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Cathy E. Elks
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 2
Citations - 688
Cathy E. Elks is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: DNA methylation & Smoking cessation. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 526 citations. Previous affiliations of Cathy E. Elks include Statens Serum Institut.
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Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking
Roby Joehanes,Allan C. Just,Riccardo E. Marioni,Luke C. Pilling,Lindsay M. Reynolds,Pooja R. Mandaviya,Weihua Guan,Tao Xu,Cathy E. Elks,Stella Aslibekyan,Hortensia Moreno-Macías,Jennifer A. Smith,Jennifer A. Brody,Radhika Dhingra,Paul Yousefi,James S. Pankow,Sonja Kunze,Sonia Shah,Allan F. McRae,Kurt Lohman,Jin Sha,Jin Sha,Devin Absher,Luigi Ferrucci,Wei Zhao,Ellen W. Demerath,Jan Bressler,Megan L. Grove,Tianxiao Huan,Tianxiao Huan,Chunyu Liu,Chunyu Liu,Chunyu Liu,Michael M. Mendelson,Chen Yao,Douglas P. Kiel,Annette Peters,Rui Wang-Sattler,Peter M. Visscher,Naomi R. Wray,John M. Starr,Jingzhong Ding,Carlos J. Rodriguez,Nicholas J. Wareham,Marguerite R. Irvin,Degui Zhi,Myrto Barrdahl,Paolo Vineis,Srikant Ambatipudi,André G. Uitterlinden,Albert Hofman,Joel Schwartz,Elena Colicino,Lifang Hou,Pantel S. Vokonas,D. Hernandez,Andrew B. Singleton,Stefania Bandinelli,Stephen Turner,Erin B. Ware,Alicia K. Smith,Torsten Klengel,Elisabeth B. Binder,Bruce M. Psaty,Kent D. Taylor,Sina A. Gharib,Brenton R. Swenson,Liming Liang,Dawn L. DeMeo,George T. O'Connor,Zdenko Herceg,Kerry J. Ressler,Karen N. Conneely,N. Sotoodehnia,Sharon L.R. Kardia,David Melzer,Andrea A. Baccarelli,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Isabelle Romieu,Donna K. Arnett,Ken K. Ong,Yongmei Liu,M. Waldenberger,Ian J. Deary,Myriam Fornage,Daniel Levy,Stephanie J. London +86 more
TL;DR: Cigarette smoking has a broad impact on genome-wide methylation that, at many loci, persists many years aftersmoking cessation, indicating a pattern of persistent altered methylation, with attenuation, after smoking cessation.
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Association of Adiposity Genetic Variants With Menarche Timing in 92,105 Women of European Descent
Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes,Ellen W. Demerath,Diana L. Cousminer,Ran Tao,Jill Dreyfus,Tõnu Esko,Albert V. Smith,Vilmundur Gudnason,Tamara B. Harris,Lenore Launer,Patrick F. McArdle,L Yerges-Armstrong,Cathy E. Elks,David P. Strachan,Zoltán Kutalik,Peter Vollenweider,B. Feenstra,Heather A. Boyd,Andres Metspalu,E. Mihailov,Linda Broer,M. Carola Zillikens,Ben A. Oostra,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Kathryn L. Lunetta,John R. B. Perry,Anna Murray,Daniel L. Koller,Dongbing Lai,Tanguy Corre,Daniela Toniolo,E Albrecht,Doris Stöckl,Harald Grallert,Christian Gieger,Caroline Hayward,Ozren Polasek,Igor Rudan,James F. Wilson,Chunyan He,Peter Kraft,Frank B. Hu,David J. Hunter,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Gonneke Willemsen,Dorret I. Boomsma,Enda M. Byrne,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Nicole M. Warrington,Craig E. Pennell,L. Stolk,Jenny A. Visser,Albert Hofman,André G. Uitterlinden,Fernando Rivadeneira,Peng Lin,Sherri L. Fisher,Laura J. Bierut,Laura Crisponi,Eleonora Porcu,Massimo Mangino,Guangju Zhai,Tim D. Spector,Julie E. Buring,Lynda M. Rose,Paul M. Ridker,Charles L Poole,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joanne M. Murabito,Daniel I. Chasman,E. Widen,Kari E North,Ken K. Ong,Nora Franceschini +74 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the associations of 95 a priori and recently identified obesity-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with age at menarche in 92,116 women of European descent from 38 studies (1970-2010) were estimated using meta-analytical techniques.