Heather M. Highland

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Also affiliated with Brownsville Public Library, Department of Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Whole genome sequence association analysis of fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels in diverse cohorts from the NHLBI TOPMed program

Communications Biology(2022)10.1038/s42003-022-03702-4

Top 34%

0.582DataRank

Top 34%16 citations

Sheila M. Gaynor, Emily M. Russell, Kenneth E. Westerman, Laura M. Raffield, Timothy D. Majarian +88 more

Papers

Driven by 58 papers — median percentile 22. Top paper: “Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data”.

Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data

Nature Genetics(2022)10.1038/s41588-021-00997-7

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7.2DataRank · unranked

363 citations

Deepti Jain, Zhili Zheng, TOPMed Anthropometry Working Group, Stella Aslibekyan, Diane M. Becker +95 more

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Nature(2016)10.1038/nature18642

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1.1DataRank · unranked

1106 citations

Menachem Fromer, Tanya M. Teslovich, Anubha Mahajan, Vineeta Agarwala, Kyle J. Gaulton +334 more

Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances(2022)10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099

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0.759DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Mariaelisa Graff, Victoria L. Buchanan, Anne E. Justice, Heather M. Highland, Xiuqing Guo +95 more

Whole genome sequence association analysis of fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels in diverse cohorts from the NHLBI TOPMed program

Communications Biology(2022)10.1038/s42003-022-03702-4

Top 34%

0.582DataRank

Top 34%16 citations

Sheila M. Gaynor, Emily M. Russell, Kenneth E. Westerman, Laura M. Raffield, Timothy D. Majarian +88 more

Multi-ethnic genome-wide association analyses of white blood cell and platelet traits in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study

BMC Genomics(2021)10.1186/s12864-021-07745-5

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0.477DataRank · unranked

23 citations

Stephanie A. Bien, Katherine K. Nishimura, Jeffrey Haessler, Chani J. Hodonsky, Antoine Baldassari +29 more

Multi-Ethnic Genome-Wide Association Study of Decomposed Cardioelectric Phenotypes Illustrates Strategies to Identify and Characterize Evidence of Shared Genetic Effects for Complex Traits

Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine(2020)10.1161/circgen.119.002680

Top 41%

0.466DataRank

Top 41%13 citations

Colleen M. Sitlani, Heather M. Highland, Dan E. Arking, Steven Buyske, Dawood Darbar +27 more

Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics

The American Journal of Human Genetics(2023)10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.09.012

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0.431DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Xinyue Rui, David V. Conti, Myriam Fornage, Mariaelisa Graff, Jeffrey Haessler +13 more

Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering

Nature Genetics(2025)10.1038/s41588-025-02267-2

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0.418DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Alyssa Scartozzi, Douglas M. Shaw, Dillon G. Pruett, Hung‐Hsin Chen, Lauren E. Petty +65 more

Large-scale exome array summary statistics resources for glycemic traits to aid effector gene prioritization

Wellcome Open Research(2023)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18754.1

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0.357DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Natasha Hui Jin Ng, Juan Fernandez, Rebecca S. Fine, Eleanor Wheeler, Jennifer Wessel +95 more

Genome-wide association study of pancreatic fat: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0249615

Top 50%

0.354DataRank

Top 50%7 citations

Unhee Lim, S. Lani Park, Yuqing Li, Xin Sheng, Victor Hom +19 more

Polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes shows context-dependent effects across populations

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-63546-4

N/A

0.345DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Yanwei Cai, Daeeun Kim, Roelof A. J. Smit, Zhe Wang, Kruthika R. Iyer +169 more

Type 2 diabetes polygenic risk score demonstrates context-dependent effects and associations with type 2 diabetes-related risk factors and complications across diverse populations

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.02.15.25322341

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0.342DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Yanwei Cai, Daeeun Kim, Roelof A. J. Smit, Zhe Wang, Kruthika Iyer +68 more

The Circulating Lipidome In Severe Obesity

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.06.11.25329456

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0.255DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Heather M. Highland, Alexandra B. Palmer, Thy Duong, Zhaotong Lin, Wanying Zhu +21 more

