University of the West Indies System

Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses both undernutrition and a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass index,...

Estimating African American Admixture Proportions by Use of Population-Specific Alleles

Nutritional supplementation, psychosocial stimulation, and mental development of stunted children: the Jamaican Study

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 individ...

Fine mapping of the association with obesity at the FTO locus in African-derived populations

Genome-wide association studies have identified many common genetic variants that are associated with polygenic traits, and have typically been performed with individuals of rec...