Aldons (Jake) Lusis*

Publications:

Ramadoss S, Qin J, Tao B, Thomas NE, Cao E, Wu R, Sandoval DR, Piermatteo A, Grunddal KV, Ma F, Li S, Sun B, Zhou Y, Wan J, Pellegrini M, Holst B, Lusis AJ, Gordts PLSM, Deb A. Bone-marrow macrophage-derived GPNMB protein binds to orphan receptor GPR39 and plays a critical role in cardiac repair. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024 Oct 25. view on PubMed

Hilser JR, Spencer NJ, Afshari K, Gilliland FD, Hu H, Deb A, Lusis AJ, Wilson Tang WH, Hartiala JA, Hazen SL, Allayee H. COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2024 Oct 09. view on PubMed

Stappenbeck F, Wang F, Sinha SK, Hui ST, Farahi L, Mukhamedova N, Fleetwood A, Murphy AJ, Sviridov D, Lusis AJ, Parhami F. Anti-Inflammatory Oxysterol, Oxy210, Inhibits Atherosclerosis in Hyperlipidemic Mice and Inflammatory Responses of Vascular Cells. Cells. 2024 Sep 30; 13(19). view on PubMed

Lee-Ødegård S, Hjorth M, Olsen T, Moen GH, Daubney E, Evans DM, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ, Zhou M, Seldin MM, Allayee H, Hilser J, Viken JK, Gulseth H, Norheim F, Drevon CA, Birkeland KI. Serum proteomic profiling of physical activity reveals CD300LG as a novel exerkine with a potential causal link to glucose homeostasis. Elife. 2024 Aug 27; 13. view on PubMed

Cupido AJ, Zhou M, Lusis AJ, Seldin M. Specific approaches and limitations in (multi)-omic Mendelian randomization. J Lipid Res. 2024 Aug 13; 65(10):100619. view on PubMed

Choucair I, Mallela DP, Hilser JR, Hartiala JA, Nemet I, Gogonea V, Li L, Lusis AJ, Fischbach MA, Tang WHW, Allayee H, Hazen SL. Comprehensive Clinical and Genetic Analyses of Circulating Bile Acids and Their Associations With Diabetes and Its Indices. Diabetes. 2024 Aug 01; 73(8):1215-1228. view on PubMed

Mirzaei S, DeVon HA, Cantor RM, Cupido A, Fernandes Silva L, Laakso M, Lusis AJ. Gut microbe-derived metabolites and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the METSIM cohort. Front Microbiol. 2024; 15:1411328. view on PubMed

Sarver DC, Lusis AJ. Linking the brain to recovery after myocardial infarction. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024 Jul; 3(7):780-781. view on PubMed

Bhetraratana M, Orozco LD, Bennett BJ, Luna K, Yang X, Lusis AJ, Araujo JA. Diesel exhaust particle extract elicits an oxPAPC-like transcriptomic profile in macrophages across multiple mouse strains. Environ Pollut. 2024 Oct 01; 358:124415. view on PubMed

Devarajan A, Wang K, Lokhandwala ZA, Emamimeybodi M, Shannon K, Tompkins JD, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ, Abel ED, Vaseghi M. Myocardial infarction causes sex-dependent dysfunction in vagal sensory glutamatergic neurotransmission that is mitigated by 17β-estradiol. JCI Insight. 2024 Jun 17; 9(14). view on PubMed

Li YR, Zhou Y, Yu J, Kim YJ, Li M, Lee D, Zhou K, Chen Y, Zhu Y, Wang YC, Li Z, Yu Y, Dunn ZS, Guo W, Cen X, Husman T, Bajpai A, Kramer A, Wilson M, Fang Y, Huang J, Li S, Zhou Y, Zhang Y, Hahn Z, Zhu E, Ma F, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Zhou JJ, Seet CS, Kohn DB, Wang P, Zhou XJ, Pellegrini M, Puliafito BR, Larson SM, Yang L. Generation of allogeneic CAR-NKT cells from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using a clinically guided culture method. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 May 14. view on PubMed

Baschant U, Fuqua BK, Ledesma-Colunga M, Vulpe CD, McLachlan S, Hofbauer LC, Lusis AJ, Rauner M. Effects of dietary iron deficiency or overload on bone: Dietary details matter. Bone. 2024 Jul; 184:117092. view on PubMed

Govatati S, Kumar R, Boro M, Traylor JG, Orr AW, Lusis AJ, Rao GN. TRIM13 reduces cholesterol efflux and increases oxidized LDL uptake leading to foam cell formation and atherosclerosis. J Biol Chem. 2024 May; 300(5):107224. view on PubMed

Mirzaei S, DeVon HA, Cantor RM, Cupido AJ, Pan C, Ha SM, Fernandes Silva L, Hilser JR, Hartiala J, Allayee H, Rey FE, Laakso M, Lusis AJ. Relationships and Mendelian Randomization of Gut Microbe-Derived Metabolites with Metabolic Syndrome Traits in the METSIM Cohort. Metabolites. 2024 03 20; 14(3). view on PubMed

Zhang Q, Hutchison ER, Pan C, Warren MF, Keller MP, Attie AD, Lusis AJ, Rey FE. Systems genetics approach uncovers associations between host amylase locus, gut microbiome and metabolic traits in hyperlipidemic mice. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 03. view on PubMed

Hilser JR, Lusis AJ, Allayee H. Genetics unravels protein-metabolite relationships. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2024 03; 35(3):183-184. view on PubMed

Wang YC, Koay YC, Pan C, Zhou Z, Tang W, Wilcox J, Li XS, Zagouras A, Marques F, Allayee H, Rey FE, Kaye DM, O'Sullivan JF, Hazen SL, Cao Y, Lusis AJ. Indole-3-Propionic Acid Protects Against Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Circ Res. 2024 02 16; 134(4):371-389. view on PubMed

Biswas S, Hilser JR, Woodward NC, Wang Z, Gukasyan J, Nemet I, Schwartzman WS, Huang P, Han Y, Fouladian Z, Charugundla S, Spencer NJ, Pan C, Tang WHW, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL, Hartiala JA, Allayee H. Effect of Genetic and Dietary Perturbation of Glycine Metabolism on Atherosclerosis in Humans and Mice. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 11. view on PubMed

Kurt Z, Cheng J, Barrere-Cain R, McQuillen CN, Saleem Z, Hsu N, Jiang N, Pan C, Franzén O, Koplev S, Wang S, Björkegren J, Lusis AJ, Blencowe M, Yang X. Shared and distinct pathways and networks genetically linked to coronary artery disease between human and mouse. Elife. 2023 Dec 07; 12. view on PubMed

Cheng J, Cheng M, Lusis AJ, Yang X. Gene Regulatory Networks in Coronary Artery Disease. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2023 12; 25(12):1013-1023. view on PubMed

Allayee H, Farber CR, Seldin MM, Williams EG, James DE, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics approaches for understanding complex traits with relevance for human disease. Elife. 2023 11 14; 12. view on PubMed

Kurt Z, Cheng J, McQuillen CN, Saleem Z, Hsu N, Jiang N, Barrere-Cain R, Pan C, Franzen O, Koplev S, Wang S, Bjorkegren J, Lusis AJ, Blencowe M, Yang X. Shared and distinct pathways and networks genetically linked to coronary artery disease between human and mouse. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 20. view on PubMed

Hui ST, Gong L, Swichkow C, Blencowe M, Kaminska D, Diamante G, Pan C, Dalsania M, French SW, Magyar CE, Pajukanta P, Pihlajamäki J, Boström KI, Yang X, Lusis AJ. Role of Matrix Gla Protein in Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Mice. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023; 16(6):943-960. view on PubMed

Patel S, Sparman NZR, Arneson D, Alvarsson A, Santos LC, Duesman SJ, Centonze A, Hathaway E, Ahn IS, Diamante G, Cely I, Cho CH, Talari NK, Rajbhandari AK, Goedeke L, Wang P, Butte AJ, Blanpain C, Chella Krishnan K, Lusis AJ, Stanley SA, Yang X, Rajbhandari P. Mammary duct luminal epithelium controls adipocyte thermogenic programme. Nature. 2023 Aug; 620(7972):192-199. view on PubMed

Chella Krishnan K, El Hachem EJ, Keller MP, Patel SG, Carroll L, Vegas AD, Gerdes Gyuricza I, Light C, Cao Y, Pan C, Kaczor-Urbanowicz KE, Shravah V, Anum D, Pellegrini M, Lee CF, Seldin MM, Rosenthal NA, Churchill GA, Attie AD, Parker B, James DE, Lusis AJ. Genetic architecture of heart mitochondrial proteome influencing cardiac hypertrophy. Elife. 2023 06 05; 12. view on PubMed

Kasahara K, Kerby RL, Zhang Q, Pradhan M, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Bergström G, Bäckhed F, Rey FE. Gut bacterial metabolism contributes to host global purine homeostasis. Cell Host Microbe. 2023 06 14; 31(6):1038-1053.e10. view on PubMed

Park SH, Helsley RN, Fadhul T, Willoughby JLS, Noetzli L, Tu HC, Solheim MH, Fujisaka S, Pan H, Dreyfuss JM, Bons J, Rose J, King CD, Schilling B, Lusis AJ, Pan C, Gupta M, Kulkarni RN, Fitzgerald K, Kern PA, Divanovic S, Kahn CR, Softic S. Fructose induced KHK-C can increase ER stress independent of its effect on lipogenesis to drive liver disease in diet-induced and genetic models of NAFLD. Metabolism. 2023 08; 145:155591. view on PubMed

Moore TM, Lee S, Olsen T, Morselli M, Strumwasser AR, Lin AJ, Zhou Z, Abrishami A, Garcia SM, Bribiesca J, Cory K, Whitney K, Ho T, Ho T, Lee JL, Rucker DH, Nguyen CQA, Anand ATS, Yackly A, Mendoza LQ, Leyva BK, Aliman C, Artiga DJ, Meng Y, Charugundla S, Pan C, Jedian V, Seldin MM, Ahn IS, Diamante G, Blencowe M, Yang X, Mouisel E, Pellegrini M, Turcotte LP, Birkeland KI, Norheim F, Drevon CA, Lusis AJ, Hevener AL. Conserved multi-tissue transcriptomic adaptations to exercise training in humans and mice. Cell Rep. 2023 05 30; 42(5):112499. view on PubMed

Zhang Q, Linke V, Overmyer KA, Traeger LL, Kasahara K, Miller IJ, Manson DE, Polaske TJ, Kerby RL, Kemis JH, Trujillo EA, Reddy TR, Russell JD, Schueler KL, Stapleton DS, Rabaglia ME, Seldin M, Gatti DM, Keele GR, Pham DT, Gerdt JP, Vivas EI, Lusis AJ, Keller MP, Churchill GA, Blackwell HE, Broman KW, Attie AD, Coon JJ, Rey FE. Author Correction: Genetic mapping of microbial and host traits reveals production of immunomodulatory lipids by Akkermansia muciniphila in the murine gut. Nat Microbiol. 2023 Apr; 8(4):745. view on PubMed

Wang YC, Cao Y, Pan C, Zhou Z, Yang L, Lusis AJ. Intestinal cell type-specific communication networks underlie homeostasis and response to Western diet. J Exp Med. 2023 05 01; 220(5). view on PubMed

Massey WJ, Varadharajan V, Banerjee R, Brown AL, Horak AJ, Hohe RC, Jung BM, Qiu Y, Chan ER, Pan C, Zhang R, Allende DS, Willard B, Cheng F, Lusis AJ, Brown JM. MBOAT7-driven lysophosphatidylinositol acylation in adipocytes contributes to systemic glucose homeostasis. J Lipid Res. 2023 04; 64(4):100349. view on PubMed

Zhang Q, Linke V, Overmyer KA, Traeger LL, Kasahara K, Miller IJ, Manson DE, Polaske TJ, Kerby RL, Kemis JH, Trujillo EA, Reddy TR, Russell JD, Schueler KL, Stapleton DS, Rabaglia ME, Seldin M, Gatti DM, Keele GR, Pham DT, Gerdt JP, Vivas EI, Lusis AJ, Keller MP, Churchill GA, Blackwell HE, Broman KW, Attie AD, Coon JJ, Rey FE. Genetic mapping of microbial and host traits reveals production of immunomodulatory lipids by Akkermansia muciniphila in the murine gut. Nat Microbiol. 2023 03; 8(3):424-440. view on PubMed

Park SH, Helsley RN, Fadhul T, Willoughby JLS, Noetzli L, Tu HC, Solheim MH, Fujisaka S, Pan H, Dreyfuss JM, Bons J, Rose J, King CD, Schilling B, Lusis AJ, Pan C, Gupta M, Kulkarni RN, Fitzgerald K, Kern PA, Divanovic S, Kahn CR, Softic S. Fructose Induced KHK-C Increases ER Stress and Modulates Hepatic Transcriptome to Drive Liver Disease in Diet-Induced and Genetic Models of NAFLD. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 27. view on PubMed

Molendijk J, Blazev R, Mills RJ, Ng YK, Watt KI, Chau D, Gregorevic P, Crouch PJ, Hilton JBW, Lisowski L, Zhang P, Reue K, Lusis AJ, Hudson JE, James DE, Seldin MM, Parker BL. Proteome-wide systems genetics identifies UFMylation as a regulator of skeletal muscle function. Elife. 2022 12 06; 11. view on PubMed

Cao Y, Lusis AJ. Coagulation factor with potential for the treatment of heart failure. Clin Transl Med. 2022 12; 12(12):e1144. view on PubMed

Moore TM, Cheng L, Wolf DM, Ngo J, Segawa M, Zhu X, Strumwasser AR, Cao Y, Clifford BL, Ma A, Scumpia P, Shirihai OS, Vallim TQA, Laakso M, Lusis AJ, Hevener AL, Zhou Z. Parkin regulates adiposity by coordinating mitophagy with mitochondrial biogenesis in white adipocytes. Nat Commun. 2022 11 04; 13(1):6661. view on PubMed

Cao Y, Wang Y, Zhou Z, Pan C, Jiang L, Zhou Z, Meng Y, Charugundla S, Li T, Allayee H, Seldin MM, Lusis AJ. Liver-heart cross-talk mediated by coagulation factor XI protects against heart failure. Science. 2022 09 23; 377(6613):1399-1406. view on PubMed

Bauer S, Eigenmann J, Zhao Y, Fleig J, Hawe JS, Pan C, Bongiovanni D, Wengert S, Ma A, Lusis AJ, Kovacic JC, Björkegren JLM, Maegdefessel L, Schunkert H, von Scheidt M. Identification of the Transcription Factor ATF3 as a Direct and Indirect Regulator of the LDLR. Metabolites. 2022 Sep 06; 12(9). view on PubMed

Grenier-Larouche T, Coulter Kwee L, Deleye Y, Leon-Mimila P, Walejko JM, McGarrah RW, Marceau S, Trahan S, Racine C, Carpentier AC, Lusis AJ, Ilkayeva O, Vohl MC, Huertas-Vazquez A, Tchernof A, Shah SH, Newgard CB, White PJ. Altered branched-chain α-keto acid metabolism is a feature of NAFLD in individuals with severe obesity. JCI Insight. 2022 08 08; 7(15). view on PubMed

Cao Y, Aquino-Martinez R, Hutchison E, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Rey FE. Role of gut microbe-derived metabolites in cardiometabolic diseases: Systems based approach. Mol Metab. 2022 10; 64:101557. view on PubMed

Cao Y, Vergnes L, Wang YC, Pan C, Chella Krishnan K, Moore TM, Rosa-Garrido M, Kimball TH, Zhou Z, Charugundla S, Rau CD, Seldin MM, Wang J, Wang Y, Vondriska TM, Reue K, Lusis AJ. Sex differences in heart mitochondria regulate diastolic dysfunction. Nat Commun. 2022 07 04; 13(1):3850. view on PubMed

Wang F, Stappenbeck F, Tang LY, Zhang YE, Hui ST, Lusis AJ, Parhami F. Oxy210, a Semi-Synthetic Oxysterol, Exerts Anti-Inflammatory Effects in Macrophages via Inhibition of Toll-like Receptor (TLR) 4 and TLR2 Signaling and Modulation of Macrophage Polarization. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 May 13; 23(10). view on PubMed

Björkegren JLM, Lusis AJ. Atherosclerosis: Recent developments. Cell. 2022 05 12; 185(10):1630-1645. view on PubMed

Li L, Chen Z, von Scheidt M, Li S, Steiner A, Güldener U, Koplev S, Ma A, Hao K, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Pang S, Kessler T, Ermel R, Sukhavasi K, Ruusalepp A, Gagneur J, Erdmann J, Kovacic JC, Björkegren JLM, Schunkert H. Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes. Basic Res Cardiol. 2022 Apr 05; 117(1):19. view on PubMed

Cao Y, Pan C, Wang YC, Zhou Z, Jedian V, Meng Y, Campbell G, Guardino K, Li C, Wang J, Lusis AJ. Identification of DNA Damage Repair Enzyme Ascc2 as Causal for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Circulation. 2022 04 05; 145(14):1102-1104. view on PubMed

Li L, Chen Z, von Scheidt M, Li S, Steiner A, Güldener U, Koplev S, Ma A, Hao K, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Pang S, Kessler T, Ermel R, Sukhavasi K, Ruusalepp A, Gagneur J, Erdmann J, Kovacic JC, Björkegren JLM, Schunkert H. Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes. Basic Res Cardiol. 2022 02 17; 117(1):6. view on PubMed

Bhattacharya A, Freedman AN, Avula V, Harris R, Liu W, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Joseph RM, Smeester L, Hartwell HJ, Kuban KCK, Marsit CJ, Li Y, O'Shea TM, Fry RC, Santos HP. Placental genomics mediates genetic associations with complex health traits and disease. Nat Commun. 2022 02 04; 13(1):706. view on PubMed

Schugar RC, Gliniak CM, Osborn LJ, Massey W, Sangwan N, Horak A, Banerjee R, Orabi D, Helsley RN, Brown AL, Burrows A, Finney C, Fung KK, Allen FM, Ferguson D, Gromovsky AD, Neumann C, Cook K, McMillan A, Buffa JA, Anderson JT, Mehrabian M, Goudarzi M, Willard B, Mak TD, Armstrong AR, Swanson G, Keshavarzian A, Garcia-Garcia JC, Wang Z, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL, Brown JM. Gut microbe-targeted choline trimethylamine lyase inhibition improves obesity via rewiring of host circadian rhythms. Elife. 2022 01 24; 11. view on PubMed

Li S, Yokota T, Wang P, Ten Hoeve J, Ma F, Le TM, Abt ER, Zhou Y, Wu R, Nanthavongdouangsy M, Rodriguez A, Wang Y, Lin YJ, Muranaka H, Sharpley M, Braddock DT, MacRae VE, Banerjee U, Chiou PY, Seldin M, Huang D, Teitell M, Gertsman I, Jung M, Bensinger SJ, Damoiseaux R, Faull K, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Radu CG, Deb A. Cardiomyocytes disrupt pyrimidine biosynthesis in nonmyocytes to regulate heart repair. J Clin Invest. 2022 01 18; 132(2). view on PubMed

Valentine JM, Ahmadian M, Keinan O, Abu-Odeh M, Zhao P, Zhou X, Keller MP, Gao H, Yu RT, Liddle C, Downes M, Zhang J, Lusis AJ, Attie AD, Evans RM, Rydén M, Saltiel AR. β3-Adrenergic receptor downregulation leads to adipocyte catecholamine resistance in obesity. J Clin Invest. 2022 01 18; 132(2). view on PubMed

Koplev S, Seldin M, Sukhavasi K, Ermel R, Pang S, Zeng L, Bankier S, Di Narzo A, Cheng H, Meda V, Ma A, Talukdar H, Cohain A, Amadori L, Argmann C, Houten SM, Franzén O, Mocci G, Meelu OA, Ishikawa K, Whatling C, Jain A, Jain RK, Gan LM, Giannarelli C, Roussos P, Hao K, Schunkert H, Michoel T, Ruusalepp A, Schadt EE, Kovacic JC, Lusis AJ, Björkegren JLM. A mechanistic framework for cardiometabolic and coronary artery diseases. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2022 01; 1(1):85-100. view on PubMed

