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Do Genetic Markers of Inflammation Modify the Relationship between Periodontitis and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease? Findings from the SHIP Study by Akinkugbe, A.A., Avery, C.L., Barritt, A.S., Cole, S.R., Lerch, M., Mayerle, J., Offenbacher, S., Petersmann, A., Nauck, M., Völzke, H., Slade, G.D., Heiss, G., Kocher, T., Holtfreter, B.

“…An association between periodontitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been reported by experimental animal and epidemiologic studies. This…”
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Deposition and Cycling of Sulfur Controls Mercury Accumulation in Isle Royale Fish by Drevnick, Paul E, Canfield, Donald E, Gorski, Patrick R, Shinneman, Avery L. C, Engstrom, Daniel R, Muir, Derek C. G, Smith, Gerald R, Garrison, Paul J, Cleckner, Lisa B, Hurley, James P, Noble, Robert B, Otter, Ryan R, Oris, James T

“…Mercury contamination of fish is a global problem. Consumption of contaminated fish is the primary route of methylmercury exposure in humans and is detrimental…”
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Diatom assemblages reveal regional-scale differences in lake responses to recent climate change at the boreal-tundra ecotone, Manitoba, Canada by Shinneman, Avery L. C., Umbanhowar, Charles E., Edlund, Mark B., Hobbs, William O., Camill, Philip, Geiss, Christoph

“…The direction of pan-Arctic ecosystem shifts in response to climate warming is relatively well understood; however, landscape-level linkages among terrestrial,…”
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Paleolimnologic Evidence for Recent Eutrophication in the Valley of the Great Lakes (Mongolia) by Shinneman, Avery L. C, Almendinger, James E, Umbanhowar, Charles E, Edlund, Mark B, Nergui, Soninkhishig

“…Climate warming and major land-use changes have profoundly affected the Mongolian landscape in the past several decades. Previous studies have recognized the…”
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Mercury Flux to Sediments of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada by Drevnick, Paul E, Shinneman, Avery L. C, Lamborg, Carl H, Engstrom, Daniel R, Bothner, Michael H, Oris, James T

“…We report estimates of mercury (Hg) flux to the sediments of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada: 2 and 15-20 µg/m²/year in preindustrial and modern sediments,…”
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Inferring lake depth using diatom assemblages in the shallow, seasonally variable lakes of the Nebraska Sand Hills (USA): calibration, validation, and application of a 69-lake training set by Shinneman, Avery L. C., Bennett, Danuta M., Fritz, Sherilyn C., Schmieder, Jens, Engstrom, Daniel R., Efting, Aris, Holz, John

“…The Nebraska Sand Hills are a distinctive eco-region in the semi-arid Great Plains of the western United States. The water table underlying the Sand Hills is…”
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Regional fire history based on charcoal analysis of sediments from nine lakes in western Mongolia by Umbanhowar, Charles E., Shinneman, Avery L.C., Tserenkhand, Gundsambuu, Hammon, Elizabeth R., Lor, Pao, Nail, Kelly

“…Fires are common in grassland regions of the world, and the frequency and severity of fire is linked to climate-driven changes in fuel loads. Western Mongolia…”
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Self-Guided Field Trips Allow Flexibility in Undergraduate Student Introductory Field Experiences by Shinneman, Avery L. C, Loeffler, Shane, Myrbo, Amy E

“…There is a clear desire in the geoscience community to engage students in field work in ways that minimize institutional (cost, size, liability) and…”
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Late-Holocene moisture balance inferred from diatom and lake sediment records in western Mongolia by Shinneman, Avery L.C., Umbanhowar, Charles E., Edlund, Mark B., Soninkhishig, N.

“…The Valley of the Great Lakes in western Mongolia is a unique ecosystem comprising a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Relatively little is…”
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Genotype-by-sex interaction in the aetiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus : support for sex-specific quantitative trait loci in Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network participants by AVERY, C. L, FREEDMAN, B. I, NORTH, K. E, KRAJA, A. T, BORECKI, I. B, MILLER, M. B, PANKOW, J. S, ARNETT, D, LEWIS, C. E, MYERS, R. H, HUNT, S. C

“…While there are sex-related differences in both the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and disease risk factors, there is only limited research on…”
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Efficient semiparametric estimation of haplotype-disease associations in case-cohort and nested case-control studies by Zeng, D, Lin, D Y, Avery, C L, North, K E, Bray, M S

“…Estimating the effects of haplotypes on the age of onset of a disease is an important step toward the discovery of genes that influence complex human diseases…”
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The use of phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) for exploration of novel genotype-phenotype relationships and pleiotropy discovery by Pendergrass, S.A., Brown-Gentry, K., Dudek, S.M., Torstenson, E.S., Ambite, J.L., Avery, C.L., Buyske, S., Cai, C., Fesinmeyer, M.D., Haiman, C., Heiss, G., Hindorff, L.A., Hsu, C.-N., Jackson, R.D., Kooperberg, C., Le Marchand, L., Lin, Y., Matise, T.C., Moreland, L., Monroe, K., Reiner, A.P., Wallace, R., Wilkens, L.R., Crawford, D.C., Ritchie, M.D.

“…The field of phenomics has been investigating network structure among large arrays of phenotypes, and genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to…”
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Siberian larch forests and the ion content of thaw lakes form a geochemically functional entity by Herzschuh, Ulrike, Pestryakova, Luidmila A., Savelieva, Larissa A., Heinecke, Liv, Böhmer, Thomas, Biskaborn, Boris K., Andreev, Andrei, Ramisch, Arne, Shinneman, Avery L.C., Birks, H. John B.

