Themistocles (Tim) Assimes

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine

Research Interests

Genetic Epidemiology, Genetic Determinants of Complex Traits related to Cardiovasular Medicine, Pharmacoepidemiology of Cardiovascular Drugs & Outcomes, Biomarkers to predict major adverse cardiovascular events

Publications

• Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE study. Assimes TL, Knowles JW, Basu A, Iribarren C, Southwick A, Tang H, Absher D, Li J, Fair JM, Rubin GD, Sidney S, Fortmann SP, Go AS, Hlatky MA, Myers RM, Risch N, Quertermous T. Hum Mol Genet. 2008; 17 (15): 2320-8
• Common polymorphisms of ALOX5 and ALOX5AP and risk of coronary artery disease. Assimes TL, Knowles JW, Priest JR, Basu A, Volcik KA, Southwick A, Tabor HK, Hartiala J, Allayee H, Grove ML, Tabibiazar R, Sidney S, Fortmann SP, Go A, Hlatky M, Iribarren C, Boerwinkle E, Myers R, Risch N, Quertermous T. Hum Genet. 2008; 123 (4): 399-408
• Associations among multiple markers and complex disease: models, algorithms, and applications. Assimes TL, Olshen AB, Narasimhan B, Olshen RA. Adv Genet. 2008: 60 437-64
• A near null variant of 12/15-LOX encoded by a novel SNP in ALOX15 and the risk of coronary artery disease. Assimes TL, Knowles JW, Priest JR, Basu A, Borchert A, Volcik KA, Grove ML, Tabor HK, Southwick A, Tabibiazar R, Sidney S, Boerwinkle E, Go AS, Iribarren C, Hlatky MA, Fortmann SP, Myers RM, Kuhn H, Risch N, Quertermous T. Atherosclerosis. 2008; 198 (1): 136-44
• Heritability of left ventricular mass in Japanese families living in Hawaii: the SAPPHIRe Study. Assimes TL, Narasimhan B, Seto TB, Yoon S, Curb JD, Olshen RA, Quertermous T. J Hypertens. 2007; 25 (5): 985-92