Wang Z, Hazen J, Jia X, Org E, Zhao Y, Osborn LJ, Nimer N, Buffa J, Culley MK, Krajcik D, van den Born BH, Zwinderman K, Levison BS, Nieuwdorp M, Lusis AJ, DiDonato JA, Hazen SL. The Nutritional Supplement L-Alpha Glycerylphosphorylcholine Promotes Atherosclerosis. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Dec 15; 22(24). view on PubMed

Farahi L, Sinha SK, Lusis AJ. Roles of Macrophages in Atherogenesis. Front Pharmacol. 2021; 12:785220. view on PubMed

Ferrell M, Bazeley P, Wang Z, Levison BS, Li XS, Jia X, Krauss RM, Knight R, Lusis AJ, Garcia-Garcia JC, Hazen SL, Tang WHW. Fecal Microbiome Composition Does Not Predict Diet-Induced TMAO Production in Healthy Adults. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 11 02; 10(21):e021934. view on PubMed

Keinan O, Valentine JM, Xiao H, Mahata SK, Reilly SM, Abu-Odeh M, Deluca JH, Dadpey B, Cho L, Pan A, Yu RT, Dai Y, Liddle C, Downes M, Evans RM, Lusis AJ, Laakso M, Chouchani ET, Rydén M, Saltiel AR. Glycogen metabolism links glucose homeostasis to thermogenesis in adipocytes. Nature. 2021 11; 599(7884):296-301. view on PubMed

Chella Krishnan K, Vergnes L, Acín-Pérez R, Stiles L, Shum M, Ma L, Mouisel E, Pan C, Moore TM, Péterfy M, Romanoski CE, Reue K, Björkegren JLM, Laakso M, Liesa M, Lusis AJ. Sex-specific genetic regulation of adipose mitochondria and metabolic syndrome by Ndufv2. Nat Metab. 2021 11; 3(11):1552-1568. view on PubMed

Hartiala JA, Hilser JR, Biswas S, Lusis AJ, Allayee H. Gene-Environment Interactions for Cardiovascular Disease. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2021 10 14; 23(12):75. view on PubMed

Flores YN, Amoon AT, Su B, Velazquez-Cruz R, Ramírez-Palacios P, Salmerón J, Rivera-Paredez B, Sinsheimer JS, Lusis AJ, Huertas-Vazquez A, Saab S, Glenn BA, May FP, Williams KJ, Bastani R, Bensinger SJ. Serum lipids are associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a pilot case-control study in Mexico. Lipids Health Dis. 2021 Oct 10; 20(1):136. view on PubMed

Xu H, Thomas MJ, Kaul S, Kallinger R, Ouweneel AB, Maruko E, Oussaada SM, Jongejan A, Cense HA, Nieuwdorp M, Serlie MJ, Goldberg IJ, Civelek M, Parks BW, Lusis AJ, Knaack D, Schill RL, May SC, Reho JJ, Grobe JL, Gantner B, Sahoo D, Sorci-Thomas MG. Pcpe2, a Novel Extracellular Matrix Protein, Regulates Adipocyte SR-BI-Mediated High-Density Lipoprotein Uptake. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 11; 41(11):2708-2725. view on PubMed

Hui ST, Wang F, Stappenbeck F, French SW, Magyar CE, Parhami F, Lusis AJ. Oxy210, a novel inhibitor of hedgehog and TGF-β signalling, ameliorates hepatic fibrosis and hypercholesterolemia in mice. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab. 2021 Oct; 4(4):e00296. view on PubMed

Lang JM, Sedgeman LR, Cai L, Layne JD, Wang Z, Pan C, Lee R, Temel RE, Lusis AJ. Dietary and Pharmacologic Manipulations of Host Lipids and Their Interaction With the Gut Microbiome in Non-human Primates. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021; 8:646710. view on PubMed

Guo F, Seldin M, Péterfy M, Charugundla S, Zhou Z, Lee SD, Mouton A, Rajbhandari P, Zhang W, Pellegrini M, Tontonoz P, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. NOTUM promotes thermogenic capacity and protects against diet-induced obesity in male mice. Sci Rep. 2021 08 12; 11(1):16409. view on PubMed

León-Mimila P, Villamil-Ramírez H, Macías-Kauffer LR, Jacobo-Albavera L, López-Contreras BE, Posadas-Sánchez R, Posadas-Romero C, Romero-Hidalgo S, Morán-Ramos S, Domínguez-Pérez M, Olivares-Arevalo M, López-Montoya P, Nieto-Guerra R, Acuña-Alonzo V, Macín-Pérez G, Barquera-Lozano R, Del-Río-Navarro BE, González-González I, Campos-Pérez F, Gómez-Pérez F, Valdés VJ, Sampieri A, Reyes-García JG, Carrasco-Portugal MDC, Flores-Murrieta FJ, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Vargas-Alarcón G, Shih D, Meikle PJ, Calkin AC, Drew BG, Vaca L, Lusis AJ, Huertas-Vazquez A, Villarreal-Molina T, Canizales-Quinteros S. Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies a Functional SIDT2 Variant Associated With HDL-C (High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol) Levels and Premature Coronary Artery Disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 09; 41(9):2494-2508. view on PubMed

Shum M, Shintre CA, Althoff T, Gutierrez V, Segawa M, Saxberg AD, Martinez M, Adamson R, Young MR, Faust B, Gharakhanian R, Su S, Chella Krishnan K, Mahdaviani K, Veliova M, Wolf DM, Ngo J, Nocito L, Stiles L, Abramson J, Lusis AJ, Hevener AL, Zoghbi ME, Carpenter EP, Liesa M. ABCB10 exports mitochondrial biliverdin, driving metabolic maladaptation in obesity. Sci Transl Med. 2021 05 19; 13(594). view on PubMed

Ferrara PJ, Rong X, Maschek JA, Verkerke AR, Siripoksup P, Song H, Green TD, Krishnan KC, Johnson JM, Turk J, Houmard JA, Lusis AJ, Drummond MJ, McClung JM, Cox JE, Shaikh SR, Tontonoz P, Holland WL, Funai K. Lysophospholipid acylation modulates plasma membrane lipid organization and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle. J Clin Invest. 2021 04 15; 131(8). view on PubMed

Chait A, Wang S, Goodspeed L, Gomes D, Turk KE, Wietecha T, Tang J, Storey C, O'Brien KD, Rubinow KB, Tang C, Vaisar T, Gharib SA, Lusis AJ, Den Hartigh LJ. Sexually Dimorphic Relationships Among Saa3 (Serum Amyloid A3), Inflammation, and Cholesterol Metabolism Modulate Atherosclerosis in Mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 06; 41(6):e299-e313. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. A vicious cycle in atherosclerosis. Cell. 2021 03 04; 184(5):1139-1141. view on PubMed

Hilser JR, Han Y, Biswas S, Gukasyan J, Cai Z, Zhu R, Tang WHW, Deb A, Lusis AJ, Hartiala JA, Allayee H. Association of serum HDL-cholesterol and apolipoprotein A1 levels with risk of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. J Lipid Res. 2021; 62:100061. view on PubMed

Hartiala JA, Han Y, Jia Q, Hilser JR, Huang P, Gukasyan J, Schwartzman WS, Cai Z, Biswas S, Trégouët DA, Smith NL, INVENT Consortium, CHARGE Consortium Hemostasis Working Group, GENIUS-CHD Consortium, Seldin M, Pan C, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Bazeley P, Sun YV, Liu C, Quyyumi AA, Scholz M, Thiery J, Delgado GE, Kleber ME, März W, Howe LJ, Asselbergs FW, van Vugt M, Vlachojannis GJ, Patel RS, Lyytikäinen LP, Kähönen M, Lehtimäki T, Nieminen TVM, Kuukasjärvi P, Laurikka JO, Chang X, Heng CK, Jiang R, Kraus WE, Hauser ER, Ferguson JF, Reilly MP, Ito K, Koyama S, Kamatani Y, Komuro I, Biobank Japan, Stolze LK, Romanoski CE, Khan MD, Turner AW, Miller CL, Aherrahrou R, Civelek M, Ma L, Björkegren JLM, Kumar SR, Tang WHW, Hazen SL, Allayee H. Genome-wide analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J. 2021 03 01; 42(9):919-933. view on PubMed

von Scheidt M, Zhao Y, de Aguiar Vallim TQ, Che N, Wierer M, Seldin MM, Franzén O, Kurt Z, Pang S, Bongiovanni D, Yamamoto M, Edwards PA, Ruusalepp A, Kovacic JC, Mann M, Björkegren JLM, Lusis AJ, Yang X, Schunkert H. Transcription Factor MAFF (MAF Basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Factor F) Regulates an Atherosclerosis Relevant Network Connecting Inflammation and Cholesterol Metabolism. Circulation. 2021 05 04; 143(18):1809-1823. view on PubMed

Selvarajan I, Toropainen A, Garske KM, López Rodríguez M, Ko A, Miao Z, Kaminska D, Õunap K, Örd T, Ravindran A, Liu OH, Moreau PR, Jawahar Deen A, Männistö V, Pan C, Levonen AL, Lusis AJ, Heikkinen S, Romanoski CE, Pihlajamäki J, Pajukanta P, Kaikkonen MU. Integrative analysis of liver-specific non-coding regulatory SNPs associated with the risk of coronary artery disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 03 04; 108(3):411-430. view on PubMed

Aasmets O, Lüll K, Lang JM, Pan C, Kuusisto J, Fischer K, Laakso M, Lusis AJ, Org E. Machine Learning Reveals Time-Varying Microbial Predictors with Complex Effects on Glucose Regulation. mSystems. 2021 Feb 16; 6(1). view on PubMed

Li DY, Wang Z, Jia X, Yan D, Shih DM, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ, Tang WHW. Loop Diuretics Inhibit Renal Excretion of Trimethylamine N-Oxide. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2021 Feb; 6(2):103-115. view on PubMed

Li S, Ma F, Yokota T, Garcia G, Palermo A, Wang Y, Farrell C, Wang YC, Wu R, Zhou Z, Pan C, Morselli M, Teitell MA, Ryazantsev S, Fishbein GA, Hoeve JT, Arboleda VA, Bloom J, Dillon B, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Arumugaswami V, Deb A. Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic changes of vital organs in SARS-CoV-2-induced systemic toxicity. JCI Insight. 2021 01 25; 6(2). view on PubMed

Cohain AT, Barrington WT, Jordan DM, Beckmann ND, Argmann CA, Houten SM, Charney AW, Ermel R, Sukhavasi K, Franzen O, Koplev S, Whatling C, Belbin GM, Yang J, Hao K, Kenny EE, Tu Z, Zhu J, Gan LM, Do R, Giannarelli C, Kovacic JC, Ruusalepp A, Lusis AJ, Bjorkegren JLM, Schadt EE. An integrative multiomic network model links lipid metabolism to glucose regulation in coronary artery disease. Nat Commun. 2021 01 22; 12(1):547. view on PubMed

Kurilshikov A, Medina-Gomez C, Bacigalupe R, Radjabzadeh D, Wang J, Demirkan A, Le Roy CI, Raygoza Garay JA, Finnicum CT, Liu X, Zhernakova DV, Bonder MJ, Hansen TH, Frost F, Rühlemann MC, Turpin W, Moon JY, Kim HN, Lüll K, Barkan E, Shah SA, Fornage M, Szopinska-Tokov J, Wallen ZD, Borisevich D, Agreus L, Andreasson A, Bang C, Bedrani L, Bell JT, Bisgaard H, Boehnke M, Boomsma DI, Burk RD, Claringbould A, Croitoru K, Davies GE, van Duijn CM, Duijts L, Falony G, Fu J, van der Graaf A, Hansen T, Homuth G, Hughes DA, Ijzerman RG, Jackson MA, Jaddoe VWV, Joossens M, Jørgensen T, Keszthelyi D, Knight R, Laakso M, Laudes M, Launer LJ, Lieb W, Lusis AJ, Masclee AAM, Moll HA, Mujagic Z, Qibin Q, Rothschild D, Shin H, Sørensen SJ, Steves CJ, Thorsen J, Timpson NJ, Tito RY, Vieira-Silva S, Völker U, Völzke H, Võsa U, Wade KH, Walter S, Watanabe K, Weiss S, Weiss FU, Weissbrod O, Westra HJ, Willemsen G, Payami H, Jonkers DMAE, Arias Vasquez A, de Geus EJC, Meyer KA, Stokholm J, Segal E, Org E, Wijmenga C, Kim HL, Kaplan RC, Spector TD, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Franke A, Lerch MM, Franke L, Sanna S, D'Amato M, Pedersen O, Paterson AD, Kraaij R, Raes J, Zhernakova A. Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition. Nat Genet. 2021 02; 53(2):156-165. view on PubMed

Zhang W, Miikeda A, Zuckerman J, Jia X, Charugundla S, Zhou Z, Kaczor-Urbanowicz KE, Magyar C, Guo F, Wang Z, Pellegrini M, Hazen SL, Nicholas SB, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. Inhibition of microbiota-dependent TMAO production attenuates chronic kidney disease in mice. Sci Rep. 2021 01 12; 11(1):518. view on PubMed

Norheim F, Chella Krishnan K, Bjellaas T, Vergnes L, Pan C, Parks BW, Meng Y, Lang J, Ward JA, Reue K, Mehrabian M, Gundersen TE, Péterfy M, Dalen KT, Drevon CA, Hui ST, Lusis AJ, Seldin MM. Genetic regulation of liver lipids in a mouse model of insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. Mol Syst Biol. 2021 01; 17(1):e9684. view on PubMed

Karunakaran D, Nguyen MA, Geoffrion M, Vreeken D, Lister Z, Cheng HS, Otte N, Essebier P, Wyatt H, Kandiah JW, Jung R, Alenghat FJ, Mompeon A, Lee R, Pan C, Gordon E, Rasheed A, Lusis AJ, Liu P, Matic LP, Hedin U, Fish JE, Guo L, Kolodgie F, Virmani R, van Gils JM, Rayner KJ. RIPK1 Expression Associates With Inflammation in Early Atherosclerosis in Humans and Can Be Therapeutically Silenced to Reduce NF-κB Activation and Atherogenesis in Mice. Circulation. 2021 01 12; 143(2):163-177. view on PubMed

Diamante G, Cely I, Zamora Z, Ding J, Blencowe M, Lang J, Bline A, Singh M, Lusis AJ, Yang X. Systems toxicogenomics of prenatal low-dose BPA exposure on liver metabolic pathways, gut microbiota, and metabolic health in mice. Environ Int. 2021 01; 146:106260. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Gonzales NM, Bloom JS, Park D, Ayroles J, Palmer AA, Lusis AJ, Zaitlen N. Modeling epistasis in mice and yeast using the proportion of two or more distinct genetic backgrounds: Evidence for "polygenic epistasis". PLoS Genet. 2020 10; 16(10):e1009165. view on PubMed

Sinha SK, Miikeda A, Fouladian Z, Mehrabian M, Edillor C, Shih D, Zhou Z, Paul MK, Charugundla S, Davis RC, Rajavashisth TB, Lusis AJ. Local M-CSF (Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor) Expression Regulates Macrophage Proliferation and Apoptosis in Atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 01; 41(1):220-233. view on PubMed

Ahn IS, Lang JM, Olson CA, Diamante G, Zhang G, Ying Z, Byun HR, Cely I, Ding J, Cohn P, Kurtz I, Gomez-Pinilla F, Lusis AJ, Hsiao EY, Yang X. Host Genetic Background and Gut Microbiota Contribute to Differential Metabolic Responses to Fructose Consumption in Mice. J Nutr. 2020 10 12; 150(10):2716-2728. view on PubMed

Charles-Schoeman C, Wang J, Shahbazian A, Lee YY, Wang X, Grijalva V, Brahn E, Shih DM, Devarajan A, Montano C, Lusis AJ, Reddy ST. Suppression of inflammatory arthritis in human serum paraoxonase 1 transgenic mice. Sci Rep. 2020 10 08; 10(1):16848. view on PubMed

Karunakaran D, Turner AW, Duchez AC, Soubeyrand S, Rasheed A, Smyth D, Cook DP, Nikpay M, Kandiah JW, Pan C, Geoffrion M, Lee R, Boytard L, Wyatt H, Nguyen MA, Lau P, Laakso M, Ramkhelawon B, Alvarez M, Pietiläinen KH, Pajukanta P, Vanderhyden BC, Liu P, Berger SB, Gough PJ, Bertin J, Harper ME, Lusis AJ, McPherson R, Rayner KJ. Publisher Correction: RIPK1 gene variants associate with obesity in humans and can be therapeutically silenced to reduce obesity in mice. Nat Metab. 2020 Oct; 2(10):1181. view on PubMed

Karunakaran D, Turner AW, Duchez AC, Soubeyrand S, Rasheed A, Smyth D, Cook DP, Nikpay M, Kandiah JW, Pan C, Geoffrion M, Lee R, Boytard L, Wyatt H, Nguyen MA, Lau P, Laakso M, Ramkhelawon B, Alvarez M, Pietiläinen KH, Pajukanta P, Vanderhyden BC, Liu P, Berger SB, Gough PJ, Bertin J, Harper ME, Lusis AJ, McPherson R, Rayner KJ. RIPK1 gene variants associate with obesity in humans and can be therapeutically silenced to reduce obesity in mice. Nat Metab. 2020 10; 2(10):1113-1125. view on PubMed

Acín-Pérez R, Iborra S, Martí-Mateos Y, Cook ECL, Conde-Garrosa R, Petcherski A, Muñoz MDM, Martínez de Mena R, Krishnan KC, Jiménez C, Bolaños JP, Laakso M, Lusis AJ, Shirihai OS, Sancho D, Enríquez JA. Fgr kinase is required for proinflammatory macrophage activation during diet-induced obesity. Nat Metab. 2020 09; 2(9):974-988. view on PubMed

Chella Krishnan K, Floyd RR, Sabir S, Jayasekera DW, Leon-Mimila PV, Jones AE, Cortez AA, Shravah V, Péterfy M, Stiles L, Canizales-Quinteros S, Divakaruni AS, Huertas-Vazquez A, Lusis AJ. Liver Pyruvate Kinase Promotes NAFLD/NASH in Both Mice and Humans in a Sex-Specific Manner. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021; 11(2):389-406. view on PubMed

Tuominen I, Fuqua BK, Pan C, Renaud N, Wroblewski K, Civelek M, Clerkin K, Asaryan A, Haroutunian SG, Loureiro J, Borawski J, Roma G, Knehr J, Carbone W, French S, Parks BW, Hui ST, Mehrabian M, Magyar C, Cantor RM, Ukomadu C, Lusis AJ, Beaven SW. The Genetic Architecture of Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Liver Fibrosis in Mice. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021; 11(1):199-220. view on PubMed

Zhou Z, Moore TM, Drew BG, Ribas V, Wanagat J, Civelek M, Segawa M, Wolf DM, Norheim F, Seldin MM, Strumwasser AR, Whitney KA, Lester E, Reddish BR, Vergnes L, Reue K, Rajbhandari P, Tontonoz P, Lee J, Mahata SK, Hewitt SC, Shirihai O, Gastonbury C, Small KS, Laakso M, Jensen J, Lee S, Drevon CA, Korach KS, Lusis AJ, Hevener AL. Estrogen receptor α controls metabolism in white and brown adipocytes by regulating Polg1 and mitochondrial remodeling. Sci Transl Med. 2020 08 05; 12(555). view on PubMed

