Erin Ware | Survey Research Center

Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

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Biography

Dr. Ware has a doctoral degree in epidemiology and master’s degrees in statistics and public health. Dr. Ware’s work for has been focused on health disparities in psychiatric epidemiology and high throughput statistical analysis of genomic data and its relationship to outcomes that show marked disparities across race/ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups and sexes. She also has experience in exploring the relationships among genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic data and their interactions with behavioral and socioeconomic risk factors as determinants of chronic disease phenotypes that disproportionately affect minorities using cutting-edge computational methods. She is currently a research associate professor in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group in the Survey Research Center integrating biological and social data on a large scale. She has worked and published on the Health and Retirement Study, the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy, and the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members. She teaches statistics, statistical programming, and epidemiology and is particularly skilled at relaying complex computational, statistical and genetic concepts to social scientists and lay persons.

Projects

A Multi-Ancestry Study of Gene-Lifestyle Interactions and Multi-Omics in Cardiometabolic Traits

A Multi-Ancestry Study of Gene-Lifestyle Interactions and Multi-Omics in Cardiometabolic Traits

Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Health Among Older Couples: The Roles of Genetics and Marital Quality

Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Health Among Older Couples: The Roles of Genetics and Marital Quality

Characterizing disparities in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease risk through polygenic risk and epidemiologic factors in the Health and Retirement Survey

Characterizing disparities in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease risk through polygenic risk and epidemiologic factors in the Health and Retirement Survey

Funded Research

Publications

Stoldt, Meike, Farah Ammous, Lin, Lisha, Ratliff, Scott M, Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Kardia, Sharon L R, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2024. DNA Methylation at C-Reactive Protein-Associated CpG Sites May Mediate the Pathway Between Educational Attainment and Cognition. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(8)
Higgins Tejera, César, Erin Bakshis Ware, Margaret Takako Hicken, Lindsay Kobayashi, Wang, Herong, Blostein, Freida, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2024. The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia. Communications Medicine 4(1):1-14.
Kyle A. Campbell, Mingzhou Fu, Elizabeth MacDonald, Matthew Zawistowski, Kelly M. Bakulski, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2024. Relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia with Mendelian randomization approaches among older adults in the United States. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 16(2):e12598.
Stoldt, Meike, Farah Ammous, Lin,Lisha, Ratliff, Scott M, Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Kardia, Sharon L R, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2024. DNA Methylation at CRP-Associated CpG Sites May Mediate the Pathway between Educational Attainment and Cognition. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(8):glae159.
Murray B. Stein, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2024. Polygenic risk for suicide attempt is associated with lifetime suicide attempt in US soldiers independent of parental risk. Journal of Affective Disorders 351:671-682.
Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn, Emily Wolfson, Miles Berger, Jacqueline Leung, Erin Bakshis Ware, Andrea Baccarelli, Richard N. Jones, Long H. Ngo, Edward R. Marcantonio, Sharon K. Inouye, Amy J. H. Kind. 2024. Multi‐level social determinants of health, inflammation, and postoperative delirium in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Kira S Birditt, Angela Elizabeth Turkelson, Polenick, Courtney A, Cranford, James A, Jennifer Ann Smith, Erin Bakshis Ware, Blow, Frederic C. 2023. Alcohol Use and Mortality among Older Couples in the United States: Evidence of Individual and Partner Effects. The Gerontologist
Anna R. Docherty, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2023. GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors. American Journal of Psychiatry 180(10):723-738.
Allison Reiner, Kelly M. Bakulski, Fisher,Jonah, John F Dou, Lisa Schneper, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman, Matthew Zawistowski, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2023. Sex-specific DNA methylation in saliva from the multi-ethnic Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Epigenetics 18(1)
Tejera, César Higgins , Erin Bakshis Ware, Lindsay Kobayashi, Fu,Mingzhou, Margaret Takako Hicken, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2023. Decomposing interaction and mediating effects of race/ethnicity and circulating blood levels of cystatin C on cognitive status in the United States health and retirement study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17
Freida A. Blostein, Fisher,Jonah, John Dou, Lisa Schneper, Erin Bakshis Ware, Daniel A. Notterman, Colter Mitchell, Kelly M. Bakulski. 2022. Polymethylation scores for prenatal maternal smoke exposure persist until age 15 and are detected in saliva in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing cohort. Epigenetics 17(13):2223-2240.
