Evadnie Rampersaud


rampersaud_9656_web resize.jpg Contact Information
erampersaud@med.miami.edu
Assistant: Lili Tewes
1501 NW 10th Ave.
Miami, FL 33136
ph: 305-243-5391
fax: 305-243-2396







Evadnie Rampersaud, M.S.P.H, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics . Dr. Rampersaud is a genetic epidemiologist who is interested in the application of statistical methods to identify both genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to obesity, early developmental birth defects including Neural Tube Defects and Chiari Type 1 Malformations, and preterm birth. She is particularly interested in understanding the genetics of diseases that disproportionately affect women's health and in studying the role that maternal effects, genetic imprinting and maternal-fetal interactions play in causation of these disorders.

Selected Publications

  1. Rampersaud E, Melvin EC, Siegel D, Mehltretter L, Dickerson ME, George TM, Enterline D, Nye JS, Speer MC; NTD Collaborative Group. Updated investigations of the role of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in human neural tube defects. Clin Genet. 2003 Mar;63(3):210-4.


  2. Rampersaud E, Allen A, Li YJ, Shao Y, Bass M, Haynes C, Ashley-Koch A, Martin ER, Schmidt S, Hauser ER. Adjusting for covariates on a slippery slope: linkage analysis of change over time. BMC Genet. 2003 Dec 31;4 Suppl 1:S50.


  3. Rampersaud E, Brusato C, Melvin EC, Speer MC, Metcalf K; NTD Collaborative Group. No evidence for heterozygote advantage at MTHFR in patients with lumbosacral myelomeningocele or their relatives. Genet Med. 2004 Jan-Feb;6(1):69-70.


  4. Rampersaud E, Scott WK, Hauser ER, Speer MC. Potential for expanded power in linkage studies using the ALLEGRO and MERLIN software programs. J Med Genet. 2005 Dec;42(12):e68.


  5. Rampersaud E, Bassuk AG, Enterline DS, George TM, Siegel DG, Melvin EC, Aben J, Allen J, Aylsworth A, Brei T, Bodurtha J, Buran C, Floyd LE, Hammock P, Iskandar B, Ito J, Kessler JA, Lasarsky N, Mack P, Mackey J, McLone D, Meeropol E, Mehltretter L, Mitchell LE, Oakes WJ, Nye JS, Powell C, Sawin K, Stevenson R, Walker M, West SG, Worley G, Gilbert JR, Speer MC. Whole genome-wide linkage screen for neural tube defects reveals regions of interest on chromosomes 7 and 10. J Med Genet. 2005 Dec;42(12):940-6.


  6. Stamm DS, Rampersaud E, Slifer SH, Mehltretter L, Siegel DG, Xie J, Hu-Lince D, Craig DW, Stephan DA, George TM, Gilbert JR, Speer MC. High-density single nucleotide polymorphism screen in a large multiplex neural tube defect family refines linkage to loci at 7p21.1-pter and 2q33.1-q35.Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2006 Jun;76(6):499-505.


  7. Rampersaud E, Morris RW, Weinberg CR, Speer MC, Martin ER. Power calculations for likelihood ratio tests for offspring genotype risks, maternal effects and parent-of-origin (POO) effects in the presence of missing parental genotypes when unaffected siblings are available. Genetic Epidemiology. 2007. Jan;31(1):18-30.


  8. Rampersaud E, Damcott CM, Connell J, Fu M, Shen H, Shelton J, McArdle P Ying J, Shi X, Ott SH, , Zhang L, Zhao Y, Mitchell BD, Shuldiner AR. Identification of novel candidate genes for type 2 diabetes from a 100K genome-wide association scan in the Old Order Amish: Evidence for replication from diabetes-related quantitative traits and from independent populations. Diabetes. 2007 Dec;56(12):3053-62.


  9. Rampersaud E, Melvin EC, Speer MC. Chapter 15, Genetics of Non-syndromic neural tube defects. In : Neural Tube Defects: From origin to treatment. Oxford University Press.


  10. Rampersaud E, Mitchell BD, Pollin TI, Fu M, Shen H, O’Connell JR, Ducharme JL, Hines S, Sack P, Naglieri R, Shuldiner AR, Snitker S. Physical activity and the association of common FTO gene variants with body mass index and obesity. Arch Intern Med. 2008 Sep 8;168(16):1791-7.


  11. Köttgen A, Hwang S-J, Rampersaud E, Coresh J, North KE,. Pankow JS, Meigs JB, Florez JC, Parsa A, Levy D, Boerwinkle E,Shuldiner AR, Fox CS, and Kao WH.  TCF7L2 Variants Associate with CKD Progression and Renal Function in Population-Based Cohorts. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Oct;19 (10):1989-99.


  12. Rampersaud E, Bielak LF, Parsa A, Shen H, Post W, Ryan KA, Donnelly P, Rumberger JA, Sheedy PF 2nd,  Peyser PA, Shuldiner AR, Mitchell BD.The Association of Coronary Artery Calcification and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness With Distinct, Traditional Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors in Asymptomatic Adults. Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Nov 1;168 (9):1016-23.


  13. Rampersaud E, Mitchell BD, Naj A, Pollin TI. Investigating parent-of-origin effects in studies of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.  Current Diabetes Reviews. 2008 Nov;4(4):329-39.