Contributing to Groundbreaking Research
Our team in the Specimen Processing & Research Cell Bank shared resource is proud to have contributed to major scientific advances over our many years of operation. Following is a sample of the high-impact publications our work has made possible:
- Arbeev KG, Verhulst S, Steenstrup T, Kark JD, Bagley O, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Hwang SJ, Levy D, Fitzpatrick AL, Christensen K, Yashin AI, Aviv A. Association of leukocyte telomere length with mortality among adult participants in 3 longitudinal studies. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Feb 5;3(2):e200023. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0023.
- Baldassari AR, Sitlani CM, Highland HM, Arking DE, Buyske S, Darbar D, Gondalia R, Graff M, Guo X, Heckbert SR, Hindorff LA, Hodonsky CJ, Ida Chen YD, Kaplan RC, Peters U, Post W, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Shohet RV, Seyerle AA, Sotoodehnia N, Tao R, Taylor KD, Wojcik GL, Yao J, Kenny EE, Lin HJ, Soliman EZ, Whitsel EA, North KE, Kooperberg C, Avery CL. 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 Aug;13(4):e002680. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.119.002680. Epub 2020 Jun 30.
- Beasley JM, Rillamas-Sun E, Tinker LF, Wylie-Rosett J, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Datta M, Caan BJ, LaCroix AZ. Dietary Intakes of Women's Health Initiative Long Life Study Participants Falls Short of the Dietary Reference Intakes. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2020 Sep;120(9):1530-1537. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2020.05.001. Epub 2020 Jul 14.
- Blue EE, Thornton TA, Kooperberg C, Liu S, Wactawski-Wende J, Manson J, Kuller L, Hayden K, Reiner AP. Non-coding variants in MYH11, FZD3, and SORCS3 are associated with dementia in women. Alzheimers Dement. 2020 Sep 23. doi: 10.1002/alz.12181. Online ahead of print.
- Breeze CE, Batorsky A, Lee MK, Szeto MD, Xu X, McCartney DL, Jiang R, Patki A, Kramer HJ, Eales JM, Raffield L, Lange L, Lange E, Durda P, Liu Y, Tracy RP, Van Den Berg D; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed MESA Multi-Omics Working Group, Evans KL, Kraus WE, Shah S, Tiwari HK, Hou L, Whitsel EA, Jiang X, Charchar FJ, Baccarelli AA, Rich SS, Morris AP, Irvin MR, Arnett DK, Hauser ER, Rotter JI, Correa A, Hayward C, Horvath S, Marioni RE, Tomaszewski M, Beck S, Berndt SI, London SJ, Mychaleckyj JC, Franceschini N. Epigenome-wide association study of kidney function identifies trans-ethnic and ethnic-specific loci. Genome Med. 2021 Apr 30;13(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s13073-021-00877-z.