Yokota T, McCourt J, Ma F, Ren S, Li S, Kim TH, Kurmangaliyev YZ, Nasiri R, Ahadian S, Nguyen T, Tan XHM, Zhou Y, Wu R, Rodriguez A, Cohn W, Wang Y, Whitelegge J, Ryazantsev S, Khademhosseini A, Teitell MA, Chiou PY, Birk DE, Rowat AC, Crosbie RH, Pellegrini M, Seldin M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Type V Collagen in Scar Tissue Regulates the Size of Scar after Heart Injury. Cell. 2020 08 06; 182(3):545-562.e23. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Lusis AJ, Wang Y. Systems Genetics for Mechanistic Discovery in Heart Diseases. Circ Res. 2020 06 05; 126(12):1795-1815. view on PubMed

Korshunov VA, Smolock EM, Wines-Samuelson ME, Faiyaz A, Mickelsen DM, Quinn B, Pan C, Dugbartey GJ, Yan C, Doyley MM, Lusis AJ, Berk BC. Natriuretic Peptide Receptor 2 Locus Contributes to Carotid Remodeling. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 05 18; 9(10):e014257. view on PubMed

Suh JS, Lee SH, Fouladian Z, Lee JY, Kim T, Kang MK, Lusis AJ, Boström KI, Kim RH, Park NH. Rosuvastatin Prevents the Exacerbation of Atherosclerosis in Ligature-Induced Periodontal Disease Mouse Model. Sci Rep. 2020 04 14; 10(1):6383. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Liu D, Wang Y. Tribute to Dr. Steve Schwartz. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2020 10; 147:A5-A6. view on PubMed

Fathzadeh M, Li J, Rao A, Cook N, Chennamsetty I, Seldin M, Zhou X, Sangwung P, Gloudemans MJ, Keller M, Attie A, Yang J, Wabitsch M, Carcamo-Orive I, Tada Y, Lusis AJ, Shin MK, Molony CM, McLaughlin T, Reaven G, Montgomery SB, Reilly D, Quertermous T, Ingelsson E, Knowles JW. FAM13A affects body fat distribution and adipocyte function. Nat Commun. 2020 03 19; 11(1):1465. view on PubMed

Zhang Z, Feng AC, Salisbury D, Liu X, Wu X, Kim J, Lapina I, Wang D, Lee B, Fraga J, Pan C, Williams KJ, Lusis AJ, Scumpia P, Sallam T. Collaborative interactions of heterogenous ribonucleoproteins contribute to transcriptional regulation of sterol metabolism in mice. Nat Commun. 2020 02 20; 11(1):984. view on PubMed

Maazi H, Hartiala JA, Suzuki Y, Crow AL, Shafiei Jahani P, Lam J, Patel N, Rigas D, Han Y, Huang P, Eskin E, Lusis AJ, Gilliland FD, Akbari O, Allayee H. A GWAS approach identifies Dapp1 as a determinant of air pollution-induced airway hyperreactivity. PLoS Genet. 2019 12; 15(12):e1008528. view on PubMed

Edillor CR, Parks BW, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Pellegrini M. DNA Methylation Changes More Slowly Than Physiological States in Response to Weight Loss in Genetically Diverse Mouse Strains. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2019; 10:882. view on PubMed

Wu Y, Broadaway KA, Raulerson CK, Scott LJ, Pan C, Ko A, He A, Tilford C, Fuchsberger C, Locke AE, Stringham HM, Jackson AU, Narisu N, Kuusisto J, Pajukanta P, Collins FS, Boehnke M, Laakso M, Lusis AJ, Civelek M, Mohlke KL. Colocalization of GWAS and eQTL signals at loci with multiple signals identifies additional candidate genes for body fat distribution. Hum Mol Genet. 2019 12 15; 28(24):4161-4172. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Y-Chromosome Genetic Variation Associated With Atherosclerosis and Inflammation. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019 11; 39(11):2201-2202. view on PubMed

Seldin M, Yang X, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics applications in metabolism research. Nat Metab. 2019 11; 1(11):1038-1050. view on PubMed

Helsley RN, Varadharajan V, Brown AL, Gromovsky AD, Schugar RC, Ramachandiran I, Fung K, Kabbany MN, Banerjee R, Neumann CK, Finney C, Pathak P, Orabi D, Osborn LJ, Massey W, Zhang R, Kadam A, Sansbury BE, Pan C, Sacks J, Lee RG, Crooke RM, Graham MJ, Lemieux ME, Gogonea V, Kirwan JP, Allende DS, Civelek M, Fox PL, Rudel LL, Lusis AJ, Spite M, Brown JM. Obesity-linked suppression of membrane-bound O-acyltransferase 7 (MBOAT7) drives non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Elife. 2019 10 17; 8. view on PubMed

Bhetraratana M, Orozco LD, Hong J, Diamante G, Majid S, Bennett BJ, Ahn IS, Yang X, Lusis AJ, Araujo JA. Diesel exhaust particles dysregulate multiple immunological pathways in murine macrophages: Lessons from microarray and scRNA-seq technologies. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2019 12 15; 678:108116. view on PubMed

Chella Krishnan K, Sabir S, Shum M, Meng Y, Acín-Pérez R, Lang JM, Floyd RR, Vergnes L, Seldin MM, Fuqua BK, Jayasekera DW, Nand SK, Anum DC, Pan C, Stiles L, Péterfy M, Reue K, Liesa M, Lusis AJ. Sex-specific metabolic functions of adipose Lipocalin-2. Mol Metab. 2019 12; 30:30-47. view on PubMed

Raulerson CK, Ko A, Kidd JC, Currin KW, Brotman SM, Cannon ME, Wu Y, Spracklen CN, Jackson AU, Stringham HM, Welch RP, Fuchsberger C, Locke AE, Narisu N, Lusis AJ, Civelek M, Furey TS, Kuusisto J, Collins FS, Boehnke M, Scott LJ, Lin DY, Love MI, Laakso M, Pajukanta P, Mohlke KL. Adipose Tissue Gene Expression Associations Reveal Hundreds of Candidate Genes for Cardiometabolic Traits. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 10 03; 105(4):773-787. view on PubMed

Org E, Lusis AJ. Using the natural variation of mouse populations to understand host-gut microbiome interactions. Drug Discov Today Dis Models. 2018; 28:61-71. view on PubMed

Xiong X, Kuang H, Ansari S, Liu T, Gong J, Wang S, Zhao XY, Ji Y, Li C, Guo L, Zhou L, Chen Z, Leon-Mimila P, Chung MT, Kurabayashi K, Opp J, Campos-Pérez F, Villamil-Ramírez H, Canizales-Quinteros S, Lyons R, Lumeng CN, Zhou B, Qi L, Huertas-Vazquez A, Lusis AJ, Xu XZS, Li S, Yu Y, Li JZ, Lin JD. Landscape of Intercellular Crosstalk in Healthy and NASH Liver Revealed by Single-Cell Secretome Gene Analysis. Mol Cell. 2019 08 08; 75(3):644-660.e5. view on PubMed

Thingholm LB, Rühlemann MC, Koch M, Fuqua B, Laucke G, Boehm R, Bang C, Franzosa EA, Hübenthal M, Rahnavard A, Frost F, Lloyd-Price J, Schirmer M, Lusis AJ, Vulpe CD, Lerch MM, Homuth G, Kacprowski T, Schmidt CO, Nöthlings U, Karlsen TH, Lieb W, Laudes M, Franke A, Huttenhower C. Obese Individuals with and without Type 2 Diabetes Show Different Gut Microbial Functional Capacity and Composition. Cell Host Microbe. 2019 08 14; 26(2):252-264.e10. view on PubMed

Wang J, Huertas-Vazquez A, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiac Diastolic Dysfunction in Mice: A Systems Genetics Analysis. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019; 6:100. view on PubMed

Yin F, Gupta R, Vergnes L, Driscoll WS, Ricks J, Ramanathan G, Stewart JA, Shih DM, Faull KF, Beaven SW, Lusis AJ, Reue K, Rosenfeld ME, Araujo JA. Diesel Exhaust Induces Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Hyperlipidemia, and Liver Steatosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019 09; 39(9):1776-1786. view on PubMed

Cordero P, Parikh VN, Chin ET, Erbilgin A, Gloudemans MJ, Shang C, Huang Y, Chang AC, Smith KS, Dewey F, Zaleta K, Morley M, Brandimarto J, Glazer N, Waggott D, Pavlovic A, Zhao M, Moravec CS, Tang WHW, Skreen J, Malloy C, Hannenhalli S, Li H, Ritter S, Li M, Bernstein D, Connolly A, Hakonarson H, Lusis AJ, Margulies KB, Depaoli-Roach AA, Montgomery SB, Wheeler MT, Cappola T, Ashley EA. Pathologic gene network rewiring implicates PPP1R3A as a central regulator in pressure overload heart failure. Nat Commun. 2019 06 24; 10(1):2760. view on PubMed

Zeng L, Talukdar HA, Koplev S, Giannarelli C, Ivert T, Gan LM, Ruusalepp A, Schadt EE, Kovacic JC, Lusis AJ, Michoel T, Schunkert H, Björkegren JLM. Contribution of Gene Regulatory Networks to Heritability of Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 06 18; 73(23):2946-2957. view on PubMed

AlSiraj Y, Chen X, Thatcher SE, Temel RE, Cai L, Blalock E, Katz W, Ali HM, Petriello M, Deng P, Morris AJ, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Arnold AP, Reue K, Thompson K, Tso P, Cassis LA. XX sex chromosome complement promotes atherosclerosis in mice. Nat Commun. 2019 06 14; 10(1):2631. view on PubMed

Zhou M, Shao J, Wu CY, Shu L, Dong W, Liu Y, Chen M, Wynn RM, Wang J, Wang J, Gui WJ, Qi X, Lusis AJ, Li Z, Wang W, Ning G, Yang X, Chuang DT, Wang Y, Sun H. Targeting BCAA Catabolism to Treat Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance. Diabetes. 2019 09; 68(9):1730-1746. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Zhu W, Schugar RC, Meng Y, Jia X, Miikeda A, Wang Z, Zieger M, Lee R, Graham M, Allayee H, Cantor RM, Mueller C, Brown JM, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ. Genetic Deficiency of Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase 3 ( Fmo3) Protects Against Thrombosis but Has Only a Minor Effect on Plasma Lipid Levels-Brief Report. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019 06; 39(6):1045-1054. view on PubMed

Blázquez-Medela AM, Jumabay M, Rajbhandari P, Sallam T, Guo Y, Yao J, Vergnes L, Reue K, Zhang L, Yao Y, Fogelman AM, Tontonoz P, Lusis AJ, Wu X, Boström KI. Noggin depletion in adipocytes promotes obesity in mice. Mol Metab. 2019 07; 25:50-63. view on PubMed

Geoghegan G, Simcox J, Seldin MM, Parnell TJ, Stubben C, Just S, Begaye L, Lusis AJ, Villanueva CJ. Targeted deletion of Tcf7l2 in adipocytes promotes adipocyte hypertrophy and impaired glucose metabolism. Mol Metab. 2019 06; 24:44-63. view on PubMed

Parker BL, Calkin AC, Seldin MM, Keating MF, Tarling EJ, Yang P, Moody SC, Liu Y, Zerenturk EJ, Needham EJ, Miller ML, Clifford BL, Morand P, Watt MJ, Meex RCR, Peng KY, Lee R, Jayawardana K, Pan C, Mellett NA, Weir JM, Lazarus R, Lusis AJ, Meikle PJ, James DE, de Aguiar Vallim TQ, Drew BG. An integrative systems genetic analysis of mammalian lipid metabolism. Nature. 2019 03; 567(7747):187-193. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Meng Y, Sallam T, Vergnes L, Shu ML, Reue K, Tontonoz P, Fogelman AM, Lusis AJ, Reddy ST. PON2 Deficiency Leads to Increased Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity. Antioxidants (Basel). 2019 Jan 11; 8(1). view on PubMed

Norheim F, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Vergnes L, Chella Krishnan K, Pan C, Seldin MM, Hui ST, Mehrabian M, Zhou Z, Gupta S, Parks BW, Walch A, Reue K, Hofmann SM, Arnold AP, Lusis AJ. Gene-by-Sex Interactions in Mitochondrial Functions and Cardio-Metabolic Traits. Cell Metab. 2019 04 02; 29(4):932-949.e4. view on PubMed

Pamir N, Pan C, Plubell DL, Hutchins PM, Tang C, Wimberger J, Irwin A, Vallim TQA, Heinecke JW, Lusis AJ. Genetic control of the mouse HDL proteome defines HDL traits, function, and heterogeneity. J Lipid Res. 2019 03; 60(3):594-608. view on PubMed

Ma F, Fuqua BK, Hasin Y, Yukhtman C, Vulpe CD, Lusis AJ, Pellegrini M. A comparison between whole transcript and 3' RNA sequencing methods using Kapa and Lexogen library preparation methods. BMC Genomics. 2019 Jan 07; 20(1):9. view on PubMed

Seldin MM, Lusis AJ. Systems-based approaches for investigation of inter-tissue communication. J Lipid Res. 2019 03; 60(3):450-455. view on PubMed

Lang JM, Pan C, Cantor RM, Tang WHW, Garcia-Garcia JC, Kurtz I, Hazen SL, Bergeron N, Krauss RM, Lusis AJ. Impact of Individual Traits, Saturated Fat, and Protein Source on the Gut Microbiome. mBio. 2018 12 11; 9(6). view on PubMed

Martin LJ, Meng Q, Blencowe M, Lagarrigue S, Xiao S, Pan C, Wier J, Temple WC, Devaskar SU, Lusis AJ, Yang X. Maternal High-Protein and Low-Protein Diets Perturb Hypothalamus and Liver Transcriptome and Metabolic Homeostasis in Adult Mouse Offspring. Front Genet. 2018; 9:642. view on PubMed

Bond ST, Moody SC, Liu Y, Civelek M, Villanueva CJ, Gregorevic P, Kingwell BA, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ, Henstridge DC, Calkin AC, Drew BG. The E3 ligase MARCH5 is a PPARγ target gene that regulates mitochondria and metabolism in adipocytes. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2019 02 01; 316(2):E293-E304. view on PubMed

Moore TM, Zhou Z, Cohn W, Norheim F, Lin AJ, Kalajian N, Strumwasser AR, Cory K, Whitney K, Ho T, Ho T, Lee JL, Rucker DH, Shirihai O, van der Bliek AM, Whitelegge JP, Seldin MM, Lusis AJ, Lee S, Drevon CA, Mahata SK, Turcotte LP, Hevener AL. The impact of exercise on mitochondrial dynamics and the role of Drp1 in exercise performance and training adaptations in skeletal muscle. Mol Metab. 2019 03; 21:51-67. view on PubMed

Hui ST, Kurt Z, Tuominen I, Norheim F, C Davis R, Pan C, Dirks DL, Magyar CE, French SW, Chella Krishnan K, Sabir S, Campos-Pérez F, Méndez-Sánchez N, Macías-Kauffer L, León-Mimila P, Canizales-Quinteros S, Yang X, Beaven SW, Huertas-Vazquez A, Lusis AJ. The Genetic Architecture of Diet-Induced Hepatic Fibrosis in Mice. Hepatology. 2018 12; 68(6):2182-2196. view on PubMed

Lin LY, Chun Chang S, O'Hearn J, Hui ST, Seldin M, Gupta P, Bondar G, Deng M, Jauhiainen R, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Sinsheimer JS, Deb A, Rau C, Ren S, Wang Y, Lusis AJ, Wang JJ, Huertas-Vazquez A. Systems Genetics Approach to Biomarker Discovery: GPNMB and Heart Failure in Mice and Humans. G3 (Bethesda). 2018 11 06; 8(11):3499-3506. view on PubMed

Kasahara K, Krautkramer KA, Org E, Romano KA, Kerby RL, Vivas EI, Mehrabian M, Denu JM, Bäckhed F, Lusis AJ, Rey FE. Interactions between Roseburia intestinalis and diet modulate atherogenesis in a murine model. Nat Microbiol. 2018 12; 3(12):1461-1471. view on PubMed

Rotter D, Peiris H, Grinsfelder DB, Martin AM, Burchfield J, Parra V, Hull C, Morales CR, Jessup CF, Matusica D, Parks BW, Lusis AJ, Nguyen NUN, Oh M, Iyoke I, Jakkampudi T, McMillan DR, Sadek HA, Watt MJ, Gupta RK, Pritchard MA, Keating DJ, Rothermel BA. Regulator of Calcineurin 1 helps coordinate whole-body metabolism and thermogenesis. EMBO Rep. 2018 12; 19(12). view on PubMed

Pirie E, Ray S, Pan C, Fu W, Powers AF, Polikoff D, Miller CM, Kudrna KM, Harris EN, Lusis AJ, Crooke RM, Lee RG. Mouse genome-wide association studies and systems genetics uncover the genetic architecture associated with hepatic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of a constrained ethyl antisense oligonucleotide targeting Malat1. PLoS Genet. 2018 10; 14(10):e1007732. view on PubMed

Skye SM, Zhu W, Romano KA, Guo CJ, Wang Z, Jia X, Kirsop J, Haag B, Lang JM, DiDonato JA, Tang WHW, Lusis AJ, Rey FE, Fischbach MA, Hazen SL. Microbial Transplantation With Human Gut Commensals Containing CutC Is Sufficient to Transmit Enhanced Platelet Reactivity and Thrombosis Potential. Circ Res. 2018 10 26; 123(10):1164-1176. view on PubMed

Kurt Z, Barrere-Cain R, LaGuardia J, Mehrabian M, Pan C, Hui ST, Norheim F, Zhou Z, Hasin Y, Lusis AJ, Yang X. Tissue-specific pathways and networks underlying sexual dimorphism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Biol Sex Differ. 2018 10 22; 9(1):46. view on PubMed

Thompson MJ, Chwialkowska K, Rubbi L, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, Srivastava A, Korstanje R, Churchill GA, Horvath S, Pellegrini M. A multi-tissue full lifespan epigenetic clock for mice. Aging (Albany NY). 2018 10 21; 10(10):2832-2854. view on PubMed

Chella Krishnan K, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ. Sex differences in metabolism and cardiometabolic disorders. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2018 10; 29(5):404-410. view on PubMed

Rees CM, Yang JH, Santolini M, Lusis AJ, Weiss JN, Karma A. The Ca2+ transient as a feedback sensor controlling cardiomyocyte ionic conductances in mouse populations. Elife. 2018 09 25; 7. view on PubMed

Park S, Ranjbarvaziri S, Lay FD, Zhao P, Miller MJ, Dhaliwal JS, Huertas-Vazquez A, Wu X, Qiao R, Soffer JM, Rau C, Wang Y, Mikkola HKA, Lusis AJ, Ardehali R. Genetic Regulation of Fibroblast Activation and Proliferation in Cardiac Fibrosis. Circulation. 2018 09 18; 138(12):1224-1235. view on PubMed

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Hitzel J, Lee E, Zhang Y, Bibli SI, Li X, Zukunft S, Pflüger B, Hu J, Schürmann C, Vasconez AE, Oo JA, Kratzer A, Kumar S, Rezende F, Josipovic I, Thomas D, Giral H, Schreiber Y, Geisslinger G, Fork C, Yang X, Sigala F, Romanoski CE, Kroll J, Jo H, Landmesser U, Lusis AJ, Namgaladze D, Fleming I, Leisegang MS, Zhu J, Brandes RP. Oxidized phospholipids regulate amino acid metabolism through MTHFD2 to facilitate nucleotide release in endothelial cells. Nat Commun. 2018 06 12; 9(1):2292. view on PubMed

Hiyari S, Green E, Pan C, Lari S, Davar M, Davis R, Camargo PM, Tetradis S, Lusis AJ, Pirih FQ. Genomewide Association Study Identifies Cxcl Family Members as Partial Mediators of LPS-Induced Periodontitis. J Bone Miner Res. 2018 08; 33(8):1450-1463. view on PubMed

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Norheim F, Bjellaas T, Hui ST, Chella Krishnan K, Lee J, Gupta S, Pan C, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Parks BW, Li DY, Bui HH, Mosier M, Wu Y, Huertas-Vazquez A, Hazen SL, Gundersen TE, Mehrabian M, Tang WHW, Hevener AL, Drevon CA, Lusis AJ. Genetic, dietary, and sex-specific regulation of hepatic ceramides and the relationship between hepatic ceramides and IR. J Lipid Res. 2018 07; 59(7):1164-1174. view on PubMed

