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Professorship Julie Staals

Professorship Julie Staals

22 April 2024

Dr Julie Staals (Dept. of Neurology) has been appointed as professor 'Neurovascular disease' as of 1 April 2024.

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ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

15 April 2024

Prof. Andy Baker (Dept of Pathology) has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2,5M for his research project PolymiRize: Poly-miRNA targeting to prevent and reverse complex tissue remodelling after acute cardiovascular events'.

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Aaron Isaacs

Assistant Professor

Dr Aaron Isaacs completed his baccalaureate degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. Afterwards, he spent several years working in the business and university administration sectors before entering the genetics field in a mouse genetics laboratory at Columbia University in New York City. In 2002, he moved to the Netherlands, where he embarked on his PhD studies in genetic epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. He completed and defended his thesis on the genetics of circulating lipid levels in 2007. His expertise in family- and population based genetic studies led to numerous collaborations with researchers on both the national and international levels, studying a broad array of phenotypes including lipid levels, blood pressure, anthropometric traits, ophthalmologic features and many others. Since 2008, he has focussed extensively on the genetics underlying cardiac electrophysiology. In 2015, Aaron moved to the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht.

Currently, Aaron is working on a number of projects exploring the role of genomics and transcriptomics in a variety of outcomes, predominantly in the realm of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias. These studies, in both population- and family-based settings, utilize large-scale “-omics” datasets, generated through the use of next generation sequencing (particularly RNA sequencing) and microarray technology, and a broad variety of analytical methods, including linkage, association, and bioinformatics approaches, to determine genes involved in disease pathology, progression, or relevant endophenotypes. The findings from these efforts give insight into disease etiology (and consequences); may identify useful targets for therapeutic intervention or biomarkers; and aid in risk stratification or molecular sub-typing of patients. Aaron closely collaborates with a number of CARIM Principal Investigators, conducting work in projects funded by (among others) the European Union and the Nederlandse Hartstichting (Dutch Heart Foundation) and participates in several large international genetics consortia.

Aaron-isaacs

Department of Physiology
Universiteitssingel 60, 6229 ER Maastricht
P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: M1.14
T: +31(0)43 388 18 62

