Selected Publications

Seldin M, Yang X, Lusis AJ. () Systems genetics applications in metabolism research. Nat Metab. 1: 1038-1050
Chella Krishnan K, Sabir S, Shum M, Meng Y, Acín-Pérez R, Lang JM, Floyd RR, Vergnes L, Seldin MM, Fuqua BK, Jayasekera DW, Nand SK, Anum DC, Pan C, Stiles L, Péterfy M, Reue K, Liesa M, Lusis AJ. () Sex-specific metabolic functions of adipose Lipocalin-2. Mol Metab. 30: 30-47
Shih DM, Zhu W, Schugar RC, Meng Y, Jia X, Miikeda A, Wang Z, Zieger M, Lee R, Graham M, Allayee H, Cantor RM, Mueller C, Brown JM, Hazen SL, Lusis AJ. () Genetic deficiency of flavin-containing monooxygenase-3 (Fmo3) protects against thrombosis but has only a minor effect on plasma lipid levels. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 39: 1045-1054
Norheim F, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Vergnes L, Chella Krishnan K, Pan C, Seldin MM, Hui ST, Mehrabian M, Zhou Z, Gupta S, Parks BW, Walch A, Reue K, Hofmann SM, Arnold AP, Lusis AJ. () Gene-by-sex interactions in mitochondrial functions and cardio-metabolic traits. Cell Metab. 29: 932-949
Pamir N, Pan C, Plubell DL, Hutchins PM, Tang C, Wimberger J, Irwin A, Vallim TQA, Heinecke JW, Lusis AJ. () Genetic control of the mouse HDL proteome defines HDLtraits, function, and heterogeneity. J Lipid Res. 60: 594-608
Kasahara K, Krautkramer KA, Org E, Romano KA, Kerby RL, Vivas EI, Mehrabian M, Denu JM, Bäckhed F, Lusis AJ, Rey FE. () Interactions between Roseburia intestinalis and diet modulate atherogenesis in a murine model. Nat Microbiol. 3: 1461-1471
Roberts AB, Gu X, Buffa JA, Hurd AG, Wang Z, Zhu W, Gupta N, Skye SM, Cody DB, Levison BS, Barrington WT, Russell MW, Reed JM, Duzan A, Lang JM, Fu X, Li L, Myers AJ, Rachakonda S, DiDonato JA, Brown JM, Gogonea V, Lusis AJ, Garcia-Garcia JC, Hazen SL. () Development of a gut microbe-targeted nonlethal therapeutic to inhibit thrombosis potential. Nat Med. 24: 1407-1417
Erbilgin A, Seldin MM, Wu X, Mehrabian M, Zhou Z, Qi H, Dabirian KS, Sevag Packard RR, Hsieh W, Bensinger SJ, Sinha S, Lusis AJ. () Transcription factor Zhx2 deficiency reduces atherosclerosis and promotes macrophage apoptosis in mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 38: 2016-2027
Hui ST, Kurt Z, Tuominen I, Norheim F, Davis RC, Pan C, Dirks DL, Magyar CE, French SW, Chella Krishnan K, Sabir S, Campos-Pérez F, Méndez-Sánchez N, Macías-Kauffer L, León-Mimila P, Canizales-Quinteros S, Yang X, Beaven SW, Huertas-Vazquez A, Lusis AJ. () The genetic architecture of diet-induced hepatic fibrosis in mice. Hepatology 68: 2182-2196
Seldin MM, Koplev S, Rajbhandari P, Vergnes L, Rosenberg GM, Meng Y, Pan C, Phuong TMN, Gharakhanian R, Che N, Mäkinen S, Shih DM, Civelek M, Parks BW, Kim ED, Norheim F, Chella Krishnan K, Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Mehrabian M, Laakso M, Drevon CA, Koistinen HA, Tontonoz P, Reue K, Cantor RM, Björkegren () A strategy for discovery of endocrine interactions with application to whole-body metabolism. Cell Metab. 27: 1138-1155
Chella Krishnan K, Kurt Z, Barrere-Cain R, Sabir S, Das A, Floyd R, Vergnes L, Zhao Y, Che N, Charugundla S, Qi H, Zhou Z, Meng Y, Pan C, Seldin MM, Norheim F, Hui S, Reue K, Lusis AJ, Yang X. () Integration of multi-omics data from Mouse Diversity Panel highlights mitochondrial dysfunction in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Cell Syst. 6: 103-115
Patterson M, Barske L, Van Handel B, Rau CD, Gan P, Sharma A, Parikh S, Denholtz M, Huang Y, Yamaguchi Y, Shen H, Allayee H, Crump JG, Force TI, Lien CL, Makita T, Lusis AJ, Kumar SR, Sucov HM. () Frequency of mononuclear diploid cardiomyocytes underlies natural variation in heart regeneration. Nat Genet. 49: 1346-1353
