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Wyss AB, Sofer T, Lee MKyeong, Terzikhan N, Nguyen JN, Lahousse L, Latourelle JC, Smith AVernon, Bartz TM, Feitosa MF, et al. Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function. Nat Commun. 2018  ;9(1):2976.

Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Grams ME, Cassano PA, Jacobs DR, R Barr G, Burkart KM, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, Loehr LR, et al. Albuminuria, Lung Function Decline, and Risk of Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019  ;199(3):321-332.

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Cornelius T, Schwartz JE, Balte P, Bhatt SP, Cassano PA, Currow D, Jacobs DR, Johnson M, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, et al. A Dyadic Growth Modeling Approach for Examining Associations Between Weight Gain and Lung Function Decline. Am J Epidemiol. 2020  ;189(10):1173-1184.

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Wan ES, Balte P, Schwartz JE, Bhatt SP, Cassano PA, Couper D, Daviglus ML, Dransfield MT, Gharib SA, Jacobs DR, et al. Association Between Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry and Clinical Outcomes in US Adults. JAMA. 2021  ;326(22):2287-2298.

Eckhardt CM, Balte PP, Barr RGraham, Bertoni AG, Bhatt SP, Cuttica M, Cassano PA, Chaves P, Couper D, Jacobs DR, et al. Lung function impairment and risk of incident heart failure: the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Eur Heart J. 2022  ;43(23):2196-2208.

Hu X, Qiao D, Kim W, Moll M, Balte PP, Lange LA, Bartz TM, Kumar R, Li X, Yu B, et al. Polygenic transcriptome risk scores for COPD and lung function improve cross-ethnic portability of prediction in the NHLBI TOPMed program. Am J Hum Genet. 2022  .

Bhatt SP, Balte PP, Schwartz JE, Jaeger BC, Cassano PA, Chaves PH, Couper D, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kaplan R, et al. Pooled Cohort Probability Score for Subclinical Airflow Obstruction. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022  ;19(8):1294-1304.

Bhatt SP, Wu C, Sun Y, Balte PP, Schwartz JE, Divo MJ, Jaeger BC, Chaves PH, Couper D, Jacobs DR, et al. Low Lung Function Is Associated with High Population Attributable Fraction for Cardiovascular Mortality. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025  ;22(3):359-366.