Lange LA, Carlson CS, Hindorff LA, Lange EM, Walston J, J Durda P, Cushman M, Bis JC, Zeng D, Lin D, et al. Association of polymorphisms in the CRP gene with circulating C-reactive protein levels and cardiovascular events. JAMA. 2006  ;296(22):2703-11.

Dehghan A, Yang Q, Peters A, Basu S, Bis JC, Rudnicka AR, Kavousi M, Chen M-H, Baumert J, Lowe GDO, et al. Association of novel genetic Loci with circulating fibrinogen levels: a genome-wide association study in 6 population-based cohorts. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009  ;2(2):125-33.

Vasan RS, Glazer NL, Felix JF, Lieb W, Wild PS, Felix SB, Watzinger N, Larson MG, Smith NL, Dehghan A, et al. Genetic variants associated with cardiac structure and function: a meta-analysis and replication of genome-wide association data. JAMA. 2009  ;302(2):168-78.

Ikram AM, Seshadri S, Bis JC, Fornage M, DeStefano AL, Aulchenko YS, Debette S, Lumley T, Folsom AR, van den Herik EG, et al. Genomewide association studies of stroke. N Engl J Med. 2009  ;360(17):1718-28.

Smith NL, Felix JF, Morrison AC, Demissie S, Glazer NL, Loehr LR, Cupples AL, Dehghan A, Lumley T, Rosamond WD, et al. Association of genome-wide variation with the risk of incident heart failure in adults of European and African ancestry: a prospective meta-analysis from the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010  ;3(3):256-66.

Teslovich TM, Musunuru K, Smith AV, Edmondson AC, Stylianou IM, Koseki M, Pirruccello JP, Ripatti S, Chasman DI, Willer CJ, et al. Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids. Nature. 2010  ;466(7307):707-13.

Eijgelsheim M, Newton-Cheh C, Sotoodehnia N, de Bakker PIW, Müller M, Morrison AC, Smith AV, Isaacs A, Sanna S, Dörr M, et al. Genome-wide association analysis identifies multiple loci related to resting heart rate. Hum Mol Genet. 2010  ;19(19):3885-94.

Debette S, Bis JC, Fornage M, Schmidt H, Ikram AM, Sigurdsson S, Heiss G, Struchalin M, Smith AV, van der Lugt A, et al. Genome-wide association studies of MRI-defined brain infarcts: meta-analysis from the CHARGE Consortium. Stroke. 2010  ;41(2):210-7.

Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Marciante KD, Arking DE, Larson MG, Smith AVernon, Tarasov KV, Müller M, Sotoodehnia N, Sinner MF, et al. Genome-wide association study of PR interval. Nat Genet. 2010  ;42(2):153-9.

Morrison AC, Felix JF, Cupples AL, Glazer NL, Loehr LR, Dehghan A, Demissie S, Bis JC, Rosamond WD, Aulchenko YS, et al. Genomic variation associated with mortality among adults of European and African ancestry with heart failure: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010  ;3(3):248-55.

Lubitz SA, Sinner MF, Lunetta KL, Makino S, Pfeufer A, Rahman R, Veltman CE, Barnard J, Bis JC, Danik SP, et al. Independent susceptibility markers for atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25. Circulation. 2010  ;122(10):976-84.

Smith NL, Chen M-H, Dehghan A, Strachan DP, Basu S, Soranzo N, Hayward C, Rudan I, Sabater-Lleal M, Bis JC, et al. Novel associations of multiple genetic loci with plasma levels of factor VII, factor VIII, and von Willebrand factor: The CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genome Epidemiology) Consortium. Circulation. 2010  ;121(12):1382-92.

Marciante KD, Durda JP, Heckbert SR, Lumley T, Rice K, McKnight B, Totah RA, Tamraz B, Kroetz DL, Fukushima H, et al. Cerivastatin, genetic variants, and the risk of rhabdomyolysis. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2011  ;21(5):280-8.