  • 2017
    • Elands, R. J. J., Simons, C. C. J. M., Riemenschneider, M., Isaacs, A., Schouten, L. J., Verhage, B. A., Van Steen, K., Godschalk, R. W. L., van den Brandt, P. A., Stoll, M., & Weijenberg, M. P. (2017). A systematic SNP selection approach to identify mechanisms underlying disease aetiology: linking height to post-menopausal breast and colorectal cancer risk. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 41034. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41034
    • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity, Chambers, J. C., Grallert, H., & Kooner, J. S. (2017). Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity. Nature, 541(7635), 81-86. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20784
    • Bonder, M. J., Luijk, R., Zhernakova, D. V., Moed, M., Deelen, P., Vermaat, M., van Iterson, M., van Dijk, F., van Galen, M., Bot, J., Slieker, R. C., Jhamai, P. M., Verbiest, M., Suchiman, H. E. D., Verkerk, M., van der Breggen, R., van Rooij, J., Lakenberg, N., Arindrarto, W., ... Franke, L. (2017). Disease variants alter transcription factor levels and methylation of their binding sites. Nature Genetics, 49(1), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3721
    • Zhernakova, D. V., Deelen, P., Vermaat, M., van Iterson, M., van Galen, M., Arindrarto, W., van 't Hof, P., Mei, H., van Dijk, F., Westra, H.-J., Bonder, M. J., van Rooij, J., Verkerk, M., Jhamai, P. M., Moed, M., Kielbasa, S. M., Bot, J., Nooren, I., Pool, R., ... Franke, L. (2017). Identification of context-dependent expression quantitative trait loci in whole blood. Nature Genetics, 49(1), 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3737
  • 2016
    • Natarajan, P., Bis, J. C., Bielak, L. F., Cox, A. J., Dorr, M., Feitosa, M. F., Franceschini, N., Guo, X., Hwang, S.-J., Isaacs, A., Jhun, M. A., Kavousi, M., Li-Gao, R., Lyytikainen, L.-P., Marioni, R. E., Schminke, U., Stitziel, N. O., Tada, H., van Setten, J., ... O'Donnell, C. J. (2016). Multiethnic Exome-Wide Association Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Circulation : Cardiovascular Genetics, 9(6), 511-520. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.116.001572
    • Ried, J. S., Jeff, J. M., Chu, A. Y., Bragg-Gresham, J. L., van Dongen, J., Huffman, J. E., Ahluwalia, T. S., Cadby, G., Eklund, N., Eriksson, J., Esko, T., Feitosa, M. F., Goel, A., Gorski, M., Hayward, C., Heard-Costa, N. L., Jackson, A. U., Jokinen, E., Kanoni, S., ... Roos, R. J. F. (2016). A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape. Nature Communications, 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13357
    • Silva, C. T., Zorkoltseva, I. V., Amin, N., Demirkan, A., van Leeuwen, E. M., Kors, J. A., van den Berg, M., Stricker, B. H., Uitterlinden, A. G., Kirichenko, A. V., Witteman, J. C. M., Willemsen, R., Oostra, B. A., Axenovich, T. I., van Duijn, C. M., & Isaacs, A. (2016). A Combined Linkage and Exome Sequencing Analysis for Electrocardiogram Parameters in the Erasmus Rucphen Family Study. Frontiers in Genetics, 7, Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2016.00190
    • Iotchkova, V., Huang, J., Morris, J. A., Jain, D., Barbieri, C., Walter, K., Min, J. L., Chen, L., Astle, W., Cocca, M., Deelen, P., Elding, H., Farmaki, A.-E., Franklin, C. S., Franberg, M., Gaunt, T. R., Hofman, A., Jiang, T., Kleber, M. E., ... Soranzo, N. (2016). Discovery and refinement of genetic loci associated with cardiometabolic risk using dense imputation maps. Nature Genetics, 48(11), 1303-1312. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3668
    • Evans, D. S., Avery, C. L., Nalls, M. A., Li, G., Barnard, J., Smith, E. N., Tanaka, T., Butler, A. M., Buxbaum, S. G., Alonso, A., Arking, D. E., Berenson, G. S., Bis, J. C., Buyske, S., Carty, C. L., Chen, W., Chung, M. K., Cummings, S. R., Deo, R., ... Sotoodehnia, N. (2016). Fine-mapping, novel loci identification, and SNP association transferability in a genome-wide association study of QRS duration in African Americans. Human Molecular Genetics, 25(19), 4350-4368. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddw284
