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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Most Recent Publications

Family Functioning and Pubertal Maturation in Hispanic/Latino Children from the HCHS/SOL Youth

Ayana K. April-Sanders, Parisa Tehranifar, Mary Beth Terry, Danielle M. Crookes, Carmen R. Isasi, Linda C. Gallo, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Krista M. Perreira, Martha L. Daviglus, Shakira F. Suglia, 2025, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Advancements in genetic research by the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: A 10-year retrospective review

Hridya Rao, Margaret C. Weiss, Jee Young Moon, Krista M. Perreira, Martha L. Daviglus, Robert Kaplan, Kari E. North, Maria Argos, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Tamar Sofer, 2025, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances on p. 100376

All Together Now: Data Work to Advance Privacy, Science, and Health in the Age of Synthetic Data

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Jennifer Wagner, 2025, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing on p. 690-695

LifeCourse Socioeconomic Position and Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/ Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Paola Filigrana, Jee Young Moon, Linda C. Gallo, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Krista M. Perreira, Martha L. Daviglus, Bharat Thyagarajan, Olga L. Garcia-Bedoya, Jianwen Cai, Xiaonan Xue, Robert C. Kaplan, Shakira Suglia, Carmen R. Isasi, 2024, Journal of the American Heart Association

Correction to: Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum (Nature Genetics, (2024), 56, 7, (1397-1411), 10.1038/s41588-024-01798-4)

Katherine A. Kentistou, Lena R. Kaisinger, Stasa Stankovic, Marc Vaudel, Edson Mendes de Oliveira, Andrea Messina, Robin G. Walters, Xiaoxi Liu, Alexander S. Busch, Hannes Helgason, Deborah J. Thompson, Federico Santoni, Konstantin M. Petricek, Yassine Zouaghi, Isabel Huang-Doran, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Eirik Bratland, Kuang Lin, Eugene J. Gardner, Yajie Zhao, Raina Y. Jia, Chikashi Terao, Marjorie J. Riggan, Manjeet K. Bolla, Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Nahid Yazdanpanah, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Linda Broer, Archie Campbell, Daniel I. Chasman, Diana L. Cousminer, Nora Franceschini, Lude H. Franke, Giorgia Girotto, Chunyan He, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Peter K. Joshi, Yoichiro Kamatani, Robert Karlsson, Jian’an Luan, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Reedik Mägi, Massimo Mangino, Sarah E. Medland, Christa Meisinger, Raymond Noordam, Teresa Nutile, Maria Pina Concas, Ozren Polašek, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, 2024, Nature Genetics on p. 1763-1764

DNA methylation near MAD1L1, KDM2B, and SOCS3 mediates the effect of socioeconomic status on elevated body mass index in African American adults

LáShauntá Glover, Adam G. Lilly, Anne E. Justice, Annie Green Howard, Brooke S. Staley, Yujie Wang, Helen M. Kamens, Kendra Ferrier, Jan Bressler, Laura Loehr, Laura M. Raffield, Mario Sims, Kari E. North, L Fernandez-Rhodes, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, 2024, Human Molecular Genetics on p. 1748-1757

Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum

Katherine A. Kentistou, Lena R. Kaisinger, Stasa Stankovic, Marc Vaudel, Edson Mendes de Oliveira, Andrea Messina, Robin G. Walters, Xiaoxi Liu, Alexander S. Busch, Hannes Helgason, Deborah J. Thompson, Federico Santoni, Konstantin M. Petricek, Yassine Zouaghi, Isabel Huang-Doran, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Eirik Bratland, Kuang Lin, Eugene J. Gardner, Yajie Zhao, Raina Y. Jia, Chikashi Terao, Marjorie J. Riggan, Manjeet K. Bolla, Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Nahid Yazdanpanah, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Linda Broer, Archie Campbell, Daniel I. Chasman, Diana L. Cousminer, Nora Franceschini, Lude H. Franke, Giorgia Girotto, Chunyan He, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Peter K. Joshi, Yoichiro Kamatani, Robert Karlsson, Jian’an Luan, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Reedik Mägi, Massimo Mangino, Sarah E. Medland, Christa Meisinger, Raymond Noordam, Teresa Nutile, Maria Pina Concas, Ozren Polašek, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, 2024, Nature Genetics on p. 1397-1411

