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A Summary of the Effects of Antihypertensive Medications on Measured Blood Pressure by Wu, Jun, Kraja, Aldi T., Oberman, Al, Lewis, Cora E., Ellison, R. Curtis, Arnett, Donna K., Heiss, Gerardo, Lalouel, Jean-Marc, Turner, Stephen T., Hunt, Steven C., Province, Michael A., Rao, D.C.

“…Epidemiologic analysis of family data on blood pressure (BP) is often compromised by the effects of antihypertensive medications. A review of numerous clinical…”
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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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Partial normalization of components of metabolic syndrome does not influence prevalent echocardiographic abnormalities: The HyperGEN study by de Simone, G, Arnett, D.K, Chinali, M, De Marco, M, Rao, D.C, Kraja, A.T, Hunt, S.C, Devereux, R.B

“…Abstract Background and aims Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex condition characterized by different phenotypes, according to the combinations of risk…”
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QTL-specific genotype-by-smoking interaction and burden of calcified coronary atherosclerosis: The NHLBI Family Heart Study by North, K.E, Carr, J.J, Borecki, I.B, Kraja, A, Province, M, Pankow, J.S, Wilk, J.B, Hixson, J.E, Heiss, G

“…Abstract Background Calcified coronary plaque (CCP) is a complex trait influenced by both genes and environment, and plausibly an interaction between the two…”
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Multivariate and multilocus variance components method, based on structural relationships to assess quantitative trait linkage via SEGPATH by Province, M.A., Rice, T.K., Borecki, I.B., Gu, C., Kraja, A., Rao, D.C.

“…A general‐purpose modeling framework for performing path and segregation analysis jointly, called SEGPATH (Province and Rao [1995] Stat. Med. 7:185–198), has…”
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A top-down, step up approach to pharmacogenetic discovery using CEPH family cell lines by Kraja, A., Watters, J., Lazarus, R., Zhang, Q., Markus, M., McLeod, H., Province, M.

“…Background/Aims Previously Watters et al. (PNAS, 2004) found strong cell viability dose‐response for 5‐FU (0.21–0.70), and identified QTLs (chromosome 9:…”
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Genome scan of glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria: the HyperGEN study by Leon, Joanlise M., Freedman, Barry I., Miller, Michael B., North, Kari E., Hunt, Steven C., Eckfeldt, John H., Lewis, Cora E., Kraja, Aldi T., Djoussé, Luc, Arnett, Donna K.

“…Background. Albuminuria and reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) are markers of renal dysfunction associated with hypertension. We performed genome-wide…”
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1176Hepatocyte growth factor has prognostic utility in light chain and transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis by Zhang, K W, Kraja, A, Miao, J, Tomasek, K, Su, Y R, Lenihan, D J

“…Abstract Background With the advent of multiple novel therapeutics for light chain (AL) and transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis, there is a critical need for…”
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9.26 Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome Based on History of Exposure or Present Abnormalities: Evidence of Necessity of a Better Definition by de Simone, G., Devereux, R.B., Chinali, M., Rao, D.C., Hunt, S.C., Kraja, A., Arnett, D.K.

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Genome-Wide Discovery of Loci Influencing Chemotherapy Cytotoxicity by Watters, James W., Kraja, Aldi, Meucci, Melissa A., Province, Michael A., McLeod, Howard L., Kipnis, David M.

“…Little is known about the heritability of chemotherapy activity or the identity of genes that may enable the individualization of cancer chemotherapy. Although…”
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Pleiotropic QTL on chromosome 19q13 for triglycerides and adiposity: The HERITAGE family study by Feitosa, Mary F., Rice, Treva, North, Kari E., Kraja, Aldi, Rankinen, Tuomo, Leon, Arthur S., Skinner, James S., Blangero, John, Bouchard, Claude, Rao, D.C.

“…Motivated by strong correlations between plasma levels of triglycerides (TG) and adiposity traits, we conducted a series of bivariate genome-wide linkage…”
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Multivariate analysis of complex gene expression and clinical phenotypes with genetic marker data by Beyene, Joseph, Tritchler, David

“…This paper summarizes contributions to group 12 of the 15th Genetic Analysis Workshop. The papers in this group focused on multivariate methods and…”
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Linkage analysis of diabetes status among hypertensive families. The hypertension genetic epidemiology network study by AVERY, Christy L, FREEDMAN, Barry I, HUNT, Steven C, ALMASY, Laura, NORTH, Kari E, HEISS, Gerardo, KRAJA, Aldi, RICE, Treva, ARNETT, Donna, MILLER, Michael B, PANKOW, James S, LEWIS, Cora E, MYERS, Richard H

“…Type 2 diabetes susceptibility is determined by multiple genetic and environmental factors. Genome-wide linkage scans have localized common regions, possibly…”
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A Haplotype Similarity Based Transmission/Disequilibrium Test under Founder Heterogeneity by Yu, Kai, Zhang, Shuanglin, Borecki, Ingrid, Kraja, Aldi, Xiong, Chengjie, Myers, Richard, Province, Michael

“…Summary Taking advantage of increasingly available high‐density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) markers across the genome, various types of…”
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Identification of Tropical and Temperate Maize Populations Having Favorable Alleles for Yield and Other Phenotypic Traits by Kraja, Aldi, Dudley, John W.

“…If tropical germplasm is to be useful in increasing maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield, populations containing favorable alleles not present in elite hybrids need…”
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Identification of Tropical and Temperate Maize Populations Having Favorable Alleles for Disease Resistance by Kraja, Aldi, Dudley, John W., White, Donald G.

“…A possible use of nonelite germplasm is as a source of alleles for disease resistance. Our objective was to determine the value of tropical and temperate maize…”
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Two Major QTLs and Several Others Relate to Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in the Family Blood Pressure Program by Kraja, Aldi T, Rao, Dabeeru C, Weder, Alan B, Cooper, Richard, Curb, J David, Hanis, Craig L, Turner, Stephen T, de Andrade, Mariza, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Quertermous, Thomas, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Province, Michael A

“…Genome-wide variance components linkage analysis was performed on 4 latent factors underlying metabolic syndrome derived from 10 risk factors. The latent…”
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Quantitative Trait Loci for Metabolic Syndrome in the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network Study by Kraja, Aldi T., Hunt, Steven C., Pankow, James S., Myers, Richard H., Heiss, Gerardo, Lewis, Cora E., Rao, D.C., Province, Michael A.

“…As part of the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network study, genome scans were performed in two ethnicities on the categorical metabolic syndrome (MetS)…”
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Use of a random coefficient regression (RCR) model to estimate growth parameters by Corbett, Jonathan, Kraja, Aldi, Borecki, Ingrid B, Province, Michael A

“…We used a random coefficient regression (RCR) model to estimate growth parameters for the time series of observed serum glucose levels in the Replicate 1 of…”
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Microsatellite linkage analysis, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, and haplotype associations with ECB21 in the COGA data by Kraja, Aldi T, Borecki, Ingrid B, Province, Michael A

“…This study, part of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW14), explored real Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism data for linkage and association…”
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