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Andrew C. Heath
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications - 172
Citations - 66250
Andrew C. Heath is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Alcohol dependence. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 158 publications receiving 57985 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew C. Heath include University of Washington & Sydney Adventist Hospital.
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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
Peter J. Turnbaugh,Micah Hamady,Tanya Yatsunenko,Brandi L. Cantarel,Alexis E. Duncan,Ruth E. Ley,Mitchell L. Sogin,William J. Jones,Bruce A. Roe,Jason P. Affourtit,Michael Egholm,Bernard Henrissat,Andrew C. Heath,Rob Knight,Jeffrey I. Gordon +14 more
TL;DR: The faecal microbial communities of adult female monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs concordant for leanness or obesity, and their mothers are characterized to address how host genotype, environmental exposure and host adiposity influence the gut microbiome.
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Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography
Tanya Yatsunenko,Federico E. Rey,Mark J. Manary,Mark J. Manary,Indi Trehan,Indi Trehan,Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello,Monica Contreras,Magda Magris,Glida Hidalgo,Robert N. Baldassano,Andrey P. Anokhin,Andrew C. Heath,Barbara B. Warner,Jens Reeder,Justin Kuczynski,J. Gregory Caporaso,Catherine A. Lozupone,Christian L. Lauber,Jose C. Clemente,Dan Knights,Rob Knight,Jeffrey I. Gordon +22 more
TL;DR: The need to consider the microbiome when evaluating human development, nutritional needs, physiological variations and the impact of westernization is underscored, as distinctive features of the functional maturation of the gut microbiome are evident in early infancy as well as adulthood.
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Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height
Jian Yang,Beben Benyamin,Brian P. McEvoy,Scott D. Gordon,Anjali K. Henders,Dale R. Nyholt,Pamela A. F. Madden,Andrew C. Heath,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Michael E. Goddard,Peter M. Visscher +11 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the remaining heritability is due to incomplete linkage disequilibrium between causal variants and genotyped SNPs, exacerbated by causal variants having lower minor allele frequency than the SNPs explored to date.
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Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice
Vanessa K. Ridaura,Jeremiah J. Faith,Federico E. Rey,Jiye Cheng,Alexis E. Duncan,Andrew L. Kau,Nicholas W. Griffin,Vincent Lombard,Bernard Henrissat,Bernard Henrissat,James R. Bain,Michael J. Muehlbauer,Olga Ilkayeva,Clay F. Semenkovich,Katsuhiko Funai,David K. Hayashi,Barbara J. Lyle,Margaret C. Martini,Luke K. Ursell,Jose C. Clemente,Will Van Treuren,William A. Walters,Rob Knight,Rob Knight,Christopher B. Newgard,Andrew C. Heath,Jeffrey I. Gordon +26 more
TL;DR: The results reveal that transmissible and modifiable interactions between diet and microbiota influence host biology and that adiposity is transmissible from human to mouse and that it was associated with changes in serum levels of branched-chain amino acids.
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Adam E. Locke,Bratati Kahali,Sonja I. Berndt,Anne E. Justice,Tune H. Pers,Felix R. Day,Corey Powell,Sailaja Vedantam,Martin L. Buchkovich,Jian Yang,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Stefan Gustafsson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jessica D. Faul,Jennifer A. Smith,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Jin Chen,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Åsa K. Hedman,Juha Karjalainen,Ellen M. Schmidt,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Denise Anderson,Marian Beekman,Jennifer L. Bolton,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Steven Buyske,Ayse Demirkan,Guohong Deng,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne U. Jackson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Kati Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Sarah E. Medland,Mike A. Nalls,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Marjolein Peters,Inga Prokopenko,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Aaron Isaacs,Eva Albrecht,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Antony P. Attwood,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Isabelita Bas,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Roza Blagieva,Matthias Blüher,Stefan Böhringer,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Robert Clarke,E. Warwick Daw,Anton J. M. de Craen,Graciela E. Delgado,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Niina Eklund,Karol Estrada,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Ross M. Fraser,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Bruna Gigante,Alan S. Go,Alain Golay,Alison H. Goodall,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Christopher J. Groves,Gaëlle Gusto,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,Toomas Haller,Göran Hallmans,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Christian Hengstenberg,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Alan James,Janina M. Jeff,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Leena Kinnunen,Wolfgang Koenig,Markku Koskenvuo,Wolfgang Kratzer,Jaana Laitinen,Claudia Lamina,Karin Leander,Nanette R. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Ken Sin Lo,Stéphane Lobbens,Roberto Lorbeer,Yingchang Lu,François Mach,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Wendy L. McArdle,Stela McLachlan,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,Mario A. Morken,Antonella Mulas,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Arthur W. Musk,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Markus M. Nöthen,Ilja M. Nolte,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Rainer Rettig,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,William R. Scott,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice Stanton,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Kathleen Stirrups,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian-Tsung Tan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan Tyrer,Hae-Won Uh,Liesbeth Vandenput,Frank C. Verhulst,Sita H. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Helen R. Warren,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael N. Weedon,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Eoin P. Brennan,Murim Choi,Zari Dastani,Alexander W. Drong,Per Eriksson,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jesper R. Gådin,Ali G. Gharavi,Michael E. Goddard,Robert E. Handsaker,Jinyan Huang,Fredrik Karpe,Sekar Kathiresan,Sarah Keildson,Krzysztof Kiryluk,Michiaki Kubo,Jong-Young Lee,Liming Liang,Richard P. Lifton,Baoshan Ma,Steven A. McCarroll,Amy Jayne McKnight,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Grant W. Montgomery,Joanne M. Murabito,George Nicholson,Dale R. Nyholt,Yukinori Okada,John R. B. Perry,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Eva Reinmaa,Rany M. Salem,Niina Sandholm,Robert A. Scott,Lisette Stolk,Atsushi Takahashi,Toshihiro Tanaka,Ferdinand M. van't Hooft,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Wei Zheng,Krina T. Zondervan,Andrew C. Heath,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,John Blangero,Pascal Bovet,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Giancarlo Cesana,Aravinda Chakravarti,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Anna F. Dominiczak,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Stephan B. Felix,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Oscar H. Franco,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Thomas Illig,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Berit Johansen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J.P. Kastelein,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Paul Knekt,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,André Marette,Tara C. Matise,Colin A. McKenzie,Barbara McKnight,Frans L. Moll,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Pamela A. F. Madden,Gerard Pasterkamp,John F. Peden,Annette Peters,Dirkje S. Postma,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Ronald P. Stolk,Konstantin Strauch,Anke Tönjes,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Uwe Völker,Gérard Waeber,Gonneke Willemsen,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,M. Carola Zillikens,Linda S. Adair,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Fernando Rivadeneira,Timo Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,Naveed Sattar,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Iris M. Heid,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Lude Franke,Timothy M. Frayling,Mark I. McCarthy,Peter M. Visscher,André Scherag,Cristen J. Willer,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jacques S. Beckmann,Inês Barroso,Kari E. North,Erik Ingelsson,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Elizabeth K. Speliotes +481 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.