Niamh Mullins, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2022. Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors. Biological Psychiatry 91(3):313-327.
Kolli, Ajay, Zhou, Yunshu, Chung, Grace, Erin Bakshis Ware, Kenneth M Langa, Josh Ehrlich. 2022. Interactions between the apolipoprotein E4 gene and modifiable risk factors for cognitive impairment: a nationally representative panel study. BMC Geriatrics 22:938.
Zhang, Xinman, Ammous, Farah, Lin, Lisha, Ratliff, Scott M., Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Jennifer Ann Smith. 2022. The Interplay of Epigenetic, Genetic, and Traditional Risk Factors on Blood Pressure: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Genes 13(11):1959.
Lauren Y. M. Middleton, John Dou, Jonah Fisher, Jonathan A. Heiss, Vy K. Nguyen, Allan C. Just, Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, Colter Mitchell, Justin A. Colacino, Kelly M. Bakulski. 2022. Saliva cell type DNA methylation reference panel for epidemiological studies in children. Epigenetics 17(2):161-177.
Kelly M. Bakulski, Vadari,Harita Shree, Jessica Danielle Faul, Steven G Heeringa, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Kenneth M Langa, Jennifer Ann Smith, Jennifer J. Manly, Colter Mitchell, Kelly S. Benke, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2021. Cumulative Genetic Risk and APOE Îµ4 Are Independently Associated With Dementia Status in a Multiethnic, Population-Based Cohort. Neurology Genetics 7(2):e576.
Brady Thomas West, Roderick J Little, Rebecca R. Andridge, Philip S. Boonstra, Erin Bakshis Ware, Anita Pandit, Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton. 2021. Assessing selection bias in regression coefficients estimated from nonprobability samples with applications to genetics and demographic surveys. The Annals of Applied Statistics 15(3):1556-1581.
Bressler, Jan, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2021. Association of low-frequency and rare coding variants with information processing speed. Translational Psychiatry 11:613.
Mariaelisa Graff, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2021. Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry. American journal of human genetics 108(4):564-582.
Fu,Mingzhou, Bakulski, Kelly M., Higgins, Cesar, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2021. Mendelian Randomization of Dyslipidemia on Cognitive Impairment Among Older Americans. Frontiers in Neurology
Erin Bakshis Ware, Morataya, Cristina, Fu,Mingzhou, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2021. Type 2 Diabetes and Cognitive Status in the Health and Retirement Study: A Mendelian Randomization Approach. Frontiers in Genetics 12:634767.
Daokun Sun, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, et al.. 2021. Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study accounting for gene-psychosocial factor interactions identifies novel loci for blood pressure traits. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances 2(1):100013.
Bakulski, Kelly M., Fisher, Jonah D., Dou, John F., Gard, Arianna, Schneper, Lisa, Notterman, Daniel A., Erin Bakshis Ware, Colter Mitchell. 2021. Prenatal Particulate Matter Exposure Is Associated with Saliva DNA Methylation at Age 15: Applying Cumulative DNA Methylation Scores as an Exposure Biomarker. Toxics 9(10):262.
Gard, Arianna Morgan, Erin Bakshis Ware, Luke Williamson Hyde, Lauren Lucia Schmitz, Jessica Danielle Faul, Colter Mitchell. 2021. Phenotypic and genetic markers of psychopathology in a population-based sample of older adults. Translational Psychiatry 11:239.
Murray B. Stein, Sonia Jain, Laura Campbell-Sills, Erin Bakshis Ware, Karmel W. Choi, Feng He, Tian Ge, Joel Gelernter, Jordan W. Smoller, Ronald C. Kessler, Robert J. Ursano. 2021. Polygenic risk for major depression is associated with lifetime suicide attempt in US soldiers independent of personal and parental history of major depression. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 186(8):469-475.
Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, Kabeto, Mohammed U, Jonah Fisher, Kenneth M Langa. 2021. The Effect of Childhood Socioeconomic Position and Social Mobility on Cognitive Function and Change Among Older Adults: A Comparison Between the United States and England. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(Supplement_1):S51-S63.
Minjung Kho, Jennifer Ann Smith, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2020. Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis of Individuals of European Ancestry Identifies Suggestive Loci for Sodium Intake, Potassium Intake, and Their Ratio Measured from 24-Hour or Half-Day Urine Samples. The Journal of Nutrition 150(10):2635-2645.
Kristen M. Brown, Ana V. Diez-Roux, Jennifer Ann Smith, Needham,Belinda L, Bhramar Mukherjee, Erin Bakshis Ware, Yongmei Liu, Steven W. Cole, Teresa E. Seeman, Sharon L. R. Kardia. 2020. Social regulation of inflammation related gene expression in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 117:104654.
de las Fuentes, Lisa, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2020. Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci. Molecular Psychiatry 26(6):2111-2125.
Kessler,Ronald C, Erin Bakshis Ware, Logue, Mark W, Miller, Mark W, Wolf, Erika J, Huber, Bertrand Russ, Morrison, Filomene G, Zhou, Zhenwei , Zheng, Yuanchao , Smith, Alicia K, Daskalakis, Nikolaos P, Ratanatharathorn, Andrew , Uddin, Monica , Nievergelt, Caroline M, Ashley-Koch, Allison E, Baker, Dewleen G, Beckham, Jean C, Garrett, Melanie E, Boks, Marco P, Geuze, Elbert . 2020. An epigenome-wide association study of posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans implicates several new DNA methylation loci. Clinical Epigenetics 12(1):46.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Colter Mitchell, Kelly M. Bakulski. 2020. Considering the APOE locus in Alzheimerâs disease polygenic scores in the Health and Retirement Study: a longitudinal panel study. BMC Medical Genomics 13(1):164.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Deelen, Joris , Evans, Daniel S, Arking, Dan E, Tesi, Niccolò , Nygaard, Marianne , Liu, Xiaomin , Wojczynski, Mary K, Biggs, Mary L, Spek, A van der, Atzmon, Gil , Sarnowski, Chloé , Smith, Albert V, Seppälä, Ilkka , Cordell, Heather J, Dose, Janina . 2019. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes. Nature Communications 10:3669.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, Ron T. Ganesvoort, Gary C. Curhan, Martin Pollak, David B. Mount, Stephen T. Turner, Guotao Chen, Ronak Jagdeep Shah, Sharon L.R. Kardia, John C. Lieske. 2019. Genome-wide Association Study of 24-Hour Urinary Excretion of Calcium, Magnesium, and Uric Acid. Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes 3(4):448-460.
Amy R. Bentley, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2019. Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids. Nature Genetics 51(4):636-648.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Haljas, Kadri , Amare, Azmeraw T, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z, Hsu, Yi-Hsiang , Mosley, Thomas , Newman, Anne , Murabito, Joanne , Tiemeier, Henning , Tanaka, Toshiko , van Duijn, Cornelia , Ding, Jingzhong , Llewellyn, David J, Bennett, David A, Terracciano, Antonio , Launer, Lenore , Ladwig, Karl-Heinz , Cornelis, Marylin C, Teumer, Alexander , Grabe, Hans , Snieder, Harold , Eriksson, Johan G, Groop, Leif , Räikkönen, Katri , Lahti, Jari . 2019. Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Study of Depressive Symptoms with Type 2 Diabetes and Quantitative Glycemic Traits. Psychosomatic Medicine