Does biological age mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression? Insights from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

Rae Anne M. Martinez, Annie Green Howard, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Joanna Maselko, Brian W. Pence, Radhika Dhingra, Sandro Galea, Monica Uddin, Derek E. Wildman, Allison E. Aiello, 2024, Ethics in Science and Medicine on p. 116440

Childhood and Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Cognitive Function in the Adult Population of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Paola Filigrana, Jee Young Moon, Linda C. Gallo, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Krista M. Perreira, Martha L. Daviglus, Bharat Thyagarajan, Olga L. Garcia-Bedoya, Jianwen Cai, Richard B. Lipton, Robert C. Kaplan, Hector M. Gonzalez, Carmen R. Isasi, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology on p. 2006-2017

Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts

Mohammad Yaser Anwar, Mariaelisa Graff, Heather M. Highland, Roelof Smit, Zhe Wang, Victoria L. Buchanan, Kristin L. Young, Eimear E. Kenny, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Simin Liu, Themistocles Assimes, David O. Garcia, Kim Daeeun, Christopher R. Gignoux, Anne E. Justice, Christopher A. Haiman, Steve Buyske, Ulrike Peters, Ruth J.F. Loos, Charles Kooperberg, Kari E. North, 2023, Human Genetics on p. 1477-1489

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

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

A trans-ancestral meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies reveals loci associated with childhood obesity

Jonathan P. Bradfield, Suzanne Vogelezang, Janine F. Felix, Alessandra Chesi, Øyvind Helgeland, Momoko Horikoshi, Ville Karhunen, Estelle Lowry, Diana L. Cousminer, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Elisabeth Thiering, Eileen Tai Hui Boh, Mohammad H. Zafarmand, Natalia Vilor-Tejedor, Carol A. Wang, Raimo Joro, Zhanghua Chen, William J. Gauderman, Niina Pitkänen, Esteban J. Parra, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Akram Alyass, Claire Monnereau, John A. Curtin, Christian T. Have, Shana E. McCormack, Mette Hollensted, Christine Frithioff-Bøjsøe, Adan Valladares-Salgado, Jesus Peralta-Romero, Yik Ying Teo, Marie Standl, Jaakko T. Leinonen, Jens Christian Holm, Triinu Peters, Jesus Vioque, Martine Vrijheid, Angela Simpson, Adnan Custovic, Marc Vaudel, Mickaël Canouil, Virpi Lindi, Mustafa Atalay, Mika Kähönen, Olli T. Raitakari, Barbera D.C. Van Schaik, Robert I. Berkowitz, Shelley A. Cole, V. Saroja Voruganti, Yujie Wang, Heather M. Highland, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Nancy F. Butte, Anne E. Justice, Sheila Gahagan, Estela Blanco, Terho Lehtimäki, Timo A. Lakka, Johannes Hebebrand, Amélie Bonnefond, Niels Grarup, Philippe Froguel, Leo Pekka Lyytikäinen, Miguel Cruz, Sayuko Kobes, Robert L. Hanson, Babette S. Zemel, Anke Hinney, Koon K. Teo, David Meyre, Kari E. North, Frank D. Gilliland, Hans Bisgaard, Mariona Bustamante, Klaus Bonnelykke, Craig E. Pennell, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G. Uitterlinden, Leslie J. Baier, Tanja G.M. Vrijkotte, Joachim Heinrich, Thorkild I.A. Sørensen, Seang Mei Saw, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen, Johan Eriksson, Elisabeth Widén, Mark I. McCarthy, Pål R. Njølstad, Christine Power, Elina Hyppönen, Sylvain Sebert, Christopher D. Brown, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Nicholas J. Timpson, Stefan Johansson, Hakon Hakonarson, Vincent W.V. Jaddoe, F. A. Struan, 2019, Human Molecular Genetics on p. 3327-3338