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Yu J, Seldin MM, Fu K, Li S, Lam L, Wang P, Wang Y, Huang D, Nguyen TL, Wei B, Kulkarni RP, Di Carlo D, Teitell M, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Topological Arrangement of Cardiac Fibroblasts Regulates Cellular Plasticity. Circ Res. 2018 06 22; 123(1):73-85. view on PubMed

Pan DZ, Garske KM, Alvarez M, Bhagat YV, Boocock J, Nikkola E, Miao Z, Raulerson CK, Cantor RM, Civelek M, Glastonbury CA, Small KS, Boehnke M, Lusis AJ, Sinsheimer JS, Mohlke KL, Laakso M, Pajukanta P, Ko A. Integration of human adipocyte chromosomal interactions with adipose gene expression prioritizes obesity-related genes from GWAS. Nat Commun. 2018 04 17; 9(1):1512. view on PubMed

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Santolini M, Romay MC, Yukhtman CL, Rau CD, Ren S, Saucerman JJ, Wang JJ, Weiss JN, Wang Y, Lusis AJ, Karma A. A personalized, multiomics approach identifies genes involved in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. NPJ Syst Biol Appl. 2018; 4:12. view on PubMed

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Barrington WT, Salvador AC, Hartiala JA, De Caterina R, Kohlmeier M, Martinez JA, Kreutzer CB, Heber D, Lusis AJ, Li Z, Allayee H. Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Society of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics (ISNN 2017). J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics. 2017; 10(5-6):155-162. view on PubMed

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Barrington WT, Lusis AJ. Atherosclerosis: Association between the gut microbiome and atherosclerosis. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2017 Dec; 14(12):699-700. view on PubMed

Shu L, Chan KHK, Zhang G, Huan T, Kurt Z, Zhao Y, Codoni V, Trégouët DA, Cardiogenics Consortium, Yang J, Wilson JG, Luo X, Levy D, Lusis AJ, Liu S, Yang X. Shared genetic regulatory networks for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in multiple populations of diverse ethnicities in the United States. PLoS Genet. 2017 Sep; 13(9):e1007040. view on PubMed

Cannon ME, Duan Q, Wu Y, Zeynalzadeh M, Xu Z, Kangas AJ, Soininen P, Ala-Korpela M, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Kuusisto J, Collins FS, Boehnke M, Tang H, Laakso M, Li Y, Mohlke KL. Trans-ancestry Fine Mapping and Molecular Assays Identify Regulatory Variants at the ANGPTL8 HDL-C GWAS Locus. G3 (Bethesda). 2017 09 07; 7(9):3217-3227. view on PubMed

McLachlan S, Page KE, Lee SM, Loguinov A, Valore E, Hui ST, Jung G, Zhou J, Lusis AJ, Fuqua B, Ganz T, Nemeth E, Vulpe CD. Hamp1 mRNA and plasma hepcidin levels are influenced by sex and strain but do not predict tissue iron levels in inbred mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2017 Nov 01; 313(5):G511-G523. view on PubMed

Kim S, Yang L, Kim S, Lee RG, Graham MJ, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ, Cai L, Temel RE, Rateri DL, Lee S. Targeting hepatic heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) induces anti-hyperlipidemia leading to reduction of angiotensin II-induced aneurysm development. PLoS One. 2017; 12(8):e0182566. view on PubMed

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Buscher K, Ehinger E, Gupta P, Pramod AB, Wolf D, Tweet G, Pan C, Mills CD, Lusis AJ, Ley K. Natural variation of macrophage activation as disease-relevant phenotype predictive of inflammation and cancer survival. Nat Commun. 2017 07 24; 8:16041. view on PubMed

Daugherty A, Tall AR, Daemen MJAP, Falk E, Fisher EA, García-Cardeña G, Lusis AJ, Owens AP, Rosenfeld ME, Virmani R, American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; and Council. Recommendation on Design, Execution, and Reporting of Animal Atherosclerosis Studies: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2017 09; 37(9):e131-e157. view on PubMed

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Mukherjee P, Hough G, Chattopadhyay A, Navab M, Fogelman HR, Meriwether D, Williams K, Bensinger S, Moller T, Faull KF, Lusis AJ, Iruela-Arispe ML, Bostrom KI, Tontonoz P, Reddy ST, Fogelman AM. Transgenic tomatoes expressing the 6F peptide and ezetimibe prevent diet-induced increases of IFN-β and cholesterol 25-hydroxylase in jejunum. J Lipid Res. 2017 08; 58(8):1636-1647. view on PubMed

Kessler T, Wobst J, Wolf B, Eckhold J, Vilne B, Hollstein R, von Ameln S, Dang TA, Sager HB, Moritz Rumpf P, Aherrahrou R, Kastrati A, Björkegren JLM, Erdmann J, Lusis AJ, Civelek M, Kaiser FJ, Schunkert H. Functional Characterization of the GUCY1A3 Coronary Artery Disease Risk Locus. Circulation. 2017 Aug 01; 136(5):476-489. view on PubMed

Hasin Y, Seldin M, Lusis A. Multi-omics approaches to disease. Genome Biol. 2017 05 05; 18(1):83. view on PubMed

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Civelek M, Wu Y, Pan C, Raulerson CK, Ko A, He A, Tilford C, Saleem NK, Stancáková A, Scott LJ, Fuchsberger C, Stringham HM, Jackson AU, Narisu N, Chines PS, Small KS, Kuusisto J, Parks BW, Pajukanta P, Kirchgessner T, Collins FS, Gargalovic PS, Boehnke M, Laakso M, Mohlke KL, Lusis AJ. Genetic Regulation of Adipose Gene Expression and Cardio-Metabolic Traits. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Mar 02; 100(3):428-443. view on PubMed

Seldin MM, Kim ED, Romay MC, Li S, Rau CD, Wang JJ, Krishnan KC, Wang Y, Deb A, Lusis AJ. A systems genetics approach identifies Trp53inp2 as a link between cardiomyocyte glucose utilization and hypertrophic response. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2017 Apr 01; 312(4):H728-H741. view on PubMed

Baliga NS, Björkegren JL, Boeke JD, Boutros M, Crawford NP, Dudley AM, Farber CR, Jones A, Levey AI, Lusis AJ, Mak HC, Nadeau JH, Noyes MB, Petretto E, Seyfried NT, Steinmetz LM, Vonesch SC. The State of Systems Genetics in 2017. Cell Syst. 2017 01 25; 4(1):7-15. view on PubMed

Laakso M, Kuusisto J, Stancáková A, Kuulasmaa T, Pajukanta P, Lusis AJ, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Boehnke M. The Metabolic Syndrome in Men study: a resource for studies of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. J Lipid Res. 2017 03; 58(3):481-493. view on PubMed

Link JC, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Cantor RM, Chen X, Arnold AP, Lusis AJ, Reue K. Diet, gonadal sex, and sex chromosome complement influence white adipose tissue miRNA expression. BMC Genomics. 2017 01 17; 18(1):89. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Civelek M, Pan C, Lusis AJ. A Suite of Tools for Biologists That Improve Accessibility and Visualization of Large Systems Genetics Datasets: Applications to the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel. Methods Mol Biol. 2017; 1488:153-188. view on PubMed

von Scheidt M, Zhao Y, Kurt Z, Pan C, Zeng L, Yang X, Schunkert H, Lusis AJ. Applications and Limitations of Mouse Models for Understanding Human Atherosclerosis. Cell Metab. 2017 02 07; 25(2):248-261. view on PubMed

Pillai ICL, Li S, Romay M, Lam L, Lu Y, Huang J, Dillard N, Zemanova M, Rubbi L, Wang Y, Lee J, Xia M, Liang O, Xie YH, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Cardiac Fibroblasts Adopt Osteogenic Fates and Can Be Targeted to Attenuate Pathological Heart Calcification. Cell Stem Cell. 2017 02 02; 20(2):218-232.e5. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Romay MC, Tuteryan M, Wang JJ, Santolini M, Ren S, Karma A, Weiss JN, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. Systems Genetics Approach Identifies Gene Pathways and Adamts2 as Drivers of Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy and Cardiomyopathy in Mice. Cell Syst. 2017 01 25; 4(1):121-128.e4. view on PubMed

Shu L, Zhao Y, Kurt Z, Byars SG, Tukiainen T, Kettunen J, Orozco LD, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Ripatti S, Zhang B, Inouye M, Mäkinen VP, Yang X. Mergeomics: multidimensional data integration to identify pathogenic perturbations to biological systems. BMC Genomics. 2016 11 04; 17(1):874. view on PubMed

Norheim F, Hui ST, Kulahcioglu E, Mehrabian M, Cantor RM, Pan C, Parks BW, Lusis AJ. Genetic and hormonal control of hepatic steatosis in female and male mice. J Lipid Res. 2017 01; 58(1):178-187. view on PubMed

Joo JW, Kang EY, Org E, Furlotte N, Parks B, Hormozdiari F, Lusis AJ, Eskin E. Efficient and Accurate Multiple-Phenotype Regression Method for High Dimensional Data Considering Population Structure. Genetics. 2016 Dec; 204(4):1379-1390. view on PubMed

Codoni V, Blum Y, Civelek M, Proust C, Franzén O, Cardiogenics Consortium, IDEM Leducq Consortium CADGenomics, Björkegren JL, Le Goff W, Cambien F, Lusis AJ, Trégouët DA. Preservation Analysis of Macrophage Gene Coexpression Between Human and Mouse Identifies PARK2 as a Genetically Controlled Master Regulator of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Humans. G3 (Bethesda). 2016 10 13; 6(10):3361-3371. view on PubMed

Lavinsky J, Ge M, Crow AL, Pan C, Wang J, Salehi P, Myint A, Eskin E, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Friedman RA. The Genetic Architecture of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Evidence for a Gene-by-Environment Interaction. G3 (Bethesda). 2016 10 13; 6(10):3219-3228. view on PubMed

Kang EY, Martin LJ, Mangul S, Isvilanonda W, Zou J, Ben-David E, Han B, Lusis AJ, Shifman S, Eskin E. Discovering Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Regulating Human Gene Expression Using Allele Specific Expression from RNA-seq Data. Genetics. 2016 11; 204(3):1057-1064. view on PubMed

Touat-Hamici Z, Weidmann H, Blum Y, Proust C, Durand H, Iannacci F, Codoni V, Gaignard P, Thérond P, Civelek M, Karabina SA, Lusis AJ, Cambien F, Ninio E. Role of lipid phosphate phosphatase 3 in human aortic endothelial cell function. Cardiovasc Res. 2016 12; 112(3):702-713. view on PubMed

Wågsäter D, Vorkapic E, van Stijn CM, Kim J, Lusis AJ, Eriksson P, Tangirala RK. Elevated Adiponectin Levels Suppress Perivascular and Aortic Inflammation and Prevent AngII-induced Advanced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 23; 6:31414. view on PubMed

Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Khan AH, Hormozdiari F, Pan C, Parks BW, Petyuk VA, Piehowski PD, Brümmer A, Pellegrini M, Xiao X, Eskin E, Smith RD, Lusis AJ, Smith DJ. Hypothalamic transcriptomes of 99 mouse strains reveal trans eQTL hotspots, splicing QTLs and novel non-coding genes. Elife. 2016 09 13; 5. view on PubMed

Salehi P, Myint A, Kim YJ, Ge MX, Lavinsky J, Ho MK, Crow AL, Cruz C, Monges-Hernadez M, Wang J, Hartiala J, Zhang LI, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Ohyama T, Friedman RA. Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Dcc as an Essential Factor in the Innervation of the Peripheral Vestibular System in Inbred Mice. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2016 Oct; 17(5):417-31. view on PubMed

Kojima Y, Volkmer JP, McKenna K, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Miller CL, Direnzo D, Nanda V, Ye J, Connolly AJ, Schadt EE, Quertermous T, Betancur P, Maegdefessel L, Matic LP, Hedin U, Weissman IL, Leeper NJ. CD47-blocking antibodies restore phagocytosis and prevent atherosclerosis. Nature. 2016 08 04; 536(7614):86-90. view on PubMed

Du J, Leung A, Trac C, Lee M, Parks BW, Lusis AJ, Natarajan R, Schones DE. Chromatin variation associated with liver metabolism is mediated by transposable elements. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016; 9:28. view on PubMed

Wang JJ, Rau C, Avetisyan R, Ren S, Romay MC, Stolin G, Gong KW, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. Genetic Dissection of Cardiac Remodeling in an Isoproterenol-Induced Heart Failure Mouse Model. PLoS Genet. 2016 07; 12(7):e1006038. view on PubMed

Org E, Mehrabian M, Parks BW, Shipkova P, Liu X, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Sex differences and hormonal effects on gut microbiota composition in mice. Gut Microbes. 2016 07 03; 7(4):313-322. view on PubMed

Karbassi E, Monte E, Chapski DJ, Lopez R, Rosa Garrido M, Kim J, Wisniewski N, Rau CD, Wang JJ, Weiss JN, Wang Y, Lusis AJ, Vondriska TM. Relationship of disease-associated gene expression to cardiac phenotype is buffered by genetic diversity and chromatin regulation. Physiol Genomics. 2016 08 01; 48(8):601-15. view on PubMed

Hormozdiari F, Kang EY, Bilow M, Ben-David E, Vulpe C, McLachlan S, Lusis AJ, Han B, Eskin E. Imputing Phenotypes for Genome-wide Association Studies. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Jul 07; 99(1):89-103. view on PubMed

Monte E, Rosa-Garrido M, Karbassi E, Chen H, Lopez R, Rau CD, Wang J, Nelson SF, Wu Y, Stefani E, Lusis AJ, Wang Y, Kurdistani SK, Franklin S, Vondriska TM. Reciprocal Regulation of the Cardiac Epigenome by Chromatin Structural Proteins Hmgb and Ctcf: IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION. J Biol Chem. 2016 07 22; 291(30):15428-46. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Seldin MM, Allayee H, Bennett BJ, Civelek M, Davis RC, Eskin E, Farber CR, Hui S, Mehrabian M, Norheim F, Pan C, Parks B, Rau CD, Smith DJ, Vallim T, Wang Y, Wang J. The Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel: a resource for systems genetics analyses of metabolic and cardiovascular traits. J Lipid Res. 2016 06; 57(6):925-42. view on PubMed

Ribas V, Drew BG, Zhou Z, Phun J, Kalajian NY, Soleymani T, Daraei P, Widjaja K, Wanagat J, de Aguiar Vallim TQ, Fluitt AH, Bensinger S, Le T, Radu C, Whitelegge JP, Beaven SW, Tontonoz P, Lusis AJ, Parks BW, Vergnes L, Reue K, Singh H, Bopassa JC, Toro L, Stefani E, Watt MJ, Schenk S, Akerstrom T, Kelly M, Pedersen BK, Hewitt SC, Korach KS, Hevener AL. Skeletal muscle action of estrogen receptor α is critical for the maintenance of mitochondrial function and metabolic homeostasis in females. Sci Transl Med. 2016 Apr 13; 8(334):334ra54. view on PubMed

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Chattopadhyay A, Navab M, Hough G, Grijalva V, Mukherjee P, Fogelman HR, Hwang LH, Faull KF, Lusis AJ, Reddy ST, Fogelman AM. Tg6F ameliorates the increase in oxidized phospholipids in the jejunum of mice fed unsaturated LysoPC or WD. J Lipid Res. 2016 05; 57(5):832-47. view on PubMed

Talukdar HA, Foroughi Asl H, Jain RK, Ermel R, Ruusalepp A, Franzén O, Kidd BA, Readhead B, Giannarelli C, Kovacic JC, Ivert T, Dudley JT, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE, Skogsberg J, Michoel T, Björkegren JL. Cross-Tissue Regulatory Gene Networks in Coronary Artery Disease. Cell Syst. 2016 03 23; 2(3):196-208. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Davis RC, Civelek M, Orozco L, Wu J, Qi H, Pan C, Sevag Packard RR, Eskin E, Yan M, Kirchgessner T, Wang Z, Li X, Gregory JC, Hazen SL, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ. Correction: Genetic Architecture of Atherosclerosis in Mice: A Systems Genetics Analysis of Common Inbred Strains. PLoS Genet. 2016 Mar; 12(3):e1005913. view on PubMed

Seldin MM, Meng Y, Qi H, Zhu W, Wang Z, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. Trimethylamine N-Oxide Promotes Vascular Inflammation Through Signaling of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase and Nuclear Factor-κB. J Am Heart Assoc. 2016 Feb 22; 5(2). view on PubMed

Gusev A, Ko A, Shi H, Bhatia G, Chung W, Penninx BW, Jansen R, de Geus EJ, Boomsma DI, Wright FA, Sullivan PF, Nikkola E, Alvarez M, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Lehtimäki T, Raitoharju E, Kähönen M, Seppälä I, Raitakari OT, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Price AL, Pajukanta P, Pasaniuc B. Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies. Nat Genet. 2016 Mar; 48(3):245-52. view on PubMed

Chen H, Orozco LD, Wang J, Rau CD, Rubbi L, Ren S, Wang Y, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Vondriska TM. DNA Methylation Indicates Susceptibility to Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiac Pathology and Is Associated With Chromatin States. Circ Res. 2016 Mar 04; 118(5):786-97. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Davis RC, Civelek M, Orozco L, Wu J, Qi H, Pan C, Packard RR, Eskin E, Yan M, Kirchgessner T, Wang Z, Li X, Gregory JC, Hazen SL, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ. Genetic Architecture of Atherosclerosis in Mice: A Systems Genetics Analysis of Common Inbred Strains. PLoS Genet. 2015 Dec; 11(12):e1005711. view on PubMed

Wang Z, Roberts AB, Buffa JA, Levison BS, Zhu W, Org E, Gu X, Huang Y, Zamanian-Daryoush M, Culley MK, DiDonato AJ, Fu X, Hazen JE, Krajcik D, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. Non-lethal Inhibition of Gut Microbial Trimethylamine Production for the Treatment of Atherosclerosis. Cell. 2015 Dec 17; 163(7):1585-95. view on PubMed

Pamir N, Hutchins P, Ronsein G, Vaisar T, Reardon CA, Getz GS, Lusis AJ, Heinecke JW. Proteomic analysis of HDL from inbred mouse strains implicates APOE associated with HDL in reduced cholesterol efflux capacity via the ABCA1 pathway. J Lipid Res. 2016 Feb; 57(2):246-57. view on PubMed

Roman TS, Marvelle AF, Fogarty MP, Vadlamudi S, Gonzalez AJ, Buchkovich ML, Huyghe JR, Fuchsberger C, Jackson AU, Wu Y, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Gaulton KJ, Sethupathy P, Kangas AJ, Soininen P, Ala-Korpela M, Kuusisto J, Collins FS, Laakso M, Boehnke M, Mohlke KL. Multiple Hepatic Regulatory Variants at the GALNT2 GWAS Locus Associated with High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. Am J Hum Genet. 2015 Dec 03; 97(6):801-15. view on PubMed

Briot A, Civelek M, Seki A, Hoi K, Mack JJ, Lee SD, Kim J, Hong C, Yu J, Fishbein GA, Vakili L, Fogelman AM, Fishbein MC, Lusis AJ, Tontonoz P, Navab M, Berliner JA, Iruela-Arispe ML. Endothelial NOTCH1 is suppressed by circulating lipids and antagonizes inflammation during atherosclerosis. J Exp Med. 2015 Nov 16; 212(12):2147-63. view on PubMed

Cattin ME, Wang J, Weldrick JJ, Roeske CL, Mak E, Thorn SL, DaSilva JN, Wang Y, Lusis AJ, Burgon PG. Deletion of MLIP (muscle-enriched A-type lamin-interacting protein) leads to cardiac hyperactivation of Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and impaired cardiac adaptation. J Biol Chem. 2015 Oct 30; 290(44):26699-714. view on PubMed

