Researcher Profile

Rao, H, Weiss, MC, Moon, JY, Perreira, KM, Daviglus, ML, Kaplan, R, North, KE, Argos, M, Fernández-Rhodes, L & Sofer, T 2025, 'Advancements in genetic research by the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: A 10-year retrospective review', Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, vol. 6, no. 1, 100376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100376

Fernández-Rhodes, L & Wagner, JK 2025, 'All Together Now: Data Work to Advance Privacy, Science, and Health in the Age of Synthetic Data', Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, vol. 30, pp. 690-695.

April-Sanders, AK, Tehranifar, P, Terry, MB, Crookes, DM, Isasi, CR, Gallo, LC, Fernandez-Rhodes, L, Perreira, KM, Daviglus, ML & Suglia, SF 2025, 'Family Functioning and Pubertal Maturation in Hispanic/Latino Children from the HCHS/SOL Youth', International journal of environmental research and public health, vol. 22, no. 4, 576. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22040576

Sharma, J, McArdle, CE, Graff, M, Cordero, C, Daviglus, M, Gallo, LC, Isasi, CR, Kelly, TN, Perreira, KM, Talavera, GA, Cai, J, North, KE, Fernández-Rhodes, L & Wojcik, GL 2025, 'Genetic ancestry influences gene-environment interactions with sociocultural factors: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, vol. 6, no. 3, 100451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100451

American Heart Association Social Determinants of Health Committee of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention and Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine; Council on Hypertension; Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health; and Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease 2025, 'Improving Cardiovascular Health Through the Consideration of Social Factors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association', Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. e000138. https://doi.org/10.1161/HCQ.0000000000000138

Tu, Y & Fernandez-Rhodes, L 2025, 'Monitoring diversity in genome-wide association studies requires measuring and reporting on immigration-related factors', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 16, pp. 1725866. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2025.1725866

Chen, HH, Highland, HM, Frankel, EG, Scartozzi, AC, Zhang, X, Roshani, R, Sharma, P, Kar, A, Buchanan, VL, Polikowsky, HG, Petty, LE, Seo, J, Anwar, MY, Kim, D, Graff, M, Young, KL, Zhu, W, Karastergiou, K, Shaw, DM, Justice, AE, Fernández-Rhodes, L, Krishnan, M, Gutierrez, A, McCormick, PJ, Aguilar-Salinas, CA, Tusié-Luna, MT, Muñoz-Hernandez, LL, Herrera-Hernandez, M, Lee, M, Gamazon, ER, Cox, NJ, Pajukanta, P, Fried, SK, Gordon-Larsen, P, Shah, RV, Fisher-Hoch, SP, McCormick, JB, North, KE & Below, JE 2025, 'Multiomics reveal key inflammatory drivers of severe obesity: IL4R, LILRA5, and OSM', Cell Genomics, vol. 5, no. 3, 100784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100784

Rao, HC, Meyer, ML, Kominiarek, MA, Daviglus, ML, Gallo, LC, Cordero, C, Syan, R, Perreira, KM, Talavera, GA & Fernández-Rhodes, L 2025, 'Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, and Inflammation in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos', Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 110, no. 5, pp. 1384-1397. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgae426

Landman, JM, Highland, HM, Perry, AS, Howard, AG, Sheng, Q, Lorenz, A, Palmer, AB, Zhao, S, Zhu, W, Zhang, X, Buchanan, VL, Frankel, EG, Roshani, R, Scartozzi, A, Farber-Eger, EH, Anwar, MY, Sprinkles, JK, Breidenbach, A, Wang, T-C, Ballard, CA, Nayor, M, Tamaroff, J, Gutierrez, A, Petty, LE, Petty, AS, Lippi, B, Fernandez-Rhodes, L, Chen, H-H, Krishnan, M, Graff, M, Meyer, KA, Lee, M, Young, KL, Wells, Q, Freedman, JE, Gamazon, ER, McCormick, JB, Fisher-Hoch, SP, Gordon-Larsen, P, Below, JE, North, KE & Shah, RV 2025, 'Proteomic signatures of pediatric cardiovascular and cardiometabolic traits demonstrate long-term modifiable drivers of adult disease', medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.27.25338754

on behalf of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Diversity and Inclusion Committee 2025, 'Representation and inclusion among members and affiliates of the Society for Epidemiologic Research: findings from the 2021 diversity and inclusion survey', American journal of epidemiology, vol. 194, no. 6, pp. 1794-1799. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae104

The Danish Blood Donor Study, The Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, The Breast Cancer Association Consortium, The Biobank Japan Project, The China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, ABCTB Investigators & The LifeLines Cohort Study 2024, 'Correction to: Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum (Nature Genetics, (2024), 56, 7, (1397-1411), 10.1038/s41588-024-01798-4)', Nature Genetics, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 1763-1764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01857-w

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

ABCTB Investigators, The LifeLines Cohort Study, The Danish Blood Donor Study, The Biobank Japan Project & The China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group 2024, 'Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum', Nature Genetics, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1397-1411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01798-4

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

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