Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes

Affiliate Researcher
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Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health

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Recent Publications

Family Functioning and Pubertal Maturation in Hispanic/Latino Children from the HCHS/SOL Youth

April-Sanders, A. K., Tehranifar, P., Terry, M. B., Crookes, D. M., Isasi, C. R., Gallo, L. C., Fernandez-Rhodes, L., Perreira, K. M., Daviglus, M. L. & Suglia, S. F., Apr 2025, In: International journal of environmental research and public health. 22, 4, 576.

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Multiomics reveal key inflammatory drivers of severe obesity: IL4R, LILRA5, and OSM

Chen, H. H., Highland, H. M., Frankel, E. G., Scartozzi, A. C., Zhang, X., Roshani, R., Sharma, P., Kar, A., Buchanan, V. L., Polikowsky, H. G., Petty, L. E., Seo, J., Anwar, M. Y., Kim, D., Graff, M., Young, K. L., Zhu, W., Karastergiou, K., Shaw, D. M. & Justice, A. E. & 19 others, Fernández-Rhodes, L., Krishnan, M., Gutierrez, A., McCormick, P. J., Aguilar-Salinas, C. A., Tusié-Luna, M. T., Muñoz-Hernandez, L. L., Herrera-Hernandez, M., Lee, M., Gamazon, E. R., Cox, N. J., Pajukanta, P., Fried, S. K., Gordon-Larsen, P., Shah, R. V., Fisher-Hoch, S. P., McCormick, J. B., North, K. E. & Below, J. E., Mar 12 2025, In: Cell Genomics. 5, 3, 100784.

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All Together Now: Data Work to Advance Privacy, Science, and Health in the Age of Synthetic Data

Fernández-Rhodes, L. & Wagner, J. K., 2025, In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 30, p. 690-695 6 p.

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Advancements in genetic research by the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: A 10-year retrospective review

Rao, H., Weiss, M. C., Moon, J. Y., Perreira, K. M., Daviglus, M. L., Kaplan, R., North, K. E., Argos, M., Fernández-Rhodes, L. & Sofer, T., Jan 9 2025, In: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 6, 1, 100376.

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, and Inflammation in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Rao, H. C., Meyer, M. L., Kominiarek, M. A., Daviglus, M. L., Gallo, L. C., Cordero, C., Syan, R., Perreira, K. M., Talavera, G. A. & Fernández-Rhodes, L., May 1 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 110, 5, p. 1384-1397 14 p.

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Genetic ancestry influences gene-environment interactions with sociocultural factors: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Sharma, J., McArdle, C. E., Graff, M., Cordero, C., Daviglus, M., Gallo, L. C., Isasi, C. R., Kelly, T. N., Perreira, K. M., Talavera, G. A., Cai, J., North, K. E., Fernández-Rhodes, L. & Wojcik, G. L., Jul 10 2025, In: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 6, 3, 100451.

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Improving Cardiovascular Health Through the Consideration of Social Factors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association

American Heart Association Social Determinants of Health Committee of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention and Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine; Council on Hypertension; Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health; and Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, May 1 2025, In: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 18, 5, p. e000138

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Representation and inclusion among members and affiliates of the Society for Epidemiologic Research: findings from the 2021 diversity and inclusion survey

on behalf of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Jun 1 2025, In: American journal of epidemiology. 194, 6, p. 1794-1799 6 p.

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LifeCourse Socioeconomic Position and Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/ Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Filigrana, P., Moon, J. Y., Gallo, L. C., Fernández-Rhodes, L., Perreira, K. M., Daviglus, M. L., Thyagarajan, B., Garcia-Bedoya, O. L., Cai, J., Xue, X., Kaplan, R. C., Suglia, S. & Isasi, C. R., Aug 20 2024, In: Journal of the American Heart Association. 13, 16, e035503.

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DNA methylation near MAD1L1, KDM2B, and SOCS3 mediates the effect of socioeconomic status on elevated body mass index in African American adults

Glover, L., Lilly, A. G., Justice, A. E., Howard, A. G., Staley, B. S., Wang, Y., Kamens, H. M., Ferrier, K., Bressler, J., Loehr, L., Raffield, L. M., Sims, M., North, K. E. & Fernández-Rhodes, L., Oct 15 2024, In: Human molecular genetics. 33, 20, p. 1748-1757 10 p.

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Does biological age mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression? Insights from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

Martinez, R. A. M., Howard, A. G., Fernández-Rhodes, L., Maselko, J., Pence, B. W., Dhingra, R., Galea, S., Uddin, M., Wildman, D. E. & Aiello, A. E., Jan 2024, In: Social Science and Medicine. 340, 116440.

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Correction to: Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum (Nature Genetics, (2024), 56, 7, (1397-1411), 10.1038/s41588-024-01798-4)

The Danish Blood Donor Study, The Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, The Breast Cancer Association Consortium, The Biobank Japan Project, The China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, ABCTB Investigators & The LifeLines Cohort Study, Aug 2024, In: Nature Genetics. 56, 8, p. 1763-1764 2 p.

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Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum

ABCTB Investigators, The LifeLines Cohort Study, The Danish Blood Donor Study, The Biobank Japan Project & The China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, Jul 2024, In: Nature Genetics. 56, 7, p. 1397-1411 15 p.

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Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts

Anwar, M. Y., Graff, M., Highland, H. M., Smit, R., Wang, Z., Buchanan, V. L., Young, K. L., Kenny, E. E., Fernandez-Rhodes, L., Liu, S., Assimes, T., Garcia, D. O., Daeeun, K., Gignoux, C. R., Justice, A. E., Haiman, C. A., Buyske, S., Peters, U., Loos, R. J. F. & Kooperberg, C. & 1 others, North, K. E., Oct 2023, In: Human genetics. 142, 10, p. 1477-1489 13 p.

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A Gene-Acculturation Study of Obesity Among US Hispanic/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Fernández-Rhodes, L., McArdle, C. E., Rao, H., Wang, Y., Martinez-Miller, E. E., Ward, J. B., Cai, J., Sofer, T., Isasi, C. R. & North, K. E., May 1 2023, In: Psychosomatic medicine. 85, 4, p. 358-365 8 p.

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