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Christopher J. O'Donnell

Researcher at VA Boston Healthcare System

Publications -  914
Citations -  140860

Christopher J. O'Donnell is an academic researcher from VA Boston Healthcare System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 159, co-authored 869 publications receiving 126278 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. O'Donnell include Brown University & Veterans Health Administration.

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A common biological basis of obesity and nicotine addiction

Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, +316 more
TL;DR: The results strongly point to a common biological basis of the regulation of theregulation of the authors' appetite for tobacco and food, and thus the vulnerability to nicotine addiction and obesity, and the effect of single-nucleotide polymorphisms affecting body mass index (BMI).
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Predicting Stroke Through Genetic Risk Functions The CHARGE Risk Score Project

Carla A. Ibrahim-Verbaas, +55 more
- 01 Feb 2014 - 
TL;DR: The single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with stroke and its risk factors result only in a small improvement in prediction of future stroke compared with the classical epidemiological risk factors for stroke.
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An exome array study of the plasma metabolome

TL;DR: This work analyzes the association between 217 plasma metabolites and exome variants on the Illumina HumanExome Beadchip in 2,076 participants in the Framingham Heart Study and replication in 1,528 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study to provide a more complete picture of the genetic architecture of the plasma metabolome.
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Genetic Predictors of Fibrin D-Dimer Levels in Healthy Adults

Nicholas L. Smith, +67 more
- 03 May 2011 - 
TL;DR: Three genes were associated with fibrin D-dimer levels, and the F3 association was the strongest, and has not been previously reported.