Publications

Artinian N, Warnecke RB, Kelly KM, Weiner J, Lurie N, Flack JM, Mattei J, Eschbach K, Long JA, Furumoto-Dawson A, Hankin JR, DeGraffinreid C. Advancing the Science of Health Disparities Research. Ethnicity and Disease. 17(3): 427-433, 2007. (Ethnicity & Disease)

Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N, et al. Approaching health disparities from a population perspective: the National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. Am J Public Health 2008;98:1608-15. (PubMed)

Smith CE, Tucker KL, Yiannakouris N, Garcia-Bailo B, Mattei J, Lai CQ, Parnell LD, Ordovás JM. Perilipin polymorphism interacts with dietary carbohydrates to modulate anthropometric traits in hispanics of Caribbean origin. J Nutr. Oct 2008;138(10):1852-1858. PMCID: PMC2596596 (PubMed)

Orho-Melander M, Melander O, Guiducci C, Perez P, Corella D, Roos C, Rieder MJ, Abecasis G, Tai ES, Arnett DK, Lyssenko V, Saxena R, de Bakker P, Burtt N, Voight B, Hirschorn JN, Tucker KL, Hedner T, Tuomi T, Isomaa B, Eriksson KF, Taskinen MR, Hughes TE, Parnell LD, Lai CQ, Peltonen L, Vartiainen E, Jousilahti P, Salomaa V, Groop L, Altshuler D, Ordovás JM, Kathiresan S. A common missense variant in the glucokinase regulatory protein (GCKR) gene is associated with increased plasma triglyceride but lower fasting glucose levels. Diabetes. 2008; 57(11):3112-21. PMCID: PMC2570409 (PubMed)

Junyent M, Tucker KL, Smith CE, Garcia-Rios A, Mattei J, Lai CQ, Parnell LD, Ordovas JM. The effects of ABCG5/G8 polymorphisms on plasma HDL cholesterol concentrations depend on smoking habit in the Boston Puerto Rican health study. J Lipid Res. 2009;50:565-573. PMCID: PMC2638110 (PubMed)

Lai CQ, Tucker KL, Choudhry S, Parnell LD, Mattei J, García-Bailo B, Beckman K, Burchard EG, Ordovás JM. Population admixture associated with disease prevalence in the Boston Puerto Rican health study. Hum Genet. 2009 Mar;125(2):199-209. PMCID: PMC2727756 (PubMed)

Gao X, Scott T, Falcon LM, Wilde PE, Tucker KL. Food insecurity and cognitive function in Puerto Rican adults. Am J Clin Nutr, Apr 2009; 89: 1197-1203. PMCID: PMC2667463 (PubMed)

Smith CE, Tucker KL, Scott TM, Van Rompay M, Mattei J, Lai C-Q, Parnell LD, Junyent M, Lee Y-C, Barcia-Bailo B, Ordovás JM. Apolipoprotein C3 polymorphisms, cognition and diabetes in Caribbean origin Hispanics. PLoS ONE. 2009 4(5): e5465. PMCID: PMC2674932 (PubMed)

Mattei J, Parnell LD, Lai C-Q, Garcia-Bailo B, Adiconis X, Shen J, Arnett D, Demissie-Banjaw S, Tucker KL, Ordovás JM. Disparities in allele frequencies and population differentiation for 101 single nucleotide polymorphisms between Puerto Rican and US-non-Hispanic white older adults. BMC Genetics 2009;10:45. PMCID: PMC2734553 (PubMed)

Junyent M, Tucker KL, Smith CE, Lane JM, Mattei J, Lai C-Q, Parnell LD, Ordovás JM. The effects of ABCG5/G8 polymorphisms on HDL cholesterol concentrations depend on ABCA1 genetic variants in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2010;20(8):558-66. PMC Journal – In process (PubMed)

Mattei J, Demissie S, Tucker KL, Ordovás JM. Apolipoprotein A5 polymorphisms interact with total dietary fat intake in association with markers of metabolic syndrome in Puerto Rican older adults. J Nutr 2009;139:2301-2308. PMCID: PMC2777477 (PubMed)

Shen J, Lai CQ, Mattei J, Crott JQ,Ordovas JM, Tucker KL. Association of vitamin B6 status with inflammation, oxidative stress and chronic inflammatory conditions: the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2010;91(2):337-342. PMCID: PMC2806890 (PubMed)

Rioux CL, Tucker KL, Mwamburi M, Gute DM, Cohen SA, Brugge D. Residential traffic exposure, pulse pressure and C-reactive protein: consistency and contrast among exposure characterization methods. Environ Health Perspect 2010;118(6):803-11. PMCID: PMC2898857 (PubMed)

Noel S, Lai C, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Variants of the CD36 gene and metabolic syndrome in Boston Puerto Rican adults. Atherosclerosis. 2010;211:210–215. PMCID: PMC2923842 (PubMed)

