Jorge Escobedo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including 26,488 cases and 83,964 controls of European, east Asian, south Asian and Mexican and Mexican American ancestry.

TL;DR: The prevalence of hypertension mirrored the world average in 3 cities but was lower in the rest of the countries, and hypercholesterolemia was highly prevalent even in countries of different socioeconomic levels.

TL;DR: A panel of 446 ancestry informative markers (AIMs) optimized to estimate ancestral proportions in individuals and populations throughout Latin America will be useful resources to explore population history of admixture in Latin America and to correct for the potential effects of population stratification in admixed samples in the region.

TL;DR: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components by NCEP ATP III criteria was substantial across cities, ranging from 14% to 27%.

TL;DR: Meta-analysis of the two Hispanic studies and the recent DIAGRAM+ dataset identified genome-wide significant signals within or near the genes HNF1A and CDKN2A/CDKN2B, as well as suggestive associations in three additional regions, IGF2BP2, KCNQ1 and the previously unreported C14orf70.