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October
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Trends in the utilization of psychotropic medications in China from 2018 to 2021” was published in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “SERPINE1 DNA Methylation Levels Quantified in Blood Cells at Five Years of Age Are Associated with Adiposity and Plasma PAI-1 Levels at Five Years of Age” is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Ann Wu was one of the theme coordinators for the October issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. October 2022’s theme was Telemedicine 2022.
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Associations of maternal insulin sensitivity during pregnancy with childhood central adiposity in the Genetics of Glucose regulation in Gestation and Growth (Gen3G) cohort” is published in Pediatric Obesity.
Sharon Lutz and colleagues’ article “FGF20 and PGM2 variants are associated with childhood asthma in family-based whole-genome sequencing studies” was published in Human Molecular Genetics.
September
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Clinical Pharmacists’ Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Pharmacogenomic Testing in China” is published in Journal of Personalized Medicine.
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “An agent-based model of child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: implications for policies and practices” is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Cancer and psychiatric diagnoses in the year preceding suicide” is published in Cancer Medicine.
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Longitudinal associations of psychosocial stressors with menopausal symptoms and well-being among women in midlife” is published in Menopause.
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Self-reported menstrual cycle length during reproductive years in relation to menopausal symptoms at midlife in Project Viva” is published in Menopause.
August
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Genetic Testing and/or Counseling for Colorectal Cancer by Health Insurance Type” is published in Journal of Personalized Medicine
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Maternal Body Mass Index Is Associated with Profile Variation in Circulating MicroRNAs at First Trimester of Pregnancy” is published in biomedicines
PROMoTeR welcomes our newest faculty member Dr. Hadley Stevens Smith! Dr. Smith is a health economist and scholar in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics. Dr. Smith develops approaches to integrate and advance health economic and ELSI research in genomics. Dr. Smith comes from Baylor college of Medicine, where she was a Health Policy Fellow in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Welcome Dr. Smith!
Sharon Lutz and colleagues’ article “GAWMerge expands GWAS sample size and diversity by combining array-based genotyping and whole-genome sequencing” is published in Communications Biology
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Clinical Pharmacists’ Involvement in Pharmacogenomics Testing and Related Services in China” is published in Journal of Personalized Medicine
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Determinants of coronavirus disease 2019 infection by artificial intelligence technology: A study of 28 countries” is published in Plos One
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Association between Health Insurance Type and Genetic Testing and/or Counseling for Breast and Ovarian Cancer” is published in Journal of Personalized Medicine
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Clinical Pharmacists’ Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Pharmacogenomic Testing in China” is published in Journal of Personalized Medicine
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “An agent-based model of child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: implications for policies and practices” is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
July
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Longitudinal associations of DNA methylation and sleep in children: a meta-analysis” is published in Clinical Epigenetics
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Vortioxetine for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in Adults” is published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Associations of maternal glucose markers in pregnancy with cord blood glucocorticoids and child hair cortisol levels” is published in Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “History of infertility and pregnancy outcomes in Project Viva: a prospective study” is published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Detecting and distinguishing indicators of risk for suicide using clinical records” is published in Translational Psychiatry
June
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Associations of healthy infant feeding practices and early childhood adiposity in the Rise & SHINE cohort” is published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Sharon Lutz and colleagues’ article “Machine Learning Prediction of Progression in Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second in the COPDGene® Study” is published in The Journal of the COPD Foundation
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in newborns and children show widespread sex differences in blood DNA methylation” is published in Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Network Approaches to Integrate Analyses of Genetics and Metabolomics Data with Applications to Fetal Programming Studies” is published in Metabolites
May
Sharon Lutz, Joanne Sordillo, Ann Wu and colleagues’ article “Novel genetic variants associated with inhaled corticosteroid treatment response in older adults with asthma” is published in Thorax
Sharon Lutz, Kirsten Voorhies, Ann Wu and colleagues’ article “Selection bias when inferring the effect direction in Mendelian randomization” is published in Genetic Epidemiology
Kurt Christensen and colleagues’ article “Parental Attitudes Toward Standard Newborn Screening and Newborn Genomic Sequencing: Findings From the BabySeq Study” is published in Frontiers in Genetics
Kirsten Voorhies, Ann Wu, Sharon Lutz, and colleagues’ article “Covariate adjustment of spirometric and smoking phenotypes: The potential of neural network models” is published in PLoS One
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Are People Who Die by Intentional Medication Poisoning Dispensed Those Medications in the Year Prior to Death?” is published in Archives of Suicide Research
April
Maryam Asgari and colleagues’ article “Response to ‘Comments on sirolimus use and risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in solid organ transplant recipients’ (SOTRs)” is published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Kurt Christensen and colleagues’ article “Association of Pathogenic Variants in Hereditary Cancer Genes With Multiple Diseases” is published in JAMA Oncology
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Association of cow's milk intake in early childhood with adiposity and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence” is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Maryam Asgari and colleagues’ article “Genome-wide association study of actinic keratosis identifies new susceptibility loci implicated in pigmentation and immune regulation pathways” is published in Communications Biology
Congrats to Sharon Lutz on her receipt of an R01 funded study from The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) entitled “The role of sex in genetic association studies of depression”!
