian Fuchsberger, Anubha Mahajan, Tanya M. Teslovich, Vineeta Agarwala, Kyle J. Gaulton, Lizz Caulkins, Rector Arya, Ravi Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran, Satish Kumar, and John Blangero
Emergent is Authentic: A Sociomaterial Perspective on Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education, Bridget C. O'Brien, Judith Warren Little, Maria Wamsley, Joseph G. Cook, Patrick Yuan, Josette Rivera, Anna T. Cianciolo, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Kristina L. Stillsmoking, and Stella L. Ng
Exome sequences of multiplex, multigenerational families reveal schizophrenia risk loci with potential implications for neurocognitive performance, Mark Kos, Melanie A. Carless, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Ellen E. Quillen, Marcio Almeida, August N. Blackburn, Lucy Blondell, David Roalf, Michael F. Pogue-Geile, Harald H. H. Goring, and Laura Almasy
Genetic variation and gene expression across multiple tissues and developmental stages in a non-human primate, Anna J. Jasinska, Ivette Zelaya, Susan K. Service, Christine B. Peterson, Rita M. Cantor, Oi-Wa Choi, Joseph DeYoung, Eleazar Eskin, Lynn A. Fairbanks, John Blangero, and Thomas D. Dyer
Identity-by-Descent Mapping Identifies Major Locus for Serum Triglycerides in Amerindians Largely Explained by an APOC3 Founder Mutation, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Anup K. Nair, Sayuko Kobes, Peng Chen, Harald H. H. Goring, Toni I. Pollin, Alka Malhotra, William C. Knowler, Leslie J. Baier, and Robert L. Hanson
Nonhuman Primates and Translational Research—Cardiovascular Disease, Laura Cox, Michael Olivier, Kimberly D. Spradling-Reeves, Genesio M. Karere, Anthony G. Comuzzie, and John L. VandeBerg
Rare, Potentially Pathogenic Variants in ZNF469 Are Not Enriched in Keratoconus in a Large Australian Cohort of European Descent, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Tiger Zhou, Nicholas B. Blackburn, Richard A. Mills, Jonathan Ellis, Paul Leo, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Bronwyn Ridge, Jac C. Charlesworth, and Matthew A. Brown
Sex-biased microRNA expression in mammals and birds reveals underlying regulatory mechanisms and a role in dosage compensation, Maria Warnefors, Katharina Mössinger, Jean Halbert, Anja Studer, Tania Studer, John L. VandeBerg, Isa Lindgren, Amir Fallahshahroudi, Per Jensen, and Henrik Kaessmann
Tc-Ptp Nuclear Trafficking in Keratinocytes, Mihwa Kim, Liza D. Morales, and Dae Joon Kim
TRAK2, a novel regulator of ABCA1 expression, cholesterol efflux and HDL biogenesis, Nicole J. Lake, Rachael L. Taylor, Hugh Trahair, K. N. Harikrishnan, Joanne E. Curran, Marcio Almeida, Hemant Kulkarni, Matthew P. Johnson, Thomas D. Dyer, Michael Mahaney, Harald H. H. Goring, and John Blangero
Transition from pre-diabetes to diabetes and predictors of risk in Mexican-Americans, Shenghui Wu, Joseph B. Mccormick, Joanne E. Curran, and Susan P. Fisher-Hoch
Whole Genome Sequencing in Psychiatric Disorders: the WGSPD Consortium, Stephan J. Sanders, Benjamin M. Neale, Hailiang Huang, Donna M. Werling, Joon-Yong An, Shan Dong, Goncalo Abecasis, P. Alexander Arguello, John Blangero, and Michael Boehnke
Protein Tyrosine signaling and its potential therapeutic implications in carcinogenesis, Mihwa Kim, Minwoo Baek, and Dae Joon Kim
Associations between self-reported sleep quality and white matter in community-dwelling older adults: A prospective cohort study, Claire E. Sexton, Enikő Zsoldos, Nicola Filippini, Ludovica Griffanti, Anderson M. Winkler, Abda Mahmood, Charlotte L. Allan, Anya Topiwala, Simon D. Kyle, and Kai Spiegelhalder
Types and Factors Associated With Online Health Information Seeking Among College Men in Latino Fraternities: A Qualitative Study, Enmanuel A. Chavarria, Elizabeth Hensleigh Chaney, Michael Leland Stellefson, J. Don Chaney, Nikita Chavarria, and Virginia Jones Dodd
