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Patricia B Munroe

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1 Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids. Nature 2010 28.21
2 Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet 2010 23.08
3 Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nat Genet 2008 22.35
4 Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature 2010 20.01
5 Genome-wide association analysis identifies 20 loci that influence adult height. Nat Genet 2008 16.92
6 Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet 2008 15.94
7 Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature 2011 13.25
8 Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants. Nat Genet 2007 12.62
9 Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure. Nat Genet 2009 12.44
10 Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 2010 12.27
11 Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity. Nat Genet 2010 8.55
12 Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet 2010 7.94
13 Genome-wide association study identifies genes for biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: serum urate and dyslipidemia. Am J Hum Genet 2008 7.33
14 The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits. PLoS Genet 2012 6.15
15 Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways. Nat Genet 2012 4.73
16 Genetic loci influencing kidney function and chronic kidney disease. Nat Genet 2010 3.75
17 Common variants in 22 loci are associated with QRS duration and cardiac ventricular conduction. Nat Genet 2010 3.55
18 Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Nat Genet 2011 3.40
19 Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture. Nat Genet 2013 3.25
20 Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet 2012 3.21
21 Genome-wide association study identifies loci influencing concentrations of liver enzymes in plasma. Nat Genet 2011 3.18
22 Association of WNK1 gene polymorphisms and haplotypes with ambulatory blood pressure in the general population. Circulation 2005 3.14
23 Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations. Nat Genet 2012 3.04
24 Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet 2013 2.92
25 SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans. PLoS Med 2008 2.87
26 Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits. PLoS Genet 2013 2.83
27 Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci. Am J Hum Genet 2012 2.53
28 Haplotypes of the WNK1 gene associate with blood pressure variation in a severely hypertensive population from the British Genetics of Hypertension study. Hum Mol Genet 2005 2.27
29 Meta-analysis of Dense Genecentric Association Studies Reveals Common and Uncommon Variants Associated with Height. Am J Hum Genet 2010 2.15
30 Gene-centric association signals for lipids and apolipoproteins identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip. Am J Hum Genet 2009 2.04
31 Genetics of essential hypertension. Hum Mol Genet 2004 2.01
32 Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 32 studies identifies multiple lipid loci. Am J Hum Genet 2012 1.96
33 Genomewide association study using a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism array and case-control design identifies a novel essential hypertension susceptibility locus in the promoter region of endothelial NO synthase. Hypertension 2011 1.89
34 Genome-wide scan identifies CDH13 as a novel susceptibility locus contributing to blood pressure determination in two European populations. Hum Mol Genet 2009 1.76
35 Genome-wide association studies will unlock the genetic basis of hypertension: pro side of the argument. Hypertension 2010 1.75
36 Comparative analysis of genome-wide association studies signals for lipids, diabetes, and coronary heart disease: Cardiovascular Biomarker Genetics Collaboration. Eur Heart J 2011 1.73
37 Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders. Nat Genet 2013 1.72
38 Association of hypertension drug target genes with blood pressure and hypertension in 86,588 individuals. Hypertension 2011 1.60
39 Blood pressure loci identified with a gene-centric array. Am J Hum Genet 2011 1.44
40 Predicting deleterious nsSNPs: an analysis of sequence and structural attributes. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 1.32
41 Targeting 160 candidate genes for blood pressure regulation with a genome-wide genotyping array. PLoS One 2009 1.32
42 Common genetic variation near the phospholamban gene is associated with cardiac repolarisation: meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies. PLoS One 2009 1.28
43 Loci influencing blood pressure identified using a cardiovascular gene-centric array. Hum Mol Genet 2013 1.27
44 Common variation in the NOS1AP gene is associated with drug-induced QT prolongation and ventricular arrhythmia. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012 1.15
45 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies six new Loci for serum calcium concentrations. PLoS Genet 2013 1.02
46 Four genetic loci influencing electrocardiographic indices of left ventricular hypertrophy. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2011 0.99
47 Information capture using SNPs from HapMap and whole-genome chips differs in a sample of inflammatory and cardiovascular gene-centric regions from genome-wide estimates. Genome Res 2007 0.96
48 Vitamin D and high blood pressure: causal association or epiphenomenon? Eur J Epidemiol 2013 0.96
49 Glutathione S-transferase variants and hypertension. J Hypertens 2008 0.95
50 Polymorphisms in the WNK1 gene are associated with blood pressure variation and urinary potassium excretion. PLoS One 2009 0.92
51 Bone marrow mononuclear cells reduce myocardial reperfusion injury by activating the PI3K/Akt survival pathway. Atherosclerosis 2010 0.89
52 Novel polymorphic AluYb8 insertion in the WNK1 gene is associated with blood pressure variation in Europeans. Hum Mutat 2011 0.87
53 Genome-wide association study on plasma levels of midregional-proadrenomedullin and C-terminal-pro-endothelin-1. Hypertension 2013 0.86
54 Chromosome 2p shows significant linkage to antihypertensive response in the British Genetics of Hypertension Study. Hypertension 2006 0.86
55 Common polymorphisms in the CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 genes: evidence for a digenic influence on hypertension. Hypertension 2012 0.82
56 Linkage analysis using co-phenotypes in the BRIGHT study reveals novel potential susceptibility loci for hypertension. Am J Hum Genet 2006 0.81
57 Haplotypes of the beta2-adrenergic receptor gene are associated with essential hypertension in a Singaporean Chinese population. J Hypertens 2004 0.80
58 Polymorphic variation in the 11beta-hydroxylase gene associates with reduced 11-hydroxylase efficiency. Hypertension 2006 0.80
59 Integrated computational and experimental analysis of the neuroendocrine transcriptome in genetic hypertension identifies novel control points for the cardiometabolic syndrome. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 0.79
60 Genetic association analysis of inositol polyphosphate phosphatase-like 1 (INPPL1, SHIP2) variants with essential hypertension. J Med Genet 2007 0.79
61 Exploring hypertension genome-wide association studies findings and impact on pathophysiology, pathways, and pharmacogenetics. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med 2015 0.78
62 Recent advances in the identification of genes for human hypertension. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2005 0.78
63 Global sequence properties for superfamily prediction: a machine learning approach. J Integr Bioinform 2009 0.78
64 New Blood Pressure-Associated Loci Identified in Meta-Analyses of 475 000 Individuals. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2017 0.75
65 Selection of candidate genes in hypertension. Methods Mol Med 2005 0.75
66 Corrigendum: Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk. Nat Genet 2017 0.75
67 Protein interaction networks associated with cardiovascular disease and cancer: exploring the effect of bias on shared network properties. Int J Data Min Bioinform 2014 0.75
68 Multiancestry Study of Gene-Lifestyle Interactions for Cardiovascular Traits in 610 475 Individuals From 124 Cohorts: Design and Rationale. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2017 0.75