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.

Seshadri S, Fitzpatrick AL, Ikram AM, DeStefano AL, Gudnason V, Boada M, Bis JC, Smith AV, Carassquillo MM, Lambert JCharles, et al. Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease. JAMA. 2010  ;303(18):1832-40.

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.

Fox ER, Young HJ, Li Y, Dreisbach AW, Keating BJ, Musani SK, Liu K, Morrison AC, Ganesh S, Kutlar A, et al. Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study. Hum Mol Genet. 2011  ;20(11):2273-84.

Liu C-T, Garnaas MK, Tin A, Köttgen A, Franceschini N, Peralta CA, de Boer IH, Lu X, Atkinson E, Ding J, et al. Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function. PLoS Genet. 2011  ;7(9):e1002264.

Ehret GB, Munroe PB, Rice KM, Bochud M, Johnson AD, Chasman DI, Smith AV, Tobin MD, Verwoert GC, Hwang S-J, et al. Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature. 2011  ;478(7367):103-9.

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.

Schnabel RB, Kerr KF, Lubitz SA, Alkylbekova EL, Marcus GM, Sinner MF, Magnani JW, Wolf PA, Deo R, Lloyd-Jones DM, et al. Large-scale candidate gene analysis in whites and African Americans identifies IL6R polymorphism in relation to atrial fibrillation: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) project. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2011  ;4(5):557-64.

Traylor M, Farrall M, Holliday EG, Sudlow C, Hopewell JC, Cheng Y-C, Fornage M, Ikram AM, Malik R, Bevan S, et al. Genetic risk factors for ischaemic stroke and its subtypes (the METASTROKE collaboration): a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Lancet Neurol. 2012  ;11(11):951-62.

Folsom AR, Yatsuya H, Mosley TH, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT. Risk of intraparenchymal hemorrhage with magnetic resonance imaging-defined leukoaraiosis and brain infarcts. Ann Neurol. 2012  ;71(4):552-9.

Yu B, Barbalic M, Brautbar A, Nambi V, Hoogeveen RC, Tang W, Mosley TH, Rotter JI, deFilippi CR, O'Donnell CJ, et al. Association of genome-wide variation with highly sensitive cardiac troponin-T levels in European Americans and Blacks: a meta-analysis from atherosclerosis risk in communities and cardiovascular health studies. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013  ;6(1):82-8.

Liu C-T, Monda KL, Taylor KC, Lange L, Demerath EW, Palmas W, Wojczynski MK, Ellis JC, Vitolins MZ, Liu S, et al. Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. PLoS Genet. 2013  ;9(8):e1003681.

Fox ER, Musani SK, Barbalic M, Lin H, Yu B, Ogunyankin KO, Smith NL, Kutlar A, Glazer NL, Post WS, et al. Genome-wide association study of cardiac structure and systolic function in African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013  ;6(1):37-46.

Hek K, Demirkan A, Lahti J, Terracciano A, Teumer A, Cornelis MC, Amin N, Bakshis E, Baumert J, Ding J, et al. A genome-wide association study of depressive symptoms. Biol Psychiatry. 2013  ;73(7):667-78.

Monda KL, Chen GK, Taylor KC, Palmer C, Edwards TL, Lange LA, C Y Ng M, Adeyemo AA, Allison MA, Bielak LF, et al. A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry. Nat Genet. 2013  ;45(6):690-6.

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.

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.

Escott-Price V, Bellenguez C, San Wang L-, Choi S-H, Harold D, Jones L, Holmans P, Gerrish A, Vedernikov A, Richards A, et al. Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease. PLoS One. 2014  ;9(6):e94661.

Chen CTL, Liu C-T, Chen GK, Andrews JS, Arnold AM, Dreyfus J, Franceschini N, Garcia ME, Kerr KF, Li G, et al. Meta-analysis of loci associated with age at natural menopause in African-American women. Hum Mol Genet. 2014  ;23(12):3327-42.

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.

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.

Holliday EG, Traylor M, Malik R, Bevan S, Falcone G, Hopewell JC, Cheng Y-C, Cotlarciuc I, Bis JC, Boerwinkle E, et al. Genetic overlap between diagnostic subtypes of ischemic stroke. Stroke. 2015  ;46(3):615-9.

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.

Carty CL, Keene KL, Cheng Y-C, Meschia JF, Chen W-M, Nalls M, Bis JC, Kittner SJ, Rich SS, Tajuddin S, et al. Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Identifies Genetic Risk Factors for Stroke in African Americans. Stroke. 2015  ;46(8):2063-8.

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.

Natarajan P, Bis JC, Bielak LF, Cox AJ, Dörr M, Feitosa MF, Franceschini N, Guo X, Hwang S-J, Isaacs A, et al. Multiethnic Exome-Wide Association Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2016  .

Liu C-T, Raghavan S, Maruthur N, Kabagambe EKato, Hong J, C Y Ng M, Hivert M-F, Lu Y, An P, Bentley AR, et al. Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis and Functional Annotation Illuminates the Genetic Architecture of Fasting Glucose and Insulin. Am J Hum Genet. 2016  ;99(1):56-75.

Ben-Avraham D, Karasik D, Verghese J, Lunetta KL, Smith JA, Eicher JD, Vered R, Deelen J, Arnold AM, Buchman AS, et al. The complex genetics of gait speed: genome-wide meta-analysis approach. Aging (Albany NY). 2017  ;9(1):209-246.

Richard MA, Huan T, Ligthart S, Gondalia R, Jhun MA, Brody JA, Irvin MR, Marioni R, Shen J, Tsai P-C, et al. DNA Methylation Analysis Identifies Loci for Blood Pressure Regulation. Am J Hum Genet. 2017  ;101(6):888-902.