Genome‐wide association study identifying novel variant for fasting insulin and allelic heterogeneity in known glycemic loci in Chilean adolescents: The Santiago Longitudinal Study

Pediatric Obesity(2020)10.1111/ijpo.12765

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Yujie Wang, Estela Blanco, Mariaelisa Graff, Cecilia Albala, Raquel Burrows +15 more

A large-scale genome-wide study of gene-sleep duration interactions for blood pressure in 811,405 individuals from diverse populations

Molecular Psychiatry(2025)10.1038/s41380-025-02954-w

Top 78%

0.104DataRank

Top 78%1 citations

Thomas W. Winkler, Amy R. Bentley, Clint L. Miller, Aldi T. Kraja, Karen Schwander +95 more

Predicted gene expression in ancestrally diverse populations leads to discovery of susceptibility loci for lifestyle and cardiometabolic traits

The American Journal of Human Genetics(2022)10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.02.013

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0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Genevieve L. Wojcik, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K. Nishimura, Chani J. Hodonsky, Antoine Baldassari +31 more

IMMerge: merging imputation data at scale

Bioinformatics(2022)10.1093/bioinformatics/btac750

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0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Hung‐Hsin Chen, Alexander S Petty, Lauren E. Petty, Hannah G. Polikowsky, Eric R. Gamazon +3 more

Do adverse childhood experiences and genetic obesity risk interact in relation to body mass index in young adulthood? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Pediatric Obesity(2022)10.1111/ijpo.12885

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Mariaelisa Graff, Annie Green Howard, Heather M. Highland, Kristin L. Young, Kathleen Mullan Harris +5 more

Genetic pleiotropy underpinning adiposity and inflammation in self-identified Hispanic/Latino populations

BMC Medical Genomics(2022)10.1186/s12920-022-01352-3

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Antoine Baldassari, Hannah G. Polikowsky, Colleen M. Sitlani, Heather M. Highland, Nathalie Chami +20 more

The power of TOPMed imputation for the discovery of Latino enriched rare variants associated with type 2 diabetes

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.09.30.22280535

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Philip Schroeder, Ravi Mandla, Aaron J. Deutsch, Wanying Zhu, Lauren E. Petty +57 more

The power of TOPMed imputation for the discovery of Latino-enriched rare variants associated with type 2 diabetes

Diabetologia(2023)10.1007/s00125-023-05912-9

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0DataRank · unranked

17 citations

Philip Schroeder, Ravi Mandla, Aaron J. Deutsch, Wanying Zhu, Lauren E. Petty +59 more

Sex-specific associations between adipokine profiles and carotid-intima media thickness in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (CCHC)

Cardiovascular Diabetology(2023)10.1186/s12933-023-01968-4

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0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Aylin Memili, Hung‐Hsin Chen, Heather M. Highland, Hannah G. Polikowsky, Mohammad Yaser Anwar +8 more

Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts

Human Genetics(2023)10.1007/s00439-023-02593-7

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Mariaelisa Graff, Heather M. Highland, Roelof A. J. Smit, Zhe Wang, Victoria L. Buchanan +16 more

Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances(2023)10.1016/j.xhgg.2023.100245

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Kin Yau Wong, Annie Green Howard, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Heather M. Highland, Mariaelisa Graff +14 more

Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.04.10.536252

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Xinyue Rui, David V. Conti, Myriam Fornage, Mariaelisa Graff, Jeffrey Haessler +13 more

WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF BODY MASS INDEX IDENTIFIES NOVEL AFRICAN ANCESTRY-SPECIFIC RISK ALLELE

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.08.21.23293271

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Jennifer A. Brody, Mariaelisa Graff, Heather M. Highland, Nathalie Chami, Hanfei Xu +95 more

Identification of proteins associated with type 2 diabetes risk in diverse racial and ethnic populations

Diabetologia(2024)10.1007/s00125-024-06277-3

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Jingjing Zhu, Hua Zhong, Chong Wu, Haoran Xue, Burcu F. Darst +43 more

Neonatal diabetes, gallbladder agenesis, duodenal atresia, and intestinal malrotation caused by a novel homozygous mutation in RFX6

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/t8b6-z345

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Craig L. Hanis, H Ye, Mark Daniels, Siri Atma W. Greeley, Xubao Liu +4 more