    • Amin, N., Allebrandt, K. V., van der Spek, A., Müller-Myhsok, B., Hek, K., Teder-Laving, M., Hayward, C., Esko, T., van Mill, J. G., Mbarek, H., Watson, N. F., Melville, S. A., Del Greco, F. M., Byrne, E. M., Oole, E., Kolcic, I., Chen, T.-H., Evans, D. S., Coresh, J., ... van Duijn, C. M. (2016). Genetic variants in RBFOX3 are associated with sleep latency. European Journal of Human Genetics, 24(10), 1488-1495. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2016.31
    • Teumer, A., Qi, Q., Nethander, M., Aschard, H., Bandinelli, S., Beekman, M., Berndt, S. I., Bidlingmaier, M., Broer, L., Cappola, A., Ceda, G. P., Chanock, S., Chen, M.-H., Chen, T. C., Chen, Y.-D. I., Chung, J., Miglianico, F. D. G., Eriksson, J., Ferrucci, L., ... Kaplan, R. C. (2016). Genomewide meta-analysis identifies loci associated with IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels with impact on age-related traits. Aging Cell, 15(5), 811-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12490
    • van der Harst, P., van Setten, J., Verweij, N., Vogler, G., Franke, L., Maurano, M. T., Wang, X. C., Leach, I. M., Eijgelsheim, M., Sotoodehnia, N., Hayward, C., Sorice, R., Meirelles, O., Lyytikainen, L. P., Polasek, O., Tanaka, T., Arking, D. E., Ulivi, S., Trompet, S., ... Isaacs, A. (2016). 52 Genetic Loci Influencing Myocardial Mass. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 68(13), 1435-1448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2016.07.729
    • Willems, S. M., Cornes, B. K., Brody, J. A., Morrison, A. C., Lipovich, L., Dauriz, M., Chen, Y., Liu, C.-T., Rybin, D. V., Gibbs, R. A., Muzny, D., Pankow, J. S., Psaty, B. M., Boerwinkle, E., Rotter, J. I., Siscovick, D. S., Vasan, R. S., Kaplan, R. C., Isaacs, A., ... Meigs, J. B. (2016). Association of the IGF1 gene with fasting insulin levels. European Journal of Human Genetics, 24(9), 1337-1343. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2016.4
    • van Leeuwen, E. M., Sabo, A., Bis, J. C., Huffman, J. E., Manichaikul, A., Smith, A. V., Feitosa, M. F., Demissie, S., Joshi, P. K., Duan, Q., Marten, J., van Klinken, J. B., Surakka, I., Nolte, I. M., Zhang, W., Mbarek, H., Li-Gao, R., Trompet, S., Verweij, N., ... van Duijn, C. M. (2016). Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels. Journal of Medical Genetics, 53(7), 441-449. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103439
    • Demirkan, A., Lahti, J., Direk, N., Viktorin, A., Lunetta, K. L., Terracciano, A., Nalls, M. A., Tanaka, T., Hek, K., Fornage, M., Wellmann, J., Cornelis, M. C., Ollila, H. M., Yu, L., Smith, J. A., Pilling, L. C., Isaacs, A., Palotie, A., Zhuang, W. V., ... Raeikkoenen, K. (2016). Somatic, positive and negative domains of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Psychological Medicine, 46(8), 1613-1623. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002081
    • Verweij, N., Leach, I. M., Isaacs, A., Arking, D. E., Bis, J. C., Pers, T. H., Van den Berg, M. E., Lyytikainen, L.-P., Barnett, P., Wang, X., Soliman, E. Z., Van Duijn, C. M., Kahonen, M., Van Veldhuisen, D. J., Kors, J. A., Raitakari, O. T., Silva, C. T., Lehtimaki, T., Hillege, H. L., ... Van der Harst, P. (2016). Twenty-eight genetic loci associated with ST-T-wave amplitudes of the electrocardiogram. Human Molecular Genetics, 25(10), 2093-2103. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddw058
    • Jainandunsing, S., Wattimena, J. L. D., Verhoeven, A. J. M., Langendonk, J. G., Rietveld, T., Isaacs, A. J., Sijbrands, E. J. G., & de Rooij, F. W. M. (2016). Discriminative Ability of Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acid Levels for Glucose Intolerance in Families At Risk for Type 2 Diabetes. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders, 14(3), 175-181. https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2015.0102
