Publications by Ben A Rybicki

Publications by authors named "Ben A Rybicki"

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Genetic, Immunologic, and Environmental Basis of Sarcoidosis.

David R Moller Ben A Rybicki Nabeel Y Hamzeh Courtney G Montgomery Edward S Chen

Ann Am Thorac Soc

December 2017

Article Synopsis

Sarcoidosis is a complex disease that shows variation in how it affects different people, influenced by genetics, environment, and immune responses.
A workshop organized by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute aimed to identify knowledge gaps and research needs related to sarcoidosis.
The meeting led to consensus recommendations for research methods to better understand the disease and improve patient outcomes by considering genetic, environmental, and immunological factors.

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Methodological Considerations in Estimation of Phenotype Heritability Using Genome-Wide SNP Data, Illustrated by an Analysis of the Heritability of Height in a Large Sample of African Ancestry Adults.

Fang Chen Jing He Jianqi Zhang Gary K Chen Venetta Thomas Ben A Rybicki

PLoS One

April 2016

Height has an extremely polygenic pattern of inheritance. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed hundreds of common variants that are associated with human height at genome-wide levels of significance. However, only a small fraction of phenotypic variation can be explained by the aggregate of these common variants.

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