Prevalence of Aflatoxin-Associated TP53R249S Mutation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Hispanics in South Texas, Jingjing Jiao, Weibo Niu, Ying Wang, Keith Baggerly, Yuanqing Ye, Xifeng Wu, Dewitt Davenport, Jose Luis Almeda, Monica Michelle Betancourt-Garcia, R. Armour Forse, Joseph B. McCormick, and Susan P. Fisher-Hoch
Making Fat Transfer to Buttocks Safer, Robert M. Whitfield, Luis Rios Jr., and Barry E. DiBernardo
UVB-induced nuclear translocation of TC-PTP by AKT/14-3-3σ axis inhibits keratinocyte survival and proliferation, Mihwa Kim, Liza D. Morales, Minwoo Baek, Thomas J. Slaga, John DiGiovanni, and Dae Joon Kim
“Yes, and …” Exploring the Future of Learning Analytics in Medical Education, Matt M. Cirigliano, Charlie Guthrie, Martin V. Pusic, Anna T. Cianciolo, Jennifer E. Lim-Dunham, Anderson Spickard III, and Valerie Terry
24-Hour Blood Pressure Variability Assessed by Average Real Variability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Luis J. Mena, Vanessa G. Felix, Jesus D. Melgarejo, and Gladys E. Maestre
Ormeloxifene Suppresses Prostate Tumor Growth and Metastatic Phenotypes via Inhibition of Oncogenic β-catenin Signaling and EMT Progression, Bilal B. Hafeez, Aditya Ganju, Mohammed Sikander, Vivek K. Kashyap, Zubair Bin Hafeez, Neeraj Chauhan, Shabnam Malik, Andrew Massey, Manish Tripathi, Fathi T. Halaweish, Murali M. Yallapu, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Meena Jaggi
Acute maternal oxidant exposure causes susceptibility of the fetal brain to inflammation and oxidative stress, Feroz Akhtar, Christopher A. Rouse, Gabriel Catano, Marcus Montalvo, Sarah L. Ullevig, Reto Asmis, Kusum Kharbanda, and Shivani K. Maffi
Benchmarking Relatedness Inference Methods with Genome-Wide Data from Thousands of Relatives, Monica D. Ramstetter, Thomas D. Dyer, Donna M. Lehman, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, John Blangero, Jason G. Mezey, and Amy L. Williams
Detection and Risk Stratification of Women at High Risk of Preterm Birth in Rural Communities near Nagpur, India, Archana Patel, Amber Abhijeet Prakash, Yamini V. Pusdekar, Hemant Kulkarni, and Patricia Hibberd
Niclosamide Induces Protein Ubiquitination and Inhibits Multiple Pro-Survival Signaling Pathways in the Human Glioblastoma U-87 MG Cell Line, Benxu Cheng, Liza Doreen Morales, Yonghong Zhang, Shizue Mito, and Andrew Tsin
Ontogeny of myosin isoform expression and prehensile function in the tail of the gray short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica), Dylan R. Thomas, Brad A. Chadwell, Gary R. Walker, Julio E. Budde, John L. VandeBerg, and Michael T. Butcher
Reduction of Cognitive Decline in Patients with or at High Risk for Diabetes, Gladys E. Maestre
A Loss-of-Function Splice Acceptor Variant in IGF2 Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes, Josep M. Mercader, Rachel G. Liao, Avery D. Bell, Zachary Dymek, Karol Estrada, Taru Tukiainen, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, and Christopher Jenkinson
The Influence of Social Isolation and Medical Comorbidities on Geriatric Congestive Heart Failure Hospital Readmissions, Daniel Keyes, Greg Sheremeta, Jerrit Yang, Naomi Davis, Shiling Zhang, and Kevin Boehm
Inaugural Research Symposium, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. School of Medicine
A Voice in Your Ear: Podcasts as a Strategy to Support Successful Student Transition into Medical Education, Michael LaPelusa, Valerie Terry, and Arden D. Dingle
Children with lymphadenitis associated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination do not experience more infections when compared with BCG-vaccinated children without lymphadenitis: a three years paired-cohort in Mexico, Enrique Chacon-Cruz, Jorge Luis Arellano-Estrada, Erika Lopatynsky-Reyes, Jorge Alvelais-Palacios, and Chandra Becka