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., ..., et al.. 2019. Combined linkage and association analysis identifies rare and low frequency variants for blood pressure at 1q31. European Journal of Human Genetics 27:269-277.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Bentley, Amy R, Noordam, Raymond , Sung, Yun Ju, Schwander, Karen , Winkler, Thomas W, Jakupović, Hermina , Chasman, Daniel I, Manning, Alisa , Ntalla, Ioanna , Aschard, Hugues , Brown, Michael R, Fuentes, L de las, Franceschini, Nora , Guo, Xiuqing . 2019. Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity. Nature Communications 10(1):376.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., de Vries, Paul S, Brown, Michael R, Bentley, Amy R, Sung, Yun J, Winkler, Thomas W, Ntalla, Ioanna , Schwander, Karen , Kraja, Aldi T, Guo, Xiuqing , Franceschini, Nora , Cheng, Ching-Yu , Sim, Xueling , Vojinovic, Dina , Huffman, Jennifer E, Musani, Solomon K. 2019. Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions. American Journal of Epidemiology 188(6):1033-1054.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Taylor, Jacquelyn Y, Wright, Michelle L. 2019. Using Genetic Burden Scores for Gene-by-Methylation Interaction Analysis on Metabolic Syndrome in African Americans. Biological Research For Nursing 21(3):279-285.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Bentley, Amy R, Sung, Yun J, Brown, Michael R, Winkler, Thomas W, Kraja, Aldi T, Ntalla, Ioanna , Schwander, Karen , Chasman, Daniel I, Lim, Elise , Deng, Xuan , Guo, Xiuqing , Liu, Jingmin , Lu, Yingchang , Cheng, Ching-Yu , Sim, Xueling , Vojinovic, Dina , Huffman, Jennifer E, Musani, Solomon K, Li, Changwei , Feitosa, Mary F, Richard, Melissa A, Noordam, Raymond , Baker, Jenna , Chen, Guanjie , Aschard, Hugues , Bartz, Traci M, Ding, Jingzhong , Dorajoo, Rajkumar , Manning, Alisa K, Rankinen, Tuomo , Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Graff, Mariaelisa , Alver, Maris , Boissel, Mathilde , Chai, Jin Fang, Chen, Xu , Divers, Jasmin , Evangelou, Evangelos , Gao, Chuan , Goel, Anuj , Hagemeijer, Yanick , Harris, Sarah E, Hartwig, Fernando P, He, Meian , Horimoto, Andrea R. V. R., Hsu, Fang-Chi , Hung, Yi-Jen , Jackson, Anne U, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani , Komulainen, Pirjo , Kühnel, Brigitte , Leander, Karin , Lin, Keng-Hung , Luan, Jian'an , Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka , Matoba, Nana , Nolte, Ilja M, Pietzner, Maik , Prins, Bram , Riaz, Muhammad , Robino, Antonietta , Said, M Abdullah, Schupf, Nicole , Scott, Robert A, Sofer, Tamar , Stancáková, Alena , Takeuchi, Fumihiko , Tayo, Bamidele O, Most, Peter J. van der, Varga, Tibor V, Wang, Tzung-Dau , Wang, Yajuan , Wen, Wanqing , Xiang, Yong-Bing , Yanek, Lisa R, Zhang, Weihua , Zhao, Jing Hua, Adeyemo, Adebowale , Afaq, Saima , Amin, Najaf , Amini, Marzyeh , Arking, Dan E, Arzumanyan, Zorayr , Aung, Tin , Ballantyne, Christie , Barr, R Graham, Bielak, Lawrence F, Boerwinkle, Eric , Bottinger, Erwin P, Broeckel, Ulrich , Brown, Morris , Cade, Brian