    • Ricano-Ponce, I., Zhernakova, D. V., Deelen, P., Luo, O., Li, X., Isaacs, A., Karjalainen, J., Di Tommaso, J., Borek, Z. A., Zorro, M. M., Gutierrez-Achury, J., Uitterlinden, A. G., Hofman, A., van Meurs, J., Netea, M. G., Jonkers, I. H., Withoff, S., van Duijn, C. M., Li, Y., ... Kumar, V. (2016). Refined mapping of autoimmune disease associated genetic variants with gene expression suggests an important role for non-coding RNAs. Journal of Autoimmunity, 68, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2016.01.002
    • Kilpelainen, T. O., Carli, J. F. M., Skowronski, A. A., Sun, Q., Kriebel, J., Feitosa, M. F., Hedman, A. K., Drong, A. W., Hayes, J. E., Zhao, J., Pers, T. H., Schick, U., Grarup, N., Kutalik, Z., Trompet, S., Mangino, M., Kristiansson, K., Beekman, M., Lyytikainen, L.-P., ... Loos, R. J. F. (2016). Genome-wide meta-analysis uncovers novel loci influencing circulating leptin levels. Nature Communications, 7, Article 10494. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10494
    • Pattaro, C., Teumer, A., Gorski, M., Chu, A. Y., Li, M., Mijatovic, V., Garnaas, M., Tin, A., Sorice, R., Li, Y., Taliun, D., Olden, M., Foster, M., Yang, Q., Chen, M.-H., Pers, T. H., Johnson, A. D., Ko, Y.-A., Fuchsberger, C., ... Author collaboration (2016). Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function. Nature Communications, 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10023
  • 2015
    • Silva, C. T., Kors, J. A., Amin, N., Dehghan, A., Witteman, J. C. M., Willemsen, R., Oostra, B. A., van Duijn, C. M., & Isaacs, A. (2015). Heritabilities, proportions of heritabilities explained by GWAS findings, and implications of cross-phenotype effects on PR interval. Human Genetics, 134(11-12), 1211-1219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-015-1595-9
    • Kato, N., Loh, M., Takeuchi, F., Verweij, N., Wang, X., Zhang, W., Kelly, T. N., Saleheen, D., Lehne, B., Leach, I. M., Drong, A. W., Abbott, J., Wahl, S., Tan, S.-T., Scott, W. R., Campanella, G., Chadeau-Hyam, M., Afzal, U., Ahluwalia, T. S., ... Author collaboration (2015). Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation. Nature Genetics, 47(11), 1282–1293. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3405
    • ENGAGE Consortium (2015). Discovery and Fine-Mapping of Glycaemic and Obesity-Related Trait Loci Using High-Density Imputation. Plos Genetics, 11(7), Article e1005230. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005230
    • Draisma, H. H. M., Pool, R., Kobl, M., Jansen, R., Petersen, A.-K., Vaarhorst, A. A. M., Yet, I., Haller, T., Demirkan, A., Esko, T., Zhu, G., Böhringer, S., Beekman, M., van Klinken, J. B., Römisch-Margl, W., Prehn, C., Adamski, J., de Craen, A. J. M., van Leeuwen, E. M., ... Boomsma, D. I. (2015). Genome-wide association study identifies novel genetic variants contributing to variation in blood metabolite levels. Nature Communications, 6, 7208. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8208
    • WiN Study Group (2015). CLEC4M and STXBP5 gene variations contribute to von Willebrand factor level variation in von Willebrand disease. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 13(6), 956-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.12927
    • Surakka, I., Horikoshi, M., Mägi, R., Sarin, A.-P., Mahajan, A., Lagou, V., Marullo, L., Ferreira, T., Miraglio, B., Timonen, S., Kettunen, J., Pirinen, M., Karjalainen, J., Thorleifsson, G., Hägg, S., Hottenga, J.-J., Isaacs, A., Ladenvall, C., Beekman, M., ... Ripatti, S. (2015). The impact of low-frequency and rare variants on lipid levels. Nature Genetics, 47(6), 589-97. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3300