“…Siberian larch forests growing on shallow permafrost soils have not, until now, been considered to be controlling the abiotic and biotic characteristics of the…”
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Diatoms as indicators of water quality in Western Mongolian lakes: a 54-site calibration set by Shinneman, Avery L. C., Edlund, Mark B., Almendinger, James E., Soninkhishig, Nergui

“…Mongolia is an arid land with limited freshwater availability. Recent changes in climate as well as changes in livestock management in the post-Soviet era may…”
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Genome-wide meta-analysis of variant-by-diuretic interactions as modulators of lipid traits in persons of European and African ancestry by de las Fuentes, L., Sung, Y. J., Sitlani, C. M., Avery, C. L., Bartz, T. M., Keyser, C. de, Evans, D. S., Li, X., Musani, S. K., Ruiter, R., Smith, A. V., Sun, F., Trompet, S., Xu, H., Arnett, D. K., Bis, J. C., Broeckel, U., Busch, E. L., Chen, Y.-D. I., Correa, A., Cummings, S. R., Floyd, J. S., Ford, I., Guo, X., Harris, T. B., Ikram, M. A., Lange, L., Launer, L. J., Reiner, A. P., Schwander, K., Smith, N. L., Sotoodehnia, N., Stewart, J. D., Stott, D. J., Stürmer, T., Taylor, K. D., Uitterlinden, A., Vasan, R. S., Wiggins, K. L., Cupples, L. A., Gudnason, V., Heckbert, S. R., Jukema, J. W., Liu, Y., Psaty, B. M., Rao, D. C., Rotter, J. I., Stricker, B., Wilson, J. G., Whitsel, E. A.

“…Hypertension (HTN) is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Metabolic abnormalities, including adverse cholesterol and…”
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Social work students’ attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Namibia : results from an exploratory study by Avery, L.C., Clemons, K., Matthews, J.D.

“…This manuscript explores the attitudes towards gay men and lesbians of social work students in Namibia. While previous published research has explored social…”
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Association of Polymorphisms in Natural Killer Cell―Related Genes With Preterm Birth by HARMON, Quaker E, ENGEL, Stephanie M, OLSHAN, Andrew F, MORAN, Thomas, STUEBE, Alison M, JINGCHUN LUO, WU, Michael C, AVERY, Christy L

“…Inflammation is implicated in preterm birth, but genetic studies of inflammatory genes have yielded inconsistent results. Maternal DNA from 1,646 participants…”
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Pharmacogenomics study of thiazide diuretics and QT interval in multi-ethnic populations: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology by Seyerle, A A, Sitlani, C M, Noordam, R, Gogarten, S M, Li, J, Li, X, Evans, D S, Sun, F, Laaksonen, M A, Isaacs, A, Kristiansson, K, Highland, H M, Stewart, J D, Harris, T B, Trompet, S, Bis, J C, Peloso, G M, Brody, J A, Broer, L, Busch, E L, Duan, Q, Stilp, A M, O'Donnell, C J, Macfarlane, P W, Floyd, J S, Kors, J A, Lin, H J, Li-Gao, R, Sofer, T, Méndez-Giráldez, R, Cummings, S R, Heckbert, S R, Hofman, A, Ford, I, Li, Y, Launer, L J, Porthan, K, Newton-Cheh, C, Napier, M D, Kerr, K F, Reiner, A P, Rice, K M, Roach, J, Buckley, B M, Soliman, E Z, de Mutsert, R, Sotoodehnia, N, Uitterlinden, A G, North, K E, Lee, C R, Gudnason, V, Stürmer, T, Rosendaal, F R, Taylor, K D, Wiggins, K L, Wilson, J G, Chen, Y-DI, Kaplan, R C, Wilhelmsen, K, Cupples, L A, Salomaa, V, van Duijn, C, Jukema, J W, Liu, Y, Mook-Kanamori, D O, Lange, L A, Vasan, R S, Smith, A V, Stricker, B H, Laurie, C C, Rotter, J I, Whitsel, E A, Psaty, B M, Avery, C L

“…Thiazide diuretics, commonly used antihypertensives, may cause QT interval (QT) prolongation, a risk factor for highly fatal and difficult to predict…”
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The environmental epidemiology of atrial arrhythmogenesis by Whitsel, Eric A, Avery, Christy L

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia seen in clinical practice, and makes an important contribution to cardiovascular disease (CVD)…”
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Fifteen Genetic Loci Associated With the Electrocardiographic P Wave by Christophersen, Ingrid E, Magnani, Jared W, Yin, Xiaoyan, Barnard, John, Weng, Lu-Chen, Arking, Dan E, Niemeijer, Maartje N, Lubitz, Steven A, Avery, Christy L, Duan, Qing, Felix, Stephan B, Bis, Joshua C, Kerr, Kathleen F, Isaacs, Aaron, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Müller, Christian, North, Kari E, Reiner, Alex P, Tinker, Lesley F, Kors, Jan A, Teumer, Alexander, Petersmann, Astrid, Sinner, Moritz F, Buzkova, Petra, Smith, Jonathan D, Van Wagoner, David R, Völker, Uwe, Waldenberger, Melanie, Peters, Annette, Meitinger, Thomas, Limacher, Marian C, Wilhelmsen, Kirk C, Psaty, Bruce M, Hofman, Albert, Uitterlinden, Andre, Krijthe, Bouwe P, Zhang, Zhu-Ming, Schnabel, Renate B, Kääb, Stefan, van Duijn, Cornelia, Rotter, Jerome I, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Dörr, Marcus, Li, Yun, Chung, Mina K, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Alonso, Alvaro, Whitsel, Eric A, Stricker, Bruno H, Benjamin, Emelia J, Heckbert, Susan R, Ellinor, Patrick T

“…BACKGROUND—The P wave on an ECG is a measure of atrial electric function, and its characteristics may serve as predictors for atrial arrhythmias. Increased…”
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