Trans-ethnic fine-mapping of genetic loci for body mass index in the diverse ancestral populations of the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study reveals evidence for multiple signals at established loci

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Jian Gong, Jeffrey Haessler, Nora Franceschini, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K. Nishimura, Yujie Wang, Heather M. Highland, Sachiko Yoneyama, William S. Bush, Robert Goodloe, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Dana Crawford, Myron Gross, Myriam Fornage, Petra Buzkova, Ran Tao, Carmen Isasi, Larissa Avilés-Santa, Martha Daviglus, Rachel H. Mackey, Denise Houston, C. Charles Gu, Georg Ehret, Khanh Dung H. Nguyen, Cora E. Lewis, Mark Leppert, Marguerite R. Irvin, Unhee Lim, Christopher A. Haiman, Loic Le Marchand, Fredrick Schumacher, Lynne Wilkens, Yingchang Lu, Erwin P. Bottinger, Ruth J.L. Loos, Wayne H.H. Sheu, Xiuqing Guo, Wen Jane Lee, Yang Hai, Yi Jen Hung, Devin Absher, I. Chien Wu, Kent D. Taylor, I. Te Lee, Yeheng Liu, Tzung Dau Wang, Thomas Quertermous, Jyh Ming J. Juang, Jerome I. Rotter, Themistocles Assimes, Chao A. Hsiung, Yii Der Ida Chen, Ross Prentice, Lewis H. Kuller, Jo Ann E. Manson, Charles Kooperberg, Paul Smokowski, Whitney R. Robinson, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Rongling Li, Lucia Hindorff, Steven Buyske, Tara C. Matise, Ulrike Peters, Kari E. North, 2017, Human Genetics on p. 771-800

Genetics of Obesity in Diverse Populations

Kristin L. Young, Mariaelisa Graff, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Kari E. North, 2018, Current Diabetes Reports

The genetic underpinnings of variation in ages at menarche and natural menopause among women from the multi-ethnic Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study: A trans-ethnic meta-analysis

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Jennifer R. Malinowski, Yujie Wang, Ran Tao, Nathan Pankratz, Janina M. Jeff, Sachiko Yoneyama, Cara L. Carty, V. Wendy Setiawan, Loic Le Marchand, Christopher Haiman, Steven Corbett, Ellen Demerath, Gerardo Heiss, Myron Gross, Petra Buzkova, Dana C. Crawford, Steven C. Hunt, D. C. Rao, Karen Schwander, Aravinda Chakravarti, Omri Gottesman, Noura S. Abul-Husn, Erwin P. Bottinger, Ruth J.F. Loos, Leslie J. Raffel, Jie Yao, Xiuqing Guo, Suzette J. Bielinski, Jerome I. Rotter, Dhananjay Vaidya, Yii Der Ida Chen, Sheila F. Castañeda, Martha Daviglus, Robert Kaplan, Gregory A. Talavera, Kelli K. Ryckman, Ulrike Peters, Jose Luis Ambite, Steven Buyske, Lucia Hindorff, Charles Kooperberg, Tara Matise, Nora Franceschini, Kari E. North, 2018, PLoS One

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

Transethnic insight into the genetics of glycaemic traits: fine-mapping results from the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium

Stephanie A. Bien, James S. Pankow, Jeffrey Haessler, Yinchang N. Lu, Nathan Pankratz, Rebecca R. Rohde, Alfred Tamuno, Christopher S. Carlson, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Petra Bůžková, Martha L. Daviglus, Unhee Lim, Myriam Fornage, Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Larissa Avilés-Santa, Steven Buyske, Myron D. Gross, Mariaelisa Graff, Carmen R. Isasi, Lewis H. Kuller, Jo Ann E. Manson, Tara C. Matise, Ross L. Prentice, Lynne R. Wilkens, Sachiko Yoneyama, Ruth J.F. Loos, Lucia A. Hindorff, Loic Le Marchand, Kari E. North, Christopher A. Haiman, Ulrike Peters, Charles Kooperberg, 2017, Diabetologia on p. 2384-2398