Buscher K, Ehinger E, Gupta P, Pramod AB, Wolf D, Tweet G, Pan C, Mills CD, Lusis AJ, Ley K. () Natural variation of macrophage activation as disease-relevant phenotype predictive of inflammation and cancer survival. Nat Commun. 8: 16041
Hasin Y, Seldin M, Lusis A. () Multi-omics approaches to disease. Genome Biol. 18: 83
Org E, Blum Y, Kasela S, Mehrabian M, Kuusisto J, Kangas AJ, Soininen P, Wang Z, Ala-Korpela M, Hazen SL, Laakso M, Lusis AJ. () Relationships between gut microbiota, plasma metabolites, and metabolic syndrome traits in the METSIM cohort. Genome Biol. 18: 70
Civelek M, Wu Y, Pan C, Raulerson CK, Ko A, He A, Tilford C, Saleem NK, Stančáková A, Scott LJ, Fuchsberger C, Stringham HM, Jackson AU, Narisu N, Chines PS, Small KS, Kuusisto J, Parks BW, Pajukanta P, Kirchgessner T, Collins FS, Gargalovic PS, Boehnke M, Laakso M, Mohlke KL, Lusis AJ. () Genetic regulation of adipose gene expression and cardio-metabolic traits. Am J Hum Genet. 100: 428-443
Seldin MM, Kim ED, Romay MC, Li S, Rau CD, Wang JJ, Krishnan KC, Wang Y, Deb A, Lusis AJ. () A systems genetics approach identifies Trp53inp2 as a link between cardiomyocyte glucose utilization and hypertrophic response. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 312: H728-H741
Pillai IC, Li S, Romay M, Lam L, Lu Y, Huang J, Dillard N, Zemanova M, Rubbi L, Wang Y, Lee J, Xia M, Liang O, Xie YH, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. () Cardiac fibroblasts adopt osteogenic fates and can be targeted to attenuate pathological heart calcification. Cell Stem Cell 20: 218-232
Rau CD, Romay MC, Tuteryan M, Wang JJ, Santolini M, Ren S, Karma A, Weiss JN, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. () Systems genetics approach identifies gene pathways and Adamts2 as drivers of isoproterenol-induced cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyopathy in mice. Cell Syst. 4: 121-128
Zhu W, Gregory JC, Org E, Buffa JA, Gupta N, Wang Z, Li L, Fu X, Wu Y, Mehrabian M, Sartor RB, McIntyre TM, Silverstein RL, Tang WH, DiDonato JA, Brown JM, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. () Gut microbial metabolite TMAO enhances platelet hyperreactivity and thrombosis risk. Cell 165: 111-24
Org E, Mehrabian M, Parks BW, Shipkova P, Liu X, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () Sex differences and hormonal effects on gut microbiota composition in mice. Gut Microbes. 7: 313-322
von Scheidt M, Zhao Y, Kurt Z, Pan C, Zeng L, Yang X, Schunkert H, Lusis AJ. () Applications and limitations of mouse models for understanding human atherosclerosis. Cell Metab. 25: 248-261
Hasin-Brumshtein Y, Khan AH, Hormozdiari F, Pan C, Parks BW, Petyuk VA, Piehowski PD, Brümmer A, Pellegrini M, Xiao X, Eskin E, Smith RD, Lusis AJ, Smith DJ. () Hypothalamic transcriptomes of 99 mouse strains reveal trans eQTL hotspots, splicing QTLs and novel non-coding genes. Elife 5: e15614
Kojima Y, Volkmer JP, McKenna K, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Miller CL, Direnzo D, Nanda V, Ye J, Connolly AJ, Schadt EE, Quertermous T, Betancur P, Maegdefessel L, Matic LP, Hedin U, Weissman IL, Leeper NJ. () CD47-blocking antibodies restore phagocytosis and prevent atherosclerosis. Nature 536: 86-90
Wang JJ, Rau C, Avetisyan R, Ren S, Romay MC, Stolin G, Gong KW, Wang Y, Lusis AJ. () Genetic dissection of cardiac remodeling in an isoproterenol-induced heart failure mouse model. PLoS Genet. 12: e1006038
Rau CD, Parks B, Wang Y, Eskin E, Simecek P, Churchill GA, Lusis AJ. () High density genotypes of inbred mouse strains: Improved power and precision of association mapping. G3 (Bethesda) 5: 2021-6
