Nancy Wexler

Summary

Affiliation: Columbia University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Venezuelan kindreds reveal that genetic and environmental factors modulate Huntington's disease age of onset
    Nancy S Wexler
    Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:3498-503. 2004
  2. ncbi Dietary intake in adults at risk for Huntington disease: analysis of PHAROS research participants
    K Marder
    Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer s Disease and the Aging Brain, Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Neurology 73:385-92. 2009

Research Grants

  1. HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE IN VENEZUELA AND OTHER STUDIES
    Nancy Wexler; Fiscal Year: 1993
  2. HUNTINGTON DISEASE IN VENEZUELA AND OTHER STUDIES
    Nancy Wexler; Fiscal Year: 2001

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Publications2

  1. ncbi Venezuelan kindreds reveal that genetic and environmental factors modulate Huntington's disease age of onset
    Nancy S Wexler
    Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:3498-503. 2004
    ..37), shared environment (0.22), and nonshared environment (0.41) variances, confirming that approximately 40% of the variance remaining in onset age is attributable to genes other than the HD gene and 60% is environmental...
  2. ncbi Dietary intake in adults at risk for Huntington disease: analysis of PHAROS research participants
    K Marder
    Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer s Disease and the Aging Brain, Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Neurology 73:385-92. 2009
    ..To examine caloric intake, dietary composition, and body mass index (BMI) in participants in the Prospective Huntington At Risk Observational Study (PHAROS)...

Research Grants18

  1. HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE IN VENEZUELA AND OTHER STUDIES
    Nancy Wexler; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..to compare "consensus mapping", done with pooled data from disparate families, with "individual chromosome mapping", carried out by tracing the behavior of a specific chromosome though multiple generations and families...
  2. HUNTINGTON DISEASE IN VENEZUELA AND OTHER STUDIES
    Nancy Wexler; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ..8) To explore how psychiatric and cognitive symptomatology can also be regulated by the expanded repeat or some other genetic modifiers. 9) To characterize the kind-red for common disorders and genetic traits or markers. ..