Crow AL, Ohmen J, Wang J, Lavinsky J, Hartiala J, Li Q, Li X, Salehide P, Eskin E, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Allayee H, Friedman RA. The Genetic Architecture of Hearing Impairment in Mice: Evidence for Frequency-Specific Genetic Determinants. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Sep 04; 5(11):2329-39. view on PubMed

Schrauwen I, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Corneveaux JJ, Ohmen J, White C, Allen AN, Lusis AJ, Van Camp G, Huentelman MJ, Friedman RA. A comprehensive catalogue of the coding and non-coding transcripts of the human inner ear. Hear Res. 2016 Mar; 333:266-274. view on PubMed

Brænne I, Civelek M, Vilne B, Di Narzo A, Johnson AD, Zhao Y, Reiz B, Codoni V, Webb TR, Foroughi Asl H, Hamby SE, Zeng L, Trégouët DA, Hao K, Topol EJ, Schadt EE, Yang X, Samani NJ, Björkegren JL, Erdmann J, Schunkert H, Lusis AJ, Leducq Consortium CAD Genomics‡. Prediction of Causal Candidate Genes in Coronary Artery Disease Loci. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2015 Oct; 35(10):2207-17. view on PubMed

Org E, Parks BW, Joo JW, Emert B, Schwartzman W, Kang EY, Mehrabian M, Pan C, Knight R, Gunsalus R, Drake TA, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. Genetic and environmental control of host-gut microbiota interactions. Genome Res. 2015 Oct; 25(10):1558-69. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Parks B, Wang Y, Eskin E, Simecek P, Churchill GA, Lusis AJ. High-Density Genotypes of Inbred Mouse Strains: Improved Power and Precision of Association Mapping. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Jul 28; 5(10):2021-6. view on PubMed

Nanda V, Gutman B, Bar E, Alghamdi S, Tetradis S, Lusis AJ, Eskin E, Moon W. Quantitative analysis of 3-dimensional facial soft tissue photographic images: technical methods and clinical application. Prog Orthod. 2015; 16:21. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Cardiovascular disease genes come together. Atherosclerosis. 2015 Oct; 242(2):630-1. view on PubMed

Hui ST, Parks BW, Org E, Norheim F, Che N, Pan C, Castellani LW, Charugundla S, Dirks DL, Psychogios N, Neuhaus I, Gerszten RE, Kirchgessner T, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ. The genetic architecture of NAFLD among inbred strains of mice. Elife. 2015 Jun 12; 4:e05607. view on PubMed

Lavinsky J, Crow AL, Pan C, Wang J, Aaron KA, Ho MK, Li Q, Salehide P, Myint A, Monges-Hernadez M, Eskin E, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Friedman RA. Correction: Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Nox3 as a Critical Gene for Susceptibility to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. PLoS Genet. 2015 Jun; 11(6):e1005293. view on PubMed

Zhou X, Crow AL, Hartiala J, Spindler TJ, Ghazalpour A, Barsky LW, Bennett BJ, Parks BW, Eskin E, Jain R, Epstein JA, Lusis AJ, Adams GB, Allayee H. The Genetic Landscape of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Frequency in Mice. Stem Cell Reports. 2015 Jul 14; 5(1):125-38. view on PubMed

Org E, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ. Unraveling the environmental and genetic interactions in atherosclerosis: Central role of the gut microbiota. Atherosclerosis. 2015 Aug; 241(2):387-99. view on PubMed

Orozco LD, Morselli M, Rubbi L, Guo W, Go J, Shi H, Lopez D, Furlotte NA, Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Ghazalpour A, Zhang MQ, Bahous R, Rozen R, Lusis AJ, Pellegrini M. Epigenome-wide association of liver methylation patterns and complex metabolic traits in mice. Cell Metab. 2015 Jun 02; 21(6):905-17. view on PubMed

Wu C, Huang RT, Kuo CH, Kumar S, Kim CW, Lin YC, Chen YJ, Birukova A, Birukov KG, Dulin NO, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Loyer X, Tedgui A, Dai G, Jo H, Fang Y. Mechanosensitive PPAP2B Regulates Endothelial Responses to Atherorelevant Hemodynamic Forces. Circ Res. 2015 Jul 31; 117(4):e41-e53. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Lusis AJ, Wang Y. Genetics of common forms of heart failure: challenges and potential solutions. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2015 May; 30(3):222-7. view on PubMed

Kenagy RD, Civelek M, Kikuchi S, Chen L, Grieff A, Sobel M, Lusis AJ, Clowes AW. Scavenger receptor class A member 5 (SCARA5) and suprabasin (SBSN) are hub genes of coexpression network modules associated with peripheral vein graft patency. J Vasc Surg. 2016 07; 64(1):202-209.e6. view on PubMed

Fox CS, Hall JL, Arnett DK, Ashley EA, Delles C, Engler MB, Freeman MW, Johnson JA, Lanfear DE, Liggett SB, Lusis AJ, Loscalzo J, MacRae CA, Musunuru K, Newby LK, O'Donnell CJ, Rich SS, Terzic A, American Heart Association Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology, Council on Card. Future translational applications from the contemporary genomics era: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2015 May 12; 131(19):1715-36. view on PubMed

Lavinsky J, Crow AL, Pan C, Wang J, Aaron KA, Ho MK, Li Q, Salehide P, Myint A, Monges-Hernadez M, Eskin E, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Friedman RA. Genome-wide association study identifies nox3 as a critical gene for susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss. PLoS Genet. 2015 Apr; 11(4):e1005094. view on PubMed

Blazquez-Medela AM, Guihard PJ, Yao J, Jumabay M, Lusis AJ, Boström KI, Yao Y. ABCC6 deficiency is associated with activation of BMP signaling in liver and kidney. FEBS Open Bio. 2015; 5:257-63. view on PubMed

Roux PF, Boitard S, Blum Y, Parks B, Montagner A, Mouisel E, Djari A, Esquerré D, Désert C, Boutin M, Leroux S, Lecerf F, Le Bihan-Duval E, Klopp C, Servin B, Pitel F, Duclos MJ, Guillou H, Lusis AJ, Demeure O, Lagarrigue S. Combined QTL and selective sweep mappings with coding SNP annotation and cis-eQTL analysis revealed PARK2 and JAG2 as new candidate genes for adiposity regulation. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Feb 03; 5(4):517-29. view on PubMed

Parks BW, Sallam T, Mehrabian M, Psychogios N, Hui ST, Norheim F, Castellani LW, Rau CD, Pan C, Phun J, Zhou Z, Yang WP, Neuhaus I, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Graham M, Lee R, Tontonoz P, Gerszten RE, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ. Genetic architecture of insulin resistance in the mouse. Cell Metab. 2015 Feb 03; 21(2):334-347. view on PubMed

Warrier M, Shih DM, Burrows AC, Ferguson D, Gromovsky AD, Brown AL, Marshall S, McDaniel A, Schugar RC, Wang Z, Sacks J, Rong X, Vallim TA, Chou J, Ivanova PT, Myers DS, Brown HA, Lee RG, Crooke RM, Graham MJ, Liu X, Parini P, Tontonoz P, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL, Temel RE, Brown JM. The TMAO-Generating Enzyme Flavin Monooxygenase 3 Is a Central Regulator of Cholesterol Balance. Cell Rep. 2015 Jan 20; 10(3):326-338. view on PubMed

Gregory JC, Buffa JA, Org E, Wang Z, Levison BS, Zhu W, Wagner MA, Bennett BJ, Li L, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. Transmission of atherosclerosis susceptibility with gut microbial transplantation. J Biol Chem. 2015 Feb 27; 290(9):5647-60. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Wang J, Avetisyan R, Romay MC, Martin L, Ren S, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. Mapping genetic contributions to cardiac pathology induced by Beta-adrenergic stimulation in mice. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015 Feb; 8(1):40-9. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Yu JM, Vergnes L, Dali-Youcef N, Champion MD, Devarajan A, Zhang P, Castellani LW, Brindley DN, Jamey C, Auwerx J, Reddy ST, Ford DA, Reue K, Lusis AJ. PON3 knockout mice are susceptible to obesity, gallstone formation, and atherosclerosis. FASEB J. 2015 Apr; 29(4):1185-97. view on PubMed

Drew BG, Hamidi H, Zhou Z, Villanueva CJ, Krum SA, Calkin AC, Parks BW, Ribas V, Kalajian NY, Phun J, Daraei P, Christofk HR, Hewitt SC, Korach KS, Tontonoz P, Lusis AJ, Slamon DJ, Hurvitz SA, Hevener AL. Estrogen receptor (ER)α-regulated lipocalin 2 expression in adipose tissue links obesity with breast cancer progression. J Biol Chem. 2015 Feb 27; 290(9):5566-81. view on PubMed

van Stijn CM, Kim J, Lusis AJ, Barish GD, Tangirala RK. Macrophage polarization phenotype regulates adiponectin receptor expression and adiponectin anti-inflammatory response. FASEB J. 2015 Feb; 29(2):636-49. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Wang Z, Lee R, Meng Y, Che N, Charugundla S, Qi H, Wu J, Pan C, Brown JM, Vallim T, Bennett BJ, Graham M, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ. Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 exerts broad effects on glucose and lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis. J Lipid Res. 2015 Jan; 56(1):22-37. view on PubMed

Gordts PLSM, Foley EM, Lawrence R, Sinha R, Lameda-Diaz C, Deng L, Nock R, Glass CK, Erbilgin A, Lusis AJ, Witztum JL, Esko JD. Reducing macrophage proteoglycan sulfation increases atherosclerosis and obesity through enhanced type I interferon signaling. Cell Metab. 2014 Nov 04; 20(5):813-826. view on PubMed

Chan KH, Huang YT, Meng Q, Wu C, Reiner A, Sobel EM, Tinker L, Lusis AJ, Yang X, Liu S. Shared molecular pathways and gene networks for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus in women across diverse ethnicities. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014 Dec; 7(6):911-9. view on PubMed

Koeth RA, Levison BS, Culley MK, Buffa JA, Wang Z, Gregory JC, Org E, Wu Y, Li L, Smith JD, Tang WHW, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. γ-Butyrobetaine is a proatherogenic intermediate in gut microbial metabolism of L-carnitine to TMAO. Cell Metab. 2014 Nov 04; 20(5):799-812. view on PubMed

Wu X, Davis RC, McMillen TS, Schaeffer V, Zhou Z, Qi H, Mazandarani PN, Alialy R, Hudkins KL, Lusis AJ, LeBoeuf RC. Genetic modulation of diabetic nephropathy among mouse strains with Ins2 Akita mutation. Physiol Rep. 2014 Nov 01; 2(11). view on PubMed

Romay MC, Che N, Becker SN, Pouldar D, Hagopian R, Xiao X, Lusis AJ, Berliner JA, Civelek M. Regulation of NF-κB signaling by oxidized glycerophospholipid and IL-1β induced miRs-21-3p and -27a-5p in human aortic endothelial cells. J Lipid Res. 2015 Jan; 56(1):38-50. view on PubMed

Civelek M, Lusis AJ. From hairballs to an understanding of transendothelial migration of monocytes in atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2014 Sep; 34(9):1809-10. view on PubMed

Albright J, Quizon PM, Lusis AJ, Bennett BJ. Genetic network identifies novel pathways contributing to atherosclerosis susceptibility in the innominate artery. BMC Med Genomics. 2014 Aug 12; 7:51. view on PubMed

Bolnick DI, Snowberg LK, Hirsch PE, Lauber CL, Org E, Parks B, Lusis AJ, Knight R, Caporaso JG, Svanbäck R. Individual diet has sex-dependent effects on vertebrate gut microbiota. Nat Commun. 2014 Jul 29; 5:4500. view on PubMed

Mäkinen VP, Civelek M, Meng Q, Zhang B, Zhu J, Levian C, Huan T, Segrè AV, Ghosh S, Vivar J, Nikpay M, Stewart AF, Nelson CP, Willenborg C, Erdmann J, Blakenberg S, O'Donnell CJ, März W, Laaksonen R, Epstein SE, Kathiresan S, Shah SH, Hazen SL, Reilly MP, Coronary ARtery DIsease Genome-Wide Replication And Meta-Analysis (CARDIoGRAM) Consortium, Lusis AJ, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Quertermous T, McPherson R, Yang X, Assimes TL. Integrative genomics reveals novel molecular pathways and gene networks for coronary artery disease. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jul; 10(7):e1004502. view on PubMed

Leung A, Parks BW, Du J, Trac C, Setten R, Chen Y, Brown K, Lusis AJ, Natarajan R, Schones DE. Open chromatin profiling in mice livers reveals unique chromatin variations induced by high fat diet. J Biol Chem. 2014 Aug 22; 289(34):23557-67. view on PubMed

Calkin AC, Lee SD, Kim J, Van Stijn CM, Wu XH, Lusis AJ, Hong C, Tangirala RI, Tontonoz P. Transgenic expression of dominant-active IDOL in liver causes diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis in mice. Circ Res. 2014 Aug 01; 115(4):442-9. view on PubMed

Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Hormozdiari F, Martin L, van Nas A, Eskin E, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Allele-specific expression and eQTL analysis in mouse adipose tissue. BMC Genomics. 2014 Jun 13; 15:471. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Bennett BJ, Shih D, Che N, Orozco L, Pan C, Hagopian R, He A, Kayne P, Yang WP, Kirchgessner T, Lusis AJ. Genetic regulation of mouse liver metabolite levels. Mol Syst Biol. 2014 May 23; 10:730. view on PubMed

Emert B, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Springstead JR, Vakili L, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ. HDL inhibits the effects of oxidized phospholipids on endothelial cell gene expression via multiple mechanisms. J Lipid Res. 2014 Aug; 55(8):1678-92. view on PubMed

Orozco LD, Rubbi L, Martin LJ, Fang F, Hormozdiari F, Che N, Smith AD, Lusis AJ, Pellegrini M. Intergenerational genomic DNA methylation patterns in mouse hybrid strains. Genome Biol. 2014 Apr 30; 15(5):R68. view on PubMed

Hartiala J, Bennett BJ, Tang WH, Wang Z, Stewart AF, Roberts R, McPherson R, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL, Allayee H, CARDIoGRAM Consortium. Comparative genome-wide association studies in mice and humans for trimethylamine N-oxide, a proatherogenic metabolite of choline and L-carnitine. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2014 Jun; 34(6):1307-13. view on PubMed

Ohmen J, Kang EY, Li X, Joo JW, Hormozdiari F, Zheng QY, Davis RC, Lusis AJ, Eskin E, Friedman RA. Genome-wide association study for age-related hearing loss (AHL) in the mouse: a meta-analysis. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2014 Jun; 15(3):335-52. view on PubMed

Okamoto R, Gery S, Gombart AF, Wang X, Castellani LW, Akagi T, Chen S, Arditi M, Ho Q, Lusis AJ, Li Q, Koeffler HP. Deficiency of CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-epsilon reduces atherosclerotic lesions in LDLR-/- mice. PLoS One. 2014; 9(1):e85341. view on PubMed

Kang EY, Han B, Furlotte N, Joo JW, Shih D, Davis RC, Lusis AJ, Eskin E. Meta-analysis identifies gene-by-environment interactions as demonstrated in a study of 4,965 mice. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan; 10(1):e1004022. view on PubMed

Maubaret CG, Salpea KD, Romanoski CE, Folkersen L, Cooper JA, Stephanou C, Li KW, Palmen J, Hamsten A, Neil A, Stephens JW, Lusis AJ, Eriksson P, Talmud PJ, Humphries SE, Simon Broome Research Group, EARSII consortium. Association of TERC and OBFC1 haplotypes with mean leukocyte telomere length and risk for coronary heart disease. PLoS One. 2013; 8(12):e83122. view on PubMed

Parks BW, Lusis AJ. Macrophage accumulation in atherosclerosis. N Engl J Med. 2013 Dec 12; 369(24):2352-3. view on PubMed

Kautz L, Gabayan V, Wang X, Wu J, Onwuzurike J, Jung G, Qiao B, Lusis AJ, Ganz T, Nemeth E. Testing the iron hypothesis in a mouse model of atherosclerosis. Cell Rep. 2013 Dec 12; 5(5):1436-42. view on PubMed

Civelek M, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics approaches to understand complex traits. Nat Rev Genet. 2014 Jan; 15(1):34-48. view on PubMed

Csaki LS, Dwyer JR, Li X, Nguyen MH, Dewald J, Brindley DN, Lusis AJ, Yoshinaga Y, de Jong P, Fong L, Young SG, Reue K. Lipin-1 and lipin-3 together determine adiposity in vivo. Mol Metab. 2014 Apr; 3(2):145-54. view on PubMed

Welch C, Lusis AJ. Genetics of common forms of heart disease: a long and winding road. Circ Res. 2013 Oct 12; 113(9):1035-6. view on PubMed

Navab M, Hough G, Buga GM, Su F, Wagner AC, Meriwether D, Chattopadhyay A, Gao F, Grijalva V, Danciger JS, Van Lenten BJ, Org E, Lusis AJ, Pan C, Anantharamaiah GM, Farias-Eisner R, Smyth SS, Reddy ST, Fogelman AM. Transgenic 6F tomatoes act on the small intestine to prevent systemic inflammation and dyslipidemia caused by Western diet and intestinally derived lysophosphatidic acid. J Lipid Res. 2013 Dec; 54(12):3403-18. view on PubMed

Lagarrigue S, Martin L, Hormozdiari F, Roux PF, Pan C, van Nas A, Demeure O, Cantor R, Ghazalpour A, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. Analysis of allele-specific expression in mouse liver by RNA-Seq: a comparison with Cis-eQTL identified using genetic linkage. Genetics. 2013 Nov; 195(3):1157-66. view on PubMed

Erbilgin A, Siemers N, Kayne P, Yang WP, Berliner J, Lusis AJ. Gene expression analyses of mouse aortic endothelium in response to atherogenic stimuli. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2013 Nov; 33(11):2509-17. view on PubMed

Lu G, Ota A, Ren S, Franklin S, Rau CD, Ping P, Lane TF, Zhou ZH, Reue K, Lusis AJ, Vondriska T, Wang Y. PPM1l encodes an inositol requiring-protein 1 (IRE1) specific phosphatase that regulates the functional outcome of the ER stress response. Mol Metab. 2013; 2(4):405-16. view on PubMed

Huang Y, Wu Z, Riwanto M, Gao S, Levison BS, Gu X, Fu X, Wagner MA, Besler C, Gerstenecker G, Zhang R, Li XM, DiDonato AJ, Gogonea V, Tang WH, Smith JD, Plow EF, Fox PL, Shih DM, Lusis AJ, Fisher EA, DiDonato JA, Landmesser U, Hazen SL. Myeloperoxidase, paraoxonase-1, and HDL form a functional ternary complex. J Clin Invest. 2013 Sep; 123(9):3815-28. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Shaposhnik Z, Meng Y, Rosales M, Wang X, Wu J, Ratiner B, Zadini F, Zadini G, Lusis AJ. Hyodeoxycholic acid improves HDL function and inhibits atherosclerotic lesion formation in LDLR-knockout mice. FASEB J. 2013 Sep; 27(9):3805-17. view on PubMed

van Nas A, Pan C, Ingram-Drake LA, Ghazalpour A, Drake TA, Sobel EM, Papp JC, Lusis AJ. The systems genetics resource: a web application to mine global data for complex disease traits. Front Genet. 2013; 4:84. view on PubMed

Erbilgin A, Civelek M, Romanoski CE, Pan C, Hagopian R, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ. Identification of CAD candidate genes in GWAS loci and their expression in vascular cells. J Lipid Res. 2013 Jul; 54(7):1894-905. view on PubMed

Martin LJ, Lau E, Singh H, Vergnes L, Tarling EJ, Mehrabian M, Mungrue I, Xiao S, Shih D, Castellani L, Ping P, Reue K, Stefani E, Drake TA, Bostrom K, Lusis AJ. Response to Pomozi et al's research commentary. Circ Res. 2013 May 24; 112(11):e152-3. view on PubMed

