Kenneth Ekoru

This paper conducts a GWAS in Africans to identify novel lipid loci and finds 23 novel associations, with some replicating in African Americans and additional loci emerging from meta-analysis.

This study evaluates genetic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africans, African Americans, and European Americans, finding significantly lower predictive utility in sub-Saharan Africans.

This study evaluates if African American or multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores improve type 2 diabetes prediction in continental Africans, finding that African American-derived scores are more predictive.