Inferring pathobiology from structural MRI in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Modeling head motion and neuroanatomical specificity, Nailin Yao, Anderson M. Winkler, Jennifer Barrett, Gregory A. Book, Tamara Beetham, Rachel Horseman, Olivia Leach, Karen Hodgson, and Emma M. Knowles
Magnetic Nanoformulations for Prostate Cancer, Pallabita Chowdhury, Allison M. Roberts, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be predicted by retinal vascular changes in patients with obesity without hypertension or diabetes, Maria Elena Romero-Ibarguengoitia, Arturo Herrera-Rosas, Alfredo A. Domínguez-Mota, Jinny T. Camas-Benitez, María F. Serratos-Canales, Mireya León-Hernández, Antonio González-Chávez, Srinivas Mummidi, Ravi Duggirala, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
Optimal echo time for functional MRI of the infant brain identified in response to noxious stimulation, Sezgi Goksan, Caroline Hartley, Samuel A. Hurley, Anderson M. Winkler, Eugene P. Duff, Mark Jenkinson, Richard Rogers, Stuart Clare, and Rebeccah Slater
The heritability of multi-modal connectivity in human brain activity, Giles L. Colclough, Stephen M. Smith, Thomas E. Nichols, Anderson M. Winkler, Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos, Matthew F. Glasser, David C. Van Essen, and Mark W. Woolrich
Evaluating a CLL susceptibility variant in ITGB2 in families with multiple subtypes of hematological malignancies, Nicholas B. Blackburn, James R. Marthick, Annette Banks, Jac C. Charlesworth, Katherine A. Marsden, Ray M. Lowenthal, John Blangero, and Joanne L. Dickinson
Exome array analysis suggests an increased variant burden in families with schizophrenia, Nina S. McCarthy, Phillip E. Melton, Sarah V. Ward, Spencer M. Allan, Milan Dragovic, Melanie L. Clark, Bharti Morar, Justin P. Rubio, John Blangero, and Johanna C. Badcock
Genetics of serum carotenoid concentrations and their correlation with obesity-related traits in Mexican American children, Vidya S. Farook, Lavanya Reddivari, Srinivas Mummidi, Sobha Puppala, Rector Arya, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, Sharon P. Fowler, Roy G. Resendez, Joanne E. Curran, Christopher Jenkinson, John Blangero, and Ravi Duggirala
Prevalence, Treatment, and Control Rates of Conventional and Ambulatory Hypertension Across 10 Populations in 3 Continents, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Gladys E. Maestre, Lutgarde Thijs, Kei Asayama, José Boggia, Edoardo Casiglia, and Tine W. Hansen
Prevalence, Treatment, and Control Rates of Conventional and Ambulatory Hypertension Across 10 Populations in 3 Continents, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Gladys E. Maestre, Lutgarde Thijs, Kei Asayama, José Boggia, Edoardo Casiglia, and Tine W. Hansen
The Processing-Speed Impairment in Psychosis Is More Than Just Accelerated Aging, Samuel R. Mathias, Emma E. M. Knowles, Jennifer Barrett, Olivia Leach, Sebastiano Buccheri, Tamara Beetham, John Blangero, Russell A. Poldrack, and David C. Glahn
Ovarian hormones modify anxiety behavior and glucocorticoid receptors after chronic social isolation stress, Dinah L. Ramos-Ortolaza, Raura J. Doreste-Mendez, John K. Alvarado-Torres, and Annelyn Torres-Reveron
Heritability and genetic correlation between GERD symptoms severity, metabolic syndrome, and inflammation markers in families living in Mexico City, Arturo Reding-Bernal, Valentin Sánchez-Pedraza, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Sergio Sobrino-Cossio, María Elizabeth Tejero-Barrera, Ana Isabel Burguete-García, Mireya Leon-Hernandez, María Fabiola Serratos-Canales, Ravi Duggirala, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
