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The effects of exercise training on abdominal visceral fat, body composition, and indicators of the metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal women with and without estrogen replacement therapy: The HERITAGE family study by Green, John S., Stanforth, Philip R., Rankinen, Tuomo, Leon, Arthur S., Rao, D.C., Skinner, James S., Bouchard, Claude, Wilmore, Jack H.

“…The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of apriori estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and endurance exercise training in postmenopausal…”
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Genome-wide joint SNP and CNV analysis of aortic root diameter in African Americans: the HyperGEN study by Wineinger, Nathan E, Patki, Amit, Meyers, Kristin J, Broeckel, Ulrich, Gu, Charles C, Rao, D C, Devereux, Richard B, Arnett, Donna K, Tiwari, Hemant K

“…Aortic root diameter is a clinically relevant trait due to its known relationship with the pathogenesis of aortic regurgitation and risk for aortic dissection…”
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effect of sex, age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body mass index: The Heritage Family Study by Jackson, A.S, Stanforth, P.R, Gagnon, J, Rankinen, T, Leon, A.S, Rao, D.C, Skinner, J.S, Bouchard, C, Wilmore, J.H

“…Objective: To study the effects of sex, age and race on the relation between body mass index (BMI) and measured percent body fat (%fat). Design:…”
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QTLs of factors of the metabolic syndrome and echocardiographic phenotypes: the hypertension genetic epidemiology network study by Kraja, Aldi T, Huang, Pinchia, Tang, Weihong, Hunt, Steven C, North, Kari E, Lewis, Cora E, Devereux, Richard B, de Simone, Giovanni, Arnett, Donna K, Rice, Treva, Rao, D C

“…In a previous study of the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) we have shown that metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk factors were moderately and…”
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An evaluation of the metabolic syndrome in a large multi-ethnic study: the Family Blood Pressure Program by Kraja, Aldi T, Rao, D C, Weder, Alan B, Mosley, Thomas H, Turner, Stephen T, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Quertermous, Thomas, Cooper, Richard, Curb, J David, Province, Michael A

“…The Family Blood Pressure Program is an ongoing, NHLBI-sponsored, multi-center program to study the genetic determinants of high blood pressure. The goal of…”
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An evaluation of the metabolic syndrome in the HyperGEN study by Kraja, Aldi T, Hunt, Steven C, Pankow, James S, Myers, Richard H, Heiss, Gerardo, Lewis, Cora E, Rao, Dc, Province, Michael A

“…BACKGROUND: In 2001 the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) provided a categorical definition for metabolic syndrome (c-MetS). We studied the extent…”
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Age, body mass index, race and other determinants of steroid hormone variability: The HERITAGE Family Study by UKKOLA, O, GAGNON, J, RANKINEN, T, THOMPSON, P. A, HONG, Y, LEON, A. S, RAO, D. C, SKINNER, J. S, WILMORE, J. H, BOUCHARD, C

“…To investigate from the HERITAGE Family Study database, 13 steroid hormones (androstane-3alpha, 17beta-diol glucuronide, androsterone glucuronide, cortisol,…”
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Regular exercise and patterns of response across multiple cardiometabolic traits: the HERITAGE family study by Barber, Jacob L, Ruiz-Ramie, Jonathan J, Robbins, Jeremy M, Gerszten, Robert E, Leon, Arthur S, Rao, D C, Skinner, James S, Bouchard, Claude, Sarzynski, Mark A

“…We investigated whether high responsiveness or low responsiveness to exercise training aggregates in the same individuals across seven cardiometabolic traits…”
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A Review of the Genetics of Hypertension with a Focus on Gene-Environment Interactions by Waken, RJ, de las Fuentes, Lisa, Rao, D.C.

“…Purpose of Review Here, we discuss the interpretation and modeling of gene-environment interactions in hypertension-related phenotypes, with a focus on the…”
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Alterations in body weight and composition consequent to 20 wk of endurance training: the HERITAGE Family Study by Wilmore, J.H, Despres, J.P, Stanforth, P.R, Mandel, S, Rice, T, Gagnon, J, Leon, A.S, Rao, D.C, Skinner, J.S, Bouchard, C

“…Background: Obesity is a major public health problem in the United States. The role of physical activity and formal exercise in controlling body weight has not…”
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Research Education and Mentoring Program in Cardiovascular Diseases for Under-Represented Junior Faculty From NHLBI SIPID/PRIDE by Boutjdir, Mohamed, Aromolaran, Ademuyiwa S., de las Fuentes, Lisa, Boyington, Josephine E.A., Arteaga, Sonia S., Jobe, Jared, Jeffe, Donna B., Rao, D.C., Rice, Treva K., Davila-Roman, Victor G.