Lemaitre RN, Tanaka T, Tang W, Manichaikul A, Foy M, Kabagambe EK, Nettleton JA, King IB, Weng L-C, Bhattacharya S, et al. Genetic loci associated with plasma phospholipid n-3 fatty acids: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from the CHARGE Consortium. PLoS Genet. 2011  ;7(7):e1002193.

Smith NL, Huffman JE, Strachan DP, Huang J, Dehghan A, Trompet S, Lopez LM, Shin S-Y, Baumert J, Vitart V, et al. Genetic predictors of fibrin D-dimer levels in healthy adults. Circulation. 2011  ;123(17):1864-72.

Paré G, Ridker PM, Rose L, Barbalic M, Dupuis J, Dehghan A, Bis JC, Benjamin EJ, Shiffman D, Parker AN, et al. Genome-wide association analysis of soluble ICAM-1 concentration reveals novel associations at the NFKBIK, PNPLA3, RELA, and SH2B3 loci. PLoS Genet. 2011  ;7(4):e1001374.

Fornage M, Debette S, Bis JC, Schmidt H, Ikram AM, Dufouil C, Sigurdsson S, Lumley T, DeStefano AL, Fazekas F, et al. Genome-wide association studies of cerebral white matter lesion burden: the CHARGE consortium. Ann Neurol. 2011  ;69(6):928-39.

Murabito JM, White CC, Kavousi M, Sun YV, Feitosa MF, Nambi V, Lamina C, Schillert A, Coassin S, Bis JC, et al. Association between chromosome 9p21 variants and the ankle-brachial index identified by a meta-analysis of 21 genome-wide association studies. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012  ;5(1):100-12.

Sweet RA, Seltman H, Emanuel JE, Lopez OL, Becker JT, Bis JC, Weamer EA, Demichele-Sweet MAnn A, Kuller LH. Effect of Alzheimer's disease risk genes on trajectories of cognitive function in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Am J Psychiatry. 2012  ;169(9):954-62.

Grallert H, Dupuis J, Bis JC, Dehghan A, Barbalic M, Baumert J, Lu C, Smith NL, Uitterlinden AG, Roberts R, et al. Eight genetic loci associated with variation in lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 mass and activity and coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from five community-based studies. Eur Heart J. 2012  ;33(2):238-51.

J Smith G, Avery CL, Evans DS, Nalls MA, Meng YA, Smith EN, Palmer C, Tanaka T, Mehra R, Butler AM, et al. Impact of ancestry and common genetic variants on QT interval in African Americans. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012  ;5(6):647-55.

Ellinor PT, Lunetta KL, Albert CM, Glazer NL, Ritchie MD, Smith AV, Arking DE, Müller-Nurasyid M, Krijthe BP, Lubitz SA, et al. Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation. Nat Genet. 2012  ;44(6):670-5.

Dastani Z, Hivert M-F, Timpson N, Perry JRB, Yuan X, Scott RA, Henneman P, Heid IM, Kizer JR, Lyytikäinen L-P, et al. Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet. 2012  ;8(3):e1002607.

Grove ML, Yu B, Cochran BJ, Haritunians T, Bis JC, Taylor KD, Hansen M, Borecki IB, Cupples AL, Fornage M, et al. Best practices and joint calling of the HumanExome BeadChip: the CHARGE Consortium. PLoS One. 2013  ;8(7):e68095.

Reiner AP, Hartiala J, Zeller T, Bis JC, Dupuis J, Fornage M, Baumert J, Kleber ME, Wild PS, Baldus S, et al. Genome-wide and gene-centric analyses of circulating myeloperoxidase levels in the charge and care consortia. Hum Mol Genet. 2013  ;22(16):3381-93.

