Researcher Profile

Glover, L, Lilly, AG, Justice, AE, Howard, AG, Staley, BS, Wang, Y, Kamens, HM, Ferrier, K, Bressler, J, Loehr, L, Raffield, LM, Sims, M, North, KE & Fernández-Rhodes, L 2024, 'DNA methylation near MAD1L1, KDM2B, and SOCS3 mediates the effect of socioeconomic status on elevated body mass index in African American adults', Human molecular genetics, vol. 33, no. 20, pp. 1748-1757. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddae112

Martinez, RAM, Howard, AG, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Maselko, J, Pence, BW, Dhingra, R, Galea, S, Uddin, M, Wildman, DE & Aiello, AE 2024, 'Does biological age mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression? Insights from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 340, 116440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116440

Filigrana, P, Moon, JY, Gallo, LC, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Perreira, KM, Daviglus, ML, Thyagarajan, B, Garcia-Bedoya, OL, Cai, J, Xue, X, Kaplan, RC, Suglia, S & Isasi, CR 2024, 'LifeCourse Socioeconomic Position and Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/ Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 13, no. 16, e035503. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.035503

Fernández-Rhodes, L, McArdle, CE, Rao, H, Wang, Y, Martinez-Miller, EE, Ward, JB, Cai, J, Sofer, T, Isasi, CR & North, KE 2023, 'A Gene-Acculturation Study of Obesity Among US Hispanic/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', Psychosomatic medicine, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 358-365. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001193

Anwar, MY, Graff, M, Highland, HM, Smit, R, Wang, Z, Buchanan, VL, Young, KL, Kenny, EE, Fernandez-Rhodes, L, Liu, S, Assimes, T, Garcia, DO, Daeeun, K, Gignoux, CR, Justice, AE, Haiman, CA, Buyske, S, Peters, U, Loos, RJF, Kooperberg, C & North, KE 2023, 'Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts', Human genetics, vol. 142, no. 10, pp. 1477-1489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-023-02593-7

Fernández-Rhodes, L 2023, 'Beyond borders: A commentary on the benefit of promoting immigrant populations in genome-wide association studies', Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, vol. 4, no. 3, 100205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2023.100205

Filigrana, P, Moon, JY, Gallo, LC, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Perreira, KM, Daviglus, ML, Thyagarajan, B, Garcia-Bedoya, OL, Cai, J, Lipton, RB, Kaplan, RC, Gonzalez, HM & Isasi, CR 2023, 'Childhood and Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Cognitive Function in the Adult Population of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', American journal of epidemiology, vol. 192, no. 12, pp. 2006-2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad157

Filigrana, P, Moon, J-Y, Gallo, LC, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Perreira, KM, Daviglus, ML, Thyagarajan, B, Garcia-Bedoya, OL, Cai, J, Lipton, RB, Kaplan, RC, Gonzalez, HM & Isasi, CR 2023, 'Childhood and life-course socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adult population of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)', American journal of epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad157

Fernández-Rhodes, L, Graff, M, Buchanan, VL, Justice, AE, Highland, HM, Guo, X, Zhu, W, Chen, HH, Young, KL, Adhikari, K, Palmer, ND, Below, JE, Bradfield, J, Pereira, AC, Glover, L, Kim, D, Lilly, AG, Shrestha, P, Thomas, AG, Zhang, X, Chen, M, Chiang, CWK, Pulit, S, Horimoto, A, Krieger, JE, Guindo-Martínez, M, Preuss, M, Schumann, C, Smit, RAJ, Torres-Mejía, G, Acuña-Alonzo, V, Bedoya, G, Bortolini, MC, Canizales-Quinteros, S, Gallo, C, González-José, R, Poletti, G, Rothhammer, F, Hakonarson, H, Igo, R, Adler, SG, Iyengar, SK, Nicholas, SB, Gogarten, SM, Isasi, CR, Papnicolaou, G, Stilp, AM, Qi, Q, Kho, M, Smith, JA, Langefeld, CD, Wagenknecht, L, Mckean-Cowdin, R, Gao, XR, Nousome, D, Conti, DV, Feng, Y, Allison, MA, Arzumanyan, Z, Buchanan, TA, Chen, YDI, Genter, PM, Goodarzi, MO, Hai, Y, Hsueh, W, Ipp, E, Kandeel, FR, Lam, K, Li, X, Nadler, JL, Raffel, LJ, Roll, K, Sandow, K, Tan, J, Taylor, KD, Xiang, AH, Yao, J, Audirac-Chalifour, A, Peralta Romero, JDJ, Hartwig, F, Horta, B, Blangero, J, Curran, JE, Duggirala, R, Lehman, DE, Puppala, S, Fejerman, L, John, EM, Aguilar-Salinas, C, Burtt, NP, Florez, JC, García-Ortíz, H, González-Villalpando, C, Mercader, J, Orozco, L, Tusié-Luna, T, Blanco, E, Gahagan, S, Cox, NJ, Hanis, C, Butte, NF, Cole, SA, Comuzzie, AG, Voruganti, VS, Rohde, R, Wang, Y, Sofer, T, Ziv, E, Grant, SFA, Ruiz-Linares, A, Rotter, JI, Haiman, CA, Parra, EJ, Cruz, M, Loos, RJF & North, KE 2023, 'Erratum: Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium', Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 100149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100149

ABCTB Investigators 2023, 'Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum', medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.14.23291322

