selected publications
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academic article
- Towards precision medicine: defining and characterizing adipose tissue dysfunction to identify early immunometabolic risk in symptom-free adults from the GEMM family study.. Adipocyte. 9:153-169. 2020
- Genetics of serum carotenoid concentrations and their correlation with obesity-related traits in Mexican American children.. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 106:52-58. 2017
- Toward Precision Medicine: TBC1D4 Disruption Is Common Among the Inuit and Leads to Underdiagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes.. Diabetes care. 39:1889-1895. 2016
- Genetic influences on response to novel objects and dimensions of personality in Papio baboons.. Behavior genetics. 45:215-27. 2015
- Replication of obesity and diabetes-related SNP associations in individuals from Yucatán, México.. Frontiers in genetics. -. 2014
- Replication of the effect of SLC2A9 genetic variation on serum uric acid levels in American Indians.. European journal of human genetics : EJHG. 22:938-43. 2013
- Heritability of ambulatory and beat-to-beat office blood pressure in large multigenerational Arab pedigrees: the 'Oman Family study'.. Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies. 15:753-8. 2012
- Integrating genomic analysis with the genetic basis of gene expression: preliminary evidence of the identification of causal genes for cardiovascular and metabolic traits related to nutrition in Mexicans.. Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.). 3:596S-604S. 2012
- Heart rate is associated with markers of fatty acid desaturation: the GOCADAN study.. International journal of circumpolar health. -. 2012
- Uric acid, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease among Alaska Eskimos: the Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in Alaska Natives (GOCADAN) study.. Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 14:71-77. 2012
- Genome-wide linkage analysis of hemodynamic parameters under mental and physical stress in extended Omani Arab pedigrees: the Oman Family Study.. Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies. 14:257-67. 2011
- Distal esophageal hypercontractility is related to abnormal acid exposure.. Archives of medical research. 42:104-9. 2011
- Eight week exposure to a high sugar high fat diet results in adiposity gain and alterations in metabolic biomarkers in baboons (Papio hamadryas sp.).. Cardiovascular diabetology. -. 2010
- Individual saturated fatty acids are associated with different components of insulin resistance and glucose metabolism: the GOCADAN study.. International journal of circumpolar health. 69:344-51. 2010
- Heart rate is associated with red blood cell fatty acid concentration: the Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in Alaska Natives (GOCADAN) study.. American heart journal. 159:1020-5. 2010
- Heritability of hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stressors in a homogenous Arab population: 'Oman Family Study'.. Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies. 12:541-8. 2009
- Cardiovascular disease prevalence and its relation to risk factors in Alaska Eskimos.. Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD. 20:350-8. 2009
- Effect of body weight and esophageal damage on the severity of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms. Mexican GERD working group.. Archives of medical research. 40:576-81. 2009
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids effect on serum triglycerides concentration in the presence of metabolic syndrome components. The Alaska-Siberia Project.. Metabolism: clinical and experimental. 59:86-92. 2009
- Association of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 with adipocyte number, insulin resistance and liver function markers.. Journal of medical primatology. 38:418-24. 2009
- Predictive models of insulin resistance derived from simple morphometric and biochemical indices related to obesity and the metabolic syndrome in baboons.. Cardiovascular diabetology. -. 2009
- The prolonged effect of repeated maternal glucocorticoid exposure on the maternal and fetal leptin/insulin-like growth factor axis in Papio species.. Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.). 16:308-19. 2008
- Differing definition-based prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the women of Oman family study: a function of multiparity.. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders. 6:197-202. 2008
- Prevalence and heritability of clusters for diagnostic components of metabolic syndrome: the Oman family study.. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders. 6:129-35. 2008
- Genetics of variation in HOMA-IR and cardiovascular risk factors in Mexican-Americans.. Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany). 86:303-11. 2008
- Physiological and molecular determinants of insulin action in the baboon.. Diabetes. 57:899-908. 2008
- [Reproducibility and sensitivity of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life questionnaire among obese Mexicans].. Gaceta medica de Mexico. 144:419-25. 2008
- [Transciptome among Mexicans: a large scale methodology to analyze the genetics expression profile of simultaneous samples in muscle, adipose tissue and lymphocytes obtained from the same individual].. Gaceta medica de Mexico. 144:473-9. 2008
- Genome scan for determinants of serum uric acid variability.. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 18:3156-63. 2007
- A chromosome 11q quantitative-trait locus influences change of blood-pressure measurements over time in Mexican Americans of the San Antonio Family Heart Study.. American journal of human genetics. 81:744-55. 2007
- Heritability and genetic correlations of metabolic disease-related phenotypes in Mexico: preliminary report from the GEMM Family Study.. Human biology. 79:121-9. 2007
- Fatty acid consumption and metabolic syndrome components: the GOCADAN study.. Journal of the cardiometabolic syndrome. 2:244-9. 2007
- [Macrophages, inflammation, adipose tissue, obesity and insulin resistance].. Gaceta medica de Mexico. 143:505-12. 2007
- [Parental influence in children's food preferences. The ESFUERSO study in two primary schools with different socioeconomic gradients].. Gaceta medica de Mexico. 143:463-9. 2007
- [Patients with type III obesity given sibutramine 15 mg/day lose weight in amounts proportional to those in types I and II, but waist circumferences does not decrease proportionally].. Gaceta medica de Mexico. 143:109-14. 2007
- Influence of skin color on the diagnostic utility of clinical acanthosis nigricans to predict insulin resistance in obese patients.. Archives of medical research. 37:744-8. 2006