Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes

Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health

219 Biobehavioral Health
University Park, PA
fernandez-rhodes@psu.edu
814-863-7526

Research Summary

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

Huck Affiliations

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

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Hispanic Americans Population Public Health Genomics Health Menarche Body Mass Index Obesity Epidemiology Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genome Wide Association Study Genes Multifactorial Inheritance African Americans Menopause Genetic Loci Acculturation Linkage Disequilibrium Genome Genetic Variation Anthropometry Linear Models Meta Analysis Neoplasms Data Analysis

Most Recent Publications

A Gene-Acculturation Study of Obesity Among US Hispanic/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Cristin E McArdle, Hridya Rao, Yujie Wang, Erline E Martinez-Miller, Julia B Ward, Jianwen Cai, Tamar Sofer, Carmen R Isasi, Kari E North, 2023, Psychosomatic Medicine on p. 358-365

Erratum: Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium (Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (2022) 3(2), (S266624772200015X), (10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099))

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, Carl D. Langefeld, Lynne Wagenknecht, Roberta Mckean-Cowdin, Xiaoyi Raymond Gao, Darryl Nousome, David V. Conti, Ye Feng, Matthew A. Allison, Zorayr Arzumanyan, Thomas A. Buchanan, Yii Der Ida Chen, Pauline M. Genter, Mark O. Goodarzi, Yang Hai, Willa Hsueh, Eli Ipp, Fouad R. Kandeel, Kelvin Lam, Xiaohui Li, Jerry L. Nadler, Leslie J. Raffel, Kathryn Roll, Kevin Sandow, Jingyi Tan, Kent D. Taylor, Anny H. Xiang, Jie Yao, Astride Audirac-Chalifour, Jose de Jesus Peralta Romero, Fernando Hartwig, Bernando Horta, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, Donna E. Lehman, Sobha Puppala, Laura Fejerman, Esther M. John, Carlos Aguilar-Salinas, Noël P. Burtt, Jose C. Florez, Humberto García-Ortíz, Clicerio González-Villalpando, Josep Mercader, Lorena Orozco, Teresa Tusié-Luna, Estela Blanco, Sheila Gahagan, Nancy J. Cox, Craig Hanis, Nancy F. Butte, Shelley A. Cole, Anthony G. Comuzzie, V. Saroja Voruganti, Rebecca Rohde, Yujie Wang, Tamar Sofer, Elad Ziv, Struan F.A. Grant, Andres Ruiz-Linares, Jerome I. Rotter, Christopher A. Haiman, Esteban J. Parra, Miguel Cruz, Ruth J.F. Loos, Kari E. North, 2023, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

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

Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data

Pierrick Wainschtein, Deepti Jain, Zhili Zheng, Stella Aslibekyan, Diane Becker, Wenjian Bi, Jennifer Brody, Jenna C. Carlson, Adolfo Correa, Margaret Mengmeng Du, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Kendra R. Ferrier, Misa Graff, Xiuqing Guo, Jiang He, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Heather M. Highland, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Candace M. Howard-Claudio, Carmen R. Isasi, Rebecca Jackson, Jicai Jiang, Roby Joehanes, Anne E. Justice, Rita R. Kalyani, Sharon Kardia, Ethan Lange, Meryl LeBoff, Seunggeun Lee, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Elise Lim, Danyu Lin, Xihong Lin, Simin Liu, Yingchang Lu, Jo Ann Manson, Lisa Martin, Caitlin McHugh, Julie Mikulla, Solomon K. Musani, Maggie Ng, Deborah Nickerson, Nicholette Palmer, James Perry, Ulrike Peters, Michael Preuss, Qibin Qi, Laura Raffield, Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, 2022, Nature Genetics on p. 263-273

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

Genetic and stress influences on the prevalence of hypertension among hispanics/latinos in the hispanic community health study/study of latinos (HCHS/SOL)

Liana K. Preudhomme, Marc D. Gellman, Nora Franceschini, Krista M. Perreira, Lindsay E. Fernández-Rhodes, Linda C. Gallo, Carmen R. Isasi, Sylvia Smoller, Sheila F. Castañeda, Martha Daviglus, Christina Hutten, Richard S. Cooper, Jianwen Cai, Neil Schneiderman, Maria M. Llabre, 2022, Blood Pressure on p. 155-163

Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos on the Importance of Sociocultural Environmental Interactors: Polygenic Risk Score-by-Immigration and Dietary Interactions

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: results from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

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 Fernandez-Rhodes, L. Fernández-Rhodes, S. F.A. Grant, H. Hakonarson, L Lange, 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

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 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

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

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

Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data

Genetic Variation and Reproductive Timing: African American Women from the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study

Kylee L. Spencer, Jennifer Malinowski, Cara L. Carty, Nora Franceschini, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Alicia Young, Iona Cheng, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Christopher A. Haiman, Lynne Wilkens, ChunyuanWu, Tara C. Matise, Christopher S. Carlson, Kathleen Brennan, Amy Park, Aleksandar Rajkovic, Lucia A. Hindorff, Steven Buyske, Dana C. Crawford, 2013, PLoS One

Genetic risk factors for BMI and obesity in an ethnically diverse population: Results from the population architecture using genomics and epidemiology (PAGE) study

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

News Articles Featuring Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes

Jan 20, 2023

Studying the genetics of heart attacks and strokes in Hispanic populations

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and Hispanic/Latino (hereafter referred to as Hispanic) populations are more likely than non-Hispanic populations to experience common risk factors for cardiovascular disease like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

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Jan 09, 2023

‘Evidence-to-Impact podcast discusses chronic diseases and genetics, prevention

The Social Science Research Institute’s Evidence-to-Impact podcast returns with its 20th episode, “Chronic Diseases: Underserved Communities, Prevention, and Genetic Factors.”