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Nan M Laird

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1 A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity. Science 2006 14.95
2 Family-based tests for associating haplotypes with general phenotype data: application to asthma genetics. Genet Epidemiol 2004 5.57
3 Genomic screening and replication using the same data set in family-based association testing. Nat Genet 2005 5.44
4 PBAT: tools for family-based association studies. Am J Hum Genet 2004 4.68
5 A multivariate family-based association test using generalized estimating equations: FBAT-GEE. Biostatistics 2003 3.52
6 Combined analysis from eleven linkage studies of bipolar disorder provides strong evidence of susceptibility loci on chromosomes 6q and 8q. Am J Hum Genet 2005 3.24
7 A new testing strategy to identify rare variants with either risk or protective effect on disease. PLoS Genet 2011 3.13
8 Power and design considerations for a general class of family-based association tests: quantitative traits. Am J Hum Genet 2002 2.96
9 On a general class of conditional tests for family-based association studies in genetics: the asymptotic distribution, the conditional power, and optimality considerations. Genet Epidemiol 2002 2.76
10 Power calculations for a general class of family-based association tests: dichotomous traits. Am J Hum Genet 2002 2.55
11 Genomewide weighted hypothesis testing in family-based association studies, with an application to a 100K scan. Am J Hum Genet 2007 2.45
12 Using the noninformative families in family-based association tests: a powerful new testing strategy. Am J Hum Genet 2003 2.18
13 A family-based association test for repeatedly measured quantitative traits adjusting for unknown environmental and/or polygenic effects. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol 2004 2.15
14 Cigarette smoking in relation to depression: historical trends from the Stirling County Study. Am J Psychiatry 2003 1.90
15 Positively selected G6PD-Mahidol mutation reduces Plasmodium vivax density in Southeast Asians. Science 2009 1.77
16 Heritability of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related phenotypes in smokers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013 1.67
17 Binge-eating disorder as a distinct familial phenotype in obese individuals. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2006 1.58
18 Family, peer, and media predictors of becoming eating disordered. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008 1.53
19 Co-occurrence of binge eating disorder with psychiatric and medical disorders. J Clin Psychiatry 2008 1.50
20 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
21 Gene-environment interaction tests for dichotomous traits in trios and sibships. Genet Epidemiol 2009 1.43
22 Prospective association of common eating disorders and adverse outcomes. Pediatrics 2012 1.41
23 Family-based association tests for survival and times-to-onset analysis. Stat Med 2004 1.35
24 On the optimal design of genetic variant discovery studies. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol 2010 1.35
25 A new multimarker test for family-based association studies. Genet Epidemiol 2007 1.34
26 Family-based association analysis of beta2-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms in the childhood asthma management program. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2003 1.34
27 Family study of affective spectrum disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003 1.30
28 Familiality and heritability of binge eating disorder: results of a case-control family study and a twin study. Int J Eat Disord 2008 1.17
29 The corticotropin-releasing hormone gene and behavioral inhibition in children at risk for panic disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2005 1.15
30 Association of a genetic marker at the corticotropin-releasing hormone locus with behavioral inhibition. Biol Psychiatry 2003 1.07
31 Variance calculations for identity-by-descent estimation. Am J Hum Genet 2006 1.02
32 Genetic association of Alzheimer's disease with multiple polymorphisms in alpha-2-macroglobulin. Hum Mol Genet 2003 1.01
33 Genome-wide association study on overall survival of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel. J Thorac Oncol 2011 0.96
34 fgui: A Method for Automatically Creating Graphical User Interfaces for Command-Line R Packages. J Stat Softw 2009 0.96
35 Genetic polymorphisms of estrogen metabolizing enzyme and breast cancer risk in Thai women. Int J Cancer 2009 0.95
36 Alternative methods for testing treatment effects on the basis of multiple outcomes: simulation and case study. Stat Med 2011 0.93
37 Regression analysis of multiple-source longitudinal outcomes: a "Stirling County" depression study. Am J Epidemiol 2002 0.91
38 Tests for compositional epistasis under single interaction-parameter models. Ann Hum Genet 2010 0.90
39 Multivariate logistic regression with incomplete covariate and auxiliary information. J Multivar Anal 2010 0.89
40 Mortality associated with depression: a forty-year perspective from the Stirling County Study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2008 0.88
41 A structural approach to the familial coaggregation of disorders. Epidemiology 2008 0.88
42 On the frequency of copy number variants. Bioinformatics 2008 0.86
43 Estimating disease prevalence using relatives of case and control probands. Biometrics 2009 0.85
44 Penalized solutions to functional regression problems. Comput Stat Data Anal 2007 0.84
45 Linkage disequilibrium mapping of the chromosome 6q21-22.31 bipolar I disorder susceptibility locus. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2010 0.83
46 Gene-environment interaction tests for family studies with quantitative phenotypes: A review and extension to longitudinal measures. Hum Genomics 2010 0.83
47 Incorporating missingness for estimation of marginal regression models with multiple source predictors. Stat Med 2007 0.83
48 Identifying rare variants using a Bayesian regression approach. BMC Proc 2011 0.82
49 Ozone exposure, vitamin C intake, and genetic susceptibility of asthmatic children in Mexico City: a cohort study. Respir Res 2013 0.82
50 Integrating Multiple Correlated Phenotypes for Genetic Association Analysis by Maximizing Heritability. Hum Hered 2015 0.82
51 Impact of population stratification on family-based association tests with longitudinal measurements. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol 2009 0.81
52 Genomic screening in family-based association testing. BMC Genet 2005 0.80
53 Incidence of major depression: prediction from subthreshold categories in the Stirling County Study. J Affect Disord 2002 0.80
54 Biostatistic tools in pharmacogenomics--advances, challenges, potential. Curr Pharm Des 2010 0.79
55 On the parsing of statistical information in family-based association testing. Nat Genet 2007 0.79
56 Non-linear hierarchical models for monitoring compliance. Stat Med 2002 0.77
57 LongCriSP: a test for bump hunting in longitudinal data. Stat Med 2007 0.77
58 Self-disparagement as feature and forerunner of depression: findings from the Stirling County Study. Compr Psychiatry 2002 0.76
59 Combining disease models to test for gene-environment interaction in nuclear families. Biometrics 2011 0.76
60 Estimating the effect of a predictor measured by two informants on a continuous outcome: a comparison of methods. Epidemiology 2011 0.75
61 Parsing the effects of individual SNPs in candidate genes with family data. Hum Hered 2009 0.75
62 Comparison of linkage and association strategies for quantitative traits using the COGA dataset. BMC Genet 2005 0.75
63 Marginal regression models with a time to event outcome and discrete multiple source predictors. Lifetime Data Anal 2006 0.75
64 FBAT-SNP-PC: an approach for multiple markers and single trait in family-based association tests. Hum Hered 2008 0.75
65 Differentiating population stratification from genotyping error using family data. Ann Hum Genet 2011 0.75