John Danesh

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1 Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature 2011 13.25
2 Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2014 12.79
3 Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study. Lancet 2012 12.10
4 C-reactive protein concentration and risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis. Lancet 2009 11.81
5 Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. Nat Genet 2012 11.09
6 Major lipids, apolipoproteins, and risk of vascular disease. JAMA 2009 10.58
7 Separate and combined associations of body-mass index and abdominal adiposity with cardiovascular disease: collaborative analysis of 58 prospective studies. Lancet 2011 9.07
8 Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet 2012 7.59
9 Serious mental disorder in 23000 prisoners: a systematic review of 62 surveys. Lancet 2002 7.43
10 Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: a systematic review. Lancet 2005 6.88
11 C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and cardiovascular disease prediction. N Engl J Med 2012 6.39
12 Triglycerides and the risk of coronary heart disease: 10,158 incident cases among 262,525 participants in 29 Western prospective studies. Circulation 2006 6.17
13 Lipoprotein(a) concentration and the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and nonvascular mortality. JAMA 2009 5.63
14 Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis. JAMA 2005 5.60
15 Triglyceride-mediated pathways and coronary disease: collaborative analysis of 101 studies. Lancet 2010 5.31
16 Inactivating mutations in NPC1L1 and protection from coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 2014 4.94
17 Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies. Lancet 2012 4.63
18 Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents. Lancet 2016 4.49
19 Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) and risk of coronary disease, stroke, and mortality: collaborative analysis of 32 prospective studies. Lancet 2010 4.46
20 Association of cholesteryl ester transfer protein genotypes with CETP mass and activity, lipid levels, and coronary risk. JAMA 2008 4.21
21 Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility. Nat Genet 2014 4.13
22 Association of apolipoprotein E genotypes with lipid levels and coronary risk. JAMA 2007 4.03
23 Statistical methods for the time-to-event analysis of individual participant data from multiple epidemiological studies. Int J Epidemiol 2010 3.97
24 Lipid-related markers and cardiovascular disease prediction. JAMA 2012 3.91
25 Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease. N Engl J Med 2016 3.88
26 Association between C reactive protein and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data. BMJ 2011 3.65
27 Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci. Nat Genet 2011 3.46
28 A road map for efficient and reliable human genome epidemiology. Nat Genet 2006 3.21
29 Genetic associations with valvular calcification and aortic stenosis. N Engl J Med 2013 3.02
30 Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet 2013 2.92
31 Adiponectin and coronary heart disease: a prospective study and meta-analysis. Circulation 2006 2.89
32 Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell. Nature 2012 2.77
33 Seven haemostatic gene polymorphisms in coronary disease: meta-analysis of 66,155 cases and 91,307 controls. Lancet 2006 2.72
34 Fibrinogen and coronary heart disease: test of causality by 'Mendelian randomization'. Int J Epidemiol 2006 2.68
35 Four paraoxonase gene polymorphisms in 11212 cases of coronary heart disease and 12786 controls: meta-analysis of 43 studies. Lancet 2004 2.55
36 Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci. Am J Hum Genet 2012 2.53
37 Fruit and vegetable intake and mortality from ischaemic heart disease: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Heart study. Eur Heart J 2011 2.42
38 Large-scale evidence that the cardiotoxicity of smoking is not significantly modified by the apolipoprotein E epsilon2/epsilon3/epsilon4 genotype. Lancet 2003 2.40
39 B-type natriuretic peptides and cardiovascular risk: systematic review and meta-analysis of 40 prospective studies. Circulation 2009 2.37
40 Genetically determined height and coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med 2015 2.24
41 Regression dilution methods for meta-analysis: assessing long-term variability in plasma fibrinogen among 27,247 adults in 15 prospective studies. Int J Epidemiol 2006 2.22
42 Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2011 2.21
43 Apolipoprotein(a) isoforms and the risk of vascular disease: systematic review of 40 studies involving 58,000 participants. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 2.20
44 Meta-analysis of Dense Genecentric Association Studies Reveals Common and Uncommon Variants Associated with Height. Am J Hum Genet 2010 2.15
45 Associations between differential leucocyte count and incident coronary heart disease: 1764 incident cases from seven prospective studies of 30,374 individuals. Eur Heart J 2004 2.06
46 Markers of dysglycaemia and risk of coronary heart disease in people without diabetes: Reykjavik prospective study and systematic review. PLoS Med 2010 2.02
47 Lipoprotein(a) levels and risk of future coronary heart disease: large-scale prospective data. Arch Intern Med 2008 2.01
48 Suicides in male prisoners in England and Wales, 1978-2003. Lancet 2005 1.82
49 Multiethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >100 000 subjects identifies 23 fibrinogen-associated Loci but no strong evidence of a causal association between circulating fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Circulation 2013 1.77
50 Seven lipoprotein lipase gene polymorphisms, lipid fractions, and coronary disease: a HuGE association review and meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2008 1.71
