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Tuomo Rankinen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department/Laboratory:
Human Genomics
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Phone:
(225) 763-3168
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Fax:
(225) 763-2525 |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Kuopio, Finland, 1996, Clinical Nutrition
M.Sc., University of Kuopio, Finland, 1991, Clinical Nutrition
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Rankinen’s areas of interest are genetic and molecular basis of human variation in responsiveness to exercise training.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Koivukoski L, Fisher SA, Kanninen T, Lewis CM, Von Wowern F, Hunt S, Kardia SL, Levy D, Perola M, Rankinen T, Rao DC, Rice T, Thiel BA, Melander O. Meta-analysis of genome-wide scans for hypertension and blood pressure in Caucasians shows evidence of susceptibility regions on chromosomes 2 and 3. Hum Mol Genet. 2004 Aug 4 [Epub ahead of print]
Loos RJ, Rankinen T, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Rao DC, Bouchard C. Calcium intake is associated with adiposity in Black and White men and White women of the HERITAGE Family Study.
J Nutr. 2004 Jul;134(7):1772-8
Rauramaa R, Halonen P, Vaisanen SB, Lakka TA, Schmidt-Trucksass A, Berg A, Penttila IM, Rankinen T, Bouchard C. Effects of aerobic physical exercise on inflammation and atherosclerosis in men: the DNASCO Study: a six-year randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 2004 Jun 15;140(12):1007-14
Lakka TA, Rankinen T, Weisnagel SJ, Chagnon YC, Lakka HM, Ukkola O, Boule N, Rice T, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Rao DC, Bergman R, Bouchard C. Leptin and leptin receptor gene polymorphisms and changes in glucose homeostasis in response to regular exercise in nondiabetic individuals: the HERITAGE family study. Diabetes. 2004 Jun;53(6):1603-8
Stanforth PR, Jackson AS, Green JS, Gagnon J, Rankinen T, Despres JP, Bouchard C, Leon AS, Rao DC, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH. Generalized abdominal visceral fat prediction models for black and white adults aged 17-65 y: the HERITAGE Family Study. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Jul;28(7):925-32
Bai F, Rankinen T, Charbonneau C, Belsham DD, Rao DC, Bouchard C, Argyropoulos G. Functional dimorphism of two hAgRP promoter SNPs in linkage disequilibrium. J Med Genet. 2004 May;41(5):350-3
Collaku A, Rankinen T, Rice T, Leon AS, Rao DC, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Bouchard C. A genome-wide linkage scan for dietary energy and nutrient intakes: the Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training, and Genetics (HERITAGE) Family Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 May;79(5):881-6
Sklan EH, Lowenthal A, Korner M, Ritov Y, Landers DM, Rankinen T, Bouchard C, Leon AS, Rice T, Rao DC, Wilmore JH, Skinner JS, Soreq H. Acetylcholinesterase/paraoxonase genotype and expression predict anxiety scores in Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training, and Genetics study. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 13;101(15):5512-7. Epub 2004 Apr 01
Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Ross R, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Rao DC, Wilmore JH, Rankinen T, Bouchard C. Fitness alters the associations of BMI and waist circumference with total and abdominal fat. Obes Res. 2004 Mar;12(3):525-37
Snyder EE, Walts B, Perusse L, Chagnon YC, Weisnagel SJ, Rankinen T, Bouchard C. The human obesity gene map: the 2003 update. Obes Res. 2004 Mar;12(3):369-439. Review.
Rankinen T, Tiwari H. Genome scans for human nutritional traits: what have we learned? Nutrition. 2004 Jan;20(1):9-13
Leon AS, Togashi K, Rankinen T, Despres JP, Rao DC, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Bouchard C. Association of apolipoprotein E polymorphism with blood lipids and maximal oxygen uptake in the sedentary state and after exercise training in the HERITAGE family study. Metabolism. 2004 Jan;53(1):108-16
Tanaka S, Togashi K, Rankinen T, Perusse L, Leon AS, Rao DC, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Despres JP, Bouchard C. Sex differences in the relationships of abdominal fat to cardiovascular disease risk among normal-weight white subjects. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Feb;28(2):320-3
Rico-Sanz J, Rankinen T, Rice T, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Rao DC, Bouchard C. Quantitative trait loci for maximal exercise capacity phenotypes and their responses to training in the HERITAGE Family Study. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Jan 15;16(2):256-60. Epub 2003 Nov 18
Shephard RJ, Rankinen T, Bouchard C. Test-retest errors and the apparent heterogeneity of training response. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2004 Mar;91(2-3):199-203. Epub 2003 Oct 17
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