Abstract

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Public Health Relevance

Using no more than two or three sentences, describe the relevance of this research to public health. In this section, be succinct and use plain language that can be understood by a general, lay audience. Best regards, Zephaun Harvey Grants Management Specialist NIH/NHGRI 5635 Fishers Lane, Ste 4076, MSC 9306 Bethesda, MD 20892-9306 Courier services should use: Rockville, MD 20852 Phone: 301-435-7859 Fax: 301-451-5434 Email: harveyz@mail.nih.gov

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
3U01HG007417-04S1
Application #
9441087
Study Section
Program Officer
Hindorff, Lucia
Project Start
2013-09-01
Project End
2019-05-31
Budget Start
2017-06-01
Budget End
2019-05-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2017
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
078861598
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10029

  Publications

Gong, J; Nishimura, K K; Fernandez-Rhodes, L et al. (2018) Trans-ethnic analysis of metabochip data identifies two new loci associated with BMI. Int J Obes (Lond) 42:384-390
Hu, Yao; Raffield, Laura M; Polfus, Linda M et al. (2018) A common TCN1 loss-of-function variant is associated with lower vitamin B12 concentration in African Americans. Blood 131:2859-2863
Evangelou, Evangelos (see original citation for additional authors) (2018) Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits. Nat Genet 50:1412-1425
Wojcik, Genevieve L; Fuchsberger, Christian; Taliun, Daniel et al. (2018) Imputation-Aware Tag SNP Selection To Improve Power for Large-Scale, Multi-ethnic Association Studies. G3 (Bethesda) 8:3255-3267
Kocarnik, Jonathan M; Richard, Melissa; Graff, Misa et al. (2018) Discovery, fine-mapping, and conditional analyses of genetic variants associated with C-reactive protein in multiethnic populations using the Metabochip in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study. Hum Mol Genet 27:2940-2953
Speakman, J R; Loos, R J F; O'Rahilly, S et al. (2018) GWAS for BMI: a treasure trove of fundamental insights into the genetic basis of obesity. Int J Obes (Lond) 42:1524-1531
Loos, Ruth Jf (2018) The genetics of adiposity. Curr Opin Genet Dev 50:86-95
Saccone, Nancy L; Emery, Leslie S; Sofer, Tamar et al. (2018) Genome-Wide Association Study of Heavy Smoking and Daily/Nondaily Smoking in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Nicotine Tob Res 20:448-457
Winkler, Thomas W; Günther, Felix; Höllerer, Simon et al. (2018) A joint view on genetic variants for adiposity differentiates subtypes with distinct metabolic implications. Nat Commun 9:1946
Hong, Jaeyoung; Hatchell, Kathryn E; Bradfield, Jonathan P et al. (2018) Transethnic Evaluation Identifies Low-Frequency Loci Associated With 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 103:1380-1392

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