Health & Traits Publications

Chiang KM, Chang HC et al.

BMC Genet

As obesity is becoming pandemic, morbid obesity (MO), an extreme type of obesity, is an emerging iss...

Obesity (extreme)

Jia H, Nogawa S et al.

BMC Genet

Studies on genetic effects of coffee consumption are scarce for Asian populations. We conducted a ge...

Coffee consumption

Lona-Durazo F, Hernandez-Pacheco N et al.

BMC Genet

Association studies in recently admixed populations are extremely useful to identify the genetic arc...

Skin pigmentation (conditioned on rs1426654 and rs35397)

Sarnowski C, Lent S et al.

BMC Genet

Genome-wide association studies performed on triglycerides (TGs) have not accounted for epigenetic m...

Triglyceride levels (parental genotype effect)

Divers J, Palmer ND et al.

BMC Genet

Coronary artery calcified atherosclerotic plaque (CAC) predicts cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despit...

Coronary artery calcified atherosclerotic plaque (130 HU threshold) in type 2 diabetes

Murk W, DeWan AT

BMC Genet

Many studies have attempted to identify gene-gene interactions affecting asthma susceptibility. Howe...

Asthma (SNP x SNP interaction)

Salinas YD, Wang L et al.

BMC Genet

Genome-wide association studies of obesity have typically assumed fixed genetic effects across ethni...

Body mass index

Lutz SM, Cho MH et al.

BMC Genet

Pulmonary function decline is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among smokers. Post bro...

Post bronchodilator FEV1 in COPD

Qayyum R, Becker LC et al.

BMC Genet

We have previously shown that platelet aggregation has higher heritability in African Americans than...

Platelet aggregation

Tin A, Köttgen A et al.

BMC Genet

Low serum magnesium levels have been associated with multiple chronic diseases. The regulation of se...

Magnesium levels

Uhl GR, Liu QR et al.

BMC Genet

Classical genetic studies indicate that nicotine dependence is a substantially heritable complex dis...

Nicotine dependence