“…The percentage of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical under-represented minority (URM) junior faculty is lower than their respective populations in the United…”
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Research Education and Mentoring Program in Cardiovascular Diseases for Underrepresented Junior Faculty from NHLBI SIPID/PRIDE by Boutjdir, Mohamed, Aromolaran, Ademuyiwa S., de las Fuentes, Lisa, Boyington, Josephine E.A., Arteaga, Sonia S., Jobe, Jared, Jeffe, Donna B., Rao, DC, Rice, Treva, Davila-Roman, Victor G.

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A Genome-wide study of blood pressure in African Americans accounting for gene-smoking interaction by Taylor, Jacquelyn Y., Schwander, Karen, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Arnett, Donna, Liang, Jingjing, Hunt, Steven C., Rao, D.C., Sun, Yan V.

“…Cigarette smoking has been shown to be a health hazard. In addition to being considered a negative lifestyle behavior, studies have shown that cigarette…”
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Leveraging linkage evidence to identify low-frequency and rare variants on 16p13 associated with blood pressure using TOPMed whole genome sequencing data by He, Karen Y., Li, Xiaoyin, Kelly, Tanika N., Liang, Jingjing, Cade, Brian E., Assimes, Themistocles L., Becker, Lewis C., Beitelshees, Amber L., Bress, Adam P., Chang, Yen-Pei Christy, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, de Vries, Paul S., Fox, Ervin R., Franceschini, Nora, Furniss, Anna, Gao, Yan, Guo, Xiuqing, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Irvin, Marguerite Ryan, Kalyani, Rita R., Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Chunyu, Martin, Lisa Warsinger, Montasser, May E., Muntner, Paul M., Mwasongwe, Stanford, Palmas, Walter, Reiner, Alex P., Shimbo, Daichi, Smith, Jennifer A., Snively, Beverly M., Yanek, Lisa R., Boerwinkle, Eric, Correa, Adolfo, Cupples, L. Adrienne, He, Jiang, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Kooperberg, Charles, Mathias, Rasika A., Mitchell, Braxton D., Psaty, Bruce M., Vasan, Ramachandran S., Rao, D. C., Rich, Stephen S., Rotter, Jerome I., Wilson, James G., Chakravarti, Aravinda, Morrison, Alanna C., Levy, Daniel, Arnett, Donna K., Redline, Susan, Zhu, Xiaofeng

“…In this study, we investigated low-frequency and rare variants associated with blood pressure (BP) by focusing on a linkage region on chromosome 16p13. We used…”
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Targeting the metabolic syndrome with exercise: Evidence from the HERITAGE Family Study by KATZMARZYK, Peter T, LEON, Arthur S, WILMORE, Jack H, SKINNER, James S, RAO, D. C, RANKINEN, Tuomo, BOUCHARD, Claude

“…To determine the efficacy of exercise training in treating the metabolic syndrome. The sample included 621 black and white participants from the HERITAGE…”
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Admixture mapping for hypertension loci with genome-scan markers by Risch, Neil, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Luke, Amy, Cooper, Richard S, Quertermous, Tom, Hanis, Craig, Mosley, Tom, Charles Gu, C, Tang, Hua, Rao, Dabeeru C, Weder, Alan

“…Identification of genetic variants that contribute to risk of hypertension is challenging. As a complement to linkage and candidate gene association studies,…”
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Association and linkage between an insulin-like growth factor-1 gene polymorphism and fat free mass in the HERITAGE Family study by SUN, G, GAGNON, J, BOUCHARD, C, CHAGNON, Y. C, PERUSSE, L, DESPRES, J. P, LEON, A. S, WILMORE, J. H, SKINNER, J. S, BORECKI, I, RAO, D. C

“…To investigate the relationship between a DNA microsatellite marker in the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) gene and body composition phenotypes before and…”
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Effects of Exercise Training on Glucose Homeostasis by Boulé, Normand G., Weisnagel, S. John, Lakka, Timo A., Tremblay, Angelo, Bergman, Richard N., Rankinen, Tuomo, Leon, Arthur S., Skinner, James S., Wilmore, Jack H., Rao, D.C., Bouchard, Claude

“…Effects of Exercise Training on Glucose Homeostasis The HERITAGE Family Study Normand G. Boulé , MA 1 , S. John Weisnagel , MD 1 2 , Timo A. Lakka , MD, PHD 3…”
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A genome-wide linkage scan for dietary energy and nutrient intakes: the Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training, and Genetics (HERITAGE) Family Study by COLLAKU, Agron, RANKINEN, Tuomo, RICE, Treva, LEON, Arthur S, RAO, D. C, SKINNER, James S, WILMORE, Jack H, BOUCHARD, Claude

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Is adiposity at normal body weight relevant for cardiovascular disease risk? by TANAKA, S, TOGASHI, K, RANKINEN, T, PERUSSE, L, LEON, A. S, RAO, D. C, SKINNER, J. S, WILMORE, J. H, BOUCHARD, C

“…To examine the relation between adiposity and risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in normal weight (NW) individuals. Cross-sectional study using the…”
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