artículo académico

• A Prospective Analysis of Intake of Red and Processed Meat in Relation to Pancreatic Cancer among African American Women.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  29:1775-1783. 2020
• Accelerometer-measured Physical Activity, Reproductive Hormones, and DNA Methylation.  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.  52:598-607. 2020
• Dietary exposures, epigenetics and pubertal tempo.  Environmental Epigenetics.  5:1-10. 2019
• A survey of microRNA single nucleotide polymorphisms identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci in a case-control, population-based study of African-American women.  Breast Cancer Research.  20:1-13. 2018
• Admixture mapping and fine-mapping of birth weight loci in the Black Women’s Health Study.  Human Genetics.  137:535-542. 2018
• Admixture mapping and fine-mapping of type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in African American women.  Journal of Human Genetics.  63:1109-1117. 2018
• Amerindian ancestry and extended longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica.  American Journal of Human Biology.  30:e23055. 2018
• Association of Degree of European Genetic Ancestry With Serum Vitamin D Levels in African Americans.  American Journal of Epidemiology.  187:1420-1423. 2018
• Frequency of breast cancer subtypes among African American women in the AMBER consortium.  Breast Cancer Research.  20:1-9. 2018
• Genetic Variants in Immune-Related Pathways and Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women in the AMBER Consortium.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  27:321-330. 2018
• Genetic ancestry and population differences in levels of inflammatory cytokines in women: Role for evolutionary selection and environmental factors.  PLoS Genetics.  14:e1007368. 2018
• A multi-stage genome-wide association study of uterine fibroids in African Americans.  Human Genetics.  136:1363-1373. 2017
• A novel TCF7L2 type 2 diabetes SNP identified from fine mapping in African American women.  PLoS ONE.  12:e0172577. 2017
• Characterizing Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  26:1016-1026. 2017
• Demographic, lifestyle, and genetic determinants of circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyVitamin D and Vitamin D-binding protein in African American and European American women.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  105:1362-1371. 2017
• Erratum to: A multi-stage genome-wide association study of uterine fibroids in African Americans.  Human Genetics.  136:1497-1498. 2017
• Perceived racism and incident diabetes in the Black Women’s Health Study.  Diabetologia.  60:2221-2225. 2017
• Situación actual en genómica cardiovascular: muchos datos, poca información.  Revista Española de Cardiología.  70:696-698. 2017
• Admixture Mapping of African–American Women in the AMBER Consortium Identifies New Loci for Breast Cancer and Estrogen-Receptor Subtypes.  Frontiers in Genetics.  7. 2016
• An Exome-Wide Analysis of Low Frequency and Rare Variants in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer in African American Women: the AMBER Consortium.  Carcinogenesis.  37:870-877. 2016
• Associations of Dietary Long-Chain ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Fish Consumption With Endometrial Cancer Risk in the Black Women's Health Study.  American Journal of Epidemiology.  183:199-209. 2016
• Birth weight modifies the association between central nervous system gene variation and adult body mass index.  Journal of Human Genetics.  61:193-198. 2016
• Childhood abuse, promoter methylation of leukocyte NR3C1 and the potential modifying effect of emotional support.  Epigenomics.  8:1507-1517. 2016
• FASN, dietary fat intake, and risk of uterine leiomyomata in the Black Women's Health Study.  Fertility and Sterility.  106:1136-1141. 2016
• Family History of Cancer in Relation to Breast Cancer Subtypes in African American Women.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  25:366-373. 2016
• Gene-based analysis of the fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling pathway in relation to breast cancer in African American women: the AMBER consortium.  Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.  155:355-363. 2016
• Genetic Variants in the mTOR Pathway and Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women.  Carcinogenesis.  37:49-55. 2016
• Genetic variation in the insulin, insulin-like growth factor, growth hormone, and leptin pathways in relation to breast cancer in African-American women: The AMBER consortium.  NPJ Breast Cancer.  2:16034. 2016
• Genetic variations in Vitamin D-related pathways and breast cancer risk in African American women in the AMBER consortium.  International Journal of Cancer.  138:2118-2126. 2016
• Genetic variations in the Hippo signaling pathway and breast cancer risk in African American women in the AMBER Consortium.  Carcinogenesis.  37:951-956. 2016
• Genome-wide Association Studies in Women of African Ancestry Identified 3q26.21 as a Novel Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast Cancer.  Human Molecular Genetics.  25:4835-4846. 2016
• Genome-wide association study confirms lung cancer susceptibility loci on chromosome 5p15 and 15q25 in an African-American population.  Lung Cancer.  98:33-42. 2016
• Predicted 25-hydroxyvitamin D in relation to incidence of breast cancer in a large cohort of African American women.  Breast Cancer Research.  18:1-10. 2016
• Hormone-Related Pathways and Risk of Breast Cancer Subtypes in African American Women.  Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.  154:145-154. 2015
• Night-shift work and incident diabetes among African-American women.  Diabetologia.  58:699-706. 2015
• Birth Weight and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the Black Women's Health Study: Does Adult BMI Play a Mediating Role?.  Diabetes Care.  37:2572-2578. 2014
• Depressive Symptoms, Antidepressant Use, and the Incidence of Diabetes in the Black Women's Health Study.  Diabetes Care.  37:2211-2217. 2014
• FASN and risk of uterine leiomyomata in African American women.  Fertility and Sterility.  102:e89. 2014
