Publications 2004-2005

• A public health plan to prevent heart disease and stroke. Atlanta: Cardiovascular Branch, Centers for Disease Control; July, 2003.
• Surks MI, Ortiz E, Daniels GH, Sawin CT, Col NF, Cobin RH, Franklyn JA, Hershman JM, Burman KD, Denke MA, Gorman C, Cooper RS, Weissman NJ. Subclinical thyroid disease: scientific review and guidelines for diagnosis and management. JAMA. 2004;291:228-238.
• Barkley RA, Chakravarti A, Cooper RS, Ellison RC, Hunt SC, Province MA, Turner ST, Weder AB, Boerwinkle E. Positional identification of hypertension susceptibility genes on chromosome 2. Hypertension. 2004;43:477-482.
• Luke A, Adeyemo A, Kramer H, Forrester T, Cooper RS. Association between blood pressure and resting energy expenditure independent of body size. Hypertension. 2004;43:555-560.
• Mendez MA, Cooper RS, Luke A, Wilks R, Bennett F, Forrester T. Higher income is more strongly associated with obesity than with obesity-related metabolic disorders in Jamaican adults. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004;28:543-550.
• Boyne MS, Sargeant LA, Bennett FI, Cooper RS, Wilks RJ, Forrester TE. Features of isolated post-challenge hyperglycaemia in Jamaican adults. West Indian Med J. 2004;53:7-11.
• Wu X, Luke A, Cooper RS, Zhu X, Kan D, Tayo BO, Adeyemo A. A genome scan among Nigerians linking resting energy expenditure to chromosome 16. Obes Res. 2004;12:577-581.
• Zhu X, Zhang, S., Kan, D., Cooper, R.S. Haplotype block definition ad its application. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 2004:152-163.
• Bouzekri N, Zhu X, Jiang Y, McKenzie CA, Luke A, Forrester T, Adeyemo A, Kan D, Farrall M, Anderson S, Cooper RS, Ward R. Angiotensin I-converting enzyme polymorphisms, ACE level and blood pressure among Nigerians, Jamaicans and African-Americans. Eur J Hum Genet. 2004;12:460-468.
• Zhu X, Cooper RS, Elston RC. Linkage analysis of a complex disease through use of admixed populations. Am J Hum Genet. 2004;74:1136-1153.
• Boyne MS, Gaskin P, Luke A, Wilks RJ, Bennett FI, Younger N, Sargeant LA, Adeyemo AA, Cooper RS, Forrester TE. Energetic determinants of glucose tolerance status in Jamaican adults. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004;58:1666-1668.
• Victor RG, Haley RW, Willett DL, Peshock RM, Vaeth PC, Leonard D, Basit M, Cooper RS, Iannacchione VG, Visscher WA, Staab JM, Hobbs HH. The Dallas Heart Study: a population-based probability sample for the multidisciplinary study of ethnic differences in cardiovascular health. Am J Cardiol. 2004;93:1473-1480.
• Cooper RS. Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin. In: Marmot M, Elliot, P., ed. Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology. From Aetiology to Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2004.
• Cooper RS. Genetic factors in ethnic disparities in health. Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Later Life. Washington D.C.: National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Press; 2004:267-309.
• Fejerman L, Bouzekri N, Wu X, Adeyemo A, Luke A, Zhu X, Ward R, Cooper RS. Association between evolutionary history of angiotensinogen haplotypes and plasma levels. Hum Genet. 2004;115:310-318.
• Sargeant LA, Boyne MS, Bennett FI, Forrester TE, Cooper RS, Wilks RJ. Impaired glucose regulation in adults in Jamaica: who should have the oral glucose tolerance test? Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2004;16:35-42.
• Morrison AC, Cooper R, Hunt S, Lewis CE, Luke A, Mosley TH, Boerwinkle E. Genome scan for hypertension in nonobese African Americans: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Blood Pressure Program. Am J Hypertens. 2004;17:834-838.