Tang W, Teichert M, Chasman DI, Heit JA, Morange P-E, Li G, Pankratz N, Leebeek FW, Paré G, de Andrade M, et al. A genome-wide association study for venous thromboembolism: the extended cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium. Genet Epidemiol. 2013  ;37(5):512-521.

Williams FMK, Carter AM, Hysi PG, Surdulescu G, Hodgkiss D, Soranzo N, Traylor M, Bevan S, Dichgans M, Rothwell PMW, et al. Ischemic stroke is associated with the ABO locus: the EuroCLOT study. Ann Neurol. 2013  ;73(1):16-31.

Sabater-Lleal M, Huang J, Chasman D, Naitza S, Dehghan A, Johnson AD, Teumer A, Reiner AP, Folkersen L, Basu S, et al. Multiethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >100 000 subjects identifies 23 fibrinogen-associated Loci but no strong evidence of a causal association between circulating fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Circulation. 2013  ;128(12):1310-24.

Peloso GM, Auer PL, Bis JC, Voorman A, Morrison AC, Stitziel NO, Brody JA, Khetarpal SA, Crosby JR, Fornage M, et al. Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. Am J Hum Genet. 2014  ;94(2):223-32.

Bis JC, DeStefano A, Liu X, Brody JA, Choi SHoan, Verhaaren BFJ, Debette S, Ikram AM, Shahar E, Butler KR, et al. Associations of NINJ2 sequence variants with incident ischemic stroke in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium. PLoS One. 2014  ;9(6):e99798.

van Leeuwen EM, Smouter FAS, Kam-Thong T, Karbalai N, Smith AV, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Sitlani CM, Li G, Brody JA, et al. The challenges of genome-wide interaction studies: lessons to learn from the analysis of HDL blood levels. PLoS One. 2014  ;9(10):e109290.

Arking DE, Pulit SL, Crotti L, van der Harst P, Munroe PB, Koopmann TT, Sotoodehnia N, Rossin EJ, Morley M, Wang X, et al. Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization. Nat Genet. 2014  ;46(8):826-36.

Huang J, Huffman JE, Yamakuchi M, Yamkauchi M, Trompet S, Asselbergs FW, Sabater-Lleal M, Trégouët D-A, Chen W-M, Smith NL, et al. Genome-wide association study for circulating tissue plasminogen activator levels and functional follow-up implicates endothelial STXBP5 and STX2. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2014  ;34(5):1093-101.

Sinner MF, Tucker NR, Lunetta KL, Ozaki K, J Smith G, Trompet S, Bis JC, Lin H, Chung MK, Nielsen JB, et al. Integrating genetic, transcriptional, and functional analyses to identify 5 novel genes for atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2014  ;130(15):1225-35.

Ellis J, Lange EM, Li J, Dupuis J, Baumert J, Walston JD, Keating BJ, Durda P, Fox ER, Palmer CD, et al. Large multiethnic Candidate Gene Study for C-reactive protein levels: identification of a novel association at CD36 in African Americans. Hum Genet. 2014  ;133(8):985-95.

Malik R, Bevan S, Nalls MA, Holliday EG, Devan WJ, Cheng Y-C, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Verhaaren BFJ, Bis JC, Joon AY, et al. Multilocus genetic risk score associates with ischemic stroke in case-control and prospective cohort studies. Stroke. 2014  ;45(2):394-402.

Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, Lin H, Arking DE, Trompet S, Li G, Krijthe BP, Chasman DI, Barnard J, Kleber ME, et al. Novel genetic markers associate with atrial fibrillation risk in Europeans and Japanese. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014  ;63(12):1200-10.

Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Fornage M, Bis JC, Choi SHoan, Psaty BM, Meigs JB, Rao M, Nalls M, Fontes JD, O'Donnell CJ, et al. Predicting stroke through genetic risk functions: the CHARGE Risk Score Project. Stroke. 2014  ;45(2):403-12.