Tucker KL, Mattei J, Noel SE, Collado BM, Mendez J, Nelson J, Griffith J, Ordovas, JM, Falcon LM. The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, a longitudinal cohort study on health disparities in Puerto Rican adults: challenges and opportunities. BMC Pub Health. 2010;10:107. PMCID: PMC2848197 (PubMed)

Noel S, Newby PK, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Adherence to an (n-3) Fatty acid/fish intake pattern is inversely associated with metabolic syndrome among Puerto Rican adults in the greater Boston area. J Nutr. 2010;140:1846-54. PMCID: PMC2937577 (PubMed)

Todorova I, Falcón LM, Lincoln A, Price LL. Perceived discrimination, psychological distress and health. Sociol Health Illn. 2010;32(6):843-61. (PubMed)

Lai CQ, Parnell LD, Troen AM, Shen J, Caouette H, Warodomwichit D, Lee YC, Crott JW, Qiu WQ, Rosenberg IH, Tucker KL, Ordovás JM. MAT1A variation are associated with hypertension, stroke, markers of DNA damage and are modulated by plasma vitamin B-6 and folate. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010;91:1377-86. PMCID: PMC2854908 (PubMed)

Mattei J, Demissie S, Tucker KL, Ordovas JM. The APOA1/C3/A4/A5 cluster and markers of allostatic load in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2011;21(11):862-70. PMCID: PMC3004022 (PubMed)

Rioux CL, Tucker KL, Brugge D, Gute DM, Mwamburi M. Traffic exposure in a population with high prevalence type 2 diabetes – Do medications influence concentrations of C-reactive protein? Environ Pollut. 2011;159(8-9):2051-60. PMCID: PMC3412137 (PubMed)

Henkin S, Tucker KL, Gao X, Falcon LM, Qawi I, Brugge D. Association of depression, psycho-social stress and acculturation with respiratory disease among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts. J Immigr Minor Health. 2011:13(2):214-23. (PubMed)

Ye X, Lai CQ, Crott JW, Troen AM, Ordovas JM, Tucker KL. The folate hydrolase 1561C>T polymorphism is associated with depressive symptoms in Puerto Rican adults. Psychosom Med. 2011 Jun;73(5):385-92. PMCID: PMC3110520. (PubMed)

Ye X, Gao X, Scott T, Tucker KL. Habitual sugar intake and cognitive function among middle-aged and older Puerto Ricans without diabetes. Br J Nutr. 2011;106:1423-32. (PubMed)

Oxenkrug G, Tucker KL, Requintina P, Summergrad P. Neopterin, a marker of interferon-gamma-inducible inflammation, correlates with pyridoxal-5′-phosphate, waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol, insulin resistance and mortality risk in adult Boston community dwellers of Puerto Rican origin. Am J Neuroprotection Neuroregeneration 2011;3:48-52. (Abstract)

Corella D, Arnett DK, Tucker KL, Kabagambe EK, Tsai M, Parnell LD, Lai CQ, Lee YC, Warodomwichit D, Hopkins PN, Ordovas JM. A high intake of saturated fatty acids strengthens the association between the fat mass and obesity-associated gene and BMI. J Nutr. 2011 doi:10.3945/jn.111.143826 [Epub ahead of print] (PubMed)

VanRompay MI, McKeown NM, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Falcon, LM, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Acculturation and sociocultural influences on dietary intake and health status among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts. J Acad Nutr Diet 2012;112:64-74. (PubMed)

Feng X, Tucker KL, Parnell LD, Shen J, Lee YC, Ordovás JM, Ling WH, Lai CQ. Insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1) variants confer risk of diabetes in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2013;22(1):150-9. (PubMed)

Moorthy D, Peter I, Scott TM, Parnell LD, Lai CQ, Crott JW, Ordovás JM, Selhub J, Griffith J, Rosenberg IH, Tucker KL, Troen AM. Status of vitamins B-12 and B-6 but not of folate, homocysteine, and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T polymorphism are associated with impaired cognition and depression in adults. J Nutr. 2012 Aug;142(8):1554-60. PMCID: PMC3397340 (PubMed)

Smith CE, Tucker KL, Lee YC, Lai CQ, Parnell LD, Ordovas JM. Low density lipoprotein receptor related protein 1 variant interacts with saturated fatty acids in Puerto Ricans. Obesity. 2013 Mar;21(3):602-8. (PubMed)

Van Rompay MI, McKeown NM, Sceppa C, Ordovás JM, Tucker KL. Carbohydrate nutrition differs by diabetes status and is associated with dyslipidemia in Boston Puerto Rican adults without diabetes. J Nutr 2013;143:182-8. PMCID: PMC3542909 (PubMed)

Zheng J-S, Arnett D, Parnell LD, Lee Y-C, Ma Y, Smith CE, Richardson K, Li D, Borecki IB, Ordovas JM, Tucker KL, Lai C-Q. Genetic variants at PSMD3 interact with dietary fat and carbohydrate to modulate insulin resistance. J Nutr 2013;143:354-61. (PubMed)