E, Campbell, Archie , Canouil, Mickaël , Charumathi, Sabanayagam , Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Christensen, Kaare , Concas, Maria Pina, Connell, John M, Fuentes, L de las, Silva, H Janaka de, Vries, Paul S. de, Doumatey, Ayo , Duan, Qing , Eaton, Charles B, Eppinga, Ruben N, Floyd, James S, Forouhi, Nita G, Forrester, Terrence , Friedlander, Yechiel , Gandin, Ilaria , Gao, He , Ghanbari, Mohsen , Gharib, Sina A, Gigante, Bruna , Giulianini, Franco , Grabe, Hans J, Gu, C Charles, Harris, Tamara B, Heikkinen, Sami , Heng, Chew-Kiat , Hirata, Makoto , Hixson, James E, Ikram, M Arfan, Jia, Yucheng , Joehanes, Roby , Johnson, Craig , Jonas, Jost Bruno, Justice, Anne E, Katsuya, Tomohiro , Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Koh, Woon-Puay , Kolcic, Ivana , Kooperberg, Charles , Krieger, Jose E, Kritchevsky, Stephen B, Kubo, Michiaki , Kuusisto, Johanna , Lakka, Timo A, Langefeld, Carl D, Langenberg, Claudia , Launer, Lenore J, Lehne, Benjamin , Lewis, Cora E, Li, Yize , Liang, Jingjing , Lin, Shiow , Liu, Ching-Ti , Liu, Jianjun , Liu, Kiang , Loh, Marie , Lohman, Kurt K, Louie, Tin , Luzzi, Anna , Mägi, Reedik , Mahajan, Anubha , Manichaikul, Ani W, McKenzie, Colin A, Meitinger, Thomas , Metspalu, Andres , Milaneschi, Yuri , Milani, Lili , Mohlke, Karen L, Momozawa, Yukihide , Morris, Andrew P, Murray, Alison D, Nalls, Mike A, Nauck, Matthias , Nelson, Christopher P, North, Kari E, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Palmer, Nicholette D, Papanicolau, George J, Pedersen, Nancy L, Peters, Annette , Peyser, Patricia A, Polasek, Ozren , Poulter, Neil , Raitakari, Olli T, Reiner, Alex P, Renström, Frida , Rice, Treva K, Rich, Stephen S, Robinson, Jennifer G, Rose, Lynda M, Rosendaal, Frits R, Rudan, Igor , Schmidt, Carsten O, Schreiner, Pamela J, Scott, William R, Sever, Peter , Shi, Yuan , Sidney, Stephen , Sims, Mario , Snieder, Harold , Starr, John M, Strauch, Konstantin , Stringham, Heather M, Tan, Nicholas Y. Q., Tang, Hua , Taylor, Kent D, Teo, Yik Ying, Tham, Yih Chung, Tiemeier, Henning , Turner, Stephen T, Uitterlinden, André G, Heemst, Diana van, Waldenberger, Melanie , Wang, Heming , Wang, Lan , Wang, Lihua , Wei, Wen Bin, Williams, Christine A, Wilson, Gregory , Wojczynski, Mary K, Yao, Jie , Young, Kristin , Yu, Caizheng , Yuan, Jian-Min , Zhou, Jie , Zonderman, Alan B, Becker, Diane M, Boehnke, Michael , Bowden, Donald W. 2019. Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids. Nature Genetics 51(4):636.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Sung, Yun Ju, de las Fuentes, Lisa , Winkler, Thomas W, Chasman, Daniel I, Bentley, Amy R, Kraja, Aldi T, Ntalla, Ioanna , Warren, Helen R, Guo, Xiuqing , Schwander, Karen , Manning, Alisa K, Brown, Michael R, Aschard, Hugues , Feitosa, Mary F, Franceschini, Nora . 2019. A multi-ancestry genome-wide study incorporating gene-smoking interactions identifies multiple new loci for pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Human Molecular Genetics 28(15):2615-2633.
Jennifer Ann Smith, Erin Bakshis Ware, Needham, Belinda L., Kardia, Sharon R., Brown, Kristen M, Diez-Roux, Ana V, Mukherjee, Bhramar , Liu, Yongmei , Cole, Steven W, Seeman, Teresa E. 2019. Expression of socially sensitive genes: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. PLOS ONE 14(4):e0214061.