• Kramer H, Han C, Post W, Goff D, Diez-Roux A, Cooper R, Jinagouda S, Shea S. Racial/ethnic differences in hypertension and hypertension treatment and control in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Hypertens. 2004;17:963-970.
• McPeek MS, Wu X, Ober C. Best linear unbiased allele-frequency estimation in complex pedigrees. Biometrics. 2004;60:359-367.
• Kramer H, Lash, J. Non-diabetic kidney disease. In: Periera B, Sayegh, M., ed. Dialysis and Transplantation: A Companion to Brenner and Rector's The Kidney; 2004.
• Kramer H. Screening for kidney disease in adults with diabetes mellitus: don't forget serum creatinine. Am J Kidney Dis. 2004;44:921-923.
• Forrester T, Adeyemo A, Soarres-Wynter S, Sargent L, Bennett F, Wilks R, Luke A, Prewitt E, Kramer H, Cooper RS. A randomized trial on sodium reduction in two developing countries. J Hum Hypertens. 2005;19:55-60.
• Cooper RS, Wolf-Maier K, Luke A, Adeyemo A, Banegas JR, Forrester T, Giampaoli S, Joffres M, Kastarinen M, Primatesta P, Stegmayr B, Thamm M. An international comparative study of blood pressure in populations of European vs. African descent. BMC Med. 2005;3:2.
• Tang H, Quetermous T, Rodriguez B, Kardia SL, Zhu X, Brown A Pankow JS, Privince MA, Hunt SC, Boewinkle E, Schork NJ, Risch NJ.  Genetic structure, self-identifiied race/ethnicity, and confounding in case-control association studies. Am J Hum Genet. 2005;76:268-275.
• The Diverse Populations Collaboration. Smoking, body weight, and CHD mortality in diverse populations. Prev Med 2004;38:834-840.
• Lawoyin TO, Asuzu MC, Kaufman J, Rotimi C, Johnson L, Owoaje E, Cooper R. Using verbal autopsy to identify and proportionally assign cause of death in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. Nigerian Postgrad Med J 2004;11:182-186.
• Luke A, Kramer H, Adeyemo A, Forrester T, Wilks R, Shoeller D, Leman C, Cooper RS. Relationship between blood pressure and physical activity assessed with stable isotopes. J Hum Hypertension. 2005;19;105-111.
• Jorgenson E, Tang H, Gadde M, Province M, Leppert M, Kardia S, Schork N, Cooper R, Rao DC, Boerwinkle E, Risch N. Ethnicity and human genetic linkage maps. Am J Hum Genetics. 2005;76:23-31.
• Kramer H, Toto R, Peshock R, Victor R, Cooper RS, Hobbs H. The association between chronic kidney disease and coronary artery calcification: The Dallas Heart Study. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2005;16;105-109.
• Cooper RS. Race and IQ: Molecular genetics as deus ex machina. Am Psychol. 2005;60:71-76.
• Zhu W, Luke A, Cooper RS, Quertermous T, Hanis C, Mosley T, Gu C, Risch N, Rao DC, Weder A, for the FBPP Investigators. Genome-wide admixture mapping for hypertension loci: The NHBLI Family Blood Pressure Program. Nat Genetics. 2005;37:177-181.
• Zhu X, Fejerman L, Luke A, Adeyemo A, Cooper R. Haplotypes produced from rare variants in the promoter and coding regions of angiotensinogen contribute to variation in angiotensinogen levels. Hum Mol Genetics. 2005;14:639-643.
• Smith SC Jr, Clark LT, Cooper RS, Daniels SR, Kumanyika SK, Ofili E, Quinones MA, Sanchez EJ, Saunders E, Tiukinhoy SD; American Heart Association Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hypertension Writing Group. Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hypertension Writing Group. Circulation. 2005;111:e134-139.
• Drazner M, Dries DL, Peshock RM, Cooper RS, Klassen C, Kazi F, Willett D, Victor RG. African Americans have markedly increased prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy as compared to whites in the general population: the Dallas Heart Study. Hypertension 2005;46:1-6.