Fernández-Rhodes, L, Graff, M, Buchanan, VL, Justice, AE, Highland, HM, Guo, X, Zhu, W, Chen, HH, Young, KL, Adhikari, K, Palmer, ND, Below, JE, Bradfield, J, Pereira, AC, Glover, LS, Kim, D, Lilly, AG, Shrestha, P, Thomas, AG, Zhang, X, Chen, M, Chiang, CWK, Pulit, S, Horimoto, A, Krieger, JE, Guindo-Martínez, M, Preuss, M, Schumann, C, Smit, RAJ, Torres-Mejía, G, Acuña-Alonzo, V, Bedoya, G, Bortolini, MC, Canizales-Quinteros, S, Gallo, C, González-José, R, Poletti, G, Rothhammer, F, Hakonarson, H, Igo, R, Adler, SG, Iyengar, SK, Nicholas, SB, Gogarten, SM, Isasi, CR, Papnicolaou, G, Stilp, AM, Qi, Q, Kho, M & Smith, JA 2022, 'Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium', Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, vol. 3, no. 2, 100099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099

TOPMed Anthropometry Working Group & NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium 2022, 'Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data', Nature Genetics, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00997-7

Preudhomme, LK, Gellman, MD, Franceschini, N, Perreira, KM, Fernández-Rhodes, LE, Gallo, LC, Isasi, CR, Smoller, S, Castañeda, SF, Daviglus, M, Hutten, C, Cooper, RS, Cai, J, Schneiderman, N & Llabre, MM 2022, 'Genetic and stress influences on the prevalence of hypertension among hispanics/latinos in the hispanic community health study/study of latinos (HCHS/SOL)', Blood Pressure, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/08037051.2022.2091977

LifeLines Cohort Study 2022, 'Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention', Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01165-1

Fernández-Rhodes, L, Butera, NM, Lodge, EK, Franceschini, N, Llabre, MM, Arredondo, EM, Gallo, LC, Arguelles, W, Penedo, FJ, Daviglus, ML, Isasi, CR, Smokowski, P, Gordon-Larsen, P, Aiello, AE, Perreira, KM, Sotres-Alvarez, D & North, KE 2021, 'Demographic and sociocultural risk factors for adulthood weight gain in Hispanic/Latinos: results from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)', BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, 2064. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11848-9

McArdle, CE, Bokhari, H, Rodell, CC, Buchanan, V, Preudhomme, LK, Isasi, CR, Graff, M, North, K, Gallo, LC, Pirzada, A, Daviglus, ML, Wojcik, G, Cai, J, Perreira, K & Fernandez-Rhodes, L 2021, 'Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos on the Importance of Sociocultural Environmental Interactors: Polygenic Risk Score-by-Immigration and Dietary Interactions', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 12, 720750. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.720750

Crenshaw, EG, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Martin, CL, Gordon-Larsen, P, Haan, MN & Aiello, AE 2021, 'Intergenerational Educational Attainment and Cardiometabolic Health in Latino Individuals Living in the United States', Obesity, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1178-1185. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23156

Fernández-Rhodes, L, Ward, JB, Martin, CL, Zeki Al Hazzouri, A, Torres, J, Gordon-Larsen, P, Haan, MN & Aiello, AE 2022, 'Intergenerational educational mobility and type 2 diabetes in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging', Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 65, pp. 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.07.006

Sarnowski, C, Cousminer, DL, Franceschini, N, Raffield, LM, Jia, G, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Grant, SFA, Hakonarson, H, Lange, LA, Long, J, Sofer, T, Tao, R, Wallace, RB, Wong, Q, Zirpoli, G, Boerwinkle, E, Bradfield, JP, Correa, A, Kooperberg, CL, North, KE, Palmer, JR, Zemel, BS, Zheng, W, Murabito, JM & Lunetta, KL 2021, 'Large trans-ethnic meta-analysis identifies AKR1C4 as a novel gene associated with age at menarche', Human reproduction (Oxford, England), vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1999-2010. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deab086

Fernández-Rhodes, L & White, MJ 2022, 'Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Risk of Pediatric Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions', Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 309-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01163-1

Stanhope, KK, Cammack, AL, Perreira, KM, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Cordero, C, Gallo, LC, Isasi, CR, Castañeda, SF, Daviglus, ML, Kominiarek, MA & Suglia, SS 2020, 'Adverse childhood experiences and lifetime adverse maternal outcomes (gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy) in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 50, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.08.004

Fernández-Rhodes, L, Young, KL, Lilly, AG, Raffield, LM, Highland, HM, Wojcik, GL, Agler, C, Love, SAM, Okello, S, Petty, LE, Graff, M, Below, JE, Divaris, K & North, KE 2020, 'Importance of Genetic Studies of Cardiometabolic Disease in Diverse Populations', Circulation research, vol. 126, no. 12, pp. 1816-1840. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.315893

Justice, AE, Chittoor, G, Gondalia, R, Melton, PE, Lim, E, Grove, ML, Whitsel, EA, Liu, CT, Cupples, LA, Fernandez-Rhodes, L, Guan, W, Bressler, J, Fornage, M, Boerwinkle, E, Li, Y, Demerath, E, Heard-Costa, N, Levy, D, Stewart, JD, Baccarelli, A, Hou, L, Conneely, K, Mori, TA, Beilin, LJ, Huang, RC, Gordon-Larsen, P, Howard, AG & North, KE 2020, 'Methylome-wide association study of central adiposity implicates genes involved in immune and endocrine systems', Epigenomics, vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 1483-1499. https://doi.org/10.2217/epi-2019-0276