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List of works by Esteban J Parra

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Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

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SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in zebrafish and humans

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Estimating African American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles

scientific article (publication date: December 1998)

Control of confounding of genetic associations in stratified populations

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Identifying signatures of natural selection in Tibetan and Andean populations using dense genome scan data

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Genetic evidence for the convergent evolution of light skin in Europeans and East Asians

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Population structure in admixed populations: effect of admixture dynamics on the pattern of linkage disequilibrium.

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The genomic distribution of population substructure in four populations using 8,525 autosomal SNPs.

scientific article published on May 2004

A genomewide admixture mapping panel for Hispanic/Latino populations.

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

scientific article (publication date: 8 March 2012)

Maternal adaptation to high-altitude pregnancy: an experiment of nature--a review.

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Implications of correlations between skin color and genetic ancestry for biomedical research.

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Ancestral proportions and their association with skin pigmentation and bone mineral density in Puerto Rican women from New York city

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Admixture in the Hispanics of the San Luis Valley, Colorado, and its implications for complex trait gene mapping

scientific article published in March 2004

Admixture in Mexico City: implications for admixture mapping of type 2 diabetes genetic risk factors.

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Genome-wide association and meta-analysis in populations from Starr County, Texas, and Mexico City identify type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci and enrichment for expression quantitative trait loci in top signals

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Human pigmentation variation: evolution, genetic basis, and implications for public health.

scientific article published on January 2007

The 8818G allele of the agouti signaling protein (ASIP) gene is ancestral and is associated with darker skin color in African Americans.

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Vitamin D binding protein is a key determinant of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in infants and toddlers

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Association of the OCA2 Polymorphism His615Arg with Melanin Content in East Asian Populations: Further Evidence of Convergent Evolution of Skin Pigmentation

scientific article published on March 5, 2010

Low wintertime vitamin D levels in a sample of healthy young adults of diverse ancestry living in the Toronto area: associations with vitamin D intake and skin pigmentation

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Association of vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) polymorphisms and serum 25(OH)D concentrations in a sample of young Canadian adults of different ancestry

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Candidate gene association study conditioning on individual ancestry in patients with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome from Mexico City.

scientific article published in May 2010

Cross-tissue and tissue-specific eQTLs: partitioning the heritability of a complex trait

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Andean and Tibetan patterns of adaptation to high altitude

scientific article published on January 24, 2013

Ancestry explains the blunted ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia and lower exercise ventilation of Quechua altitude natives.

scientific article published on 31 March 2005

Worldwide allele frequency distribution of four polymorphisms associated with warfarin dose requirements.

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Meta-analysis of lipid-traits in Hispanics identifies novel loci, population-specific effects, and tissue-specific enrichment of eQTLs

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Genomic ancestry, self-reported "color" and quantitative measures of skin pigmentation in Brazilian admixed siblings

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Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and arterial oxygen saturation at high altitude in Peruvian Quechua.

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Exploring signatures of positive selection in pigmentation candidate genes in populations of East Asian ancestry.

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A Replication Study of the IRS1, CAPN10, TCF7L2, and PPARG Gene Polymorphisms Associated with Type 2 Diabetes in Two Different Populations of Mexico

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Comparing quantitative measures of erythema, pigmentation and skin response using reflectometry.

scientific article published in October 2002

Skin responses to ultraviolet radiation: effects of constitutive pigmentation, sex, and ancestry.

scientific article published in October 2002

Association of TCF7L2 polymorphisms with type 2 diabetes in Mexico City.

scientific article published in April 2007

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations fluctuate seasonally in young adults of diverse ancestry living in Toronto.

scientific article published on 27 October 2010

The development and evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire used in assessing vitamin D intake in a sample of healthy young Canadian adults of diverse ancestry.

scientific article published in April 2009

Exploring the distribution of genetic markers of pharmacogenomics relevance in Brazilian and Mexican populations

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Cuba: exploring the history of admixture and the genetic basis of pigmentation using autosomal and uniparental markers

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Association study confirms the role of two OCA2 polymorphisms in normal skin pigmentation variation in East Asian populations

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Ancestry informative markers and admixture proportions in northeastern Mexico.

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SOD2 gene Val16Ala polymorphism is associated with macroalbuminuria in Mexican type 2 diabetes patients: a comparative study and meta-analysis

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Vitamin D status of older adults of diverse ancestry living in the Greater Toronto Area.

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Iris pigmentation as a quantitative trait: variation in populations of European, East Asian and South Asian ancestry and association with candidate gene polymorphisms

scientific article published on 7 November 2015

Genome-wide association study of warfarin maintenance dose in a Brazilian sample

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Trans-ethnic kidney function association study reveals putative causal genes and effects on kidney-specific disease aetiologies

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Developmental and genetic components explain enhanced pulmonary volumes of female peruvian quechua

scientific article published on May 3, 2012

Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism

article by Kim Valenta et al published 29 October 2015 in Functional Ecology

Association of β1 and β3 adrenergic receptors gene polymorphisms with insulin resistance and high lipid profiles related to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome

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Technical note: Quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs

scientific article published on November 19, 2011