Blanca M. Herrera
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
51 Papers
645 Citations
Blanca M. Herrera is an academic researcher from Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Allele & Haplotype. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 51 publications. Previous affiliations of Blanca M. Herrera include University of Oxford & Churchill Hospital.
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Papers
Sex ratio of multiple sclerosis in Canada: a longitudinal study
Sarah M. Orton,Blanca M. Herrera,Irene M. Yee,William Valdar,Sreeram V. Ramagopalan,A. Dessa Sadovnick,George C. Ebers +6 more
TL;DR: The substantial increase in the female to male sex ratio in Canada seems to result from a disproportional increase in incidence of multiple sclerosis in women, which implies that a large proportion of several sclerosis cases may be preventable in situ.
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Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution
Cecilia M. Lindgren,Iris M. Heid,Joshua C. Randall,Claudia Lamina,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Lu Qi,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Cristen J. Willer,Blanca M. Herrera,Anne U. Jackson,Noha Lim,Paul Scheet,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Najaf Amin,Yurii S. Aulchenko,John C. Chambers,Alexander W. Drong,Jia N.an Luan,Helen N. Lyon,Helen N. Lyon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Serena Sanna,Nicholas J. Timpson,M. Carola Zillikens,Hua Zhao Jing,Peter Almgren,Stefania Bandinelli,Amanda J. Bennett,Richard N. Bergman,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Suzannah Bumpstead,Stephen J. Chanock,Lynn Cherkas,Peter S. Chines,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Cyrus Cooper,Gabriel Crawford,Angela Doering,Anna F. Dominiczak,Alex S. F. Doney,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Karol Estrada,Luigi Ferrucci,Guido Fischer,Nita G. Forouhi,Christian Gieger,Harald Grallert,Christopher J. Groves,Scott M. Grundy,Candace Guiducci,David Hadley,Anders Hamsten,Aki S. Havulinna,Albert Hofman,Rolf Holle,John W. Holloway,Thomas Illig,Bo Isomaa,Leonie C. Jacobs,Karen A. Jameson,Pekka Jousilahti,Fredrik Karpe,Johanna Kuusisto,Jaana Laitinen,G. Mark Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,Massimo Mangino,Wendy L. McArdle,Thomas Meitinger,Mario A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Patricia B. Munroe,Narisu Narisu,Anna Nordström,Peter Nordström,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Felicity Payne,John F. Peden,Inga Prokopenko,Frida Renström,Aimo Ruokonen,Veikko Salomaa,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Laura J. Scott,Angelo Scuteri,Kaisa Silander,Kijoung Song,Xin Yuan,Heather M. Stringham,Amy J. Swift,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Manuela Uda,Peter Vollenweider,Gérard Waeber,Chris Wallace,G. Bragi Walters,Michael N. Weedon,Jacqueline C.M. Witteman,Cuilin Zhang,Weihua Zhang,Mark J. Caulfield,Francis S. Collins,George Davey Smith,Ian N. M. Day,Paul W. Franks,Andrew T. Hattersley,Frank B. Hu,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Augustine Kong,Jaspal S. Kooner,Markku Laakso,Edward G. Lakatta,Vincent Mooser,Andrew D. Morris,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,David P. Strachan,Toshiko Tanaka,Toshiko Tanaka,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,David Schlessinger,H.-Erich Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Karen L. Mohlke,Inês Barroso,Mark I. McCarthy +155 more
TL;DR: By focusing on anthropometric measures of central obesity and fat distribution, a meta-analysis of 16 genome-wide association studies informative for adult waist circumference and waist–hip ratio identified three loci implicated in the regulation of human adiposity.
Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution
Cecilia M. Lindgren,Iris M. Heid,Joshua C. Randall,Claudia Lamina,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Lu Qi,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Cristen J. Willer,Blanca M. Herrera,Anne U. Jackson,Noha Lim,Paul Scheet,Nicole Soranzo,Najaf Amin,Yurii S. Aulchenko,John C. Chambers,Alexander W. Drong,Jian'an Luan,Helen N. Lyon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Serena Sanna,Nicholas J. Timpson,M. Carola Zillikens,Jing Hua Zhao,Peter Almgren,Stefania Bandinelli,Amanda J. Bennett,Richard N. Bergman,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Suzannah Bumpstead,Stephen J. Chanock,Lynn Cherkas,Peter S. Chines,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Cyrus Cooper,Gabriel Crawford,Angela Doering,Anna F. Dominiczak,Alex S. F. Doney,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Karol Estrada,Luigi Ferrucci,Guido Fischer,Nita G. Forouhi,Christian Gieger,Harald Grallert,Christopher J. Groves,Scott M. Grundy,Candace Guiducci,David Hadley,Anders Hamsten,Aki S. Havulinna,Albert Hofman,Rolf Holle,John W. Holloway,Thomas Illig,Bo Isomaa,Leonie C. Jacobs,Karen A. Jameson,Pekka Jousilahti,Fredrik Karpe,Johanna Kuusisto,Jaana Laitinen,G. Mark Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,Massimo Mangino,Wendy L. McArdle,Thomas Meitinger,Mario A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Patricia B. Munroe,Narisu Narisu,Anna Nordström,Peter Nordström,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Felicity Payne,John F. Peden,Inga Prokopenko,Frida Renström,Aimo Ruokonen,Veikko Salomaa,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Laura J. Scott,Angelo Scuteri,Kaisa Silander,Kijoung Song,Xin Yuan,Heather M. Stringham,Amy J. Swift,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Manuela Uda,Peter Vollenweider,Gérard Waeber,Chris Wallace,G. Bragi Walters,Michael N. Weedon,Jacqueline C.M. Witteman,Cuilin Zhang,Weihua Zhang,Mark J. Caulfield,Francis S. Collins,George Davey Smith,Ian N.M. Day,Paul W. Franks,Andrew T. Hattersley,Frank B. Hu,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Augustine Kong,Jaspal S. Kooner,Markku Laakso,Edward G. Lakatta,Vincent Mooser,Andrew D. Morris,Leena Peltonen,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,David P. Strachan,Toshiko Tanaka,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Nicholas J. Wareham,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Leif Groop,David J. Hunter,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,David Schlessinger,H.-Erich Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Kari Stefansson,Karen L. Mohlke,Inês Barroso +140 more
- 01 Jun 2009
TL;DR: Vandervell Foundation and Wellcome Trust (068545/Z/02, GR072960 as discussed by the authors, GR076113, GR069224, GR086596/Z /08/Z)
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Global microRNA expression profiles in insulin target tissues in a spontaneous rat model of type 2 diabetes
Blanca M. Herrera,Blanca M. Herrera,Helen Lockstone,Jennifer M. Taylor,M Ria,Amy Barrett,Stephan C. Collins,Pamela J. Kaisaki,Karène Argoud,Carlos García-Gutiérrez Fernández,Mary E. Travers,J P Grew,Joshua C. Randall,Anna L. Gloyn,Dominique Gauguier,Dominique Gauguier,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren +19 more
TL;DR: Predicted target genes of these differentially expressed microRNAs are involved in pathways relevant to type 2 diabetes, as modelled by the Gyoto–Kakizaki rat.
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Epistasis among HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, and HLA-DQB1 loci determines multiple sclerosis susceptibility
Matthew R. Lincoln,Sreeram V. Ramagopalan,Michael J. Chao,Blanca M. Herrera,Gabriele C. DeLuca,Sarah M. Orton,David A. Dyment,A D Sadovnick,George C. Ebers +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that HLA-DRB1*15 and DRB-DQB1*0602 haplotypes are strongly associated with MS susceptibility, and that DR2-HLA-DQA1*0102 showed no primary MS association.
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