Factores de riesgo asociados a recaída de enfermedad por reflujo gastroesofágico en pacientes de primer nivel de atención exitosamente tratados con inhibidor de la bomba de protones [Risk factors associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease relapse in primary care patients successfully treated with a proton pump inhibitor], Aurelio López-Colombo, M. S. Pacio-Quiterio, L. Y. Jesús-Mejenes, J. E. G. Rodríguez-Aguilar, M. López-Guevara, A. J. Montiel-Jarquín, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, E. R. Morales-Hernández, V. R. Ortiz-Juárez, and L. Ávila-Jiménez
Hyperinsulinemia and elevated systolic blood pressure independently predict white matter hyperintensities with associated cognitive decrement in the middle-aged offspring of dementia patients, Keith A. Hawkins, Nazli Emadi, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Anderson M. Winkler, Beth Taylor, Latha Dulipsingh, Diana King, Brian Pittman, and Karen Blank
Maternal serum markers of lipid metabolism in relation to neonatal anthropometry, Nansi S. Boghossian, Pauline Mendola, Aiyi Liu, Candace Robledo, and Edwina H. Yeung
The Lipidome in Major Depressive Disorder: Shared Genetic Influence for Ether-Phosphatidylcholines, a Plasma-Based Phenotype Related to Inflammation, and Disease Risk, Emma E. M. Knowles, Kevin Huynh, Peter J. Meikle, Harald H. H. Goring, Rene L. Olvera, Samuel R. Mathias, Ravi Duggirala, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and David C. Glahn
Use of BRCA Mutation Test in the US, 2004-2014, Fangjian Guo, Jacqueline M. Hirth, Yu-li Lin, Gwyn Richardson, Lyuba Levine, Abbey B. Berenson, and Yong-Fang Kuo
Genetic correlation of the plasma lipidome with type 2 diabetes, prediabetes and insulin resistance in Mexican American families, Hemant Kulkarni, Manju Mamtani, Gerard Wong, Jacquelyn M. Weir, Christopher K. Barlow, Thomas D. Dyer, Laura Almasy, Michael Mahaney, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Ravindranath Duggirala, Peter J. Meikle, John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
Comparative Analysis of Immune Checkpoint Molecules and Their Potential Role in the Transmissible Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease, Andrew S. Flies, Nicholas B. Blackburn, Alan Bruce Lyons, John D. Hayball, and Gregory M. Woods
Epigenetic Age Acceleration Assessed with Human White-Matter Images, Karen Hodgson, Melanie A. Carless, Hemant Kulkarni, Joanne E. Curran, Emma Sprooten, Emma E. Knowles, Samuel R. Mathias, Harald H. H. Goring, Nailin Yao, Rene L. Olvera, Laura Almasy, Ravindranath Duggirala, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
How many more? Sample size determination in studies of morphological integration and evolvability, Mark Grabowski and Arthur Porto
Improvement of cardiometabolic markers after fish oil intervention in young Mexican adults and the role of PPARα L162V and PPARγ2 P12A, Aristea Binia, Carolina Vargas-Martínez, Mónica Ancira-Moreno, Laura M. Gosoniu, Ivan Montoliu, Elí Gámez-Valdez, Diana C. Soria-Contreras, Adriana Angeles-Quezada, Rocío Gonzalez-Alberto, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident Interest and Participation in Global Health, Amy R. Stagg, May Hsieh Blanchard, Sandra A. Carson, Herbert B. Peterson, Erica B. Flynn, and Tony Ogburn
Ophthalmic Manifestations of Congenital Zika Syndrome in Colombia and Venezuela, Juan B. Yepez, Felipe A. Murati, Michele Petitto, Carlos F. Peñaranda, J. Fernando Arevalo, and Gladys E. Maestre
Opossum APOBEC1 is a DNA mutator with retrovirus and retroelement restriction activity, Terumasa Ikeda, Mayuko Shimoda, Diako Ebrahimi, John L. VandeBerg, Reuben S. Harris, Atsushi Koito, and Kazuhiko Maeda