Researcher Profile

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

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