    • Plompen, E. P. C., Hansen, B. E., Schouten, J. N. L., Darwish Murad, S., Loth, D. W., Brouwer, W. P., Isaacs, A., Taimr, P., Hofman, A., van Duijn, C. M., Uitterlinden, A. G., Stricker, B. H. C., Leebeek, F. W. G., & Janssen, H. L. A. (2015). Interferon gamma receptor 2 gene variants are associated with liver fibrosis in the general population: the Rotterdam Study. Gut, 64(4), 692-4. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-308398
    • Benyamin, B., Esko, T., Ried, J. S., Radhakrishnan, A., Vermeulen, S. H., Traglia, M., Gögele, M., Anderson, D., Broer, L., Podmore, C., Luan, J., Kutalik, Z., Sanna, S., van der Meer, P., Tanaka, T., Wang, F., Westra, H.-J., Franke, L., Mihailov, E., ... Whitfield, J. B. (2015). Correction: Corrigendum: Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis. Nature Communications, 6, 6542. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7542
    • van Leeuwen, E. M., Karssen, L. C., Deelen, J., Isaacs, A., Medina-Gomez, C., Mbarek, H., Kanterakis, A., Trompet, S., Postmus, I., Verweij, N., van Enckevort, D. J., Huffman, J. E., White, C. C., Feitosa, M. F., Bartz, T. M., Manichaikul, A., Joshi, P. K., Peloso, G. M., Deelen, P., ... van Duijn, C. (2015). Genome of The Netherlands population-specific imputations identify an ABCA6 variant associated with cholesterol levels. Nature Communications, 6, 6065. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7065
    • Locke, A. E., Kahali, B., Berndt, S. I., Justice, A. E., Pers, T. H., Day, F. R., Powell, C., Vedantam, S., Buchkovich, M. L., Yang, J., Croteau-Chonka, D. C., Esko, T., Fall, T., Ferreira, T., Gustafsson, S., Kutalik, Z., Luan, J., Mägi, R., Randall, J. C., ... Speliotes, E. K. (2015). Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature, 518(7538), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14177
    • Shungin, D., Winkler, T. W., Croteau-Chonka, D. C., Ferreira, T., Locke, A. E., Mägi, R., Strawbridge, R. J., Pers, T. H., Fischer, K., Justice, A. E., Workalemahu, T., Wu, J. M. W., Buchkovich, M. L., Heard-Costa, N. L., Roman, T. S., Drong, A. W., Song, C., Gustafsson, S., Day, F. R., ... Mohlke, K. L. (2015). New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution. Nature, 518(7538), 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14132
    • Jainandunsing, S., Özcan, B., Rietveld, T., van Miert, J. N. I., Isaacs, A. J., Langendonk, J. G., de Rooij, F. W. M., & Sijbrands, E. J. G. (2015). Failing beta-cell adaptation in South Asian families with a high risk of type 2 diabetes. Acta Diabetologica, 52(1), 11-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-014-0588-9
    • Wessel, J., Chu, A. Y., Willems, S. M., Wang, S., Yaghootkar, H., Brody, J. A., Dauriz, M., Hivert, M.-F., Raghavan, S., Lipovich, L., Hidalgo, B., Fox, K., Huffman, J. E., An, P., Lu, Y., Rasmussen-Torvik, L. J., Grarup, N., Ehm, M. G., Li, L., ... EPIC-InterAct Consortium (2015). Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility. Nature Communications, 6, 5897. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6897
    • van Leeuwen, E. M., Huffman, J. E., Bis, J. C., Isaacs, A., Mulder, M., Sabo, A., Smith, A. V., Demissie, S., Manichaikul, A., Brody, J. A., Feitosa, M. F., Duan, Q., Schraut, K. E., Navarro, P., van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, J. V., Zhu, G., Mbarek, H., Trompet, S., Verweij, N., ... van Duijn, C. (2015). Fine mapping the CETP region reveals a common intronic insertion associated to HDL-C. NPJ aging and mechanisms of disease, 1, 15011. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjamd.2015.11
  • 2014
    • Wood, A. R., Esko, T., Yang, J., Vedantam, S., Pers, T. H., Gustafsson, S., Chu, A. Y., Estrada, K., Luan, J., Kutalik, Z., Amin, N., Buchkovich, M. L., Croteau-Chonka, D. C., Day, F. R., Duan, Y., Fall, T., Fehrmann, R., Ferreira, T., Jackson, A. U., ... Frayling, T. M. (2014). Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height. Nature Genetics, 46(11), 1173-86. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3097
