Medical Sequencing at the extremes of Human Body Mass (2006)
Ahituv, Nadav, Kavaslar, Nihan, Schackwitz, Wendy, Ustaszewski, Anna, Martin, Joes, Hebert, Sybil, ...
Body weight is a quantitative trait with significant heritability in humans. To identify potential genetic contributors to this phenotype, we resequenced the coding exons and splice junctions of 58...
A PYY Q62P variant linked to human obesity (2005)
Ahituv, Nadav, Kavaslar, Nihan, Schackwitz, Wendy, Ustaszewska, Anna, Collier, John Michael, Hebert, Sybil, ...
Members of the pancreatic polypeptide family and their receptors have been implicated in the control of food intake in rodents and humans. To investigate whether nucleotide changes in these candidate...
Lack of MEF2A mutations in coronary artery disease (2004)
Weng, Li, Kavaslar, Nihan, Ustaszewska, Anna, Doelle, Heather, Schackwitz, Wendy, Hebert, Sybil, ...
Mutations in MEF2A have been implicated in an autosomal dominant form of coronary artery disease (adCAD1). In this study we sought to determine whether severe mutations in MEF2A might also explain...