Published in Hypertension on February 02, 2004
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Body size and blood pressure: an analysis of Africans and the African diaspora. Epidemiology (2008) 1.08
Sarcopenia as a determinant of blood pressure in older Koreans: findings from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (KNHANES) 2008-2010. PLoS One (2014) 0.88
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The association between daily steps and health, and the mediating role of body composition: a pedometer-based, cross-sectional study in an employed South African population. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.80
Elevated hypertension risk for African-origin populations in biracial societies: modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study. J Hypertens (2015) 0.80
Seasonal variation in natural abundance of 2H and 18O in urine samples from rural Nigeria. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2015) 0.76
Gender- and Age-Specific REE and REE/FFM Distributions in Healthy Chinese Adults. Nutrients (2016) 0.75
Blood pressure, resting energy expenditure, and creatine kinase activity. Hypertension (2004) 0.75
Hypertension prevalence and influence of basal metabolic rate on blood pressure among adult students in Bangladesh. BMC Public Health (2017) 0.75
The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genome. Science (2002) 50.88
Genome-wide association scan shows genetic variants in the FTO gene are associated with obesity-related traits. PLoS Genet (2007) 14.99
A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes. Nat Genet (2007) 13.28
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature (2011) 13.25
Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes. Nat Genet (2007) 12.65
The Dallas Heart Study: a population-based probability sample for the multidisciplinary study of ethnic differences in cardiovascular health. Am J Cardiol (2004) 9.43
Hypertension prevalence and blood pressure levels in 6 European countries, Canada, and the United States. JAMA (2003) 9.06
Subclinical thyroid disease: scientific review and guidelines for diagnosis and management. JAMA (2004) 8.12
A spectrum of PCSK9 alleles contributes to plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Am J Hum Genet (2006) 7.89
Admixture mapping for hypertension loci with genome-scan markers. Nat Genet (2005) 6.78
Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution. Nat Genet (2007) 5.88
Hypertension treatment and control in five European countries, Canada, and the United States. Hypertension (2003) 5.63
Physical activity does not influence obesity risk: time to clarify the public health message. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 4.71
Association mapping, using a mixture model for complex traits. Genet Epidemiol (2002) 3.95
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Dyslipidemia prevalence, treatment, and control in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA): gender, ethnicity, and coronary artery calcium. Circulation (2006) 3.11
Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project. PLoS Genet (2011) 3.07
Left ventricular hypertrophy is more prevalent in blacks than whites in the general population: the Dallas Heart Study. Hypertension (2005) 3.07
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A unified association analysis approach for family and unrelated samples correcting for stratification. Am J Hum Genet (2008) 3.00
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2013) 2.92
Genome scan among Nigerians linking blood pressure to chromosomes 2, 3, and 19. Hypertension (2002) 2.89
A genome-wide linkage analysis investigating the determinants of blood pressure in whites and African Americans. Am J Hypertens (2003) 2.76
Neighborhood characteristics and hypertension. Epidemiology (2008) 2.70
CUBN is a gene locus for albuminuria. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 2.70
Fine mapping of the association with obesity at the FTO locus in African-derived populations. Hum Mol Genet (2010) 2.48
The association of a SNP upstream of INSIG2 with body mass index is reproduced in several but not all cohorts. PLoS Genet (2007) 2.35
Multiple genes for essential-hypertension susceptibility on chromosome 1q. Am J Hum Genet (2006) 2.34
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms act in concert to affect plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Am J Hum Genet (2007) 2.28
Linkage analysis of a complex disease through use of admixed populations. Am J Hum Genet (2004) 2.21
Corin I555(P568) allele is associated with enhanced cardiac hypertrophic response to increased systemic afterload. Hypertension (2007) 2.17
HLA class II locus and susceptibility to podoconiosis. N Engl J Med (2012) 2.08
Cysteine supplementation improves the erythrocyte glutathione synthesis rate in children with severe edematous malnutrition. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 2.03
Reverse causation and illness-related weight loss in observational studies of body weight and mortality. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.99
Computational disease gene identification: a concert of methods prioritizes type 2 diabetes and obesity candidate genes. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 1.95
Genetics. The science and business of genetic ancestry testing. Science (2007) 1.95
Study design for genetic analysis in the Jackson Heart Study. Ethn Dis (2005) 1.93
Metabolic syndrome and self-reported history of kidney stones: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) 1988-1994. Am J Kidney Dis (2008) 1.91
Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations. Hum Mol Genet (2010) 1.90
Racial and ethnic differences in kidney function decline among persons without chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 1.87
A combined analysis of genomewide linkage scans for body mass index from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Blood Pressure Program. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 1.87
