Alanna C. Morrison

Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk using a Genetic Risk Score: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (2007)

Morrison, Alanna C., Bare, Lance A., Chambless, Lloyd E., Ellis, Stephen G., Malloy, Mary, Kane, John P., ...

Recent studies have evaluated whether incorporating nontraditional risk factors improves coronary heart disease (CHD) prediction models. This 1986–2001 US study aggregated the contribution of...

Comprehensive linkage and linkage heterogeneity analysis of 4344 sibling pairs affected with hypertension from the Family Blood Pressure Program

Greenwood, Tiffany A., Libiger, Ondrej, Kardia, Sharon, Hanis, Craig, Morrison, Alanna C., Gu, C. Charles, ...

Linkage analyses of complex, multifactorial traits and diseases, such as essential hypertension, have been difficult to interpret and reconcile. Many published studies provide evidence suggesting...

Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 and Tissue Inhibitors Do Not Predict Incident Coronary Artery Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Nambi, Vijay, Morrison, Alanna C., Hoogeveen, Ron C., Coresh, Josef, Miles, Shawn, Rhodes, Charles Etta, ...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are thought to be associated with coronary artery disease. The association of these markers with incident...

ESR1 polymorphism is associated with plasma lipid and apolipoprotein levels in Caucasians of the Rochester Family Heart Study*s⃞

Klos, Kathy L. E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ferrell, Robert E., Turner, Stephen T., Morrison, Alanna C.

We evaluated six estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) polymorphisms for association with ten plasma lipid and apolipoprotein traits in 1,847 individuals (941 females and 906 males) in the multi-generation...