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Hayes MG, Pluzhnikov A, Miyake K, Sun Y, Ng MC, Roe CA, Below JE, Nicolae RI, Konkashbaev A, Bell GI, Cox NJ, Hanis CL. Identification of Type 2 Diabetes Genes in Mexican Americans Through Genome-Wide Association Studies. Diabetes. 2007; 56: 3033-44. 
Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Boerwinkle E, Berenson GS. Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Genes are Associated with Arterial Stiffness in Black and White Adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study. American Journal of Hypertension. 2007; 20: 1251-7.
Shimmin LC, Natarajan S, Ibarguen H, Montasser M, Kim DK, Hanis CL, Boerwinkle E, Wadhwa PD, Hixson JE. Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) Gene Variation: Comprehensive Resequencing for Variant and Molecular Haplotype Discovery in Monosomic Hybrid Cell Lines. DNA Sequence. 2007; 18: 434-44.
Canzanello VJ, Baranco-Pryor E, Rahbari-Oskoui F, Schwartz GL, Boerwinkle E, Turner ST, Chapman AB. Predictors of Blood Pressure Response to the Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Candesartan in Essential Hypertension. American Journal of Hypertension. 2008; 21: 61-6.
Volcik KA, Ballantyne CM, Fuchs FD, Sharrett AR, Boerwinkle E. Relationship of Alcohol Consumption and Type of Alcoholic Beverage Consumed with Plasma Lipid Levels: Differences Between Whites and African Americans of the ARIC Study. Annals of Epidemiology. 2008; 18: 101-7.
Morrison AC, Boerwinkle E, Turner ST, Ferrell RE. Regional Association-Based Fine-Mapping for Sodium-Lithium Countertransport on Chromosome 10. American Journal of Hypertension. 2008; 21: 117-21.
 
Daiger SP, Sullivan LS, Gire AI, Birch DG, Heckenlively JR, Bowne SJ. Mutations in Known Genes Account for 58% of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa (ADRP). Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2008; 613: 203-9.
Sanna S, Jackson AU, Nagaraja R, Willer CJ, Chen WM, Bonnycastle LL, Shen H, Timpson N, Lettre G, Usala G, Chines PS, Stringham HM, Scott LJ, Dei M, Lai S, Albai G, Crisponi L, Naitza S, Doheny KF, Pugh EW, Ben-Shlomo Y, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Bergman RN, Watanabe RM, Uda M, Tuomilehto J, Coresh J, Hirschhorn JN, Shuldiner AR, Schlessinger D, Collins FS, Smith GD, Boerwinkle E, Cao A, Boehnke M, Abecasis GR, Mohlke KL. Common Variants in the GDF5-UQCC Region are Associated with Variation in Human Height. Nature Genetics. 2008; doi:10.1038/ng.74.