Brænne I, Civelek M, Vilne B, Di Narzo A, Johnson AD, Zhao Y, Reiz B, Codoni V, Webb TR, Foroughi Asl H, Hamby SE, Zeng L, Trégouët DA, Hao K, Topol EJ, Schadt EE, Yang X, Samani NJ, Björkegren JL, Erdmann J, Schunkert H, Lusis AJ. () Prediction of causal candidate genes in coronary artery disease loci. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 35: 2207-17
Wang Z, Roberts AB, Buffa JA, Levison BS, Zhu W, Org E, Gu X, Huang Y, Zamanian-Daryoush M, Culley MK, DiDonato AJ, Fu X, Hazen JE, Krajcik D, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. () Non-lethal Inhibition of gut microbial trimethylamine production for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Cell 163: 1585-95
Parks BW, Sallam T, Mehrabian M, Psychogios N, Hui ST, Norheim F, Castellani LW, Rau CD, Pan C, Phun J, Zhou Z, Yang WP, Neuhaus I, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Graham M, Lee R, Tontonoz P, Gerszten RE, Hevener AL, Lusis AJ. () Genetic architecture of insulin resistance in the mouse. Cell Metab. 21: 334-46
Org E, Parks BW, Joo JW, Emert B, Schwartzman W, Kang EY, Mehrabian M, Pan C, Knight R, Gunsalus R, Drake TA, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. () Genetic and environmental control of host-gut microbiota interactions. Genome Res. 25: 1558-69
Bennett BJ, Davis RC, Civelek M, Orozco L, Wu J, Qi H, Pan C, Packard RR, Eskin E, Yan M, Kirchgessner T, Wang Z, Li X, Gregory JC, Hazen SL, Gargalovic PS, Lusis AJ () Genetic architecture of atherosclerosis in mice: A systems genetics analysis of common inbred strains. PLoS Genetics 11: e1005711 Erratum in: PLoS Genet. 2016 Mar;12:e1005913
Civelek M, Lusis AJ. () Systems genetics approaches to understand complex traits. Nat. Rev. Genet. 15: 34-48
Parks BW, Nam E, Org E, Kostem E, Norheim F, Hui ST, Pan C, Civelek M, Rau CD, Bennett BJ, Mehrabian M, Ursell LK, He A, Castellani LW, Zinker B, Kirby M, Drake TA, Drevon CA, Knight R, Gargalovic P, Kirchgessner T, Eskin E, Lusis AJ. () Genetic control of obesity and gut microbiota composition in response to high-fat, high-sucrose diet in mice. Cell Metab. 17: 141-52
Koeth RA, Wang Z, Levison BS, Buffa JA, Org E, Sheehy BT, Britt EB, Fu X, Wu Y, Li L, Smith JD, Didonato JA, Chen J, Li H, Wu GD, Lewis JD, Warrier M, Brown JM, Krauss RM, Tang WH, Bushman FD, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. () Intestinal microbiota metabolism of l-carnitine, a nutrient in red meat, promotes atherosclerosis. Nat Med. 19: 576-85
Civelek M, Hagopian R, Pan C, Che N, Yang WP, Kayne P, Saleem NK, Cederberg H, Kuusisto J, Gargalovic P, Kirchgessner T, Laakso M, Lusis AJ. () Genetic regulation of human adipose microRNA expression and its consequences for metabolic traits. Hum Mol Genet. 22: 3023-37
Bennett BJ, Vallim TQ, Wang Z, Shih DM, Meng Y, Gregory J, Allayee H, Lee R, Graham M, Crooke R, Edwards PA, Hazen S, Lusis AJ. () Trimethylamine-N-oxide, a metabolite associated with atherosclerosis, exhibits complex genetic and dietary regulation. Cell Metab. 17: 49-60
Orozco LD, Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Ghazalpour A, Pan A, Che N, Wen P, Qi, HX, Mutukulu A, Siemers N, Neuhaus I, Yordanova R, Gargalovic P, Pellegrini M, Kirchgessner T, Lusis AJ. () Unraveling inflammatory responses using systems genetics and gene-environment interactions in macrophages. Cell 151: 658-70
Kim JB, Deluna A, Mungrue IN, Vu C, Pouldar D, Civelek M, Orozco L, Wu J, Wang X, Charugundla S, Castellani LW, Rusek M, Jakobowski H, Lusis AJ. () The effect of 9p21.3 coronary artery disease locus neighboring genes on atherosclerosis in mice. Circulation 126: 1896-906