Koeth RA, Wang Z, Levison BS, Buffa JA, Org E, Sheehy BT, Britt EB, Fu X, Wu Y, Li L, Smith JD, DiDonato JA, Chen J, Li H, Wu GD, Lewis JD, Warrier M, Brown JM, Krauss RM, Tang WH, Bushman FD, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. Intestinal microbiota metabolism of L-carnitine, a nutrient in red meat, promotes atherosclerosis. Nat Med. 2013 May; 19(5):576-85. view on PubMed

Mahendran Y, Vangipurapu J, Cederberg H, Stancáková A, Pihlajamäki J, Soininen P, Kangas AJ, Paananen J, Civelek M, Saleem NK, Pajukanta P, Lusis AJ, Bonnycastle LL, Morken MA, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Boehnke M, Ala-Korpela M, Kuusisto J, Laakso M. Association of ketone body levels with hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in 9,398 Finnish men. Diabetes. 2013 Oct; 62(10):3618-26. view on PubMed

Civelek M, Hagopian R, Pan C, Che N, Yang WP, Kayne PS, Saleem NK, Cederberg H, Kuusisto J, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Laakso M, Lusis AJ. Genetic regulation of human adipose microRNA expression and its consequences for metabolic traits. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Aug 01; 22(15):3023-37. view on PubMed

Weissglas-Volkov D, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Nikkola E, Deere KA, Cruz-Bautista I, Arellano-Campos O, Muñoz-Hernandez LL, Gomez-Munguia L, Ordoñez-Sánchez ML, Reddy PM, Lusis AJ, Matikainen N, Taskinen MR, Riba L, Cantor RM, Sinsheimer JS, Tusie-Luna T, Pajukanta P. Genomic study in Mexicans identifies a new locus for triglycerides and refines European lipid loci. J Med Genet. 2013 May; 50(5):298-308. view on PubMed

Rau CD, Wisniewski N, Orozco LD, Bennett B, Weiss J, Lusis AJ. Maximal information component analysis: a novel non-linear network analysis method. Front Genet. 2013; 4:28. view on PubMed

Davis RC, van Nas A, Bennett B, Orozco L, Pan C, Rau CD, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. Genome-wide association mapping of blood cell traits in mice. Mamm Genome. 2013 Apr; 24(3-4):105-18. view on PubMed

Lagarrigue S, Hormozdiari F, Martin LJ, Lecerf F, Hasin Y, Rau C, Hagopian R, Xiao Y, Yan J, Drake TA, Ghazalpour A, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. Limited RNA editing in exons of mouse liver and adipose. Genetics. 2013 Apr; 193(4):1107-15. view on PubMed

Parks BW, Nam E, Org E, Kostem E, Norheim F, Hui ST, Pan C, Civelek M, Rau CD, Bennett BJ, Mehrabian M, Ursell LK, He A, Castellani LW, Zinker B, Kirby M, Drake TA, Drevon CA, Knight R, Gargalovic P, Kirchgessner T, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. Genetic control of obesity and gut microbiota composition in response to high-fat, high-sucrose diet in mice. Cell Metab. 2013 Jan 08; 17(1):141-52. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, de Aguiar Vallim TQ, Wang Z, Shih DM, Meng Y, Gregory J, Allayee H, Lee R, Graham M, Crooke R, Edwards PA, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ. Trimethylamine-N-oxide, a metabolite associated with atherosclerosis, exhibits complex genetic and dietary regulation. Cell Metab. 2013 Jan 08; 17(1):49-60. view on PubMed

Marquart TJ, Wu J, Lusis AJ, Baldán Á. Anti-miR-33 therapy does not alter the progression of atherosclerosis in low-density lipoprotein receptor-deficient mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2013 Mar; 33(3):455-8. view on PubMed

Calabrese G, Bennett BJ, Orozco L, Kang HM, Eskin E, Dombret C, De Backer O, Lusis AJ, Farber CR. Systems genetic analysis of osteoblast-lineage cells. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(12):e1003150. view on PubMed

Halperin DS, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Tontonoz P. Vestigial-like 3 is an inhibitor of adipocyte differentiation. J Lipid Res. 2013 Feb; 54(2):473-81. view on PubMed

Orozco LD, Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Ghazalpour A, Pan C, Che N, Wen P, Qi HX, Mutukulu A, Siemers N, Neuhaus I, Yordanova R, Gargalovic P, Pellegrini M, Kirchgessner T, Lusis AJ. Unraveling inflammatory responses using systems genetics and gene-environment interactions in macrophages. Cell. 2012 Oct 26; 151(3):658-70. view on PubMed

Kim JB, Deluna A, Mungrue IN, Vu C, Pouldar D, Civelek M, Orozco L, Wu J, Wang X, Charugundla S, Castellani LW, Rusek M, Jakubowski H, Jakobowski H, Lusis AJ. Effect of 9p21.3 coronary artery disease locus neighboring genes on atherosclerosis in mice. Circulation. 2012 Oct 09; 126(15):1896-906. view on PubMed

Lee S, Birukov KG, Romanoski CE, Springstead JR, Lusis AJ, Berliner JA. Role of phospholipid oxidation products in atherosclerosis. Circ Res. 2012 Aug 31; 111(6):778-99. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Rau CD, Farber CR, Bennett BJ, Orozco LD, van Nas A, Pan C, Allayee H, Beaven SW, Civelek M, Davis RC, Drake TA, Friedman RA, Furlotte N, Hui ST, Jentsch JD, Kostem E, Kang HM, Kang EY, Joo JW, Korshunov VA, Laughlin RE, Martin LJ, Ohmen JD, Parks BW, Pellegrini M, Reue K, Smith DJ, Tetradis S, Wang J, Wang Y, Weiss JN, Kirchgessner T, Gargalovic PS, Eskin E, Lusis AJ, LeBoeuf RC. Hybrid mouse diversity panel: a panel of inbred mouse strains suitable for analysis of complex genetic traits. Mamm Genome. 2012 Oct; 23(9-10):680-92. view on PubMed

Weiss JN, Karma A, MacLellan WR, Deng M, Rau CD, Rees CM, Wang J, Wisniewski N, Eskin E, Horvath S, Qu Z, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. "Good enough solutions" and the genetics of complex diseases. Circ Res. 2012 Aug 03; 111(4):493-504. view on PubMed

Martin LJ, Lau E, Singh H, Vergnes L, Tarling EJ, Mehrabian M, Mungrue I, Xiao S, Shih D, Castellani L, Ping P, Reue K, Stefani E, Drake TA, Bostrom K, Lusis AJ. ABCC6 localizes to the mitochondria-associated membrane. Circ Res. 2012 Aug 17; 111(5):516-20. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Orozco L, Kostem E, Erbilgin A, Dallinga M, Neuhaus I, Guan B, Wang X, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. High-resolution association mapping of atherosclerosis loci in mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 Aug; 32(8):1790-8. view on PubMed

Smolock EM, Ilyushkina IA, Ghazalpour A, Gerloff J, Murashev AN, Lusis AJ, Korshunov VA. Genetic locus on mouse chromosome 7 controls elevated heart rate. Physiol Genomics. 2012 Jul 03; 44(13):689-98. view on PubMed

Stancáková A, Civelek M, Saleem NK, Soininen P, Kangas AJ, Cederberg H, Paananen J, Pihlajamäki J, Bonnycastle LL, Morken MA, Boehnke M, Pajukanta P, Lusis AJ, Collins FS, Kuusisto J, Ala-Korpela M, Laakso M. Hyperglycemia and a common variant of GCKR are associated with the levels of eight amino acids in 9,369 Finnish men. Diabetes. 2012 Jul; 61(7):1895-902. view on PubMed

Furlotte NA, Kang EY, Van Nas A, Farber CR, Lusis AJ, Eskin E. Increasing association mapping power and resolution in mouse genetic studies through the use of meta-analysis for structured populations. Genetics. 2012 Jul; 191(3):959-67. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Genetics of atherosclerosis. Trends Genet. 2012 Jun; 28(6):267-75. view on PubMed

Hong C, Bradley MN, Rong X, Wang X, Wagner A, Grijalva V, Castellani LW, Salazar J, Realegeno S, Boyadjian R, Fogelman AM, Van Lenten BJ, Reddy ST, Lusis AJ, Tangirala RK, Tontonoz P. LXRα is uniquely required for maximal reverse cholesterol transport and atheroprotection in ApoE-deficient mice. J Lipid Res. 2012 Jun; 53(6):1126-33. view on PubMed

Arnold AP, Lusis AJ. Understanding the sexome: measuring and reporting sex differences in gene systems. Endocrinology. 2012 Jun; 153(6):2551-5. view on PubMed

Lee S, Springstead JR, Parks BW, Romanoski CE, Palvolgyi R, Ho T, Nguyen P, Lusis AJ, Berliner JA. Metalloproteinase processing of HBEGF is a proximal event in the response of human aortic endothelial cells to oxidized phospholipids. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 May; 32(5):1246-54. view on PubMed

Casellas J, Gularte RJ, Farber CR, Varona L, Mehrabian M, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Attie AD, Yandell BS, Medrano JF. Genome scans for transmission ratio distortion regions in mice. Genetics. 2012 May; 191(1):247-59. view on PubMed

Ishikawa K, Navab M, Lusis AJ. Vasculitis, Atherosclerosis, and Altered HDL Composition in Heme-Oxygenase-1-Knockout Mice. Int J Hypertens. 2012; 2012:948203. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Life after GWAS: functional genomics in vascular biology. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 Feb; 32(2):169. view on PubMed

MacLellan WR, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. Systems-based approaches to cardiovascular disease. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2012 Jan 10; 9(3):172-84. view on PubMed

Terra JK, France B, Cote CK, Jenkins A, Bozue JA, Welkos SL, Bhargava R, Ho CL, Mehrabian M, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, LeVine SM, Bradley KA. Allelic variation on murine chromosome 11 modifies host inflammatory responses and resistance to Bacillus anthracis. PLoS Pathog. 2011 Dec; 7(12):e1002469. view on PubMed

Johansen CT, Wang J, McIntyre AD, Martins RA, Ban MR, Lanktree MB, Huff MW, Péterfy M, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Kathiresan S, Anand SS, Yusuf S, Lee AH, Glimcher LH, Cao H, Hegele RA. Excess of rare variants in non-genome-wide association study candidate genes in patients with hypertriglyceridemia. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012 Feb 01; 5(1):66-72. view on PubMed

Kim JB, Xia YR, Romanoski CE, Lee S, Meng Y, Shi YS, Bourquard N, Gong KW, Port Z, Grijalva V, Reddy ST, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. Paraoxonase-2 modulates stress response of endothelial cells to oxidized phospholipids and a bacterial quorum-sensing molecule. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2011 Nov; 31(11):2624-33. view on PubMed

Davis RC, van Nas A, Castellani LW, Zhao Y, Zhou Z, Wen P, Yu S, Qi H, Rosales M, Schadt EE, Broman KW, Péterfy M, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics of susceptibility to obesity-induced diabetes in mice. Physiol Genomics. 2012 Jan 18; 44(1):1-13. view on PubMed

Mungrue IN, Zhao P, Yao Y, Meng H, Rau C, Havel JV, Gorgels TG, Bergen AA, MacLellan WR, Drake TA, Boström KI, Lusis AJ. Abcc6 deficiency causes increased infarct size and apoptosis in a mouse cardiac ischemia-reperfusion model. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2011 Dec; 31(12):2806-12. view on PubMed

Langfelder P, Castellani LW, Zhou Z, Paul E, Davis R, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Horvath S, Mehrabian M. A systems genetic analysis of high density lipoprotein metabolism and network preservation across mouse models. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Mar; 1821(3):435-47. view on PubMed

Romanoski CE, Che N, Yin F, Mai N, Pouldar D, Civelek M, Pan C, Lee S, Vakili L, Yang WP, Kayne P, Mungrue IN, Araujo JA, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ. Network for activation of human endothelial cells by oxidized phospholipids: a critical role of heme oxygenase 1. Circ Res. 2011 Aug 19; 109(5):e27-41. view on PubMed

Besler C, Heinrich K, Rohrer L, Doerries C, Riwanto M, Shih DM, Chroni A, Yonekawa K, Stein S, Schaefer N, Mueller M, Akhmedov A, Daniil G, Manes C, Templin C, Wyss C, Maier W, Tanner FC, Matter CM, Corti R, Furlong C, Lusis AJ, von Eckardstein A, Fogelman AM, Lüscher TF, Landmesser U. Mechanisms underlying adverse effects of HDL on eNOS-activating pathways in patients with coronary artery disease. J Clin Invest. 2011 Jul; 121(7):2693-708. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Bennett B, Petyuk VA, Orozco L, Hagopian R, Mungrue IN, Farber CR, Sinsheimer J, Kang HM, Furlotte N, Park CC, Wen PZ, Brewer H, Weitz K, Camp DG, Pan C, Yordanova R, Neuhaus I, Tilford C, Siemers N, Gargalovic P, Eskin E, Kirchgessner T, Smith DJ, Smith RD, Lusis AJ. Comparative analysis of proteome and transcriptome variation in mouse. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun; 7(6):e1001393. view on PubMed

Civelek M, Lusis AJ. Conducting the metabolic syndrome orchestra. Nat Genet. 2011 Jun; 43(6):506-8. view on PubMed

Wang Z, Klipfell E, Bennett BJ, Koeth R, Levison BS, Dugar B, Feldstein AE, Britt EB, Fu X, Chung YM, Wu Y, Schauer P, Smith JD, Allayee H, Tang WH, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease. Nature. 2011 Apr 07; 472(7341):57-63. view on PubMed

Farber CR, Bennett BJ, Orozco L, Zou W, Lira A, Kostem E, Kang HM, Furlotte N, Berberyan A, Ghazalpour A, Suwanwela J, Drake TA, Eskin E, Wang QT, Teitelbaum SL, Lusis AJ. Mouse genome-wide association and systems genetics identify Asxl2 as a regulator of bone mineral density and osteoclastogenesis. PLoS Genet. 2011 Apr; 7(4):e1002038. view on PubMed

Suwanwela J, Farber CR, Haung BL, Song B, Pan C, Lyons KM, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics analysis of mouse chondrocyte differentiation. J Bone Miner Res. 2011 Apr; 26(4):747-60. view on PubMed

Park CC, Gale GD, de Jong S, Ghazalpour A, Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Langfelder P, Lin A, Khan AH, Eskin E, Horvath S, Lusis AJ, Ophoff RA, Smith DJ. Gene networks associated with conditional fear in mice identified using a systems genetics approach. BMC Syst Biol. 2011 Mar 16; 5:43. view on PubMed

Barajas B, Che N, Yin F, Rowshanrad A, Orozco LD, Gong KW, Wang X, Castellani LW, Reue K, Lusis AJ, Araujo JA. NF-E2-related factor 2 promotes atherosclerosis by effects on plasma lipoproteins and cholesterol transport that overshadow antioxidant protection. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2011 Jan; 31(1):58-66. view on PubMed

Yao Y, Bennett BJ, Wang X, Rosenfeld ME, Giachelli C, Lusis AJ, Boström KI. Inhibition of bone morphogenetic proteins protects against atherosclerosis and vascular calcification. Circ Res. 2010 Aug 20; 107(4):485-94. view on PubMed

Yang X, Peterson L, Thieringer R, Deignan JL, Wang X, Zhu J, Wang S, Zhong H, Stepaniants S, Beaulaurier J, Wang IM, Rosa R, Cumiskey AM, Luo JM, Luo Q, Shah K, Xiao J, Nickle D, Plump A, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Lum PY. Identification and validation of genes affecting aortic lesions in mice. J Clin Invest. 2010 Jul; 120(7):2414-22. view on PubMed

Hsu YH, Zillikens MC, Wilson SG, Farber CR, Demissie S, Soranzo N, Bianchi EN, Grundberg E, Liang L, Richards JB, Estrada K, Zhou Y, van Nas A, Moffatt MF, Zhai G, Hofman A, van Meurs JB, Pols HA, Price RI, Nilsson O, Pastinen T, Cupples LA, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE, Ferrari S, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Spector TD, Karasik D, Kiel DP. An integration of genome-wide association study and gene expression profiling to prioritize the discovery of novel susceptibility Loci for osteoporosis-related traits. PLoS Genet. 2010 Jun 10; 6(6):e1000977. view on PubMed

Woo JM, Lin Z, Navab M, Van Dyck C, Trejo-Lopez Y, Woo KM, Li H, Castellani LW, Wang X, Iikuni N, Rullo OJ, Wu H, La Cava A, Fogelman AM, Lusis AJ, Tsao BP. Treatment with apolipoprotein A-1 mimetic peptide reduces lupus-like manifestations in a murine lupus model of accelerated atherosclerosis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2010; 12(3):R93. view on PubMed

van Nas A, Ingram-Drake L, Sinsheimer JS, Wang SS, Schadt EE, Drake T, Lusis AJ. Expression quantitative trait loci: replication, tissue- and sex-specificity in mice. Genetics. 2010 Jul; 185(3):1059-68. view on PubMed

Davis RC, Castellani LW, Hosseini M, Ben-Zeev O, Mao HZ, Weinstein MM, Jung DY, Jun JY, Kim JK, Lusis AJ, Péterfy M. Early hepatic insulin resistance precedes the onset of diabetes in obese C57BLKS-db/db mice. Diabetes. 2010 Jul; 59(7):1616-25. view on PubMed

Tarling EJ, Bojanic DD, Tangirala RK, Wang X, Lovgren-Sandblom A, Lusis AJ, Bjorkhem I, Edwards PA. Impaired development of atherosclerosis in Abcg1-/- Apoe-/- mice: identification of specific oxysterols that both accumulate in Abcg1-/- Apoe-/- tissues and induce apoptosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2010 Jun; 30(6):1174-80. view on PubMed

Shaposhnik Z, Wang X, Lusis AJ. Arterial colony stimulating factor-1 influences atherosclerotic lesions by regulating monocyte migration and apoptosis. J Lipid Res. 2010 Jul; 51(7):1962-70. view on PubMed

Romanoski CE, Lee S, Kim MJ, Ingram-Drake L, Plaisier CL, Yordanova R, Tilford C, Guan B, He A, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ. Systems genetics analysis of gene-by-environment interactions in human cells. Am J Hum Genet. 2010 Mar 12; 86(3):399-410. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Orozco L, Kang HM, Ghazalpour A, Siemers N, Neubauer M, Neuhaus I, Yordanova R, Guan B, Truong A, Yang WP, He A, Kayne P, Gargalovic P, Kirchgessner T, Pan C, Castellani LW, Kostem E, Furlotte N, Drake TA, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. A high-resolution association mapping panel for the dissection of complex traits in mice. Genome Res. 2010 Feb; 20(2):281-90. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Weiss JN. Cardiovascular networks: systems-based approaches to cardiovascular disease. Circulation. 2010 Jan 05; 121(1):157-70. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Xia YR, Yu JM, Lusis AJ. Temporal and tissue-specific patterns of Pon3 expression in mouse: in situ hybridization analysis. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010; 660:73-87. view on PubMed

Gargalovic PS, Erbilgin A, Kohannim O, Pagnon J, Wang X, Castellani L, LeBoeuf R, Peterson ML, Spear BT, Lusis AJ. Quantitative trait locus mapping and identification of Zhx2 as a novel regulator of plasma lipid metabolism. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 Feb; 3(1):60-7. view on PubMed

Stoltz DA, Ozer EA, Recker TJ, Estin M, Yang X, Shih DM, Lusis AJ, Zabner J. A common mutation in paraoxonase-2 results in impaired lactonase activity. J Biol Chem. 2009 Dec 18; 284(51):35564-71. view on PubMed

Priceman SJ, Sung JL, Shaposhnik Z, Burton JB, Torres-Collado AX, Moughon DL, Johnson M, Lusis AJ, Cohen DA, Iruela-Arispe ML, Wu L. Targeting distinct tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells by inhibiting CSF-1 receptor: combating tumor evasion of antiangiogenic therapy. Blood. 2010 Feb 18; 115(7):1461-71. view on PubMed