    • Benyamin, B., Esko, T., Ried, J. S., Radhakrishnan, A., Vermeulen, S. H., Traglia, M., Gögele, M., Anderson, D., Broer, L., Podmore, C., Luan, J., Kutalik, Z., Sanna, S., van der Meer, P., Tanaka, T., Wang, F., Westra, H.-J., Franke, L., Mihailov, E., ... Whitfield, J. B. (2014). Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis. Nature Communications, 5, 4926. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5926
    • Arking, D. E., Pulit, S. L., Crotti, L., van der Harst, P., Munroe, P. B., Koopmann, T. T., Sotoodehnia, N., Rossin, E. J., Morley, M., Wang, X., Johnson, A. D., Lundby, A., Gudbjartsson, D. F., Noseworthy, P. A., Eijgelsheim, M., Bradford, Y., Tarasov, K. V., Dörr, M., Müller-Nurasyid, M., ... Newton-Cheh, C. H. (2014). Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization. Nature Genetics, 46(8), 826-36. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3014
    • Tragante, V., Barnes, M. R., Ganesh, S. K., Lanktree, M. B., Guo, W., Franceschini, N., Smith, E. N., Johnson, T., Holmes, M. V., Padmanabhan, S., Karczewski, K. J., Almoguera, B., Barnard, J., Baumert, J., Chang, Y.-P. C., Elbers, C. C., Farrall, M., Fischer, M. E., Gaunt, T. R., ... Keating, B. J. (2014). Gene-centric meta-analysis in 87,736 individuals of European ancestry identifies multiple blood-pressure-related loci. American Journal of Human Genetics, 94(3), 349-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.12.016
    • Pop, A. S., Levenga, J., de Esch, C. E. F., Buijsen, R. A. M., Nieuwenhuizen, I. M., Li, T., Isaacs, A., Gasparini, F., Oostra, B. A., & Willemsen, R. (2014). Rescue of dendritic spine phenotype in Fmr1 KO mice with the mGluR5 antagonist AFQ056/Mavoglurant. Psychopharmacology, 231(6), 1227-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-012-2947-y
    • Peloso, G. M., Auer, P. L., Bis, J. C., Voorman, A., Morrison, A. C., Stitziel, N. O., Brody, J. A., Khetarpal, S. A., Crosby, J. R., Fornage, M., Isaacs, A., Jakobsdottir, J., Feitosa, M. F., Davies, G., Huffman, J. E., Manichaikul, A., Davis, B., Lohman, K., Joon, A. Y., ... Cupples, L. A. (2014). Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. American Journal of Human Genetics, 94(2), 223-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.01.009
    • Lange, L. A., Hu, Y., Zhang, H., Xue, C., Schmidt, E. M., Tang, Z.-Z., Bizon, C., Lange, E. M., Smith, J. D., Turner, E. H., Jun, G., Kang, H. M., Peloso, G., Auer, P., Li, K.-P., Flannick, J., Zhang, J., Fuchsberger, C., Gaulton, K., ... NHLBI Grand Opportunity Exome Sequencing Project (2014). Whole-exome sequencing identifies rare and low-frequency coding variants associated with LDL cholesterol. American Journal of Human Genetics, 94(2), 233-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.01.010
    • Avery, C. L., Sitlani, C. M., Arking, D. E., Arnett, D. K., Bis, J. C., Boerwinkle, E., Buckley, B. M., Ida Chen, Y.-D., de Craen, A. J. M., Eijgelsheim, M., Enquobahrie, D., Evans, D. S., Ford, I., Garcia, M. E., Gudnason, V., Harris, T. B., Heckbert, S. R., Hochner, H., Hofman, A., ... Psaty, B. M. (2014). Drug-gene interactions and the search for missing heritability: a cross-sectional pharmacogenomics study of the QT interval. Pharmacogenomics Journal, 14(1), 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/tpj.2013.4
    • Vaarhorst, A. A. M., Verhoeven, A., Weller, C. M., Böhringer, S., Göraler, S., Meissner, A., Deelder, A. M., Henneman, P., Gorgels, A. P. M., van den Brandt, P. A., Schouten, L. J., van Greevenbroek, M. M., Merry, A. H. H., Verschuren, W. M. M., van den Maagdenberg, A. M. J. M., van Dijk, K. W., Isaacs, A., Boomsma, D., Oostra, B. A., ... Slagboom, P. E. (2014). A metabolomic profile is associated with the risk of incident coronary heart disease. American Heart Journal, 168(1), 45-52.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2014.01.019
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