Bis JC, White CC, Franceschini N, Brody J, Zhang X, Muzny D, Santibanez J, Gibbs R, Liu X, Lin H, et al. Sequencing of 2 subclinical atherosclerosis candidate regions in 3669 individuals: Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium Targeted Sequencing Study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014  ;7(3):359-64.

Magnani JW, Brody JA, Prins BP, Arking DE, Lin H, Yin X, Liu C-T, Morrison AC, Zhang F, Spector TD, et al. Sequencing of SCN5A identifies rare and common variants associated with cardiac conduction: Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014  ;7(3):365-73.

Lin H, Wang M, Brody JA, Bis JC, Dupuis J, Lumley T, McKnight B, Rice KM, Sitlani CM, Reid JG, et al. Strategies to design and analyze targeted sequencing data: cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium Targeted Sequencing Study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014  ;7(3):335-43.

Lin H, Sinner MF, Brody JA, Arking DE, Lunetta KL, Rienstra M, Lubitz SA, Magnani JW, Sotoodehnia N, McKnight B, et al. Targeted sequencing in candidate genes for atrial fibrillation: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Targeted Sequencing Study. Heart Rhythm. 2014  ;11(3):452-7.

Lange LA, Hu Y, Zhang H, Xue C, Schmidt EM, Tang Z-Z, Bizon C, Lange EM, Smith JD, Turner EH, et al. Whole-exome sequencing identifies rare and low-frequency coding variants associated with LDL cholesterol. Am J Hum Genet. 2014  ;94(2):233-45.

Chauhan G, Adams HHH, Bis JC, Weinstein G, Yu L, Töglhofer AMaria, Smith AVernon, van der Lee SJ, Gottesman RF, Thomson R, et al. Association of Alzheimer's disease GWAS loci with MRI markers of brain aging. Neurobiol Aging. 2015  ;36(4):1765.e7-16.

Schick UM, Auer PL, Bis JC, Lin H, Wei P, Pankratz N, Lange LA, Brody J, Stitziel NO, Kim DS, et al. Association of exome sequences with plasma C-reactive protein levels in >9000 participants. Hum Mol Genet. 2015  ;24(2):559-71.

Yu B, Li AH, Muzny D, Veeraraghavan N, de Vries PS, Bis JC, Musani SK, Alexander D, Morrison AC, Franco OH, et al. Association of Rare Loss-Of-Function Alleles in HAL, Serum Histidine: Levels and Incident Coronary Heart Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015  ;8(2):351-5.

Bis JC, Sitlani C, Irvin R, Avery CL, Smith AVernon, Sun F, Evans DS, Musani SK, Li X, Trompet S, et al. Drug-Gene Interactions of Antihypertensive Medications and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: A Pharmacogenomics Study from the CHARGE Consortium. PLoS One. 2015  ;10(10):e0140496.

Lopez LM, W Hill D, Harris SE, Hernandez MValdes, Maniega SMunoz, Bastin ME, Bailey E, Smith C, McBride M, McClure J, et al. Genes from a translational analysis support a multifactorial nature of white matter hyperintensities. Stroke. 2015  ;46(2):341-7.

Debette S, Verbaas CAIbrahim, Bressler J, Schuur M, Smith A, Bis JC, Davies G, Wolf C, Gudnason V, Chibnik LB, et al. Genome-wide studies of verbal declarative memory in nondemented older people: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium. Biol Psychiatry. 2015  ;77(8):749-63.

Verhaaren BFJ, Debette S, Bis JC, Smith JA, M Ikram K, Adams HH, Beecham AH, Rajan KB, Lopez LM, Barral S, et al. Multiethnic genome-wide association study of cerebral white matter hyperintensities on MRI. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015  ;8(2):398-409.

Hofer E, Cavalieri M, Bis JC, DeCarli C, Fornage M, Sigurdsson S, Srikanth V, Trompet S, Verhaaren BFJ, Wolf C, et al. White Matter Lesion Progression: Genome-Wide Search for Genetic Influences. Stroke. 2015  ;46(11):3048-57.