Impact of energy intake, physical activity, and population-wide weight loss on cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality in Cuba, 1980-2005. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.87
Income, education, and blood pressure in adults in Jamaica, a middle-income developing country. Int J Epidemiol (2003) 1.84
Urinary incontinence prevalence: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Urol (2007) 1.84
Corin gene minor allele defined by 2 missense mutations is common in blacks and associated with high blood pressure and hypertension. Circulation (2005) 1.84
A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry. Nat Genet (2013) 1.82
Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study. Hum Mol Genet (2011) 1.77
Impact of social stigma on the process of obtaining informed consent for genetic research on podoconiosis: a qualitative study. BMC Med Ethics (2009) 1.75
A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One (2012) 1.72
Transferability and fine-mapping of genome-wide associated loci for adult height across human populations. PLoS One (2009) 1.68
Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hypertension Writing Group. Circulation (2005) 1.67
Podoconiosis: a tropical model for gene-environment interactions? Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2006) 1.67
Tailoring consent to context: designing an appropriate consent process for a biomedical study in a low income setting. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2009) 1.66
Success in control of hypertension in a low-resource setting: the Cuban experience. J Hypertens (2006) 1.64
Obesity, glomerular hyperfiltration, and the surface area correction. Am J Kidney Dis (2010) 1.64
Adverse renal consequences of obesity. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol (2008) 1.62
Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function. PLoS Genet (2011) 1.60
TNXB mutations can cause vesicoureteral reflux. J Am Soc Nephrol (2013) 1.59
Genome-wide association analysis of blood-pressure traits in African-ancestry individuals reveals common associated genes in African and non-African populations. Am J Hum Genet (2013) 1.55
Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges. Genome Med (2009) 1.55
Combined admixture mapping and association analysis identifies a novel blood pressure genetic locus on 5p13: contributions from the CARe consortium. Hum Mol Genet (2011) 1.54
The Nigerian antihypertensive adherence trial: a community-based randomized trial. J Hypertens (2013) 1.52
Ethnic differences in arterial responses and inflammatory markers in Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian subjects. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2005) 1.49
Interrogating local population structure for fine mapping in genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics (2010) 1.48
Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of Loci associated with adult height in individuals of african ancestry. PLoS Genet (2011) 1.47
Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adults. Public Health Nutr (2004) 1.46
Replication of the Wellcome Trust genome-wide association study of essential hypertension: the Family Blood Pressure Program. Eur J Hum Genet (2008) 1.45
Assessing physical activity and its relationship to cardiovascular risk factors: NHANES 2003-2006. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.44
An association study of angiotensinogen polymorphisms with serum level and hypertension in an African-American population. J Hypertens (2003) 1.44
Adjustment for local ancestry in genetic association analysis of admixed populations. Bioinformatics (2010) 1.44
Acculturation is associated with hypertension in a multiethnic sample. Am J Hypertens (2007) 1.43
Racial differences in blood pressure response to calcium channel blocker monotherapy: a meta-analysis. Am J Hypertens (2009) 1.41
Protocol for the modeling the epidemiologic transition study: a longitudinal observational study of energy balance and change in body weight, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.39
Is there a reverse J-shaped association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and all-cause mortality? Results from the U.S. nationally representative NHANES. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2013) 1.39
Predicting incident diabetes in Jamaica: the role of anthropometry. Obes Res (2002) 1.38
An international comparative study of blood pressure in populations of European vs. African descent. BMC Med (2005) 1.38
Joint ancestry and association testing in admixed individuals. PLoS Comput Biol (2011) 1.35
Practical considerations for imputation of untyped markers in admixed populations. Genet Epidemiol (2010) 1.33
Voluntary participation and informed consent to international genetic research. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.32
Genetic variation in APOL1 and MYH9 genes is associated with chronic kidney disease among Nigerians. Int Urol Nephrol (2012) 1.32
Association of mild to moderate kidney dysfunction and coronary calcification. J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.31
Admixture mapping provides evidence of association of the VNN1 gene with hypertension. PLoS One (2007) 1.31
Stroke mortality and trends from 1990 to 2006 in 39 countries from Europe and Central Asia: implications for control of high blood pressure. Eur Heart J (2011) 1.31
Variation in APOL1 Contributes to Ancestry-Level Differences in HDLc-Kidney Function Association. Int J Nephrol (2012) 1.31
Cystatin C and albuminuria as risk factors for development of CKD stage 3: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 1.30
Resequencing and analysis of variation in the TCF7L2 gene in African Americans suggests that SNP rs7903146 is the causal diabetes susceptibility variant. Diabetes (2010) 1.30
An actor-based model of social network influence on adolescent body size, screen time, and playing sports. PLoS One (2012) 1.29
A genome-wide association study of serum uric acid in African Americans. BMC Med Genomics (2011) 1.28
Markers that discriminate between European and African ancestry show limited variation within Africa. Hum Genet (2002) 1.27