Sims R, van der Lee SJ, Naj AC, Bellenguez C, Badarinarayan N, Jakobsdottir J, Kunkle BW, Boland A, Raybould R, Bis JC, et al. Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2017  ;49(9):1373-1384.

Liang J, Le TH, Edwards DRVelez, Tayo BO, Gaulton KJ, Smith JA, Lu Y, Jensen RA, Chen G, Yanek LR, et al. Single-trait and multi-trait genome-wide association analyses identify novel loci for blood pressure in African-ancestry populations. PLoS Genet. 2017  ;13(5):e1006728.

Jian X, Satizabal CL, Smith AV, Wittfeld K, Bis JC, Smith JA, Hsu F-C, Nho K, Hofer E, Hagenaars SP, et al. Exome Chip Analysis Identifies Low-Frequency and Rare Variants in  for White Matter Hyperintensities on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Stroke. 2018  .

Vojinovic D, Adams HH, Jian X, Yang Q, Smith AVernon, Bis JC, Teumer A, Scholz M, Armstrong NJ, Hofer E, et al. Genome-wide association study of 23,500 individuals identifies 7 loci associated with brain ventricular volume. Nat Commun. 2018  ;9(1):3945.

Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Fuentes Lde Las, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Kraja AT, Schwander K, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, et al. A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure. Am J Hum Genet. 2018  ;102(3):375-400.

Malik R, Chauhan G, Traylor M, Sargurupremraj M, Okada Y, Mishra A, Rutten-Jacobs L, Giese A-K, van der Laan SW, Gretarsdottir S, et al. Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes. Nat Genet. 2018  ;50(4):524-537.

Davies G, Lam M, Harris SE, Trampush JW, Luciano M, W Hill D, Hagenaars SP, Ritchie SJ, Marioni RE, Fawns-Ritchie C, et al. Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function. Nat Commun. 2018  ;9(1):2098.

Mishra A, Chauhan G, Violleau M-H, Vojinovic D, Jian X, Bis JC, Li S, Saba Y, Grenier-Boley B, Yang Q, et al. Association of variants in HTRA1 and NOTCH3 with MRI-defined extremes of cerebral small vessel disease in older subjects. Brain. 2019  .

Satizabal CL, Adams HHH, Hibar DP, White CC, Knol MJ, Stein JL, Scholz M, Sargurupremraj M, Jahanshad N, Roshchupkin GV, et al. Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals. Nat Genet. 2019  ;51(11):1624-1636.

Kunkle BW, Grenier-Boley B, Sims R, Bis JC, Damotte V, Naj AC, Boland A, Vronskaya M, van der Lee SJ, Amlie-Wolf A, et al. Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates A?, tau, immunity and lipid processing. Nat Genet. 2019  ;51(3):414-430.

Do AN, Zhao W, Baldridge AS, Raffield LM, Wiggins KL, Shah SJ, Aslibekyan S, Tiwari HK, Limdi N, Zhi D, et al. Genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP and antihypertensive medication interactions on left ventricular traits in African Americans. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2019  ;7(10):e00788.

de Vries PS, Brown MR, Bentley AR, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Ntalla I, Schwander K, Kraja AT, Guo X, Franceschini N, et al. Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions. Am J Epidemiol. 2019  .

Kilpeläinen TO, Bentley AR, Noordam R, Sung YJu, Schwander K, Winkler TW, Jakupovi? H, Chasman DI, Manning A, Ntalla I, et al. Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity. Nat Commun. 2019  ;10(1):376.

Suzuki T, Wang W, Wilsdon A, Butler KR, Adabag S, Griswold ME, Nambi V, Rosamond W, Sotoodehnia N, Mosley TH. Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death: The ARIC Study and the CHS. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020  ;9(19):e016981.

Bressler J, Davies G, Smith AV, Saba Y, Bis JC, Jian X, Hayward C, Yanek L, Smith JA, Mirza SS, et al. Association of low-frequency and rare coding variants with information processing speed. Transl Psychiatry. 2021  ;11(1):613.

Graff M, Justice AE, Young KL, Marouli E, Zhang X, Fine RS, Lim E, Buchanan V, Rand K, Feitosa MF, et al. Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry. Am J Hum Genet. 2021  ;108(4):564-582.

Briceño EM, Gross AL, Giordani BJ, Manly JJ, Gottesman RF, Elkind MSV, Sidney S, Hingtgen S, Sacco RL, Wright CB, et al. Pre-Statistical Considerations for Harmonization of Cognitive Instruments: Harmonization of ARIC, CARDIA, CHS, FHS, MESA, and NOMAS. J Alzheimers Dis. 2021  ;83(4):1803-1813.

Yang Y, Knol MJ, Wang R, Mishra A, Liu D, Luciano M, Teumer A, Armstrong N, Bis JC, Jhun MA, et al. Epigenetic and integrative cross-omics analyses of cerebral white matter hyperintensities on MRI. Brain. 2022  .

Lahti J, Tuominen S, Yang Q, Pergola G, Ahmad S, Amin N, Armstrong NJ, Beiser A, Bey K, Bis JC, et al. Genome-wide meta-analyses reveal novel loci for verbal short-term memory and learning. Mol Psychiatry. 2022  .

Mishra A, Malik R, Hachiya T, Jürgenson T, Namba S, Posner DC, Kamanu FK, Koido M, Le Grand Q, Shi M, et al. Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries. Nature. 2022  .

Mei H, Simino J, Li L, Jiang F, Bis JC, Davies G, W Hill D, Xia C, Gudnason V, Yang Q, et al. Multi-omics and pathway analyses of genome-wide associations implicate regulation and immunity in verbal declarative memory performance. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2024  ;16(1):14.

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.

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.