Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes

Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes

Research Summary

The genetic epidemiology of complex diseases in diverse human populations and contexts.

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Hispanic Americans Population Menarche Public Health Health Obesity Genome Wide Association Study Body Mass Index Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genes African Americans Genomics Adiposity Emigration And Immigration Epidemiology Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Genetic Loci Menopause Linear Models Multifactorial Inheritance Meta Analysis Atherosclerosis Women's Health Immigration Genetic Variation

Most Recent Papers

Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Mariaelisa Graff, Victoria L. Buchanan, Anne E. Justice, Heather M. Highland, Xiuqing Guo, Wanying Zhu, Hung Hsin Chen, Kristin L. Young, Kaustubh Adhikari, Nicholette D. Palmer, Jennifer E. Below, Jonathan Bradfield, Alexandre C. Pereira, LáShauntá S. Glover, Daeeun Kim, Adam G. Lilly, Poojan Shrestha, Alvin G. Thomas, Xinruo Zhang, Minhui Chen, Charleston W.K. Chiang, Sara Pulit, Andrea Horimoto, Jose E. Krieger, Marta Guindo-Martínez, Michael Preuss, Claudia Schumann, Roelof A.J. Smit, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Gabriel Bedoya, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Carla Gallo, Rolando González-José, Giovanni Poletti, Francisco Rothhammer, Hakon Hakonarson, Robert Igo, Sharon G. Adler, Sudha K. Iyengar, Susanne B. Nicholas, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Carmen R. Isasi, George Papnicolaou, Adrienne M. Stilp, Qibin Qi, Minjung Kho, Jennifer A. Smith, 2022, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

Intergenerational educational mobility and type 2 diabetes in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Julia B. Ward, Chantel L. Martin, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Jacqueline Torres, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Mary N. Haan, Allison E. Aiello, 2022, Annals of Epidemiology on p. 93-100

Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos on the Importance of Sociocultural Environmental Interactors

Cristin E. McArdle, Hassan Bokhari, Clinton C. Rodell, Victoria Buchanan, Liana K. Preudhomme, Carmen R. Isasi, Mariaelisa Graff, Kari North, Linda C. Gallo, Amber Pirzada, Martha L. Daviglus, Genevieve Wojcik, Jianwen Cai, Krista Perreira, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics

Demographic and sociocultural risk factors for adulthood weight gain in Hispanic/Latinos

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Nicole M. Butera, Evans K. Lodge, Nora Franceschini, Maria M. Llabre, Elva M. Arredondo, Linda C. Gallo, William Arguelles, Frank J. Penedo, Martha L. Daviglus, Carmen R. Isasi, Paul Smokowski, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Allison E. Aiello, Krista M. Perreira, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Kari E. North, 2021, BMC Public Health

Intergenerational Educational Attainment and Cardiometabolic Health in Latino Individuals Living in the United States

Emma G. Crenshaw, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Chantel L. Martin, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Mary N. Haan, Allison E. Aiello, 2021, Obesity on p. 1178-1185

Large trans-ethnic meta-analysis identifies AKR1C4 as a novel gene associated with age at menarche

C. Sarnowski, D. L. Cousminer, N. Franceschini, L. M. Raffield, G. Jia, L. Fernández-Rhodes, S. F.A. Grant, H. Hakonarson, L. A. Lange, J. Long, T. Sofer, R. Tao, R. B. Wallace, Q. Wong, G. Zirpoli, E. Boerwinkle, J. P. Bradfield, A. Correa, C. L. Kooperberg, K. E. North, J. R. Palmer, B. S. Zemel, W. Zheng, J. M. Murabito, K. L. Lunetta, 2021, Human Reproduction on p. 1999-2010

Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Risk of Pediatric Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Michelle J. White, 2021, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Adverse childhood experiences and lifetime adverse maternal outcomes (gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy) in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Alison L. Cammack, Krista M. Perreira, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Christina Cordero, Linda C. Gallo, Carmen R. Isasi, Sheila F. Castañeda, Martha L. Daviglus, Michelle A. Kominiarek, Shakira S. Suglia, 2020, Annals of Epidemiology on p. 1-6

Methylome-wide association study of central adiposity implicates genes involved in immune and endocrine systems

Anne E. Justice, Geetha Chittoor, Rahul Gondalia, Phillip E. Melton, Elise Lim, Megan L. Grove, Eric A. Whitsel, Ching Ti Liu, L. Adrienne Cupples, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Weihua Guan, Jan Bressler, Myriam Fornage, Eric Boerwinkle, Yun Li, Ellen Demerath, Nancy Heard-Costa, Dan Levy, James D. Stewart, Andrea Baccarelli, Lifang Hou, Karen Conneely, Trevor A. Mori, Lawrence J. Beilin, Rae Chi Huang, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Annie Green Howard, Kari E. North, 2020, Epigenomics on p. 1483-1499

