Benjamin A Raby

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1 MMP12, lung function, and COPD in high-risk populations. N Engl J Med 2009 3.96
2 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations. Nat Genet 2011 3.68
3 Genome-wide association analysis identifies PDE4D as an asthma-susceptibility gene. Am J Hum Genet 2009 3.41
4 On the replication of genetic associations: timing can be everything! Am J Hum Genet 2008 3.32
5 Allele-specific chromatin remodeling in the ZPBP2/GSDMB/ORMDL3 locus associated with the risk of asthma and autoimmune disease. Am J Hum Genet 2009 2.56
6 A genome-wide association study on African-ancestry populations for asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2009 2.53
7 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
8 Genome-wide association study implicates chromosome 9q21.31 as a susceptibility locus for asthma in mexican children. PLoS Genet 2009 2.27
9 The transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFB1) gene is associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Hum Mol Genet 2004 2.19
10 Assessing the reproducibility of asthma candidate gene associations, using genome-wide data. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 2.10
11 Ala92 type 2 deiodinase allele increases risk for the development of hypertension. Hypertension 2007 1.98
12 Transforming growth factor-beta1 promoter polymorphism C-509T is associated with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003 1.98
13 Genetic association analysis of functional impairment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006 1.98
14 Filaggrin mutations confer susceptibility to atopic dermatitis but not to asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007 1.93
15 Mapping of numerous disease-associated expression polymorphisms in primary peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes. Hum Mol Genet 2010 1.89
16 Dust mite exposure modifies the effect of functional IL10 polymorphisms on allergy and asthma exacerbations. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008 1.80
17 Genetic association analysis of copy-number variation (CNV) in human disease pathogenesis. Genomics 2008 1.76
18 Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the Toll-like receptor 9 gene (TLR9): frequencies, pairwise linkage disequilibrium, and haplotypes in three U.S. ethnic groups and exploratory case-control disease association studies. Genomics 2003 1.74
19 Beta-2 adrenergic receptor diplotype defines a subset of salt-sensitive hypertension. Hypertension 2006 1.72
20 IL10 gene polymorphisms are associated with asthma phenotypes in children. Genet Epidemiol 2004 1.64
21 Noninvasive analysis of the sputum transcriptome discriminates clinical phenotypes of asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015 1.58
22 Further replication studies of the EVE Consortium meta-analysis identifies 2 asthma risk loci in European Americans. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012 1.54
23 Global analysis of the impact of environmental perturbation on cis-regulation of gene expression. PLoS Genet 2011 1.51
24 On the analysis of copy-number variations in genome-wide association studies: a translation of the family-based association test. Genet Epidemiol 2008 1.47
25 Family-based association test for time-to-onset data with time-dependent differences between the hazard functions. Genet Epidemiol 2006 1.43
26 Sex-stratified linkage analysis identifies a female-specific locus for IgE to cockroach in Costa Ricans. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 1.43
27 Identification of a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease genetic determinant that regulates HHIP. Hum Mol Genet 2011 1.42
28 Asthma genetics and genomics 2009. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2009 1.37
29 Comprehensive testing of positionally cloned asthma genes in two populations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 1.32
30 TBX21: a functional variant predicts improvement in asthma with the use of inhaled corticosteroids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 1.30
31 Polymorphisms in IL13, total IgE, eosinophilia, and asthma exacerbations in childhood. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007 1.29
32 Asthma and genes encoding components of the vitamin D pathway. Respir Res 2009 1.26
33 A graphical model approach for inferring large-scale networks integrating gene expression and genetic polymorphism. BMC Syst Biol 2009 1.23
34 A functional mutation in the terminal exon of elastin in severe, early-onset chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2005 1.14
35 TOLL-like receptor 10 genetic variation is associated with asthma in two independent samples. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004 1.14
36 Endotoxin exposure and eczema in the first year of life. Pediatrics 2004 1.13
37 High-resolution melting curve analysis of genomic and whole-genome amplified DNA. Clin Chem 2008 1.10
38 Resequencing candidate genes implicates rare variants in asthma susceptibility. Am J Hum Genet 2012 1.08
39 Paternal asthma, mold exposure, and increased airway responsiveness among children with asthma in Costa Rica. Chest 2007 1.06
40 Data structures and algorithms for analysis of genetics of gene expression with Bioconductor: GGtools 3.x. Bioinformatics 2009 1.04
41 Genomics and genome-wide association studies: an integrative approach to expression QTL mapping. Genomics 2008 1.04
42 Association of defensin beta-1 gene polymorphisms with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005 1.03
43 A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for serum total IgE in diverse study populations. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012 1.01