• McKenzie CA, Sinsheimer JS, Adeyemo AA, Cox RD, Southam L, Hugill A, Bouzekri N, Lathrop M, Forrester TE, Cooper RS, Ward R. SNP haplotypes in the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene: analysis of Nigerian family data using gamete competition models. Ann Hum Genetics 2005;69:227-232.
• Kramer H, Wu X, Kan D, Luke A, Mckenzie C, Adeyemo A, Cooper RS, Zhu X. ACE gene polymorphisms and obesity: an examination of three black populations. Obesity Res. 2005;13:823-828
• Adeyemo A, Wu X, Cooper RS, Luke A, Kan D, Omotade O, Bouzekri N, Zhu X. Genetic effects on blood pressure localized to chromosomes 6 and 7. J Hypertension. 2005;7:1367-1373.
• Ordunez P, Munoz JLB, Espinoza-Brito A, Silva LC, Cooper RS. Ethnicity, education and blood pressure in Cuba. Am J Epidemiol. 2005;162:49-56.
• Kramer H, Jacobs D, Bild D, Post W, Detrano R, Tracy R, Cooper RS, Liu K. Urinary albumin excretion and subclinical cardiovascular disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Hypertension 2005;46:38-43.
• Kraja A, Rao DC, Weder A, Mosley TH, Turner ST, Hsiung CA, Quertermous T, Curb D, Cooper R, Province M. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the metabolic syndrome in a large multi-ethnic study: the Family Blood Pressure Program. Nutrition Metabolism 2005; 2:17  doi:10.1186/1743-7075-2-17.
• Kraja TA, Rao DC, Weder AB, Cooper R, Curb DJ, Hanis CL, Turner ST, de Andrade M, Hsiung CA, Quertermous T, Zhu X, Province MA. Two major QTLs and several others relate to factors of metabolic syndrome in the Family Blood Pressure Program. Hypertension 2005;46:751-758.
• Kramer H, Luke A, Bidani A, Cao G, Cooper RS, McGee D. Obesity and incident and prevalent chronic kidney disease: The Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program. Am J Kidney Dis 2005;46:587-594.
• Dries DL. Victor RG, Rame EJ, Cooper RS, Wu X, Zhu X, Leonard D, Ho S-I, Wu Q, Post E, Drazner MH. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the corin gene are associated with hypertension. Circulation 2005;112:2403-2410.
• Sabeti PC, Walsh E, Hutchison H, Varilly P, Fry B, Schaffner S, Cullen M, Carrington M, Patterson N, Roy J, Dean M, Cooper R, Altshuler D, O’Brien S, Lander ES. The case for selection at CCR5Δ32. PLoS Biology. 2005;3(11):e378.
• Cooper RS, Psaty BM. Should ethnicity serve as the basis for trial design? Circulation 2005;112:3660-3665.  
• Bielinksi SJ, Lynch AI, Miller MB, Weder A, Cooper R, Oberman A, Risch N, Chen I, Sturner ST, Fornage M, Province M, Arnett DK. Genome-wide linkage analysis for loci affecting pulse pressure: The Family Blood Pressure Program (FBPP). Hypertension 2005:46:1286-1293
• Zhu X, Cooper RS, Kan D, Cao G, Wu X. A genome wide linkage and association study using COGA data. BMC Genetics. 2005 Dec 30;6 Suppl 1:S128
• Wu X, Kan D, Cooper RS, Zhu X. Identifying genetic variation affecting a complex trait in simulated data: a comparison of meta-analysis with pooled data analysis. BMC Genet. 2005 Dec 30;6 Suppl 1:S97 
• Ordunez Garcia P, Cooper RS, Espinosa Brito, Ferrer MDI, Munoz JLB, La Rosa Linares Y. Enfermedades cardiovasculares y factores de riesgo asociados en Cuba: Escenario para la prevención y el control. (Cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors in Cuba: Potencial for prevention and control) Revista Cubana Salud Publica 2005;31:1-22