• Hypothesis about alternative use of redundant regulatory elements was validated by recent results.  Medical Hypotheses.  83:513-514. 2014
• Multi-ethnic Fine-mapping of 14 Central Adiposity Loci..  Human Molecular Genetics.  23:4738-4744. 2014
• Polymorphisms in Vitamin D related genes and Risk of Uterine Leiomyomata.  Fertility and Sterility.  102:503-510. 2014
• Prospective study of dietary fat and risk of uterine leiomyomata.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  99:1105-1116. 2014
• Redundant enhancers and causal variants in the TCF7L2 gene.  European Journal of Human Genetics.  22:1243-1246. 2014
• A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.  Nature Genetics.  45:690-696. 2013
• Fine-mapping of the 6q25 locus identifies a novel SNP associated with breast cancer risk in African-American women.  Carcinogenesis.  34:287-291. 2013
• Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Subtypes of Breast Cancer in an African American Population.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  22:127-134. 2013
• Genome-Wide Association of Body Fat Distribution in African Ancestry Populations Suggests New Loci.  PLoS Genetics.  9:e1003681. 2013
• Genome-wide association study of age at menarche in African-American women.  Human Molecular Genetics.  22:3329-3346. 2013
• Is the Observed Association Between Dairy Intake and Fibroids in African Americans Explained by Genetic Ancestry?.  American Journal of Epidemiology.  178:1114-1119. 2013
• Replication of genetic loci for sarcoidosis in US black women: Data from the Black Women's Health Study.  Human Genetics.  132:803-810. 2013
• A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in women of African ancestry.  Human Genetics.  132:39-48. 2012
• African Ancestry and Genetic Risk for Uterine Leiomyomata.  American Journal of Epidemiology.  176:1159-1168. 2012
• Cross-sectional study of conjugated linoleic acid in adipose tissue and risk of diabetes.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  96:175-181. 2012
• Fine-mapping in African-American women confirms the importance of the 10p12 locus to sarcoidosis.  Genes & Immunity.  13:573-578. 2012
• Use of alternative promoters may hide genetic effects on phenotypic traits.  Journal of Human Genetics.  58:47-50. 2012
• General and Abdominal Obesity and Risk of Death among Black Women.  The New England Journal of Medicine.  365:901-908. 2011
• MHC region and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in African American women.  Human Genetics.  130:807-815. 2011
• Validation of a Small Set of Ancestral Informative Markers for Control of Population Admixture in African Americans.  American Journal of Epidemiology.  173:587-592. 2011
• What is a functional locus? Understanding the genetic basis of complex phenotypic traits.  Medical Hypotheses.  76:638-642. 2011
• Association between hepatic lipase− 514 C/T promoter polymorphism and myocardial infarction is modified by history of hypercholesterolemia and waist circumference.  Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases.  20:498-504. 2010
• Coffee, tea, and alcohol intake in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes in African American women.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  92:960-966. 2010
• Genetic variants on chromosome 5p12 are associated with risk of breast cancer in African American women: The Black Women's Health Study.  Epidemiology.  123:525-530. 2010
• Investigation of KIF6 Trp719Arg in a Case-Control Study of Myocardial Infarction: A Costa Rican Population.  PLoS ONE.  5. 2010
• Polymorphisms in the TOX3/LOC643714 Locus and Risk of Breast Cancer in African-American Women.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.  19:1320-1327. 2010
• Preclinical assessment of the neutralizing capacity of antivenoms produced in six Latin American countries against medically-relevant Bothrops snake venoms.  Toxicon.  56:980-989. 2010
• Triglyceride-mediated pathways and coronary disease: Collaborative analysis of 101 studies.  The Lancet.  375:1634-1639. 2010
• West African and Amerindian ancestry and risk of myocardial infarction and metabolic syndrome in the Central Valley population of Costa Rica.  Human Genetics.  127:629-638. 2010
• Does genetic variation in the Δ6-desaturase promoter modify the association between α-linolenic acid and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome?.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  89:920-925. 2009
• Abdominal obesity and hyperglycemia mask the effect of a common APOC3 haplotype on the risk of myocardial infarction.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  87:1932-1938. 2008
• Evolutionary rate heterogeneity of Alu repeats upstream of the APOA5 gene: do they regulate APOA5 expression?.  Journal of Human Genetics.  53:247-253. 2008
• Ala12 variant of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ gene (PPARG) is associated with higher polyunsaturated fat in adipose tissue and attenuates the protective effect of polyunsaturated fat intake on the risk of myocardial infarction.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  86:1238-1242. 2007
• α-Linolenic acid, Δ6-desaturase gene polymorphism, and the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  85:554-560. 2007
• A common deletion in the promoter of the delta-6 desaturase gene is associated with high plasma triglycerides and low arachidonic acid and EPA in tissues.  The FASEB Journal.  20:A1032-A1033. 2006
• APOC3/A5 haplotypes, lipid levels, and risk of myocardial infarction in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.  Journal of Lipid Research.  46:2605-2613. 2005
• Alcohol intake, drinking patterns, and risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica.  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  82:1336-1345. 2005
• Decreased consumption of dried mature beans is positively associated with urbanization and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction.  The Journal of Nutrition.  135:1770-1775. 2005
• Genetic variants of the lipoprotein lipase gene and myocardial infarction in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.  Journal of Lipid Research.  45:2106-2109. 2004