44 Variants of the caveolin-1 gene: a translational investigation linking insulin resistance and hypertension. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2011 0.98
45 Variants in TGFB1, dust mite exposure, and disease severity in children with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 0.96
46 Risk factors and predictive clinical scores for asthma exacerbations in childhood. Chest 2010 0.94
47 In utero smoke exposure and impaired response to inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2010 0.93
48 Renin gene polymorphism: its relationship to hypertension, renin levels and vascular responses. J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst 2011 0.92
49 Classification of childhood asthma phenotypes and long-term clinical responses to inhaled anti-inflammatory medications. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2014 0.91
50 Integration of mouse and human genome-wide association data identifies KCNIP4 as an asthma gene. PLoS One 2013 0.91
51 Asthma genetics 2003. Hum Mol Genet 2004 0.91
52 Genetic linkage and association analysis of COPD-related traits on chromosome 8p. COPD 2006 0.89
53 Gene expression analysis uncovers novel hedgehog interacting protein (HHIP) effects in human bronchial epithelial cells. Genomics 2013 0.89
54 Comprehensive genetic assessment of a functional TLR9 promoter polymorphism: no replicable association with asthma or asthma-related phenotypes. BMC Med Genet 2011 0.89
55 Short telomeres, telomeropathy, and subclinical extrapulmonary organ damage in patients with interstitial lung disease. Chest 2015 0.89
56 Lysine-specific demethylase 1: an epigenetic regulator of salt-sensitive hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2012 0.87
57 The CD4+ T-cell transcriptome and serum IgE in asthma: IL17RB and the role of sex. BMC Pulm Med 2011 0.86
58 On the frequency of copy number variants. Bioinformatics 2008 0.86
59 The relationship between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma and renin: a human genetics study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010 0.86
60 Genes to diseases (G2D) computational method to identify asthma candidate genes. PLoS One 2008 0.86
61 Using canonical correlation analysis to discover genetic regulatory variants. PLoS One 2010 0.85
62 Folliculin mutations are not associated with severe COPD. BMC Med Genet 2008 0.85
63 The impact of self-identified race on epidemiologic studies of gene expression. Genet Epidemiol 2011 0.84
64 Quantifying differential gene connectivity between disease states for objective identification of disease-relevant genes. BMC Syst Biol 2011 0.84
65 Analysis of exonic elastin variants in severe, early-onset chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2008 0.83
66 Replication and meta-analysis of the gene-environment interaction between body mass index and the interleukin-6 promoter polymorphism with higher insulin resistance. Metabolism 2011 0.82
67 The molecular basis of glutamate formiminotransferase deficiency. Hum Mutat 2003 0.82
68 Genome-wide association study of the age of onset of childhood asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012 0.82
69 Very important pharmacogene summary for VDR. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2012 0.82
70 Pulmonary function and emphysema in Williams-Beuren syndrome. Am J Med Genet A 2010 0.81
71 Integrated genome-wide association, coexpression network, and expression single nucleotide polymorphism analysis identifies novel pathway in allergic rhinitis. BMC Med Genomics 2014 0.81
72 Different polymorphisms of the mineralocorticoid receptor gene are associated with either glucocorticoid or mineralocorticoid levels in hypertension. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012 0.81
73 Asthma-susceptibility variants identified using probands in case-control and family-based analyses. BMC Med Genet 2010 0.81
74 A database of annotated promoters of genes associated with common respiratory and related diseases. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2012 0.81
75 Copy number variation genotyping using family information. BMC Bioinformatics 2013 0.80
76 Analyzing networks of phenotypes in complex diseases: methodology and applications in COPD. BMC Syst Biol 2014 0.80
77 Genetic influences on asthma susceptibility in the developing lung. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2010 0.80
78 Polymorphisms in IL12A and cockroach allergy in children with asthma. Clin Mol Allergy 2008 0.79
79 On dichotomizing phenotypes in family-based association tests: quantitative phenotypes are not always the optimal choice. Genet Epidemiol 2007 0.79
80 On the genome-wide analysis of copy number variants in family-based designs: methods for combining family-based and population-based information for testing dichotomous or quantitative traits, or completely ascertained samples. Genet Epidemiol 2010 0.78
81 Glucocorticoid genes and the developmental origins of asthma susceptibility and treatment response. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2015 0.78
82 Genetic determinants of functional impairment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2006 0.77
83 Gene expression profiling in asthma. Adv Exp Med Biol 2014 0.77
84 Stronger evidence for replication of NPPA using genome-wide genotyping data. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 0.75
85 On your marks, get set, go! Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012 0.75
86 Maternal allergen exposure reprograms the developmental lung transcriptome in atopic and normoresponsive rat pups. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2012 0.75
87 Parsing the effects of individual SNPs in candidate genes with family data. Hum Hered 2009 0.75