Lauren Lucia Schmitz, Erin Bakshis Ware, Gard, Arianna M. 2019. Examining sex differences in pleiotropic effects for depression and smoking using polygenic and gene-region aggregation techniques. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 180(6):448-468.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Feitosa, Mary F, Kraja, Aldi T, Chasman, Daniel I, Sung, Yun J, Winkler, Thomas W, Ntalla, Ioanna , Guo, Xiuqing , Franceschini, Nora , Cheng, Ching-Yu , Sim, Xueling , Vojinovic, Dina , Marten, Jonathan , Musani, Solomon K, Li, Changwei , Bentley, Amy R. 2018. Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries. PLOS ONE 13(6):e0198166.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Liu, Jiaxuan , Turner, Stephen T, Mosley, Thomas H. 2018. DNA methylation in the APOE genomic region is associated with cognitive function in African Americans. BMC Medical Genomics 11(1):43.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Sung, Yun J, Winkler, Thomas W, de las Fuentes, Lisa , Bentley, Amy R, Brown, Michael R, Kraja, Aldi T, Schwander, Karen , Ntalla, Ioanna , Guo, Xiuqing , Franceschini, Nora , Lu, Yingchang , Cheng, Ching-Yu , Sim, Xueling , Vojinovic, Dina , Marten, Jonathan . 2018. A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure. The American Journal of Human Genetics 102(3):375-400.
Jennifer Ann Smith, Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Davies, Gail , Lam, Max , Harris, Sarah E, Trampush, Joey W, Luciano, Michelle , Hill, W D, Hagenaars, Saskia P, Ritchie, Stuart J, Marioni, Riccardo E, Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe , Liewald, David C. M., Okely, Judith A, Ahola-Olli, Ari , Barnes, Catriona L. K., Bertram, Lars . 2018. Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function. Nature Communications 9(1):2098.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Pratyaydipta, Rudra , Alaine, Broadaway K, Jhun, Min A, Bielak, Lawrence F, Wei, Zhao , Peyser, Patricia A, Epstein, Michael P, Debashis, Ghosh . 2018. Testing cross-phenotype effects of rare variants in longitudinal studies of complex traits. Genetic epidemiology 42(4):320-332.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Wright, Michelle L, Taylor, Jacquelyn Y. 2018. Joint Influence of SNPs and DNA Methylation on Lipids in African Americans From Hypertensive Sibships. Biological Research For Nursing 20(2):161-167.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Kattah, A G, Suarez, M L. G., Milic, N , Kantarci, K , Zeydan, B , Mosley, T , Turner, S T, Garovic, V D. 2018. Hormone therapy and urine protein excretion: a multiracial cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis.. Menopause 25(6)
Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Turcot, Valerie , Lu, Yingchang , Highland, Heather M, Schurmann, Claudia , Justice, Anne E, Fine, Rebecca S, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Esko, T√µ , Giri, Ayush , Graff, Mariaelisa , Guo, Xiuqing , Hendricks, Audrey E, Karaderi, Tugce , Lempradl, Adelheid , Locke, Adam E, Mahajan, Anubha , Marouli, Eirini . 2018. Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. Nature genetics 50(1):26-41.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Ward-Caviness, Cavin K, Huffman, Jennifer E, Everett, Karl , Germain, Marine , van Dongen, Jenny , Hill, W David, Jhun, Min A, Brody, Jennifer A, Ghanbari, Mohsen , Du, Lei , Roetker, Nicholas S, de Vries, Paul S, Waldenberger, Melanie , Gieger, Christian , Wolf, Petra , Prokisch, Holger , Koenig, Wolfgang . 2018. DNA methylation age is associated with an altered hemostatic profile in a multiethnic meta-analysis. Blood 132(17):1842-1850.
Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Direk, Nese , Williams, Stephanie , Ripke, Stephan , Air, Tracy , Amare, Azmeraw T, Amin, Najaf , Baune, Bernhard T, Bennett, David A, Blackwood, Douglas H. R., Boomsma, Dorret , Breen, Gerome , Buttenschøn, Henriette N, Byrne, Enda M, Børglum, Anders D, Castelao, Enrique , Cichon, Sven . 2017. An Analysis of Two Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analyses Identifies a New Locus for Broad Depression Phenotype. Biological psychiatry 82(5):322-329.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Canales, Benjamin K, Weiner, I David, Curhan, Gary C, Turner, Stephen T, Perinpam, Majuran , Lieske, John C. 2017. Polymorphisms in Renal Ammonia Metabolism Genes Correlate With 24-Hour Urine pH. Kidney International Reports 2(6):1111-1121.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., He, Zihuai . 2017. Interaction between Social/Psychosocial Factors and Genetic Variants on Body Mass Index: A Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis in a Longitudinal Setting. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14(10):1153.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Perinpam, Majuran , Turner, Stephen T, Lieske, John C. 2017. Association of urinary citrate excretion, pH, and net gastrointestinal alkali absorption with diet, diuretic use, and blood glucose concentration. Physiological Reports 5(19)
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Nandakumar, Priyanka , Lee, Dongwon , Richard, Melissa A, Tekola-Ayele, Fasil , Tayo, Bamidele O, Sung, Yun J, Salako, Babatunde , Ogunniyi, Adesola , Gu, C C, Grove, Megan L, Fornage, Myriam , Rotima, Charles , Cooper, Richard S, Morrison, Alanna C, Ehret, Georg , Chakravarti, Aravinda . 2017. Rare coding variants associated with blood pressure variation in 15 914 individuals of African ancestry. Journal of hypertension 35(7):1381–1389.
