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Genomes and Genes
Species | Nadia SolovieffSummaryAffiliation: Boston University Country: USA Publications
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Ancestry of African Americans with sickle cell diseaseNadia Solovieff
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Blood Cells Mol Dis 47:41-5. 2011....
Principal-component-based population structure adjustment in the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium data: impact of single-nucleotide polymorphism set and analysis methodGina M Peloso
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Heath, Crosstown Center, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
BMC Proc 3:S108. 2009....
Imputation of missing genotypes: an empirical evaluation of IMPUTEZhenming Zhao
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA 02118, USA
BMC Genet 9:85. 2008....
Clustering by genetic ancestry using genome-wide SNP dataNadia Solovieff
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMC Genet 11:108. 2010..An alternative solution is genetic matching of cases and controls that requires, however, well defined population strata for appropriate selection of cases and controls...
Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humansPaola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e29848. 2012..The correlation between 3 signatures and 3 different life spans was replicated in the combined replication sets. The different signatures may help dissect this complex phenotype into sub-phenotypes of exceptional longevity...
Genetic modifiers of the severity of sickle cell anemia identified through a genome-wide association studyPaola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Hematol 85:29-35. 2010..Additional validation, resequencing, and functional studies to understand the biology and reveal mechanisms by which candidate genes might have their effects are the future goals of this work...
Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humansPaola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Science 2010:. 2010..g., dementia, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease) and may help dissect this complex phenotype into subphenotypes of healthy aging...
A genome-wide association study of total bilirubin and cholelithiasis risk in sickle cell anemiaJacqueline N Milton
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e34741. 2012..15 × 10(-4)). These results confirm that the UGT1A region is the major regulator of bilirubin metabolism in African Americans with sickle cell anemia, similar to what is observed in other ethnicities...
Severe sickle cell anemia is associated with increased plasma levels of TNF-R1 and VCAM-1Daniel A Dworkis
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Hematol 86:220-3. 2011....
Fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia: genome-wide association studies suggest a regulatory region in the 5' olfactory receptor gene clusterNadia Solovieff
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, MA, USA
Blood 115:1815-22. 2010..6E-21) and in Thailand and Hong Kong subjects. Elements within the olfactory receptor gene cluster might play a regulatory role in gamma-globin gene expression...
Fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemiaIdowu Akinsheye
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Blood 118:19-27. 2011..Recent insights into HbF regulation have spurred new efforts to induce high HbF levels in sickle cell disease beyond those achievable with the current limited repertory of HbF inducers...
RNA editing genes associated with extreme old age in humans and with lifespan in C. elegansPaola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e8210. 2009..The majority of genes found thus far to be associated with longevity primarily function in lipoprotein metabolism and insulin/IGF-1 signaling. There are likely many more genetic modifiers of human longevity that remain to be discovered...
Naïve Bayesian Classifier and Genetic Risk Score for Genetic Risk Prediction of a Categorical Trait: Not so Different after all!Paola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA
Front Genet 3:26. 2012..In addition, we study the properties of the two approaches and describe how they can be generalized to include various models of inheritance...
