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Heather M Highland

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ORCID

Career Start Year

2013

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CM4AI Collaborator

PMID	Paper Title	Journal Title	Published Year
37131817	Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics.	bioRxiv	2023
36413071	IMMerge: merging imputation data at scale.	Bioinformatics	2023
37662265	WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF BODY MASS INDEX IDENTIFIES NOVEL AFRICAN ANCESTRY-SPECIFIC RISK ALLELE.	medRxiv	2023
37658231	Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts.	Hum Genet	2023
37817410	Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.		2023
37653519	Sex-specific associations between adipokine profiles and carotid-intima media thickness in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (CCHC).	Cardiovasc Diabetol	2023
37875120	Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics.	Am J Hum Genet	2023
37148359	The power of TOPMed imputation for the discovery of Latino-enriched rare variants associated with type 2 diabetes.	Diabetologia	2023
36574663	Natural selection of immune and metabolic genes associated with health in two lowland Bolivian populations.		2023
35263625	Predicted gene expression in ancestrally diverse populations leads to discovery of susceptibility loci for lifestyle and cardiometabolic traits.	Am J Hum Genet	2022
35701873	Genome Wide Association Studies of Variant-by-Thiazide Interaction on Lipids Identifies a Novel Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Locus.	Circulation Research	2022
36088317	Genetic pleiotropy underpinning adiposity and inflammation in self-identified Hispanic/Latino populations.	BMC Med Genomics	2022
36268164	Erratum: Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium.	HGG Adv	2022
35533073	Strengthening Causal Inference in Exposomics Research: Application of Genetic Data and Methods.	Environmental Health Perspectives	2022
35399580	Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium.	HGG Adv	2022
35040268	Do adverse childhood experiences and genetic obesity risk interact in relation to body mass index in young adulthood? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.	Pediatric obesity	2022
34951656	Multi-ethnic GWAS and fine-mapping of glycaemic traits identify novel loci in the PAGE Study.	Diabetologia	2022
34582791	Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program.	Am J Hum Genet	2021
34165540	Genome-wide association study of body fat distribution traits in Hispanics/Latinos from the HCHS/SOL.	Hum Mol Genet	2021
33949650	Comparison of adaptive multiple phenotype association tests using summary statistics in genome-wide association studies.	Human Molecular Genetics	2021
34107879	Multi-ethnic genome-wide association analyses of white blood cell and platelet traits in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study.	BMC Genomics	2021
34032508	Revisiting Some Useful Statistical Guidelines in <i>Circulation Research</i> in Response to a Changing Landscape.	Circ Res	2021
34329319	Genome-wide association study of pancreatic fat: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study.	PLoS One	2021
33381925	Genome-wide association study identifying novel variant for fasting insulin and allelic heterogeneity in known glycemic loci in Chilean adolescents: The Santiago Longitudinal Study.	Pediatr Obes	2021
35047858	Population-based genetic effects for developmental stuttering.	HGG Adv	2021
34517814	Correction to: Multi-ethnic genome-wide association analyses of white blood cell and platelet traits in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study.	BMC Genomics	2021
34604815	Genetic discovery and risk characterization in type 2 diabetes across diverse populations.	HGG Adv	2021
32602732	Multi-Ethnic Genome-Wide Association Study of Decomposed Cardioelectric Phenotypes Illustrates Strategies to Identify and Characterize Evidence of Shared Genetic Effects for Complex Traits.	Circ Genom Precis Med	2020
32171239	Ancestry-specific associations identified in genome-wide combined-phenotype study of red blood cell traits emphasize benefits of diversity in genomics.	BMC Genomics	2020
32226016	Minority-centric meta-analyses of blood lipid levels identify novel loci in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study.	PLoS Genet	2020
32496918	Importance of Genetic Studies of Cardiometabolic Disease in Diverse Populations.	Circ Res	2020
31251759	GWAS of QRS duration identifies new loci specific to Hispanic/Latino populations.	PLoS One	2019
31564435	Impact of Rare and Common Genetic Variants on Diabetes Diagnosis by Hemoglobin A1c in Multi-Ancestry Cohorts: The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program.	Am J Hum Genet	2019
30624610	Functionally oriented analysis of cardiometabolic traits in a trans-ethnic sample.	Hum Mol Genet	2019
31178898	Genetics of Chronic Kidney Disease Stages Across Ancestries: The PAGE Study.	Front Genet	2019
31491410	Exome-Derived Adiponectin-Associated Variants Implicate Obesity and Lipid Biology.	Am J Hum Genet	2019
31217584	Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits.	Nature	2019
31160809	Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.	Nat Genet	2019
29273807	Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.	Nat Genet	2018
28719597	Pharmacogenomics study of thiazide diuretics and QT interval in multi-ethnic populations: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology.	Pharmacogenomics J	2018
30305909	Complex patterns of direct and indirect association between the transcription Factor-7 like 2 gene, body mass index and type 2 diabetes diagnosis in adulthood in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.	BMC Obes	2018
29618737	Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis identify loci associated with ventricular and supraventricular ectopy.	Sci Rep	2018
29549330	Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.	Nat Genet	2018
29549329	Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.	Nat Genet	2018
29632382	Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes.	Nat Genet	2018
29360107	Erratum: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls.	Sci Data	2018
28025578	BMI loci and longitudinal BMI from adolescence to young adulthood in an ethnically diverse cohort.	International Journal of Obesity	2017
28391526	Trans-ethnic fine-mapping of genetic loci for body mass index in the diverse ancestral populations of the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study reveals evidence for multiple signals at established loci.	Hum Genet	2017
28341696	A Low-Frequency Inactivating <i>AKT2</i> Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk.	Diabetes	2017
29257133	Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls.	Sci Data	2017