Cheng Y-C, Stanne TM, Giese A-K, Ho WKee, Traylor M, Amouyel P, Holliday EG, Malik R, Xu H, Kittner SJ, et al. Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Young-Onset Stroke Identifies a Locus on Chromosome 10q25 Near HABP2. Stroke. 2016  ;47(2):307-16.

Dehghan A, Bis JC, White CC, Smith AVernon, Morrison AC, Cupples AL, Trompet S, Chasman DI, Lumley T, Völker U, et al. Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in Prospective Cohort Studies: The CHARGE Consortium. PLoS One. 2016  ;11(3):e0144997.

Verweij N, Leach IMateo, Isaacs A, Arking DE, Bis JC, Pers TH, van den Berg ME, Lyytikäinen L-P, Barnett P, Wang X, et al. Twenty-eight genetic loci associated with ST-T-wave amplitudes of the electrocardiogram. Hum Mol Genet. 2016  ;25(10):2093-2103.

Irvin MR, Sitlani CM, Floyd JS, Psaty BM, Bis JC, Wiggins KL, Whitsel EA, Stürmer T, Stewart J, Raffield L, et al. Genome-Wide Association Study of Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension in the CHARGE Consortium: The CHARGE Pharmacogenetics Working Group. Am J Hypertens. 2019  ;32(12):1146-1153.

Kurniansyah N, Goodman MO, Khan AT, Wang J, Feofanova E, Bis JC, Wiggins KL, Huffman JE, Kelly T, Elfassy T, et al. Evaluating the use of blood pressure polygenic risk scores across race/ethnic background groups. Nat Commun. 2023  ;14(1):3202.

Sargurupremraj M, Soumaré A, Bis JC, Surakka I, Jürgenson T, Joly P, Knol MJ, Wang R, Yang Q, Satizabal CL, et al. Genetic Complexities of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, Blood Pressure, and Dementia. JAMA Netw Open. 2024  ;7(5):e2412824.

Rocheleau G, Clarke SL, Auguste G, Hasbani NR, Morrison AC, Heath AS, Bielak LF, Iyer KR, Young EP, Stitziel NO, et al. Rare variant contribution to the heritability of coronary artery disease. Nat Commun. 2024  ;15(1):8741.

Yaqub A, Bis JC, Frenzel S, Koini M, Mbangdadji D, Peloso GM, Talluri R, Alonso A, Bahls M, Bülow R, et al. Clinical and Imaging Markers of Cardiac Function and Brain Health: A Meta-Analysis of Community-Based Studies. Neurology. 2025  ;104(8):e213421.

Hu Y, Haessler J, Lundin JI, Darst BF, Whitsel EA, Grove M, Guan W, Xia R, Szeto M, Raffield LM, et al. Methylome-wide association analyses of lipids and modifying effects of behavioral factors in diverse race and ethnicity participants. Clin Epigenetics. 2025  ;17(1):54.

Georgakis MK, Malik R, Bounkari OEl, Hasbani NR, Li J, Huffman JE, Shakt G, Tack RWP, Kimball TN, Asare Y, et al. Rare damaging CCR2 variants are associated with lower lifetime cardiovascular risk. Genome Med. 2025  ;17(1):27.

Grasset L, Bis JC, Frenzel S, Kojis D, Simino J, Yaqub A, Beiser A, Berr C, Bressler J, Bülow R, et al. Selected social and lifestyle correlates of brain health markers: the Cross-Cohort Collaboration Consortium. Alzheimers Dement. 2025  ;21(4):e70148.

Zhang X, Brody JA, Graff M, Highland HM, Chami N, Xu H, Wang Z, Ferrier KR, Chittoor G, Josyula NShilpa, et al. Whole genome sequencing analysis of body mass index identifies novel African ancestry-specific risk allele. Nat Commun. 2025  ;16(1):3470.