Chen,Yan, Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Li,Yan, Kardia, Sharon R., Evans, Mary Anne, Ng, M C. Y., Graff, M , Lu, Y , Justice, A E, Mudgal, P , Liu, C T, Young, K , Yanek, L R, Feitosa, M F, Wojczynski, M K, Rand, K , Brody, J A, Cade, B E. 2017. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African ancestry anthropometry genetics consortium. PLoS genetics 13(4):e1006719.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Colter Mitchell, Steven G Heeringa, Kessler,Ronald C, Stein, Murray B, Chen, Chia-Yen , Borja, Susan , Cai, Tianxi , Dempsey, Catherine L, Fullerton, Carol S, Gelernter, Joel , Jain, Sonia , Naifeh, James A, Nock, Matthew K, Ripke, Stephan , Sun, Xiaoying , Beckham, Jean C, Kimbrel, Nathan A, Ursano, Robert J, Smoller, Jordan W. 2017. Genomewide association studies of suicide attempts in US soldiers. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 174(8):786-797.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jessica Danielle Faul, David R Weir, Kardia, Sharon R., Liang, Jingjing , Le, Thu H, Edwards, Digna R. Velez, Tayo, Bamidele O, Gaulton, Kyle J, Lu, Yingchang , Jensen, Richard A, Chen, Guanjie , Yanek, Lisa R, Schwander, Karen , Tajuddin, Salman M, Sofer, Tamar , Kim, Wonji , Kayima, James , McKenzie, Colin A, Fox, Ervin . 2017. Single-trait and multi-trait genome-wide association analyses identify novel loci for blood pressure in African-ancestry populations. PLOS Genetics 13(5):e1006728.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Jhun, Min A, Mosley, Thomas H, Turner, Stephen T, Peyser, Patricia A, Park, Sung Kyun. 2017. Modeling the Causal Role of DNA Methylation in the Association between Cigarette Smoking and Inflammation in African Americans:A Two-Step Epigenetic Mendelian Randomization Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 186(10):1149-1158.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., He, Karen Y, Wang, Heming , Cade, Brian E, Nandakumar, Priyanka , Giri, Ayush , Haessler, Jeffrey , Liang, Jingjing , Franceschini, Nora , Le, Thu H, Kooperberg, Charles , Edwards, Todd L, Lin, Xihong , Chakravarti, Aravinda , Redline, Susan , Zhu, Xiaofeng . 2017. Rare variants in fox-1 homolog A (RBFOX1) are associated with lower blood pressure. PLOS Genetics 13(3):e1006678.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Olfson, E , Saccone, N L, Johnson, E O, Chen, L-S , Culverhouse, R , Doheny, K , Foltz, S M, Fox, L , Gogarten, S M, Hartz, S , Hetrick, K , Laurie, C C, Marosy, B , Amin, N , Arnett, D , Barr, R G, Bartz, T M, Bertelsen, S . 2016. Rare, low frequency and common coding variants in CHRNA5 and their contribution to nicotine dependence in European and African Americans. Molecular psychiatry 21(5):601-607.
