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Most Cited Articles of Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

TitleJournalYearCitations
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease riskNature20111.6K
Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacyPatient Education and Counseling19991.1K
Mapping of a susceptibility locus for Crohn's disease on chromosome 16Nature1996789
A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variantsNature Genetics2016769
Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk lociNature2017643
Functional health literacy and the risk of hospital admission among Medicare managed care enrolleesAmerican Journal of Public Health2002628
Health literacy and the risk of hospital admissionJournal of General Internal Medicine1998554
Natural selection on EPAS1 (HIF2alpha) associated with low hemoglobin concentration in Tibetan highlandersProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010551
Why the nation needs a policy push on patient-centered health careHealth Affairs2010532
MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African AmericansNature Genetics2008518
Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's diseaseNature Genetics2017508
A meta-analysis of the role of smoking in inflammatory bowel diseaseDigestive Diseases and Sciences1989479
Increased consumption of refined carbohydrates and the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States: an ecologic assessmentAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition2004477
Calcium-sensitive potassium channelopathy in human epilepsy and paroxysmal movement disorderNature Genetics2005440
Decade-long bacterial community dynamics in cystic fibrosis airwaysProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012431
Asymptomatic carriers are a potential source for transmission of epidemic and nonepidemic Clostridium difficile strains among long-term care facility residentsClinical Infectious Diseases2007415
Genomewide scans of complex human diseases: true linkage is hard to findAmerican Journal of Human Genetics2001407
Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch upHealth Affairs2012402
Adherence to surgical care improvement project measures and the association with postoperative infectionsJAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association2010393
Metabolic syndrome in childhood predicts adult cardiovascular disease 25 years later: the Princeton Lipid Research Clinics Follow-up StudyPediatrics2007390
Overview of QTL mapping software and introduction to map manager QTMammalian Genome1999374
Defining and measuring the patient-centered medical homeJournal of General Internal Medicine2010366
Accuracy of haplotype frequency estimation for biallelic loci, via the expectation-maximization algorithm for unphased diploid genotype dataAmerican Journal of Human Genetics2000348
Epidemiologic studies of trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other psychiatric disordersCanadian Journal of Psychiatry2002343
Multiple recurrent genetic events converge on control of histone lysine methylation in medulloblastomaNature Genetics2009337