51 The emergence of networks in human genome epidemiology: challenges and opportunities. Epidemiology 2007 1.61
52 Lipid-related genes and myocardial infarction in 4685 cases and 3460 controls: discrepancies between genotype, blood lipid concentrations, and coronary disease risk. Int J Epidemiol 2004 1.59
53 Circulating concentrations of insulin markers and coronary heart disease: a quantitative review of 19 Western prospective studies. Eur Heart J 2007 1.55
54 Inflammatory cytokines and risk of coronary heart disease: new prospective study and updated meta-analysis. Eur Heart J 2013 1.53
55 Serum uric acid and coronary heart disease in 9,458 incident cases and 155,084 controls: prospective study and meta-analysis. PLoS Med 2005 1.50
56 Chronic kidney disease and risk of major cardiovascular disease and non-vascular mortality: prospective population based cohort study. BMJ 2010 1.50
57 Functional IL6R 358Ala allele impairs classical IL-6 receptor signaling and influences risk of diverse inflammatory diseases. PLoS Genet 2013 1.47
58 A network of investigator networks in human genome epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol 2005 1.43
59 Leptin and coronary heart disease: prospective study and systematic review. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 1.39
60 Genome-wide association study identifies a novel locus contributing to type 2 diabetes susceptibility in Sikhs of Punjabi origin from India. Diabetes 2013 1.36
61 Five glutathione s-transferase gene variants in 23,452 cases of lung cancer and 30,397 controls: meta-analysis of 130 studies. PLoS Med 2006 1.35
62 The Pakistan Risk of Myocardial Infarction Study: a resource for the study of genetic, lifestyle and other determinants of myocardial infarction in South Asia. Eur J Epidemiol 2009 1.31
63 Homocysteine and coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of MTHFR case-control studies, avoiding publication bias. PLoS Med 2012 1.27
64 Genome-wide association study for circulating levels of PAI-1 provides novel insights into its regulation. Blood 2012 1.26
65 Association of the 9p21.3 locus with risk of first-ever myocardial infarction in Pakistanis: case-control study in South Asia and updated meta-analysis of Europeans. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2010 1.23
66 Renal function and risk of coronary heart disease in general populations: new prospective study and systematic review. PLoS Med 2007 1.15
67 Protein-Truncating Variants at the Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease. Circ Res 2017 1.06
68 Association between walking speed and age in healthy, free-living individuals using mobile accelerometry--a cross-sectional study. PLoS One 2011 1.06
69 C-reactive protein and coronary disease: is there a causal link? Circulation 2009 1.03
70 GUESS-ing polygenic associations with multiple phenotypes using a GPU-based evolutionary stochastic search algorithm. PLoS Genet 2013 1.03
71 Turning the pump handle: evolving methods for integrating the evidence on gene-disease association. Am J Epidemiol 2007 1.01
72 The association between psychiatric diagnosis and violent re-offending in adult offenders in the community. BMC Psychiatry 2008 0.96
73 Genetic determinants of major blood lipids in Pakistanis compared with Europeans. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2010 0.95
74 Are myocardial infarction--associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with ischemic stroke? Stroke 2012 0.91
75 Haemostatic and inflammatory markers are independently associated with myocardial infarction in men and women. Thromb Res 2011 0.90
76 Candidate gene association study of coronary artery calcification in chronic kidney disease: findings from the CRIC study (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort). J Am Coll Cardiol 2013 0.88
77 NT-proBNP is associated with coronary heart disease risk in healthy older women but fails to enhance prediction beyond established risk factors: results from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Atherosclerosis 2009 0.85
78 Angiotensin converting enzyme insertion or deletion polymorphism and coronary restenosis: meta-analysis of 16 studies. BMJ 2002 0.84
79 Hemostatic and rheological variables and risk of cardiovascular disease. Semin Vasc Med 2002 0.79
80 Chlamydia pneumoniae IgA titres and coronary heart disease: prospective study and meta-analysis. Eur Heart J 2003 0.79
81 Prevalence of epilepsy in prisoners: systematic review. BMJ 2002 0.79
82 Natriuretic peptides and integrated risk assessment for cardiovascular disease: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2016 0.78
83 Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk. In response. Ann Intern Med 2014 0.78
84 The Bangladesh Risk of Acute Vascular Events (BRAVE) Study: objectives and design. Eur J Epidemiol 2015 0.77
85 Risk factors: Lipoprotein(a) and coronary disease-moving closer to causality. Nat Rev Cardiol 2009 0.77
86 C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and cardiovascular risk. N Engl J Med 2013 0.76
87 BRCA2 variants and cardiovascular disease in a multi-ethnic study. BMC Med Genet 2012 0.75
88 Prospective study of insulin-like growth factor-I, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, genetic variants in the IGF1 and IGFBP3 genes and risk of coronary artery disease. Int J Mol Epidemiol Genet 2011 0.75
89 Coronary heart disease. IARC Sci Publ 2011 0.75
90 REPEATED MEASUREMENTS OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL IMPROVES CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK PREDICTION: AN INDIVIDUAL-PARTICIPANT-DATA META-ANALYSIS. Am J Epidemiol 2017 0.75
91 New Blood Pressure-Associated Loci Identified in Meta-Analyses of 475 000 Individuals. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2017 0.75
92 The need for risk factor assessment in atherothrombotic vascular disease. Semin Vasc Med 2002 0.75