Importance of Genetic Studies of Cardiometabolic Disease in Diverse Populations

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Kristin L. Young, Adam G. Lilly, Laura M. Raffield, Heather M. Highland, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Cary Agler, Shelly Ann M. Love, Samson Okello, Lauren E. Petty, Mariaelisa Graff, Jennifer E. Below, Kimon Divaris, Kari E. North, 2020, Circulation Research on p. 1816-1840

Most-Cited Papers

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

Genevieve L. Wojcik, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K. Nishimura, Ran Tao, Jeffrey Haessler, Christopher R. Gignoux, Heather M. Highland, Yesha M. Patel, Elena P. Sorokin, Christy L. Avery, Gillian M. Belbin, Stephanie A. Bien, Iona Cheng, Sinead Cullina, Chani J. Hodonsky, Yao Hu, Laura M. Huckins, Janina Jeff, Anne E. Justice, Jonathan M. Kocarnik, Unhee Lim, Bridget M. Lin, Yingchang Lu, Sarah C. Nelson, Sung Shim L. Park, Hannah Poisner, Michael H. Preuss, Melissa A. Richard, Claudia Schurmann, Veronica W. Setiawan, Alexandra Sockell, Karan Vahi, Marie Verbanck, Abhishek Vishnu, Ryan W. Walker, Kristin L. Young, Niha Zubair, Victor Acuña-Alonso, Jose Luis Ambite, Kathleen C. Barnes, Eric Boerwinkle, Erwin P. Bottinger, Carlos D. Bustamante, Christian Caberto, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Matthew P. Conomos, Ewa Deelman, Ron Do, Kimberly Doheny, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Myriam Fornage, Benyam Hailu, Gerardo Heiss, Brenna M. Henn, Lucia A. Hindorff, Rebecca D. Jackson, Cecelia A. Laurie, Cathy C. Laurie, Yuqing Li, Dan Yu Lin, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Girish Nadkarni, Paul J. Norman, Loreall C. Pooler, Alexander P. Reiner, Jane Romm, Chiara Sabatti, Karla Sandoval, Xin Sheng, Eli A. Stahl, Daniel O. Stram, Timothy A. Thornton, Christina L. Wassel, Lynne R. Wilkens, Cheryl A. Winkler, Sachi Yoneyama, Steven Buyske, Christopher A. Haiman, Charles Kooperberg, Loic Le Marchand, Ruth J.F. Loos, Tara C. Matise, Kari E. North, Ulrike Peters, Eimear E. Kenny, Christopher S. Carlson, 2019, Nature on p. 514-518

Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

Felix R. Day, Deborah J. Thompson, Hannes Helgason, Daniel I. Chasman, Hilary Finucane, Patrick Sulem, Katherine S. Ruth, Sean Whalen, Abhishek K. Sarkar, Eva Albrecht, Elisabeth Altmaier, Marzyeh Amini, Caterina M. Barbieri, Thibaud Boutin, Archie Campbell, Ellen Demerath, Ayush Giri, Chunyan He, Jouke J. Hottenga, Robert Karlsson, Ivana Kolcic, Po Ru Loh, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Massimo Mangino, Brumat Marco, George McMahon, Sarah E. Medland, Ilja M. Nolte, Raymond Noordam, Teresa Nutile, Lavinia Paternoster, Natalia Perjakova, Eleonora Porcu, Lynda M. Rose, Katharina E. Schraut, Ayellet V. Segrè, Albert V. Smith, Lisette Stolk, Alexander Teumer, Irene L. Andrulis, Stefania Bandinelli, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Sven Bergmann, Murielle Bochud, Eric Boerwinkle, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Judith S. Brand, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Linda Broer, Thomas Brüning, Julie E. Buring, Harry Campbell, Eulalia Catamo, Stephen Chanock, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Tanguy Corre, Fergus J. Couch, Diana L. Cousminer, Angela Cox, Laura Crisponi, Kamila Czene, George Davey Smith, Eco J.C.N. De Geus, Renée De Mutsert, Immaculata De Vivo, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva, Alison M. Dunning, Johan G. Eriksson, Peter A. Fasching, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Luigi Ferrucci, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Lude Franke, Marike Gabrielson, Ilaria Gandin, Graham G. Giles, Harald Grallert, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Pascal Guénel, Per Hall, Emily Hallberg, Ute Hamann, Tamara B. Harris, Catharina A. Hartman, Gerardo Heiss, Maartje J. Hooning, John L. Hopper, Frank Hu, David J. Hunter, M. Arfan Ikram, Hae Kyung Im, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Peter K. Joshi, David Karasik, Manolis Kellis, Zoltan Kutalik, Genevieve Lachance, Diether Lambrechts, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Joop S.E. Laven, Stefania Lenarduzzi, Jingmei Li, Penelope A. Lind, Sara Lindstrom, Yongmei Liu, Jian'An Luan, Reedik Mägi, Arto Mannermaa, Hamdi Mbarek, Mark I. McCarthy, Christa Meisinger, Thomas Meitinger, Cristina Menni, Andres Metspalu, Kyriaki Michailidou, Lili Milani, Roger L. Milne, Grant W. Montgomery, Anna M. Mulligan, Mike A. Nalls, Pau Navarro, Heli Nevanlinna, Dale R. Nyholt, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Tracy A. O'Mara, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Aarno Palotie, Nancy Pedersen, Annette Peters, Julian Peto, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Anneli Pouta, Paolo Radice, Iffat Rahman, Susan M. Ring, Antonietta Robino, Frits R. Rosendaal, Igor Rudan, Rico Rueedi, Daniela Ruggiero, Cinzia F. Sala, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Robert A. Scott, Mitul Shah, Rossella Sorice, Melissa C. Southey, Ulla Sovio, Meir Stampfer, Maristella Steri, Konstantin Strauch, Toshiko Tanaka, Emmi Tikkanen, Nicholas J. Timpson, Michela Traglia, Thérèse Truong, Jonathan P. Tyrer, André G. Uitterlinden, Digna R.Velez Edwards, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Qin Wang, Elisabeth Widen, Ko Willems Van Dijk, Gonneke Willemsen, Robert Winqvist, Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, Jing Hua Zhao, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Marek Zygmunt, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Dorret I. Boomsma, Marina Ciullo, Francesco Cucca, Tõnu Esko, Nora Franceschini, Christian Gieger, Vilmundur Gudnason, Caroline Hayward, Peter Kraft, Debbie A. Lawlor, Patrik K.E. Magnusson, Nicholas G. Martin, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Ellen A. Nohr, Ozren Polasek, David Porteous, Alkes L. Price, Paul M. Ridker, Harold Snieder, Tim D. Spector, Doris Stöckl, Daniela Toniolo, Sheila Ulivi, Jenny A. Visser, Henry Völzke, Nicholas J. Wareham, James F. Wilson, Amanda B. Spurdle, Unnur Thorsteindottir, Katherine S. Pollard, Douglas F. Easton, Joyce Y. Tung, Jenny Chang-Claude, David Hinds, Anna Murray, Joanne M. Murabito, Kari Stefansson, Ken K. Ong, John R.B. Perry, 2017, Nature Genetics on p. 834-841

Genetic diversity and association studies in US Hispanic/Latino populations: Applications in the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos

Matthew P. Conomos, Cecelia A. Laurie, Adrienne M. Stilp, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Caitlin P. McHugh, Sarah C. Nelson, Tamar Sofer, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Anne E. Justice, Mariaelisa Graff, Kristin L. Young, Amanda A. Seyerle, Christy L. Avery, Kent D. Taylor, Jerome I. Rotter, Gregory A. Talavera, Martha L. Daviglus, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Neil Schneiderman, Gerardo Heiss, Robert C. Kaplan, Nora Franceschini, Alex P. Reiner, John R. Shaffer, R. Graham Barr, Kathleen F. Kerr, Sharon R. Browning, Brian L. Browning, Bruce S. Weir, M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, George J. Papanicolaou, Thomas Lumley, Adam A. Szpiro, Kari E. North, Ken Rice, Timothy A. Thornton, Cathy C. Laurie, 2016, American Journal of Human Genetics on p. 165-184

Fine mapping and identification of BMI loci in African Americans

Jian Gong, Fredrick Schumacher, Unhee Lim, Lucia A. Hindorff, Jeff Haessler, Steven Buyske, Christopher S. Carlson, Stephanie Rosse, Petra Bůžková, Myriam Fornage, Myron Gross, Nathan Pankratz, James S. Pankow, Pamela J. Schreiner, Richard Cooper, Georg Ehret, C. Charles Gu, Denise Houston, Marguerite R. Irvin, Rebecca Jackson, Lew Kuller, Brian Henderson, Iona Cheng, Lynne Wilkens, Mark Leppert, Cora E. Lewis, Rongling Li, Khanh Dung H. Nguyen, Robert Goodloe, Eric Farber-Eger, Jonathan Boston, Holli H. Dilks, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Jay Fowke, Loreall Pooler, Misa Graff, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Barbara Cochrane, Eric Boerwinkle, Charles Kooperberg, Tara C. Matise, Loic Le Marchand, Dana C. Crawford, Christopher A. Haiman, Kari E. North, Ulrike Peters, 2013, American Journal of Human Genetics on p. 661-671