Wu S, Mar-Heyming R, Dugum EZ, Kolaitis NA, Qi H, Pajukanta P, Castellani LW, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Upstream transcription factor 1 influences plasma lipid and metabolic traits in mice. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Feb 15; 19(4):597-608. view on PubMed

Farber CR, Lusis AJ. Future of osteoporosis genetics: enhancing genome-wide association studies. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 Dec; 24(12):1937-42. view on PubMed

Wang SS, Martin LJ, Schadt EE, Meng H, Wang X, Zhao W, Ingram-Drake L, Nebohacova M, Mehrabian M, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Disruption of the aortic elastic lamina and medial calcification share genetic determinants in mice. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009 Dec; 2(6):573-82. view on PubMed

Weinstein MM, Yin L, Tu Y, Wang X, Wu X, Castellani LW, Walzem RL, Lusis AJ, Fong LG, Beigneux AP, Young SG. Chylomicronemia elicits atherosclerosis in mice--brief report. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2010 Jan; 30(1):20-3. view on PubMed

Arnold AP, van Nas A, Lusis AJ. Systems biology asks new questions about sex differences. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Dec; 20(10):471-6. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Lusis AJ. The roles of PON1 and PON2 in cardiovascular disease and innate immunity. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2009 Aug; 20(4):288-92. view on PubMed

Orozco LD, Cokus SJ, Ghazalpour A, Ingram-Drake L, Wang S, van Nas A, Che N, Araujo JA, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ. Copy number variation influences gene expression and metabolic traits in mice. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Nov 01; 18(21):4118-29. view on PubMed

White CH, Ohmen JD, Sheth S, Zebboudj AF, McHugh RK, Hoffman LF, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, Friedman RA. Genome-wide screening for genetic loci associated with noise-induced hearing loss. Mamm Genome. 2009 Apr; 20(4):207-13. view on PubMed

Farber CR, Aten JE, Farber EA, de Vera V, Gularte R, Islas-Trejo A, Wen P, Horvath S, Lucero M, Lusis AJ, Medrano JF. Genetic dissection of a major mouse obesity QTL (Carfhg2): integration of gene expression and causality modeling. Physiol Genomics. 2009 May 13; 37(3):294-302. view on PubMed

Yang X, Deignan JL, Qi H, Zhu J, Qian S, Zhong J, Torosyan G, Majid S, Falkard B, Kleinhanz RR, Karlsson J, Castellani LW, Mumick S, Wang K, Xie T, Coon M, Zhang C, Estrada-Smith D, Farber CR, Wang SS, van Nas A, Ghazalpour A, Zhang B, Macneil DJ, Lamb JR, Dipple KM, Reitman ML, Mehrabian M, Lum PY, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Validation of candidate causal genes for obesity that affect shared metabolic pathways and networks. Nat Genet. 2009 Apr; 41(4):415-23. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Wang SS, Wang X, Wu X, Lusis AJ. Genetic regulation of atherosclerotic plaque size and morphology in the innominate artery of hyperlipidemic mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2009 Mar; 29(3):348-55. view on PubMed

Farber CR, van Nas A, Ghazalpour A, Aten JE, Doss S, Sos B, Schadt EE, Ingram-Drake L, Davis RC, Horvath S, Smith DJ, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. An integrative genetics approach to identify candidate genes regulating BMD: combining linkage, gene expression, and association. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 Jan; 24(1):105-16. view on PubMed

Mungrue IN, Pagnon J, Kohannim O, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ. CHAC1/MGC4504 is a novel proapoptotic component of the unfolded protein response, downstream of the ATF4-ATF3-CHOP cascade. J Immunol. 2009 Jan 01; 182(1):466-76. view on PubMed

Bhasin KK, van Nas A, Martin LJ, Davis RC, Devaskar SU, Lusis AJ. Maternal low-protein diet or hypercholesterolemia reduces circulating essential amino acids and leads to intrauterine growth restriction. Diabetes. 2009 Mar; 58(3):559-66. view on PubMed

Wu S, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. A systems-based framework for understanding complex metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. J Lipid Res. 2009 Apr; 50 Suppl:S358-63. view on PubMed

Shaposhnik Z, Wang X, Trias J, Fraser H, Lusis AJ. The synergistic inhibition of atherogenesis in apoE-/- mice between pravastatin and the sPLA2 inhibitor varespladib (A-002). J Lipid Res. 2009 Apr; 50(4):623-9. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Attie AD, Reue K. Metabolic syndrome: from epidemiology to systems biology. Nat Rev Genet. 2008 Nov; 9(11):819-30. view on PubMed

van Nas A, Guhathakurta D, Wang SS, Yehya N, Horvath S, Zhang B, Ingram-Drake L, Chaudhuri G, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Arnold AP, Lusis AJ. Elucidating the role of gonadal hormones in sexually dimorphic gene coexpression networks. Endocrinology. 2009 Mar; 150(3):1235-49. view on PubMed

Allayee H, Baylin A, Hartiala J, Wijesuriya H, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Campos H. Nutrigenetic association of the 5-lipoxygenase gene with myocardial infarction. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Oct; 88(4):934-40. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Doss S, Kang H, Farber C, Wen PZ, Brozell A, Castellanos R, Eskin E, Smith DJ, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. High-resolution mapping of gene expression using association in an outbred mouse stock. PLoS Genet. 2008 Aug 08; 4(8):e1000149. view on PubMed

Chen J, Hui ST, Couto FM, Mungrue IN, Davis DB, Attie AD, Lusis AJ, Davis RA, Shalev A. Thioredoxin-interacting protein deficiency induces Akt/Bcl-xL signaling and pancreatic beta-cell mass and protects against diabetes. FASEB J. 2008 Oct; 22(10):3581-94. view on PubMed

Schadt EE, Molony C, Chudin E, Hao K, Yang X, Lum PY, Kasarskis A, Zhang B, Wang S, Suver C, Zhu J, Millstein J, Sieberts S, Lamb J, GuhaThakurta D, Derry J, Storey JD, Avila-Campillo I, Kruger MJ, Johnson JM, Rohl CA, van Nas A, Mehrabian M, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Smith RC, Guengerich FP, Strom SC, Schuetz E, Rushmore TH, Ulrich R. Mapping the genetic architecture of gene expression in human liver. PLoS Biol. 2008 May 06; 6(5):e107. view on PubMed

Oskolkova OV, Afonyushkin T, Leitner A, von Schlieffen E, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ, Binder BR, Bochkov VN. ATF4-dependent transcription is a key mechanism in VEGF up-regulation by oxidized phospholipids: critical role of oxidized sn-2 residues in activation of unfolded protein response. Blood. 2008 Jul 15; 112(2):330-9. view on PubMed

Aten JE, Fuller TF, Lusis AJ, Horvath S. Using genetic markers to orient the edges in quantitative trait networks: the NEO software. BMC Syst Biol. 2008 Apr 15; 2:34. view on PubMed

Park CC, Ahn S, Bloom JS, Lin A, Wang RT, Wu T, Sekar A, Khan AH, Farr CJ, Lusis AJ, Leahy RM, Lange K, Smith DJ. Fine mapping of regulatory loci for mammalian gene expression using radiation hybrids. Nat Genet. 2008 Apr; 40(4):421-9. view on PubMed

Bhattacharyya T, Nicholls SJ, Topol EJ, Zhang R, Yang X, Schmitt D, Fu X, Shao M, Brennan DM, Ellis SG, Brennan ML, Allayee H, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. Relationship of paraoxonase 1 (PON1) gene polymorphisms and functional activity with systemic oxidative stress and cardiovascular risk. JAMA. 2008 Mar 19; 299(11):1265-76. view on PubMed

Chen Y, Zhu J, Lum PY, Yang X, Pinto S, MacNeil DJ, Zhang C, Lamb J, Edwards S, Sieberts SK, Leonardson A, Castellini LW, Wang S, Champy MF, Zhang B, Emilsson V, Doss S, Ghazalpour A, Horvath S, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE. Variations in DNA elucidate molecular networks that cause disease. Nature. 2008 Mar 27; 452(7186):429-35. view on PubMed

Mar-Heyming R, Miyazaki M, Weissglas-Volkov D, Kolaitis NA, Sadaat N, Plaisier C, Pajukanta P, Cantor RM, de Bruin TW, Ntambi JM, Lusis AJ. Association of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 activity with familial combined hyperlipidemia. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008 Jun; 28(6):1193-9. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Pajukanta P. A treasure trove for lipoprotein biology. Nat Genet. 2008 Feb; 40(2):129-30. view on PubMed

Araujo JA, Barajas B, Kleinman M, Wang X, Bennett BJ, Gong KW, Navab M, Harkema J, Sioutas C, Lusis AJ, Nel AE. Ambient particulate pollutants in the ultrafine range promote early atherosclerosis and systemic oxidative stress. Circ Res. 2008 Mar 14; 102(5):589-96. view on PubMed

Chen J, Saxena G, Mungrue IN, Lusis AJ, Shalev A. Thioredoxin-interacting protein: a critical link between glucose toxicity and beta-cell apoptosis. Diabetes. 2008 Apr; 57(4):938-44. view on PubMed

Farber CR, Lusis AJ. Integrating global gene expression analysis and genetics. Adv Genet. 2008; 60:571-601. view on PubMed

Castellani LW, Nguyen CN, Charugundla S, Weinstein MM, Doan CX, Blaner WS, Wongsiriroj N, Lusis AJ. Apolipoprotein AII is a regulator of very low density lipoprotein metabolism and insulin resistance. J Biol Chem. 2008 Apr 25; 283(17):11633-44. view on PubMed

Péterfy M, Davis RC, Lusis AJ. Metabolic syndrome as a modifier of atherosclerosis in murine models. Curr Drug Targets. 2007 Nov; 8(11):1215-20. view on PubMed

Bennett BJ, Romanoski CE, Lusis AJ. Network-centered view of coronary artery disease. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2007 Nov; 5(6):1095-103. view on PubMed

McLin JP, Thompson LM, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, Steward O. Genes on distal chromosome 18 determine vulnerability to excitotoxic neurodegeneration following status epilepticus, but not striatal neurodegeneration induced by quinolinic acid. Neurobiol Dis. 2008 Mar; 29(3):391-9. view on PubMed

Wang SS, Shi W, Wang X, Velky L, Greenlee S, Wang MT, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Mapping, genetic isolation, and characterization of genetic loci that determine resistance to atherosclerosis in C3H mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Dec; 27(12):2671-6. view on PubMed

Martin LJ, Chen H, Liao X, Allayee H, Shih DM, Lee GS, Hovland DN, Robbins WA, Carnes K, Hess RA, Lusis AJ, Collins MD. FK506, a calcineurin inhibitor, prevents cadmium-induced testicular toxicity in mice. Toxicol Sci. 2007 Dec; 100(2):474-85. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Yu J, Wang SS. The problem of passenger genes in transgenic mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Oct; 27(10):2100-3. view on PubMed

Lee JC, Weissglas-Volkov D, Kyttälä M, Sinsheimer JS, Jokiaho A, de Bruin TW, Lusis AJ, Brennan ML, van Greevenbroek MM, van der Kallen CJ, Hazen SL, Pajukanta P. USF1 contributes to high serum lipid levels in Dutch FCHL families and U.S. whites with coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Oct; 27(10):2222-7. view on PubMed

Bradley MN, Hong C, Chen M, Joseph SB, Wilpitz DC, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Collins A, Hseuh WA, Collins JL, Tangirala RK, Tontonoz P. Ligand activation of LXR beta reverses atherosclerosis and cellular cholesterol overload in mice lacking LXR alpha and apoE. J Clin Invest. 2007 Aug; 117(8):2337-46. view on PubMed

Fuller TF, Ghazalpour A, Aten JE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Horvath S. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis strategies applied to mouse weight. Mamm Genome. 2007 Jul; 18(6-7):463-72. view on PubMed

Wang SS, Schadt EE, Wang H, Wang X, Ingram-Drake L, Shi W, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Identification of pathways for atherosclerosis in mice: integration of quantitative trait locus analysis and global gene expression data. Circ Res. 2007 Aug 03; 101(3):e11-30. view on PubMed

Moen CJ, Tholens AP, Voshol PJ, de Haan W, Havekes LM, Gargalovic P, Lusis AJ, van Dyk KW, Frants RR, Hofker MH, Rensen PC. The Hyplip2 locus causes hypertriglyceridemia by decreased clearance of triglycerides. J Lipid Res. 2007 Oct; 48(10):2182-92. view on PubMed

Davis RC, Jin A, Rosales M, Yu S, Xia X, Ranola K, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ. A genome-wide set of congenic mouse strains derived from CAST/Ei on a C57BL/6 background. Genomics. 2007 Sep; 90(3):306-13. view on PubMed

Orozco LD, Kapturczak MH, Barajas B, Wang X, Weinstein MM, Wong J, Deshane J, Bolisetty S, Shaposhnik Z, Shih DM, Agarwal A, Lusis AJ, Araujo JA. Heme oxygenase-1 expression in macrophages plays a beneficial role in atherosclerosis. Circ Res. 2007 Jun 22; 100(12):1703-11. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Xia YR, Wang XP, Wang SS, Bourquard N, Fogelman AM, Lusis AJ, Reddy ST. Decreased obesity and atherosclerosis in human paraoxonase 3 transgenic mice. Circ Res. 2007 Apr 27; 100(8):1200-7. view on PubMed

Gharavi NM, Gargalovic PS, Chang I, Araujo JA, Clark MJ, Szeto WL, Watson AD, Lusis AJ, Berliner JA. High-density lipoprotein modulates oxidized phospholipid signaling in human endothelial cells from proinflammatory to anti-inflammatory. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Jun; 27(6):1346-53. view on PubMed

Meng H, Vera I, Che N, Wang X, Wang SS, Ingram-Drake L, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Identification of Abcc6 as the major causal gene for dystrophic cardiac calcification in mice through integrative genomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Mar 13; 104(11):4530-5. view on PubMed

Feng X, Li H, Rumbin AA, Wang X, La Cava A, Brechtelsbauer K, Castellani LW, Witztum JL, Lusis AJ, Tsao BP. ApoE-/-Fas-/- C57BL/6 mice: a novel murine model simultaneously exhibits lupus nephritis, atherosclerosis, and osteopenia. J Lipid Res. 2007 Apr; 48(4):794-805. view on PubMed

Gong KW, Zhao W, Li N, Barajas B, Kleinman M, Sioutas C, Horvath S, Lusis AJ, Nel A, Araujo JA. Air-pollutant chemicals and oxidized lipids exhibit genome-wide synergistic effects on endothelial cells. Genome Biol. 2007; 8(7):R149. view on PubMed

Itoh Y, Melamed E, Yang X, Kampf K, Wang S, Yehya N, Van Nas A, Replogle K, Band MR, Clayton DF, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Arnold AP. Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals. J Biol. 2007; 6(1):2. view on PubMed

Shaposhnik Z, Wang X, Weinstein M, Bennett BJ, Lusis AJ. Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor regulates dendritic cell content of atherosclerotic lesions. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007 Mar; 27(3):621-7. view on PubMed

Stoltz DA, Ozer EA, Ng CJ, Yu JM, Reddy ST, Lusis AJ, Bourquard N, Parsek MR, Zabner J, Shih DM. Paraoxonase-2 deficiency enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing in murine tracheal epithelia. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2007 Apr; 292(4):L852-60. view on PubMed

Parks BW, Lusis AJ, Kabarowski JH. Loss of the lysophosphatidylcholine effector, G2A, ameliorates aortic atherosclerosis in low-density lipoprotein receptor knockout mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Dec; 26(12):2703-9. view on PubMed

Brouwers MC, Cantor RM, Kono N, Yoon JL, van der Kallen CJ, Bilderbeek-Beckers MA, van Greevenbroek MM, Lusis AJ, de Bruin TW. Heritability and genetic loci of fatty liver in familial combined hyperlipidemia. J Lipid Res. 2006 Dec; 47(12):2799-807. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. A thematic review series: systems biology approaches to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. J Lipid Res. 2006 Sep; 47(9):1887-90. view on PubMed

Gargalovic PS, Gharavi NM, Clark MJ, Pagnon J, Yang WP, He A, Truong A, Baruch-Oren T, Berliner JA, Kirchgessner TG, Lusis AJ. The unfolded protein response is an important regulator of inflammatory genes in endothelial cells. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Nov; 26(11):2490-6. view on PubMed

Gargalovic PS, Imura M, Zhang B, Gharavi NM, Clark MJ, Pagnon J, Yang WP, He A, Truong A, Patel S, Nelson SF, Horvath S, Berliner JA, Kirchgessner TG, Lusis AJ. Identification of inflammatory gene modules based on variations of human endothelial cell responses to oxidized lipids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Aug 22; 103(34):12741-6. view on PubMed

Ng CJ, Bourquard N, Grijalva V, Hama S, Shih DM, Navab M, Fogelman AM, Lusis AJ, Young S, Reddy ST. Paraoxonase-2 deficiency aggravates atherosclerosis in mice despite lower apolipoprotein-B-containing lipoproteins: anti-atherogenic role for paraoxonase-2. J Biol Chem. 2006 Oct 06; 281(40):29491-500. view on PubMed

Estrada-Smith D, Collins AR, Wang X, Crockett C, Castellani L, Lusis AJ, Davis RC. Impact of chromosome 2 obesity loci on cardiovascular complications of insulin resistance in LDL receptor-deficient C57BL/6 mice. Diabetes. 2006 Aug; 55(8):2265-71. view on PubMed

Zhang Y, Wang X, Vales C, Lee FY, Lee H, Lusis AJ, Edwards PA. FXR deficiency causes reduced atherosclerosis in Ldlr-/- mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Oct; 26(10):2316-21. view on PubMed

Yang X, Schadt EE, Wang S, Wang H, Arnold AP, Ingram-Drake L, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice. Genome Res. 2006 Aug; 16(8):995-1004. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Doss S, Zhang B, Wang S, Plaisier C, Castellanos R, Brozell A, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Horvath S. Integrating genetic and network analysis to characterize genes related to mouse weight. PLoS Genet. 2006 Aug 18; 2(8):e130. view on PubMed

Drake TA, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ. Integrating genetic and gene expression data: application to cardiovascular and metabolic traits in mice. Mamm Genome. 2006 Jun; 17(6):466-79. view on PubMed

Brouwers MC, Kono N, van Greevenbroek MM, van der Kallen CJ, Lusis AJ, de Bruin TW, Cantor RM. Longitudinal differences in familial combined hyperlipidemia quantitative trait loci. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Jun; 26(6):e118-9. view on PubMed

Bhasin KK, Yu JM, Tward A, Shih D, Campbell DA, Lusis AJ. Trypanosoma congolense: paraoxonase 1 prolongs survival of infected mice. Exp Parasitol. 2006 Nov; 114(3):240-5. view on PubMed

Castellani LW, Chang JJ, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Reynolds WF. Transgenic mice express human MPO -463G/A alleles at atherosclerotic lesions, developing hyperlipidemia and obesity in -463G males. J Lipid Res. 2006 Jul; 47(7):1366-77. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Mehrabian M. Complex inheritance of the 5-lipoxygenase locus influencing atherosclerosis in mice. Genetics. 2006 Jun; 173(2):943-51. view on PubMed

Su Z, Li Y, James JC, Matsumoto AH, Helm GA, Lusis AJ, Shi W. Genetic linkage of hyperglycemia, body weight and serum amyloid-P in an intercross between C57BL/6 and C3H apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 May 15; 15(10):1650-8. view on PubMed

Lum PY, Chen Y, Zhu J, Lamb J, Melmed S, Wang S, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE. Elucidating the murine brain transcriptional network in a segregating mouse population to identify core functional modules for obesity and diabetes. J Neurochem. 2006 Apr; 97 Suppl 1:50-62. view on PubMed

Lee JC, Lusis AJ, Pajukanta P. Familial combined hyperlipidemia: upstream transcription factor 1 and beyond. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2006 Apr; 17(2):101-9. view on PubMed

