Publications

  1. Dharambir K. Sanghera, Jaswinder S.Bhatti, Gurjit K. Bhatti, Sarju K. Ralhan, Gurpreet S. Wander, Jai Rup Singh, Clareann H.Bunker, Daniel E. Weeks, M. Ilyas Kamboh and Robert E.Ferrell : The Khatri Sikh Diabetes Study (SDS) : Study Design, Methodology, Sample Collection, and Initial Results. Human Biology. 2006;78:43-63.
  2. S Sanghera DK, Nath S, Ortega L, Gambarelli M, Kim-Howard X, Singh JR, Ralhan SK, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Mulvihill J and Kamboh MI (2008) TCF7L2 polymorphisms are associated with type 2 diabetes susceptibility in Khatri Sikhs from India: genetic variation affects lipid levels. Ann Hum Genet. 2008;72:499-509.
  3. Sanghera DK, Ortega L, Han S, Singh, JR, Ralhan SK, Wander GS, Mehra, NK, Nath S and Kamboh MI (2008) Impact of Nine Common Type 2 Diabetes Risk Polymorphisms in Asian Indian Sikhs: BMC Med Genet. 2008;9:59-67.
  4. Sanghera DK, Demirci, Y, Been L, Ortega L, Ralhan SK,Wander GS, Mehra, NK, Singh, JR, Mulvihill, JJ and Kamboh MI (2008) Novel polymorphisms in PPARG1, PPARG2, and ADIPOQ genes increase type 2 diabetes risk in Asian Indian Sikhs. Metabolism. 2010;59:492-501.
  5. Nath, SK, Been, L, H Deshmukh, Ralhan SK, Wander GS, Mehra, NK, Singh, JR, Mulvihill, JJ and Sanghera, DK (2008) Replication of association between a common variant near melanocortin-4 receptor gene and obesity-related traits in a Sikh population from Northern India. Obesity. 2010;18:425-429.
  6. Dharambir K. Sanghera, Latonya Been, Lyda Ortega, Gurpreet S. Wander, Narinder K Mehra, Christopher E Aston, John J Mulvihill and Sarju Ralhan : Testing the association of novel meta analysis derived diabetes risk genes with type II diabetes and related metabolic traits in Asian Indian Sikhs. Journal of Human Genetics. 2009;54:162-168
  7. Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Sarju Ralhan, Vikrampal Singh, Chander Mohan Mittal, Rohit Tandon, Naved Aslam, Bishav Mohan, Naresh Kumar Sood, Gurpreet S. Wander, V.K Sharma. #64 Surgical repair of VSD and aortic valve regurgitation. Ann Pediatr Card. 2010;3:221.
  8. Chander Mohan Mittal, Naved Aslam, Bishav Mohan, Rohit Tandon, Naresh Sood, Gurpreet S. Wander. Spontaneous closure of post myocardial infarct ventricular septal rupture. Texas Heart Institute Journal . 2011;38:596-597.
  9. Latonya F Been, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S. Wander, Narinder K Mehra, Jai Rup Singh, John J Mulvihill, Christopher E Aston and Dharambir K. Sanghera. Variants in KCNQ1 increase type II diabetes susceptibility in South Asians: A study of 3,310 subjects from India and the US. BMC Med Genet. 2011;24:12-18.
  10. Sanghera DK, Been LF, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Singh JR, Ferrell RE, Kamboh MI, Aston CE (2011). Genome-wide linkage scan to identify loci associated with type 2 diabetes and blood lipid phenotypes in the Sikh Diabetes Study. PLoS One. 2011; 6:e21188.
  11. Been LF, Hatfield JL, Shankar A, Aston CE, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Singh JR, Mulvihill JJ, Sanghera DK. (2011). A novel variant near melatonin receptor-1B gene contributes to increased fasting glucose concentrations: Genetic risk is modulated by obesity status. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. Epub doi:10.1016/j.numecd.2011.01.006.
  12. Been LF, Hatfield JL, Shankar A, Aston CE, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Singh JR, Mulvihill JJ, Sanghera DK. A low frequency variant within the GWAS locus of MTNR1B affects fasting glucose concentrations: genetic risk is modulated by obesity. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2012;22:944-951.
  13. Schierer A, Been LF, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Aston, CE, Sanghera DK. Genetic variation in cholesterol ester transfer protein, serum CETP activity, and coronary artery disease risk in Asian Indian diabetic cohort. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2012;22:95-104.
  14. Timothy R. Braun, Latonya F. Been, Akhil Singhal, Jacob Worsham, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S. Wander, John C. Chambers, Jaspal S. Kooner, Christopher E. Aston, Dharambir K. Sanghera. A Replication Study of GWAS-Derived Lipid Genes in Asian Indians: The Chromosomal Region 11q23.3 Harbors Loci Contributing to Triglycerides. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:1-7.
  15. Arya RC, Sood NK, Ralhan S, Wander GS.TEE-guided left ventricular epicardial pacing lead placement for cardiac resynchronization therapy. Ann Card Anaesth. 2012;15(3):229-32.
  16. Arya Rajesh Chand, Ralhan Sarju, Sharma Vijay Kumar, Wander Gurpreet Singh. Removal of a foreign body from the heart under Transesophageal echocardiographic guidance. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2013 Apr;27(2):321-2.
  17. Saxena R, Saleheen D, Been LF, Garavito ML, Braun T, Bjonnes A, Young R, Ho WK, Rasheed A, Frossard P, Sim X, Hassanali N, Radha V, Chidambaram M, Liju S, Rees SD, Ng DP, Wong TY, Yamauchi T, Hara K, Tanaka Y, Hirose H, McCarthy MI, Morris AP; DIAGRAM; MuTHER; AGEN, Basit A, Barnett AH, Katulanda P, Matthews D, Mohan V, Wander GS, Singh JR, Mehra NK, Ralhan S, Kamboh MI, Mulvihill JJ, Maegawa H, Tobe K, Maeda S, Cho YS, Tai ES, Kelly MA, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Kadowaki T, Deloukas P, Rader DJ, Danesh J, Sanghera DK. Genome-wide association study identifies a novel locus contributing to type 2 diabetes susceptibility in Sikhs of Punjabi origin from India. Diabetes. 2013;62(5):1746-55.
  18. Saxena R, Bjonnes A, Prescott J, Dib P, Natt P, Lane J, Lerner M, Cooper JA, Ye Y, Li KW, Maubaret CG, Codd V, Brackett D, Mirabello L, Kraft P, Dinney CP,Stowell D, Peyton M, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Salpea KD, Gu J, Wu X, Mangino M, Hunter DJ, De Vivo I, Humphries SE, Samani NJ, Spector TD,Savage SA, Sanghera DK. A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Variants in Casein Kinase II (CSNK2A2) to be Associated with Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Punjabi Sikh Diabetic Cohort. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014;7(3):287-95.
  19. A 65-year-old man was admitted with an acute inferior wall MI, and echo revealed moderate LV dysfunction. He was stabilized on medical treatment. An angiogram showed severe triple vessel disease, and the authors recommended anaortic CABG using bilateral internal mammary arteries. http://www.ctsnet.org/article/total-and-complete-arterial-revascularization-using-bilateral-imas