Arnold AP, Lusis AJ () Understanding the sexome: measuring and reporting sex differences in gene systems. Endocrinology 153: 2251-5
Wang Z, Klipfell E, Bennett BJ, Koeth R, Levison BS, Dugar B, Feldstein AE, Britt EB, Fu X, Chung YM, Wu Y, Schauer P, Smith JD, Allayee H, Tang WH, DiDonato JA, Lusis AJ, Hazen SL. () Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease. Nature 472: 57-63
Ghazalpour A, Bennett B, Petyuk VA, Orozco L, Hagopian R, Mungrue IN, Farber CR, Sinsheimer J, Kang HM, Furlotte N, Park CC, Wen PZ, Brewer H, Weitz K, Camp DG 2nd, Pan C, Yordanova R, Neuhaus I, Tilford C, Siemers N, Gargalovic P, Eskin E, Kirchgessner T, Smith DJ, Smith RD, Lusis AJ. () Comparative analysis of proteome and transcriptome variation in mouse. PLoS Genet. 7: e1001393
Farber CR, Bennett BJ, Orozco L, Zou W, Lira A, Kostem E, Kang HM, Furlotte N, Berberyan A, Ghazalpour A, Suwanwela J, Drake TA, Eskin E, Wang QT, Teitelbaum SL, Lusis AJ. () Mouse genome-wide association and systems genetics identify Asxl2 as a regulator of bone mineral density and osteoclastogenesis. PLoS Genet. 7: e1002038
Romanoski CE, Lee S, Kim MJ, Ingram-Drake L, Plaisier CL, Yordanova R, Tilford C, Guan B, He A, Gargalovic PS, Kirchgessner TG, Berliner JA, Lusis AJ. () Systems genetics analysis of gene-by-environment interactions in human cells. Am J Hum Genet. 86: 399-410
Bennett BJ, Farber CR, Orozco L, Kang HM, Ghazalpour A, Siemers N, Neubauer M, Neuhaus I, Yordanova R, Guan B, Truong A, Yang W, He A, Kayne P, Gargalovic P, Kirchgessner T, Pan C, Castellani L, Kostem E, Furlotte N, Drake TA, Eskin E, Lusis AJ () A high resolution association mapping panel for the dissection of complex traits in mice. Genome Res. 20: 281-90
Yang X, Deignan JL, Qi H, Zhu J, Qian S, Zhong J, Torosyan G, Majid S, Falkard B, Kleinhanz RR, Karlsson J, Castellani LW, Mumick S, Wang K, Xie T, Coon M, Zhang C, Estrada-Smith D, Farber CR, Wang SS, van Nas A, Ghazalpour A, Zhang B, Macneil DJ, Lamb JR, Dipple KM, Reitman ML, Mehrabian M, Lum PY, () Validation of candidate causal genes for obesity that affect shared metabolic pathways and networks. Nat Genet. 41: 415-23
Orozco LD, Cokus SJ, Ghazalpour A, Ingram-Drake L, Wang S, van Nas A, Che N, Araujo JA, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ. () Copy number variation influences gene expression and metabolic traits in mice. Hum Mol Genet. 18: 4118-29
Ghazalpour A, Doss S, Kang H, Farber C, Wen PZ, Brozell A, Castellanos R, Eskin E, Smith DJ, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () High-resolution mapping of gene expression using association in an outbred mouse stock. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 407: e1000149
Chen Y, Zhu J, Lum PY, Yang X, Pinto S, Macneil DJ, Zhang C, Lamb J, Edwards S, Sieberts SK, Leonardson A, Castellini LW, Wang S, Champy MF, Zhang B, Emilsson V, Doss S, Ghazalpour A, Horvath S, Drake TA, Lusis AJ, Schadt EE. () Variations in DNA elucidate molecular networks that cause disease. Nature 452: 429-35
Wang SS, Schadt EE, Wang H, Wang X, Ingram-Drake L, Shi W, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () Identification of pathways for atherosclerosis in mice: integration of quantitative trait locus analysis and global gene expression data. Circ. Res. 101: e11-30
Meng H, Vera I, Che N, Wang X, Wang SS, Ingram-Drake L, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () Identification of Abcc6 as the major causal gene for dystrophic cardiac calcification in mice through integrative genomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104: 4530-5