In April PROMoTeR hosting Dr. Jason Vassy, MD, MPH, MS from the VA Boston Health System (VABHS). Dr. Vassy presented “Defining and measuring the clinical utility of polygenic risk scores”.
March
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Maternal Mediterranean diet in pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation: a meta-analysis in the PACE Consortium” was published in Epigenetics
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “First trimester plasma microRNAs levels predict Matsuda Index-estimated insulin sensitivity between 24th and 29th week of pregnancy” was published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Gestational Perfluoroalkyl Substance Exposure and DNA Methylation at Birth and 12 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Epigenome-Wide Association Study” is published in Environmental Health Perspectives
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “High-Deductible Health Plans Paired With Health Savings Accounts Increased Medication Cost Burden Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder” was published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Ann Wu and colleagues’ article “Metabolomic profiling reveals extensive adrenal suppression due to inhaled corticosteroid therapy in asthma” was published in Nature Medicine
February
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Analysis of Early-Life Growth and Age at Pubertal Onset in US Children” is published in JAMA Network Open
Chris Lu and colleagues’ article “Understanding TBI as a Risk Factor Versus a Means of Suicide Death Using Electronic Health Record Data” is published in Archives of Suicide Research
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Maternal Glycemic Dysregulation During Pregnancy and Neonatal Blood DNA Methylation: Meta-analyses of Epigenome-Wide Association Studies” is published in Diabetes Care
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide associations between DNA methylation at birth and childhood cognitive skills” is published in Molecular Psychiatry
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Lifestyle interventions in pregnancy targeting GDM prevention: looking ahead to precision medicine” is published in Diabetologia
Sharon Lutz, Kirsten Voorhies, Ann Wu, and colleagues’ article “The influence of unmeasured confounding on the MR Steiger approach” is published in Genetic Epidemiology
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Menstrual cycle length and adverse pregnancy outcomes among women in Project Viva” is published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes” is published in Human Molecular Genetics
January
PROMoTeR Members Joanne Sordillo, Sharon Lutz, Ann Wu, and colleagues’ article “Pharmacogenetics of Bronchodilator Response: Future Directions” is published in Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
PROMoTeR Member Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Longitudinal changes in glucose during pregnancy in women with gestational diabetes risk factors” is published in Diabetologia
PROMoTeR Members Mei-Sing, Joanne Sordillo, Ann Wu and colleagues’ article “Multiomics analysis identifies BIRC3 as a novel glucocorticoid response–associated gene” is published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
PROMoTeR Member Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “Human plasma pregnancy-associated miRNAs and their temporal variation within the first trimester of pregnancy” is published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
PROMoTeR Member Maryam Asgari and colleagues’ article “Association of Cutaneous Immune-Related Adverse Events With Increased Survival in Patients Treated With Anti–Programmed Cell Death 1 and Anti–Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 Therapy” is published in JAMA Dermatology
PROMoTeR Members Natalia Kunst, Kurt Christensen, Pamela McMahon, Ann Wu, and colleagues’ article “Population-Based Newborn Screening for Germline TP53 Variants: Clinical Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Value of Further Research” is published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute
PROMoTeR Member Sharon Lutz and colleagues’ article “A Smoothed Version of the Lassosum Penalty for Fitting Integrated Risk Models Using Summary Statistics or Individual-Level Data” is published in Genes
PROMoTeR Members Chris Lu, Pamela McMahon, and Ann Wu’s article “Modeling Genomic Screening in Newborns” is published in JAMA Pediatrics
PROMoTeR Member Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ article “ADA/EASD Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative: An International Perspective and Future Vision for Precision Medicine in Diabetes” is published in Diabetes Care
Special thanks to Dr. Erik Melén, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics from the Department of Clinical Sciences and Education, Södersjukhuset Karolinska Institutet for presenting at our January PROMoTeR meeting. Dr. Melén presented “Precision medicine in complex pediatric diseases”.