Type 1 Diabetes Genetic Risk in 109,954 Veterans With Adult-Onset Diabetes: The Million Veteran Program (MVP)

Diabetes Care(2024)10.2337/dc23-1927

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Sandra L. Jackson, Brian Charest, Yiling J. Cheng, Yan V. Sun, Sridharan Raghavan +92 more

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Study of Gene-Sleep Duration Interactions for Blood Pressure in 811,405 Individuals from Diverse Populations

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.03.07.24303870

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Thomas W. Winkler, Amy R. Bentley, Clint L. Miller, Aldi T. Kraja, Karen Schwander +95 more

Genome-wide association study of pancreatic fat: The multiethnic cohort adiposity phenotype study

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/a6pa-7x23

Top 100%

0DataRank

Top 100%0 citations

Burcu F. Darst, Heather M. Highland, Lynne R. Wilkens, Christopher Haiman, Samantha A. Streicher +19 more

IMMerge: merging imputation data at scale

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/0f9j-5h68

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Wenkun Zhu, Hannah G. Polikowsky, Eric R. Gamazon, Hsiao‐Hwa Chen, Alexander S Petty +3 more

Revisiting Some Useful Statistical Guidelines in Circulation Research in Response to a Changing Landscape

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/hhsn-ry07

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jennifer E. Below, Eric R. Gamazon, Heather M. Highland

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Study of Gene-Sleep Duration Interactions for Blood Pressure in 811,405 Individuals from Diverse Populations

Research Square(2024)10.21203/rs.3.rs-4163414/v1

Top 100%

0DataRank

Top 100%0 citations

Pavithra Nagarajan, Thomas W. Winkler, Amy R. Bentley, Clint L. Miller, Aldi T. Kraja +95 more

Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing

PLoS Genetics(2025)10.1371/journal.pgen.1011667

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11 citations

Marina M. Watowich, Baptiste Sadoughi, Rachel M. Petersen, Sarah F. Brosnan, Kenneth H. Buetow +25 more

Whole genome sequencing analysis of body mass index identifies novel African ancestry-specific risk allele

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-58420-2

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5 citations

Jennifer A. Brody, Mariaelisa Graff, Heather M. Highland, Nathalie Chami, Hanfei Xu +93 more

Genetic underpinnings of the heterogeneous impact of obesity on lipid levels and cardiovascular disease

Genome Medicine(2025)10.1186/s13073-025-01522-9

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Heather M. Highland, Roelof A. J. Smit, Micah R. Hysong, Victoria L. Buchanan, Kristin L. Young +27 more

Multiomics reveal key inflammatory drivers of severe obesity: IL4R, LILRA5, and OSM

Cell Genomics(2025)10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100784

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Heather M. Highland, Eitan Frankel, Alyssa Scartozzi, Xinruo Zhang, Rashedeh Roshani +34 more

Alterations in DNA Methylation, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Profiles in African Ancestry Populations with APOL1 Risk Alleles

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology(2025)10.1681/asn.0000000688

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2 citations

Ashley W. Scadden, Amarnath Marthi, Victoria L. Buchanan, Yishu Qu, Kendra Ferrier +33 more

Challenges and Opportunities in Characterizing the Genetics of Stuttering: From Sample Acquisition to Functional Interpretation of the Genome

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research(2025)10.1044/2025_jslhr-25-00093

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2 citations

Alyssa Scartozzi, Hannah G. Polikowsky, Heather M. Highland, Douglas M. Shaw, Lauren E. Petty +4 more

Hypothesis tests of indirect effects for multiple mediators

Statistical Methods & Applications(2025)10.1007/s10260-024-00777-7

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0 citations

Annie Green Howard, Heather M. Highland, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Michael P. Bancks, Mercedes R. Carnethon +2 more

Type 2 diabetes polygenic risk score interactions with lifestyle risk factors in Black Americans

Lifestyle Genomics(2025)10.1159/000546100

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Aastha Kakar, Elizabeth Litkowski, Mariah Meyer, Nicole D. Armstrong, Steven Buyske +24 more

Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Early Childhood Caries.