Jessica Danielle Faul, David R Weir, Erin Bakshis Ware, ..., et al.. 2016. Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(47):13366-13371.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Perinpam, Majuran , Turner, Stephen T, Lieske, John C. 2016. Key influence of sex on urine volume and osmolality. Biology of Sex Differences 7(1):12.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Lieske, John C, Turner, Stephen T, Edeh, Samuel N. 2016. Heritability of dietary traits that contribute to nephrolithiasis in a cohort of adult sibships. Journal of nephrology 29(1):45-51.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Broadaway, K Alaine, Cutler, David J, Duncan, Richard , Moore, Jacob L, Jhun, Min A, Bielak, Lawrence F, Peyser, Patricia A, Ghosh, Debashis , Epstein, Michael P. 2016. A Statistical Approach for Testing Cross-Phenotype Effects of Rare Variants. The American Journal of Human Genetics 98(3):525-540.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Joehanes, Roby , Just, Allan C, Marioni, Riccardo E, Pilling, Luke C, Reynolds, Lindsay M, Mandaviya, Pooja R, Guan, Weihua , Xu, Tao , Elks, Cathy E, Aslibekyan, Stella , Moreno-Macias, Hortensia , Brody, Jennifer A, Dhingra, Radhika , Yousefi, Paul , Pankow, James S, Kunze, Sonja , Shah, Sonia H, McRae, Allan F. 2016. Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics 9(5):436-447.
Jessica Danielle Faul, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Lee, James Z., Kardia, Sharon R., Benjamin, Daniel J., Okbay, Aysu , Beauchamp, Jonathan P, Fontana, Mark Alan, Pers, Tune H, Rietveld, Cornelius A, Turley, Patrick , Chen, Guo-Bo , Emilsson, Valur , Meddens, S F, Oskarsson, Sven , Pickrell, Joseph K, Thom, Kevin , Timshel, Pascal , de Vlaming, Ronald . 2016. Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533(7604):539-542.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Mukherjee, B , Lee, S , Diez-Roux, A V. 2016. Applying Novel Methods for Assessing Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Social and Psychosocial Environment Interactions with Genetic Factors in the Prediction of Depressive Symptoms in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Behavior Genetics 46(1):89-99.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kardia, Sharon R., Riehle, E , Zhao, W , Turner, Sarah E, Lieske, J C. 2015. SLC2A9 Genotype Is Associated with SLC2A9 Gene Expression and Urinary Uric Acid Concentration. Plos One 10(7)
Jessica Danielle Faul, Chen,Yan, Lesli Jo Scott, Tang,Sandra, Erin Bakshis Ware, David R Weir, Benjamin, Daniel J., Taylor, Kathy, Kardia, Sharon R., Joshi, P K, Esko, T , Mattsson, H , Eklund, N , Gandin, I , Nutile, T , Jackson, A U, Schurmann, C , Smith, A V, Zhang, W , Okada, Y . 2015. Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations. Nature 523:459-462.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Mukherjee, B , Sun, Y V, Diez-Roux, A V. 2015. Comparative genome-wide association studies of a depressive symptom phenotype in a repeated measures setting by race/ethnicity in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. BMC Genetics 16
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Middha, Pooja , Beacher, Lisa . 2015. Current Applications of Genetic Risk Scores to Cardiovascular Outcomes and Subclinical Phenotypes. Current Epidemiology Reports 2(3):180-190.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., He, Z H, Payne, E K, Mukherjee, B , Lee, Seunggeun , Sanchez, Brisa N, Seeman, T E, Roux, A V. D.. 2015. Association between Stress Response Genes and Features of Diurnal Cortisol Curves in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: A New Multi-Phenotype Approach for Gene-Based Association Tests. Plos One 10(5)
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Epstein, M P, Duncan, R , Jhun, M A, Bielak, L F, Zhao, W , Peyser, P A, Satten, G A. 2015. A Statistical Approach for Rare-Variant Association Testing in Affected Sibships. American Journal of Human Genetics 96(4):543-554.
Erin Bakshis Ware, Kardia, Sharon R., Perinpam, M , Turner, Sarah E, Lieske, J C. 2015. Effect of Demographics on Excretion of Key Urinary Factors Related to Kidney Stone Risk. Urology 86(4):690-696.