Contact Information Childrens Hospital Bldg R 236 Office 513-803-2766 Email mershate@ucmail.uc.edu Peer Reviewed Publications Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Beck, Andrew F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Racial differences in emergency encounters related to pediatric allergic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 11 7, 2232-2234.e1Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Ding, Lili; Beck, Andrew F; Mendy, Angelico; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Multilevel Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalization among Children with Allergies. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 20 6, 843-853Dessie, Eskezeia Y; Gautam, Yadu; Ding, Lili; Altaye, Mekibib; Beyene, Joseph; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Development and validation of asthma risk prediction models using co-expression gene modules and machine learning methods. Scientific reports, 13 1, 11279Devonshire, Ashley; Gautam, Yadu; Johansson, Elisabet; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Multi-omics profiling approach in food allergy. The World Allergy Organization journal, 16 5, 100777Gautam, Yadu; Caldwell, Julie; Kottyan, Leah; Chehade, Mirna; Dellon, Evan S; Rothenberg, Marc E; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Genome-wide admixture and association analysis identifies African ancestry-specific risk loci of eosinophilic esophagitis in African Americans. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 151 5, 1337-1350Gautam, Yadu; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Leveraging genetic ancestry to study severe asthma exacerbations in an admixed population. Thorax, 78 3, 220-221Ghosh, Debajyoti; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Atopic dermatitis and ocular allergy: common mechanisms and uncommon questions. Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology, , Hardy, Dale S; Garvin, Jane T; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Analysis of ancestry-specific polygenic risk score and diet composition in type 2 diabetes. PloS one, 18 5, e0285827Lennon, Niall J; Kottyan, Leah C; Kachulis, Christopher; Abul-Husn, Noura; Arias, Josh; Belbin, Gillian; Below, Jennifer E; Berndt, Sonja; Chung, Wendy; Cimino, James J; Clayton, Ellen Wright; Connolly, John J; Crosslin, David; Dikilitas, Ozan; Velez Edwards, Digna R; Feng, QiPing; Fisher, Marissa; Freimuth, Robert; Ge, Tian ; Glessner, Joseph T; Gordon, Adam; Guiducci, Candace; Hakonarson, Hakon; Harden, Maegan; Harr, Margaret; Hirschhorn, Joel; Hoggart, Clive; Hsu, Li; Irvin, Ryan; Jarvik, Gail P; Karlson, Elizabeth W; Khan, Atlas; Khera, Amit; Kiryluk, Krzysztof; Kullo, Iftikhar; Larkin, Katie; Limdi, Nita; Linder, Jodell E; Loos, Ruth; Luo, Yuan; Malolepsza, Edyta; Manolio, Teri; Martin, Lisa J; McCarthy, Li; Meigs, James B; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Mosley, Jonathan; Namjou, Bahram; Pai, Nihal; Pesce, Lorenzo L; Peters, Ulrike; Peterson, Josh; Prows, Cynthia A; Puckelwartz, Megan J; Rehm, Heidi; Roden, Dan; Rosenthal, Elisabeth A; Rowley, Robb; Sawicki, Konrad Teodor; Schaid, Dan; Schmidlen, Tara; Smit, Roelof; Smith, Johanna; Smoller, Jordan W; Thomas, Minta; Tiwari, Hemant; Toledo, Diana; Vaitinadin, Nataraja Sarma; Veenstra, David; Walunas, Theresa; Wang, Zhe; Wei, Wei-Qi; Weng, Chunhua; Wiesner, Georgia; Xianyong, Yin; Kenny, Eimear 2023. Selection, optimization, and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse populations. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, , Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. From Mendel to multi-omics: shifting paradigms. European journal of human genetics : EJHG, , Pennington, Jordan; Rasnick, Erika; Martin, Lisa J; Biagini, Jocelyn M; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Parsons, Allison; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Ryan, Patrick; Brokamp, Cole 2023. Racial Fairness in Precision Medicine: Pediatric Asthma Prediction Algorithms. American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 37 2, 239-242Phelan, Kieran J; Dill-McFarland, Kimberly A; Kothari, Arjun; Segnitz, R Max; Burkle, Jeff; Grashel, Brittany; Jenkins, Seth; Spagna, Daniel; Martin, Lisa J; Haslam, David B; Biagini, Jocelyn M; Kalra, Maninder; McCoy, Karen S; Ross, Kristie R; Jackson, Daniel J; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Altman, Matthew C; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2023. Airway transcriptome networks identify susceptibility to frequent asthma exacerbations in children. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 152 1, 73-83Adejare, Adeboye A; Gautam, Yadu; Madzia, Juliana; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Unraveling racial disparities in asthma emergency department visits using electronic healthcare records and machine learning. The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma, 59 1, 79-93Cao, Xuan; Ding, Lili; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Development and validation of an RNA-seq-based transcriptomic risk score for asthma. Scientific reports, 12 1, 8643Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Ding, Lili; Beck, Andrew F; Brokamp, Cole; Altaye, Mekibib; Kahn, Robert S; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Understanding racial disparities in childhood asthma using individual- and neighborhood-level risk factors. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 150 6, 1427-1436.e5Dadi, Abel F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. WHO's surveillance system for attacks on health care is failing Ethiopia. Lancet (London, England), 399 10331, 1225-1226Gautam, Yadu; Johansson, Elisabet; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Multi-Omics Profiling Approach to Asthma: An Evolving Paradigm. Journal of personalized medicine, 12 1, Ghosh, Debajyoti; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Publicly available cytokine data: Limitations and opportunities. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 150 5, 1053-1056Kang, Mingon; Ko, Euiseong; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. A roadmap for multi-omics data integration using deep learning. Briefings in bioinformatics, 23 1, Masebo, Tsedeke Mathewos; Fikadu, Belayneh Kokebe; Mehari, Enawgaw; Gelaye, Bizu; Habte, Anteneh; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Begna, Kebede 2022. The need for rigour and balance in reporting the health impacts of conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. BMJ global health, 7 3, Mendy, Angelico; Burcham, Sara; Merianos, Ashley L; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Mahabee-Gittens, E Melinda; Chen, Aimin; Yolton, Kimberley 2022. Urinary volatile organic compound metabolites and reduced lung function in U.S. adults. Respiratory medicine, 205 , 107053Mendy, Angelico; Merianos, Ashley L; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Mahabee-Gittens, E Melinda 2022. Blood volatile organic compounds associated with non-reversible and reversible airflow obstruction in US adults. The European respiratory journal, 60 5, Mendy, Angelico; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Comorbidities in childhood-onset and adult-onset asthma. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 129 3, 327-334Namjou, Bahram; Lape, Michael; Malolepsza, Edyta; DeVore, Stanley B; Weirauch, Matthew T; Dikilitas, Ozan; Jarvik, Gail P; Kiryluk, Krzysztof; Kullo, Iftikhar J; Liu, Cong; Luo, Yuan; Satterfield, Benjamin A; Smoller, Jordan W; Walunas, Theresa L; Connolly, John; Sleiman, Patrick; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Mentch, Frank D; Hakonarson, Hakon; Prows, Cynthia A; Biagini, Jocelyn M; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Martin, Lisa J; Kottyan, Leah 2022. Multiancestral polygenic risk score for pediatric asthma. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 150 5, 1086-1096Parikh, Milan N; Brokamp, Cole; Rasnick, Erika; Ding, Lili; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Bowers, Katherine; Folger, Alonzo T 2022. Epigenome-wide association of neonatal methylation and trimester-specific prenatal PM2.5 exposure. Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.), 6 5, e227Roman, Youssef M; McClish, Donna; Price, Elvin T; Sabo, Roy T; Woodward, Owen M; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Shah, Nehal; Armada, Andrew; Terkeltaub, Robert 2022. Cardiometabolic genomics and pharmacogenomics investigations in Filipino Americans: Steps towards precision health and reducing health disparities. American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice, 15 , Stevens, Mariana L; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Zhang, Zhonghua; Kothari, Arjun; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2022. Skin depletion of Kif3a resembles the pediatric atopic dermatitis transcriptome profile. Human molecular genetics, 31 10, 1588-1598Beyene, Joseph; Harrar, Solomon W; Altaye, Mekibib; Astatkie, Tessema; Awoke, Tadesse; Shkedy, Ziv; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. A Roadmap for Building Data Science Capacity for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa. Frontiers in public health, 9 , 710961Brandt, Eric B; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Environmental Determinants of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Current allergy and asthma reports, 21 3, 15Chidambaran, Vidya; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. A step towards understanding disparities - linking race, ancestry, epigenetics and pain. Epigenomics, 13 22, 1791-1796Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Branscum, Adam J; MacKinnon, Neil J; Cuadros, Diego F 2021. Identification of Vulnerable Populations and Areas at Higher Risk of COVID-19-Related Mortality during the Early Stage of the Epidemic in the United States. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18 8, Enquobahrie, Daniel A; Tekola-Ayele, Fasil; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Editorial: Genetic and Epigenetic Insights Into the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Frontiers in genetics, 12 , 814126Hardy, Dale S; Racette, Susan B; Garvin, Jane T; Gebrekristos, Hirut T; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Ancestry specific associations of a genetic risk score, dietary patterns and metabolic syndrome: a longitudinal ARIC study. BMC medical genomics, 14 1, 118Johansson, Elisabet; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Genetics of Food Allergy. Immunology and allergy clinics of North America, 41 2, 301-319Mendy, Angelico; Wu, Xiao; Keller, Jason L; Fassler, Cecily S; Apewokin, Senu; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Xie, Changchun; Pinney, Susan M 2021. Air pollution and the pandemic: Long-term PM2.5 exposure and disease severity in COVID-19 patients. Respirology (Carlton, Vic.), 26 12, 1181-1187Mendy, Angelico; Wu, Xiao; Keller, Jason L; Fassler, Cecily S; Apewokin, Senu; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Xie, Changchun; Pinney, Susan M 2021. Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients. Respiratory medicine, 178 , 106313Mersha, Tesfaye B; Abebe, Tilahun 2021. Correction to: Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities. Human genomics, 15 1, 35Mersha, Tesfaye B; Afanador, Yashira; Johansson, Elisabet; Proper, Steven P; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Rothenberg, Marc E; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2021. Resolving Clinical Phenotypes into Endotypes in Allergy: Molecular and Omics Approaches. Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 60 2, 200-219Mersha, Tesfaye B; Qin, Ke; Beck, Andrew F; Ding, Lili; Huang, Bin; Kahn, Robert S 2021. Genetic ancestry differences in pediatric asthma readmission are mediated by socioenvironmental factors. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 148 5, 1210-1218.e4Proper, Steven P; Azouz, Nurit P; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Achieving Precision Medicine in Allergic Disease: Progress and Challenges. Frontiers in immunology, 12 , 720746Brandt, Eric B; Beck, Andrew F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Air pollution, racial disparities, and COVID-19 mortality. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 146 1, 61-63Cao, Xuan; Ding, Lili; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Joint variable selection and network modeling for detecting eQTLs. Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology, 19 1, Chen, Siqi; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Gautam, Yadu; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. AllergyGenDB: A literature and functional annotation-based omics database for allergic diseases. Allergy, 75 7, 1789-1793Chen, Siqi; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Gautam, Yadu; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. MI-MAAP: marker informativeness for multi-ancestry admixed populations. BMC bioinformatics, 21 1, 131Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Hernández, Andrés; Branscum, Adam J; MacKinnon, Neil J; Cuadros, Diego F 2020. Identification of Vulnerable Populations and Areas at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Related Mortality in the U.S. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, , Dang, Andrew T; Chundi, Pavan K; Mousa, Nadeem A; Beyer, Amanda I; Chansakulporn, Somboon; Venter, Carina; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Assa'ad, Amal H 2020. The effect of age, sex, race/ethnicity, health insurance, and food specific serum immunoglobulin E on outcomes of oral food challenges. The World Allergy Organization journal, 13 2, 100100Gautam, Yadu; Afanador, Yashira; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Correction to: Comprehensive functional annotation of susceptibility variants associated with asthma. Human genetics, 139 8, 1055Gautam, Yadu; Afanador, Yashira; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Comprehensive functional annotation of susceptibility variants associated with asthma. Human genetics, 139 8, 1037-1053Ghosh, Debajyoti; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: The African paradox. Journal of global health, 10 2, 020348Ghosh, Debajyoti; Ding, Lili; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. The Utility of Resolving Asthma Molecular Signatures Using Tissue-Specific Transcriptome Data. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 10 11, 4049-4062Hardy, Dale S; Garvin, Jane T; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Racette, Susan B 2020. Ancestry specific associations of FTO gene variant and metabolic syndrome: A longitudinal ARIC study. Medicine, 99 6, e18820Lin, Ping-I; Shu, Huan; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Comparing DNA methylation profiles across different tissues associated with the diagnosis of pediatric asthma. Scientific reports, 10 1, 151Mersha, Tesfaye B; Beck, Andrew F 2020. The social, economic, political, and genetic value of race and ethnicity in 2020. Human genomics, 14 1, 37Mersha, Tesfaye B; Beck, Andrew F 2020. Correction to: The social, economic, political, and genetic value of race and ethnicity in 2020. Human genomics, 14 1, 42Gautam, Yadu; Afanador, Yashira; Abebe, Tilahun; López, Javier E; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2019. Genome-wide analysis revealed sex-specific gene expression in asthmatics. Human molecular genetics, 28 15, 2600-2614Gautam, Yadu; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Chen, Siqi; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2019. PAMAM: Power analysis in multiancestry admixture mapping. Genetic epidemiology, 43 7, 831-843Johansson, Hanna; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Brandt, Eric B; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2019. Interactions between environmental pollutants and genetic susceptibility in asthma risk. Current opinion in immunology, 60 , 156-162Motz, Ryan T; Tanksley, Peter; Liu, Hexuan; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Barnes, J C 2019. Every contact leaves a trace: contact with the criminal justice system, life outcomes, and the intersection with genetics. Current opinion in psychology, 27 , 82-87Wathen, Michael J; Gautam, Yadu; Ghandikota, Sudhir; Rao, Marepalli B; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2019. LEI: A Novel Allele Frequency-Based Feature Selection Method for Multi-ancestry Admixed Populations. Scientific reports, 9 1, 11103Ding, Lili; Li, Dan; Wathen, Michael; Altaye, Mekibib; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2018. African ancestry is associated with cluster-based childhood asthma subphenotypes. BMC medical genomics, 11 1, 51Ghandikota, Sudhir; Hershey, Gurjit K Khurana; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2018. GENEASE: real time bioinformatics tool for multi-omics and disease ontology exploration, analysis and visualization. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 34 18, 3160-3168Ghosh, Debajyoti; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Rothenberg, Marc E; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2018. Leveraging Multilayered "Omics" Data for Atopic Dermatitis: A Road Map to Precision Medicine. Frontiers in immunology, 9 , 2727Harding, Kimberly; Biks, Gashaw Andargie; Adefris, Mulat; Loehr, Jordann; Gashaye, Kiros Terefe; Tilahun, Binyam; Volynski, Michael; Garg, Shashank; Abebaw, Zeleke; Dessie, Kassahun; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2018. A mobile health model supporting Ethiopia's eHealth strategy. Digital medicine, 4 2, 54-65Kim, Youngsoon; Hao, Jie; Gautam, Yadu; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Kang, Mingon 2018. DiffGRN: differential gene regulatory network analysis. International journal of data mining and bioinformatics, 20 4, 362-379Gautam, Yadu; Altaye, Mekibib; Xie, Changchun; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2017. AdmixPower: Statistical Power and Sample Size Estimation for Mapping Genetic Loci in Admixed Populations. Genetics, 207 3, 873-882Harding, Kimberly; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Pham, Phuong-Thu; Waterman, Amy D; Webb, Fern A; Vassalotti, Joseph A; Nicholas, Susanne B 2017. Health Disparities in Kidney Transplantation for African Americans. American journal of nephrology, 46 2, 165-175Harding, Kimberly; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Vassalotti, Joseph A; Webb, Fern A; Nicholas, Susanne B 2017. Current State and Future Trends to Optimize the Care of Chronic Kidney Disease in African Americans. American journal of nephrology, 46 2, 176-186Harding, Kimberly; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Webb, Fern A; Vassalotti, Joseph A; Nicholas, Susanne B 2017. Current State and Future Trends to Optimize the Care of African Americans with End-Stage Renal Disease. American journal of nephrology, 46 2, 156-164Johansson, Elisabet; Biagini Myers, Jocelyn M; Martin, Lisa J; He, Hua; Pilipenko, Valentina; Mersha, Tesfaye; Weirauch, Matthew; Salomonis, Nathan; Ryan, Patrick; LeMasters, Grace K; Bernstein, David I; Lockey, James; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2017. KIF3A genetic variation is associated with pediatric asthma in the presence of eczema independent of allergic rhinitis. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 140 2, 595-598.e5Gupta, Jayanta; Johansson, Elisabet; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Chakraborty, Ranajit; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Rothenberg, Marc E; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2016. Resolving the etiology of atopic disorders by using genetic analysis of racial ancestry. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 138 3, 676-699Maglo, Koffi N; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Martin, Lisa J 2016. Population Genomics and the Statistical Values of Race: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Biological Classification of Human Populations and Implications for Clinical Genetic Epidemiological Research. Frontiers in genetics, 7 , 22Ghosh, Debajyoti; Ding, Lili; Sivaprasad, Umasundari; Geh, Esmond; Biagini Myers, Jocelyn; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2015. Multiple Transcriptome Data Analysis Reveals Biologically Relevant Atopic Dermatitis Signature Genes and Pathways. PloS one, 10 12, e0144316Mersha, Tesfaye B 2015. Mapping asthma-associated variants in admixed populations. Frontiers in genetics, 6 , 292Mersha, Tesfaye B; Abebe, Tilahun 2015. Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities. Human genomics, 9 1, 1Mersha, Tesfaye B; Martin, Lisa J; Biagini Myers, Jocelyn M; Kovacic, Melinda Butsch; He, Hua; Lindsey, Mark; Sivaprasad, Umasundari; Chen, Weiguo; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2015. Genomic architecture of asthma differs by sex. Genomics, 106 1, 15-22Biagini Myers, Jocelyn M; Martin, Lisa J; Kovacic, Melinda Butsch; Mersha, Tesfaye B; He, Hua; Pilipenko, Valentina; Lindsey, Mark A; Ericksen, Mark B; Bernstein, David I; LeMasters, Grace K; Lockey, James E; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2014. Epistasis between serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 5 (SPINK5) and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) genes contributes to childhood asthma. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 134 4, 891-899.e3Ding, Lili; Kurowski, Brad G; He, Hua; Alexander, Eileen S; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Fardo, David W; Zhang, Xue; Pilipenko, Valentina V; Kottyan, Leah; Martin, Lisa J 2014. Modeling of multivariate longitudinal phenotypes in family genetic studies with Bayesian multiplicity adjustment. BMC proceedings, 8 Suppl 1, S69Fardo, David W; Zhang, Xue; Ding, Lili; He, Hua; Kurowski, Brad; Alexander, Eileen S; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Pilipenko, Valentina; Kottyan, Leah; Nandakumar, Kannabiran; Martin, Lisa 2014. On family-based genome-wide association studies with large pedigrees: observations and recommendations. BMC proceedings, 8 Suppl 1 Genetic Analysis Workshop 18Vanessa Olmo, S26Pilipenko, Valentina V; He, Hua; Kurowski, Brad G; Alexander, Eileen S; Zhang, Xue; Ding, Lili; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Kottyan, Leah; Fardo, David W; Martin, Lisa J 2014. Using Mendelian inheritance errors as quality control criteria in whole genome sequencing data set. BMC proceedings, 8 Suppl 1 Genetic Analysis Workshop 18Vanessa Olmo, S21Ding, Lili; Abebe, Tilahun; Beyene, Joseph; Wilke, Russell A; Goldberg, Arnon; Woo, Jessica G; Martin, Lisa J; Rothenberg, Marc E; Rao, Marepalli; Hershey, Gurjit K Khurana; Chakraborty, Ranajit; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2013. Rank-based genome-wide analysis reveals the association of ryanodine receptor-2 gene variants with childhood asthma among human populations. Human genomics, 7 1, 16
Peer Reviewed Publications Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Beck, Andrew F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Racial differences in emergency encounters related to pediatric allergic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 11 7, 2232-2234.e1Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Ding, Lili; Beck, Andrew F; Mendy, Angelico; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Multilevel Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalization among Children with Allergies. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 20 6, 843-853Dessie, Eskezeia Y; Gautam, Yadu; Ding, Lili; Altaye, Mekibib; Beyene, Joseph; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Development and validation of asthma risk prediction models using co-expression gene modules and machine learning methods. Scientific reports, 13 1, 11279Devonshire, Ashley; Gautam, Yadu; Johansson, Elisabet; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Multi-omics profiling approach in food allergy. The World Allergy Organization journal, 16 5, 100777Gautam, Yadu; Caldwell, Julie; Kottyan, Leah; Chehade, Mirna; Dellon, Evan S; Rothenberg, Marc E; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Genome-wide admixture and association analysis identifies African ancestry-specific risk loci of eosinophilic esophagitis in African Americans. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 151 5, 1337-1350Gautam, Yadu; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Leveraging genetic ancestry to study severe asthma exacerbations in an admixed population. Thorax, 78 3, 220-221Ghosh, Debajyoti; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Atopic dermatitis and ocular allergy: common mechanisms and uncommon questions. Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology, , Hardy, Dale S; Garvin, Jane T; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. Analysis of ancestry-specific polygenic risk score and diet composition in type 2 diabetes. PloS one, 18 5, e0285827Lennon, Niall J; Kottyan, Leah C; Kachulis, Christopher; Abul-Husn, Noura; Arias, Josh; Belbin, Gillian; Below, Jennifer E; Berndt, Sonja; Chung, Wendy; Cimino, James J; Clayton, Ellen Wright; Connolly, John J; Crosslin, David; Dikilitas, Ozan; Velez Edwards, Digna R; Feng, QiPing; Fisher, Marissa; Freimuth, Robert; Ge, Tian ; Glessner, Joseph T; Gordon, Adam; Guiducci, Candace; Hakonarson, Hakon; Harden, Maegan; Harr, Margaret; Hirschhorn, Joel; Hoggart, Clive; Hsu, Li; Irvin, Ryan; Jarvik, Gail P; Karlson, Elizabeth W; Khan, Atlas; Khera, Amit; Kiryluk, Krzysztof; Kullo, Iftikhar; Larkin, Katie; Limdi, Nita; Linder, Jodell E; Loos, Ruth; Luo, Yuan; Malolepsza, Edyta; Manolio, Teri; Martin, Lisa J; McCarthy, Li; Meigs, James B; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Mosley, Jonathan; Namjou, Bahram; Pai, Nihal; Pesce, Lorenzo L; Peters, Ulrike; Peterson, Josh; Prows, Cynthia A; Puckelwartz, Megan J; Rehm, Heidi; Roden, Dan; Rosenthal, Elisabeth A; Rowley, Robb; Sawicki, Konrad Teodor; Schaid, Dan; Schmidlen, Tara; Smit, Roelof; Smith, Johanna; Smoller, Jordan W; Thomas, Minta; Tiwari, Hemant; Toledo, Diana; Vaitinadin, Nataraja Sarma; Veenstra, David; Walunas, Theresa; Wang, Zhe; Wei, Wei-Qi; Weng, Chunhua; Wiesner, Georgia; Xianyong, Yin; Kenny, Eimear 2023. Selection, optimization, and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse populations. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, , Mersha, Tesfaye B 2023. From Mendel to multi-omics: shifting paradigms. European journal of human genetics : EJHG, , Pennington, Jordan; Rasnick, Erika; Martin, Lisa J; Biagini, Jocelyn M; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Parsons, Allison; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K; Ryan, Patrick; Brokamp, Cole 2023. Racial Fairness in Precision Medicine: Pediatric Asthma Prediction Algorithms. American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 37 2, 239-242Phelan, Kieran J; Dill-McFarland, Kimberly A; Kothari, Arjun; Segnitz, R Max; Burkle, Jeff; Grashel, Brittany; Jenkins, Seth; Spagna, Daniel; Martin, Lisa J; Haslam, David B; Biagini, Jocelyn M; Kalra, Maninder; McCoy, Karen S; Ross, Kristie R; Jackson, Daniel J; Mersha, Tesfaye B; Altman, Matthew C; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2023. Airway transcriptome networks identify susceptibility to frequent asthma exacerbations in children. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 152 1, 73-83Adejare, Adeboye A; Gautam, Yadu; Madzia, Juliana; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Unraveling racial disparities in asthma emergency department visits using electronic healthcare records and machine learning. The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma, 59 1, 79-93Cao, Xuan; Ding, Lili; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Development and validation of an RNA-seq-based transcriptomic risk score for asthma. Scientific reports, 12 1, 8643Correa-Agudelo, Esteban; Ding, Lili; Beck, Andrew F; Brokamp, Cole; Altaye, Mekibib; Kahn, Robert S; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. Understanding racial disparities in childhood asthma using individual- and neighborhood-level risk factors. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 150 6, 1427-1436.e5Dadi, Abel F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2022. 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Correction to: Self-reported race/ethnicity in the age of genomic research: its potential impact on understanding health disparities. Human genomics, 15 1, 35Mersha, Tesfaye B; Afanador, Yashira; Johansson, Elisabet; Proper, Steven P; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Rothenberg, Marc E; Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K 2021. Resolving Clinical Phenotypes into Endotypes in Allergy: Molecular and Omics Approaches. Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 60 2, 200-219Mersha, Tesfaye B; Qin, Ke; Beck, Andrew F; Ding, Lili; Huang, Bin; Kahn, Robert S 2021. Genetic ancestry differences in pediatric asthma readmission are mediated by socioenvironmental factors. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 148 5, 1210-1218.e4Proper, Steven P; Azouz, Nurit P; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2021. Achieving Precision Medicine in Allergic Disease: Progress and Challenges. Frontiers in immunology, 12 , 720746Brandt, Eric B; Beck, Andrew F; Mersha, Tesfaye B 2020. Air pollution, racial disparities, and COVID-19 mortality. 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