UNC Libraries(2025)10.17615/019a-qs58

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Kari E. North, Gary D. Slade, Poojan Shrestha, Hyeong Sik Ahn, Ye Wang +14 more

Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

UNC Libraries(2025)10.17615/fqe0-wn10

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Yilun Li, Qi Qi, Kristin L. Young, Annie Green Howard, Kin Yau Wong +14 more

Minority-centric meta-analyses of blood lipid levels identify novel loci in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study

PLoS Genetics(2020)10.1371/journal.pgen.1008684

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0DataRank · unranked

33 citations

Mariaelisa Graff, Jeffrey Haessler, Steven Buyske, Stephanie A. Bien, Ran Tao +49 more

Ancestry-specific associations identified in genome-wide combined-phenotype study of red blood cell traits emphasize benefits of diversity in genomics

BMC Genomics(2020)10.1186/s12864-020-6626-9

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0DataRank · unranked

30 citations

Antoine Baldassari, Stephanie A. Bien, Laura M. Raffield, Heather M. Highland, Colleen M. Sitlani +16 more

GWAS of the electrocardiographic QT interval in Hispanics/Latinos generalizes previously identified loci and identifies population-specific signals

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/xn2n-7j45

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Tamar Sofer, Henry J. Lin, Matthew P. Conomos, Nona Sotoodehnia, Eric A. Whitsel +20 more

Exome Genotyping Identifies Pleiotropic Variants Associated with Red Blood Cell Traits

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/m864-xv86

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Lisa R. Yanek, Kjell Nikus, Salman M. Tajuddin, Jussi Hernesniemi, Dawn Waterworth +95 more

Large-Scale Exome-wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for White Blood Cell Traits and Pleiotropy with Immune-Mediated Diseases

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/s8sd-h432

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Todd L. Edwards, Jin Li, John M. Starr, Eric Boerwinkle, Yingchang Lu +92 more

The interaction between physical activity and obesity gene variants in association with BMI: Does the obesogenic environment matter?

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/wwd3-kt16

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0 citations

Mazul,, Mohlke,, Harris,, Richardson,, North, +6 more

Multi-ethnic GWAS and fine-mapping of glycaemic traits identify novel loci in the PAGE Study

Diabetologia(2021)10.1007/s00125-021-05635-9

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39 citations

Sofia F. Dimos, Stephanie A. Bien, Yao Hu, Burcu F. Darst, Linda M. Polfus +26 more

Population-based genetic effects for developmental stuttering

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances(2021)10.1016/j.xhgg.2021.100073

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32 citations

Douglas M. Shaw, Lauren E. Petty, Hung‐Hsin Chen, Dillon G. Pruett, Jonathon P. Linklater +10 more

Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program

The American Journal of Human Genetics(2021)10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.08.007

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26 citations

Caitlin McHugh, Linda M. Polfus, Laura M. Raffield, Meher Preethi Boorgula, Thomas W. Blackwell +88 more

Genome-wide association study of body fat distribution traits in Hispanics/Latinos from the HCHS/SOL

Human Molecular Genetics(2021)10.1093/hmg/ddab166

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14 citations

Kristin L. Young, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Tamar Sofer, Misa Graff, Shelly Ann Love +28 more

Comparison of adaptive multiple phenotype association tests using summary statistics in genome-wide association studies

Human Molecular Genetics(2021)10.1093/hmg/ddab126

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4 citations

Antoine Baldassari, Heather M. Highland, Chani J. Hodonsky, Barbara McKnight, Christy L. Avery +1 more

Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits - the Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.27.445969

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17 citations

Mariaelisa Graff, Victoria L. Buchanan, Anne E. Justice, Heather M. Highland, Xiuqing Guo +95 more

Genome-wide association study of body fat distribution traits in Hispanics/Latinos from the HCHS/SOL Study

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.02.23.21251958

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0 citations

Kristin L. Young, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Tamar Sofer, Misa Graff, Shelly Ann Love +28 more

Natural selection of immune and metabolic genes associated with health in two lowland Bolivian populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022)10.1073/pnas.2207544120

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28 citations

Angela R. García, Jesusa M.G. Arevalo, Julien F. Ayroles, Kenneth H. Buetow, Steve W. Cole +12 more

Heather M. Highland

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