Gargalovic PS, Imura M, Zhang B, Gharavi NM, Clark MJ, Pagnon J, Yang W-P, Truong A, Patel S, Nelson SF, Horvath S, Berliner JA, Kirchgessner TG, Lusis AJ. () Identification of inflammatory gene modules based on variations of human endothelial cell responses to oxidized lipids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 12741-6
Wang S, Yehya N, Schadt EE, Wang H, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () Genetic and genomic analysis of a fat mass trait with complex inheritance reveals marked sex specificity. PLoS Genet. 2: e15
Gargalovic PS, Gharavi NM, Clark MJ, Pagnon J, Yang WP, He A, Truong A, Baruch-Oren T, Berliner JA, Kirchgessner TG, Lusis AJ. () The unfolded protein response is an important regulator of inflammatory genes in endothelial cells. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 26: 2490-6
Doss S, Schadt EE, Drake TA, Lusis AJ. () Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice. Genome Res. 15: 681-91
Schadt EE, Lamb J, Yang X, Zhu J, Edwards S, Guhathakurta D, Sieberts SK, Monks S, Reitman M, Zhang C, Lum PY, Leonardson A, Thieringer R, Metzger JM, Yang L, Castle J, Zhu H, Kash SF, Drake TA, Sachs A, Lusis AJ. () An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease. Nat. Genet. 37: 710-717 (Top ten list for breakthrough of the year, 2005, as determined by Science editorial staff, featured in Dec. 23, 2005, issue of Science).
Mar R, Pajukanta P, Allayee H, Groenendijk M, Dallinga-Thie G, Krauss RM, Sinsheimer JS, Cantor RM, De Bruin TW, Lusis AJ. () Association of the apolipoprotein A1/C3/A4/A5 gene cluster with triglyceride levels and LDL particle size in familial combined hyperlipidemia. Circ. Res. 94: 993-999
Tward A, Xia YR, Wang XP, Shi YS, Park C, Castellani LW, Lusis AJ, Shih DM. () Decreased atherosclerotic lesion formation in human serum paraoxonase transgenic mice. Circulation 106: 484-490
Bodnar JS, Chatterjee A, Castellani LW, Ross DA, Ohmen J, Cavalcoli J, Wu C, Dains KM, Catanese J, Chu M, Sheth SS, Charugundla K, Demant P, West DB, de Jong P, Lusis AJ. () Positional cloning of the combined hyperlipidemia gene Hyplip1. Nat. Genet. 30: 110-116
Brennan ML, Anderson MM, Shih DM, Qu XD, Wang X, Mehta AC, Lim LL, Shi W, Hazen SL, Jacob JS, Crowley JR, Heinecke JW, Lusis AJ. () Increased atherosclerosis in myeloperoxidase-deficient mice (with commentary by W.N. Nauseef on pp. 401-403). J. Clin. Invest. 107: 419-430
Lusis AJ () Atherosclerosis. Nature 407: 233-241
Shi W, Haberland ME, Shih DM, Jien ML, Lusis AJ. () Endothelial responses to oxidized lipoproteins determine genetic susceptibility to atherosclerosis in mice (with commentary by J. Breslow on pp. 5-6). Circulation 102: 75-81
Aouizerat BE, Allayee H, Cantor RM, Davis RC, Lanning CD, Wen PZ, DallingaThie GM, deBruin TWA, Rotter JI, Lusis AJ. () A genome scan for familial combined hyperlipidemia reveals evidence for a locus on chromosome 11. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 65: 397-412
Shih DM, Gu L, Xia YR, Navab M, Li WF, Hama S, Castellani LW, Furlong CE, Costa LG, Fogelman AM, Lusis AJ. () Mice lacking serum paraoxonase are susceptible to organophosphate toxicity and atherosclerosis. Nature 394: 284-287
Rajavashisth T, Qiao JH, Mishra N, Tripathi S, Tripathi J, Wang X, Loussararian A, Clinton S, Libby P, Lusis AJ. () Heterozygous osteopetrotic (op) mutation reduces atherosclerosis in LDL receptor deficient mice. J. Clin. Invest. 101: 2702-2710
Mehrabian M, Wen PZ, Fisler J, Davis RC, Lusis AJ. () Genetic loci controlling body fat, lipoprotein metabolism, and insulin levels in a multifactorial mouse model. J. Clin. Invest. 101: 2485-2496