Replication of loci influencing ages at menarche and menopause in Hispanic women

Christina T.L. Chen, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Robert G. Brzyski, Christopher S. Carlson, Zhao Chen, Gerardo Heiss, Kari E. North, Nancy F. Woods, Aleksandar Rajkovic, Charles Kooperberg, Nora Franceschini, 2012, Human Molecular Genetics on p. 1419-1432

Genetic risk factors for BMI and obesity in an ethnically diverse population

Megan D. Fesinmeyer, Kari E. North, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Unhee Lim, Nora Franceschini, Lynne R. Wilkens, Myron D. Gross, Petra Bůžková, Kimberly Glenn, P. Miguel Quibrera, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Qiong Li, Jay H. Fowke, Rongling Li, Christopher S. Carlson, Ross L. Prentice, Lewis H. Kuller, Joann E. Manson, Tara C. Matise, Shelley A. Cole, Christina T.L. Chen, Barbara V. Howard, Laurence N. Kolonel, Brian E. Henderson, Kristine R. Monroe, Dana C. Crawford, Lucia A. Hindorff, Steven Buyske, Christopher A. Haiman, Loic Le Marchand, Ulrike Peters, 2013, Obesity on p. 835-846

Age at menarche and risk of type 2 diabetes among African-American and white women in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study

J. G. Dreyfus, P. L. Lutsey, R. Huxley, J. S. Pankow, E. Selvin, L. Fernández-Rhodes, N. Franceschini, E. W. Demerath, 2012, Diabetologia on p. 2371-2380

Association of adiposity genetic variants with menarche timing in 92,105 women of European descent

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Ellen W. Demerath, Diana L. Cousminer, Ran Tao, Jill G. Dreyfus, Tõnu Esko, Albert V. Smith, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, Lenore Launer, Patrick F. McArdle, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Cathy E. Elks, David P. Strachan, Zoltán Kutalik, Peter Vollenweider, Bjarke Feenstra, Heather A. Boyd, Andres Metspalu, Evelin Mihailov, Linda Broer, M. Carola Zillikens, Ben Oostra, Cornelia M. Van Duijn, Kathryn L. Lunetta, John R.B. Perry, Anna Murray, Daniel L. Koller, Dongbing Lai, Tanguy Corre, Daniela Toniolo, Eva Albrecht, Doris Stöckl, Harald Grallert, Christian Gieger, Caroline Hayward, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, James F. Wilson, Chunyan He, Peter Kraft, Frank B. Hu, David J. Hunter, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Enda M. Byrne, Nicholas G. Martin, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicole M. Warrington, Craig E. Pennell, Lisette Stolk, Jenny A. Visser, Albert Hofman, André G. Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, Peng Lin, Sherri L. Fisher, Laura J. Bierut, Laura Crisponi, Eleonora Porcu, Massimo Mangino, Guangju Zhai, Tim D. Spector, Julie E. Buring, Lynda M. Rose, Paul M. Ridker, Charles Poole, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Joanne M. Murabito, Daniel I. Chasman, Elisabeth Widen, Kari E. North, Ken K. Ong, Nora Franceschini, 2013, American Journal of Epidemiology on p. 451-460

Replication of genetic loci for ages at menarche and menopause in the multi-ethnic Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study

C. L. Carty, K. L. Spencer, V. W. Setiawan, L. Fernandez-Rhodes, J. Malinowski, S. Buyske, A. Young, N. W. Jorgensen, I. Cheng, C. S. Carlson, K. Brown-Gentry, R. Goodloe, A. Park, N. I. Parikh, B. Henderson, L. Le Marchand, J. Wactawski-Wende, M. Fornage, T. C. Matise, L. A. Hindorff, A. M. Arnold, C. A. Haiman, N. Franceschini, U. Peters, D. C. Crawford, 2013, Human Reproduction on p. 1695-1706

Genetic association analysis under complex survey sampling: The hispanic community health study/study of latinos

Dan Yu Lin, Ran Tao, William D. Kalsbeek, Donglin Zeng, Franklyn Gonzalez, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Mariaelisa Graff, Gary G. Koch, Kari E. North, Gerardo Heiss, 2014, American Journal of Human Genetics on p. 675-688