Miyoshi T, Li Y, Shih DM, Wang X, Laubach VE, Matsumoto AH, Helm GA, Lusis AJ, Shi W. Deficiency of inducible NO synthase reduces advanced but not early atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Life Sci. 2006 Jul 04; 79(6):525-31. view on PubMed

Wang S, Yehya N, Schadt EE, Wang H, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Genetic and genomic analysis of a fat mass trait with complex inheritance reveals marked sex specificity. PLoS Genet. 2006 Feb; 2(2):e15. view on PubMed

Su Z, Li Y, James JC, McDuffie M, Matsumoto AH, Helm GA, Weber JL, Lusis AJ, Shi W. Quantitative trait locus analysis of atherosclerosis in an intercross between C57BL/6 and C3H mice carrying the mutant apolipoprotein E gene. Genetics. 2006 Mar; 172(3):1799-807. view on PubMed

Shih DM, Kast-Woelbern HR, Wong J, Xia YR, Edwards PA, Lusis AJ. A role for FXR and human FGF-19 in the repression of paraoxonase-1 gene expression by bile acids. J Lipid Res. 2006 Feb; 47(2):384-92. view on PubMed

Drake TA, Schadt EE, Davis RC, Lusis AJ. Integrating genetic and gene expression data to study the metabolic syndrome and diabetes in mice. Am J Ther. 2005 Nov-Dec; 12(6):503-11. view on PubMed

Ozer EA, Pezzulo A, Shih DM, Chun C, Furlong C, Lusis AJ, Greenberg EP, Zabner J. Human and murine paraoxonase 1 are host modulators of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2005 Dec 01; 253(1):29-37. view on PubMed

Mehrabian M, Allayee H, Stockton J, Lum PY, Drake TA, Castellani LW, Suh M, Armour C, Edwards S, Lamb J, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE. Integrating genotypic and expression data in a segregating mouse population to identify 5-lipoxygenase as a susceptibility gene for obesity and bone traits. Nat Genet. 2005 Nov; 37(11):1224-33. view on PubMed

Davis RC, Schadt EE, Smith DJ, Hsieh EW, Cervino AC, van Nas A, Rosales M, Doss S, Meng H, Allayee H, Lusis AJ. A genome-wide set of congenic mouse strains derived from DBA/2J on a C57BL/6J background. Genomics. 2005 Sep; 86(3):259-70. view on PubMed

Cervino AC, Li G, Edwards S, Zhu J, Laurie C, Tokiwa G, Lum PY, Wang S, Castellani LW, Castellini LW, Lusis AJ, Carlson S, Sachs AB, Schadt EE. Integrating QTL and high-density SNP analyses in mice to identify Insig2 as a susceptibility gene for plasma cholesterol levels. Genomics. 2005 Nov; 86(5):505-17. view on PubMed

Furlong CE, Cole TB, Jarvik GP, Pettan-Brewer C, Geiss GK, Richter RJ, Shih DM, Tward AD, Lusis AJ, Costa LG. Role of paraoxonase (PON1) status in pesticide sensitivity: genetic and temporal determinants. Neurotoxicology. 2005 Aug; 26(4):651-9. view on PubMed

Cole TB, Walter BJ, Shih DM, Tward AD, Lusis AJ, Timchalk C, Richter RJ, Costa LG, Furlong CE. Toxicity of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos oxon in a transgenic mouse model of the human paraoxonase (PON1) Q192R polymorphism. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2005 Aug; 15(8):589-98. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Doss S, Sheth SS, Ingram-Drake LA, Schadt EE, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Genomic analysis of metabolic pathway gene expression in mice. Genome Biol. 2005; 6(7):R59. view on PubMed

Huertas-Vazquez A, Aguilar-Salinas C, Lusis AJ, Cantor RM, Canizales-Quinteros S, Lee JC, Mariana-Nuñez L, Riba-Ramirez RM, Jokiaho A, Tusie-Luna T, Pajukanta P. Familial combined hyperlipidemia in Mexicans: association with upstream transcription factor 1 and linkage on chromosome 16q24.1. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2005 Sep; 25(9):1985-91. view on PubMed

Schadt EE, Lamb J, Yang X, Zhu J, Edwards S, Guhathakurta D, Sieberts SK, Monks S, Reitman M, Zhang C, Lum PY, Leonardson A, Thieringer R, Metzger JM, Yang L, Castle J, Zhu H, Kash SF, Drake TA, Sachs A, Lusis AJ. An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease. Nat Genet. 2005 Jul; 37(7):710-7. view on PubMed

Doss S, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice. Genome Res. 2005 May; 15(5):681-91. view on PubMed

Parks BW, Gambill GP, Lusis AJ, Kabarowski JH. Loss of G2A promotes macrophage accumulation in atherosclerotic lesions of low density lipoprotein receptor-deficient mice. J Lipid Res. 2005 Jul; 46(7):1405-15. view on PubMed

Davis RC, Schadt EE, Cervino AC, Péterfy M, Lusis AJ. Ultrafine mapping of SNPs from mouse strains C57BL/6J, DBA/2J, and C57BLKS/J for loci contributing to diabetes and atherosclerosis susceptibility. Diabetes. 2005 Apr; 54(4):1191-9. view on PubMed

Nguyen HX, Lusis AJ, Tidball JG. Null mutation of myeloperoxidase in mice prevents mechanical activation of neutrophil lysis of muscle cell membranes in vitro and in vivo. J Physiol. 2005 Jun 01; 565(Pt 2):403-13. view on PubMed

Furlong CE, Cole TB, Walter BJ, Shih DM, Tward A, Lusis AJ, Timchalk C, Richter RJ, Costa LG. Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) status and risk of insecticide exposure. J Biochem Mol Toxicol. 2005; 19(3):182-3. view on PubMed

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Sheth SS, Castellani LW, Chari S, Wagg C, Thipphavong CK, Bodnar JS, Tontonoz P, Attie AD, Lopaschuk GD, Lusis AJ. Thioredoxin-interacting protein deficiency disrupts the fasting-feeding metabolic transition. J Lipid Res. 2005 Jan; 46(1):123-34. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Fogelman AM, Fonarow GC. Genetic basis of atherosclerosis: part II: clinical implications. Circulation. 2004 Oct 05; 110(14):2066-71. view on PubMed

Castellani LW, Gargalovic P, Febbraio M, Charugundla S, Jien ML, Lusis AJ. Mechanisms mediating insulin resistance in transgenic mice overexpressing mouse apolipoprotein A-II. J Lipid Res. 2004 Dec; 45(12):2377-87. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Fogelman AM, Fonarow GC. Genetic basis of atherosclerosis: part I: new genes and pathways. Circulation. 2004 Sep 28; 110(13):1868-73. view on PubMed

Rothfork JM, Timmins GS, Harris MN, Chen X, Lusis AJ, Otto M, Cheung AL, Gresham HD. Inactivation of a bacterial virulence pheromone by phagocyte-derived oxidants: new role for the NADPH oxidase in host defense. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Sep 21; 101(38):13867-72. view on PubMed

Wang X, Gargalovic P, Wong J, Gu JL, Wu X, Qi H, Wen P, Xi L, Tan B, Gogliotti R, Castellani LW, Chatterjee A, Lusis AJ. Hyplip2, a new gene for combined hyperlipidemia and increased atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2004 Oct; 24(10):1928-34. view on PubMed

Cantor RM, de Bruin T, Kono N, Napier S, van Nas A, Allayee H, Lusis AJ. Quantitative trait loci for apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and triglycerides in familial combined hyperlipidemia pedigrees. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2004 Oct; 24(10):1935-41. view on PubMed

Ghazalpour A, Doss S, Yang X, Aten J, Toomey EM, Van Nas A, Wang S, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Thematic review series: The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Toward a biological network for atherosclerosis. J Lipid Res. 2004 Oct; 45(10):1793-805. view on PubMed

Donnelly KL, Margosian MR, Sheth SS, Lusis AJ, Parks EJ. Increased lipogenesis and fatty acid reesterification contribute to hepatic triacylglycerol stores in hyperlipidemic Txnip-/- mice. J Nutr. 2004 Jun; 134(6):1475-80. view on PubMed

Shi W, Wang X, Wong J, Hedrick CC, Wong H, Castellani LW, Lusis AJ. Effect of macrophage-derived apolipoprotein E on hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis of LDLR-deficient mice. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Apr 23; 317(1):223-9. view on PubMed

Navab M, Ananthramaiah GM, Reddy ST, Van Lenten BJ, Ansell BJ, Fonarow GC, Vahabzadeh K, Hama S, Hough G, Kamranpour N, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ, Fogelman AM. The oxidation hypothesis of atherogenesis: the role of oxidized phospholipids and HDL. J Lipid Res. 2004 Jun; 45(6):993-1007. view on PubMed

Hui TY, Sheth SS, Diffley JM, Potter DW, Lusis AJ, Attie AD, Davis RA. Mice lacking thioredoxin-interacting protein provide evidence linking cellular redox state to appropriate response to nutritional signals. J Biol Chem. 2004 Jun 04; 279(23):24387-93. view on PubMed

Brown MD, Jin L, Jien ML, Matsumoto AH, Helm GA, Lusis AJ, Frank JS, Shi W. Lipid retention in the arterial wall of two mouse strains with different atherosclerosis susceptibility. J Lipid Res. 2004 Jun; 45(6):1155-61. view on PubMed

Welch CL, Bretschger S, Wen PZ, Mehrabian M, Latib N, Fruchart-Najib J, Fruchart JC, Myrick C, Lusis AJ. Novel QTLs for HDL levels identified in mice by controlling for Apoa2 allelic effects: confirmation of a chromosome 6 locus in a congenic strain. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Mar 12; 17(1):48-59. view on PubMed

Mar R, Pajukanta P, Allayee H, Groenendijk M, Dallinga-Thie G, Krauss RM, Sinsheimer JS, Cantor RM, de Bruin TW, Lusis AJ. Association of the APOLIPOPROTEIN A1/C3/A4/A5 gene cluster with triglyceride levels and LDL particle size in familial combined hyperlipidemia. Circ Res. 2004 Apr 16; 94(7):993-9. view on PubMed

Liu D, Singh RP, Khan AH, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, Smith DJ. Mapping behavioral traits by use of genome-tagged mice. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2004 Mar-Apr; 12(2):158-65. view on PubMed

Pajukanta P, Lilja HE, Sinsheimer JS, Cantor RM, Lusis AJ, Gentile M, Duan XJ, Soro-Paavonen A, Naukkarinen J, Saarela J, Laakso M, Ehnholm C, Taskinen MR, Peltonen L. Familial combined hyperlipidemia is associated with upstream transcription factor 1 (USF1). Nat Genet. 2004 Apr; 36(4):371-6. view on PubMed

Dwyer JH, Allayee H, Dwyer KM, Fan J, Wu H, Mar R, Lusis AJ, Mehrabian M. Arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase promoter genotype, dietary arachidonic acid, and atherosclerosis. N Engl J Med. 2004 Jan 01; 350(1):29-37. view on PubMed

Estrada-Smith D, Castellani LW, Wong H, Wen PZ, Chui A, Lusis AJ, Davis RC. Dissection of multigenic obesity traits in congenic mouse strains. Mamm Genome. 2004 Jan; 15(1):14-22. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ, Mar R, Pajukanta P. Genetics of atherosclerosis. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2004; 5:189-218. view on PubMed

MacLellan WR, Lusis AJ. Dilated cardiomyopathy: learning to live with yourself. Nat Med. 2003 Dec; 9(12):1455-6. view on PubMed

Liu D, Singh RP, Khan AH, Bhavsar K, Lusis AJ, Davis RC, Smith DJ. Identifying loci for behavioral traits using genome-tagged mice. J Neurosci Res. 2003 Nov 15; 74(4):562-9. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Genetic factors in cardiovascular disease. 10 questions. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2003 Nov; 13(8):309-16. view on PubMed

Shi W, Brown MD, Wang X, Wong J, Kallmes DF, Matsumoto AH, Helm GA, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. Genetic backgrounds but not sizes of atherosclerotic lesions determine medial destruction in the aortic root of apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2003 Oct 01; 23(10):1901-6. view on PubMed

Allayee H, Ghazalpour A, Lusis AJ. Using mice to dissect genetic factors in atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2003 Sep 01; 23(9):1501-9. view on PubMed

Araujo JA, Meng L, Tward AD, Hancock WW, Zhai Y, Lee A, Ishikawa K, Iyer S, Buelow R, Busuttil RW, Shih DM, Lusis AJ, Kupiec-Weglinski JW. Systemic rather than local heme oxygenase-1 overexpression improves cardiac allograft outcomes in a new transgenic mouse. J Immunol. 2003 Aug 01; 171(3):1572-80. view on PubMed

Krass KL, Colinayo V, Ghazalpour A, Vinters HV, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Genetic loci contributing to age-related hippocampal lesions in mice. Neurobiol Dis. 2003 Jul; 13(2):102-8. view on PubMed

Colinayo VV, Qiao JH, Wang X, Krass KL, Schadt E, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Genetic loci for diet-induced atherosclerotic lesions and plasma lipids in mice. Mamm Genome. 2003 Jul; 14(7):464-71. view on PubMed

Cole TB, Jampsa RL, Walter BJ, Arndt TL, Richter RJ, Shih DM, Tward A, Lusis AJ, Jack RM, Costa LG, Furlong CE. Expression of human paraoxonase (PON1) during development. Pharmacogenetics. 2003 Jun; 13(6):357-64. view on PubMed

Allayee H, Castellani LW, Cantor RM, de Bruin TW, Lusis AJ. Biochemical and genetic association of plasma apolipoprotein A-II levels with familial combined hyperlipidemia. Circ Res. 2003 Jun 13; 92(11):1262-7. view on PubMed

Schadt EE, Monks SA, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Che N, Colinayo V, Ruff TG, Milligan SB, Lamb JR, Cavet G, Linsley PS, Mao M, Stoughton RB, Friend SH. Genetics of gene expression surveyed in maize, mouse and man. Nature. 2003 Mar 20; 422(6929):297-302. view on PubMed

Pajukanta P, Allayee H, Krass KL, Kuraishy A, Soro A, Lilja HE, Mar R, Taskinen MR, Nuotio I, Laakso M, Rotter JI, de Bruin TW, Cantor RM, Lusis AJ, Peltonen L. Combined analysis of genome scans of dutch and finnish families reveals a susceptibility locus for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol on chromosome 16q. Am J Hum Genet. 2003 Apr; 72(4):903-17. view on PubMed

Nishimura I, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Lyons KM, Nadeau JH, Zernik J. ENU large-scale mutagenesis and quantitative trait linkage (QTL) analysis in mice: novel technologies for searching polygenetic determinants of craniofacial abnormalities. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med. 2003; 14(5):320-30. view on PubMed

Attie AD, Krauss RM, Gray-Keller MP, Brownlie A, Miyazaki M, Kastelein JJ, Lusis AJ, Stalenhoef AF, Stoehr JP, Hayden MR, Ntambi JM. Relationship between stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity and plasma triglycerides in human and mouse hypertriglyceridemia. J Lipid Res. 2002 Nov; 43(11):1899-907. view on PubMed

Smith JB, Wadleigh DJ, Xia YR, Mar RA, Herschman HR, Lusis AJ. Cloning and genomic localization of the murine LPS-induced CXC chemokine (LIX) gene, Scyb5. Immunogenetics. 2002 Nov; 54(8):599-603. view on PubMed

Smith DJ, Lusis AJ. The allelic structure of common disease. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Oct 01; 11(20):2455-61. view on PubMed

Tangirala RK, Bischoff ED, Joseph SB, Wagner BL, Walczak R, Laffitte BA, Daige CL, Thomas D, Heyman RA, Mangelsdorf DJ, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Tontonoz P, Schulman IG. Identification of macrophage liver X receptors as inhibitors of atherosclerosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Sep 03; 99(18):11896-901. view on PubMed

Mehrabian M, Allayee H, Wong J, Shi W, Wang XP, Shaposhnik Z, Funk CD, Lusis AJ, Shih W. Identification of 5-lipoxygenase as a major gene contributing to atherosclerosis susceptibility in mice. Circ Res. 2002 Jul 26; 91(2):120-6. view on PubMed

Tward A, Xia YR, Wang XP, Shi YS, Park C, Castellani LW, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. Decreased atherosclerotic lesion formation in human serum paraoxonase transgenic mice. Circulation. 2002 Jul 23; 106(4):484-90. view on PubMed

Eiserich JP, Baldus S, Brennan ML, Ma W, Zhang C, Tousson A, Castro L, Lusis AJ, Nauseef WM, White CR, Freeman BA. Myeloperoxidase, a leukocyte-derived vascular NO oxidase. Science. 2002 Jun 28; 296(5577):2391-4. view on PubMed

Colinayo VV, Qiao JH, Demant P, Krass K, Lusis AJ, Drake TA. Genetic characterization of the Dyscalc locus. Mamm Genome. 2002 Jun; 13(6):283-8. view on PubMed

Joseph SB, McKilligin E, Pei L, Watson MA, Collins AR, Laffitte BA, Chen M, Noh G, Goodman J, Hagger GN, Tran J, Tippin TK, Wang X, Lusis AJ, Hsueh WA, Law RE, Collins JL, Willson TM, Tontonoz P. Synthetic LXR ligand inhibits the development of atherosclerosis in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11):7604-9. view on PubMed

Allayee H, Krass KL, Pajukanta P, Cantor RM, van der Kallen CJ, Mar R, Rotter JI, de Bruin TW, Peltonen L, Lusis AJ. Locus for elevated apolipoprotein B levels on chromosome 1p31 in families with familial combined hyperlipidemia. Circ Res. 2002 May 03; 90(8):926-31. view on PubMed

Shi W, Wang X, Shih DM, Laubach VE, Navab M, Lusis AJ. Paradoxical reduction of fatty streak formation in mice lacking endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Circulation. 2002 Apr 30; 105(17):2078-82. view on PubMed

Shi W, Wang X, Tangchitpiyanond K, Wong J, Shi Y, Lusis AJ. Atherosclerosis in C3H/HeJ mice reconstituted with apolipoprotein E-null bone marrow. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002 Apr 01; 22(4):650-5. view on PubMed

Gukovskaya AS, Vaquero E, Zaninovic V, Gorelick FS, Lusis AJ, Brennan ML, Holland S, Pandol SJ. Neutrophils and NADPH oxidase mediate intrapancreatic trypsin activation in murine experimental acute pancreatitis. Gastroenterology. 2002 Apr; 122(4):974-84. view on PubMed

Sheth SS, Deluna A, Allayee H, Lusis AJ. Understanding atherosclerosis through mouse genetics. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2002 Apr; 13(2):181-9. view on PubMed

Brennan ML, Wu W, Fu X, Shen Z, Song W, Frost H, Vadseth C, Narine L, Lenkiewicz E, Borchers MT, Lusis AJ, Lee JJ, Lee NA, Abu-Soud HM, Ischiropoulos H, Hazen SL. A tale of two controversies: defining both the role of peroxidases in nitrotyrosine formation in vivo using eosinophil peroxidase and myeloperoxidase-deficient mice, and the nature of peroxidase-generated reactive nitrogen species. J Biol Chem. 2002 May 17; 277(20):17415-27. view on PubMed

Miyake JH, Duong-Polk XT, Taylor JM, Du EZ, Castellani LW, Lusis AJ, Davis RA. Transgenic expression of cholesterol-7-alpha-hydroxylase prevents atherosclerosis in C57BL/6J mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002 Jan; 22(1):121-6. view on PubMed

Bodnar JS, Chatterjee A, Castellani LW, Ross DA, Ohmen J, Cavalcoli J, Wu C, Dains KM, Catanese J, Chu M, Sheth SS, Charugundla K, Demant P, West DB, de Jong P, Lusis AJ. Positional cloning of the combined hyperlipidemia gene Hyplip1. Nat Genet. 2002 Jan; 30(1):110-6. view on PubMed

Lusis AJ. Atherosclerosis. Nature. 2000 Sep 14; 407(6801):233-41. view on PubMed