Selected Publications
2025-2026
Epigenome-wide analysis in West Africans identifies DNA methylation markers for circulating adiponectin
Mungamba MM, Wijburg J, van der Linden E, Chilunga FP, Doumatey AP, Bentley AR, Hayfron-Benjamin CF, Sewani-Rusike CR, Nkeh-Chungag BN, Ahima RS, Agyemang C, Henneman P, Adeyemo AA, Rotimi CN, Meeks KAC (2026)
eBioMedicine
Divergent complication patterns of type 2 diabetes in African individuals who are lean versus overweight or obese: a multi-cohort analysis
Esmail S, Hayfron-Benjamin C, Darko SN, Owusu-Dabo E, Beune E, Bahendeka S, Doumatey AP, Chen G, Agyemang C, Adeyemo AA, Rotimi CN, Meeks KAC*, Chilunga FP*. (2026)
Diabetologia
Causal relationship between epigenetic markers and type 2 diabetes in West Africans: A Mendelian randomisation analysis
Meeks KAC, van der Linden EL, Bentley AR, Doumatey AP, Henneman P, Franceschini N, Assimes TL, Chilunga FP, Hayfron-Benjamin CF, Owusu-Dabo E, Chen G, Agyemang C, Adeyemo AA, Rotimi CN. (2026)
Diabetologia
Cardiovascular disease burden among African migrants
Meeks KAC, Agyemang C. (2025)
Current Atherosclerosis Reports
Subcontinental genetic diversity in the All of Us Research Program: Implications for biomedical research
Gouveia MH, Meeks KAC, Borda V, Leal TP, Kehdy FSG, Mogire R, Doumatey AP, Tarazona-Santos E, Kittles RA, Mata IF, O'Connor TD, Adeyemo AA, Shriner D, Rotimi CN. (2025)
American Journal of Human Genetics
Gut microbiota shift in Ghanaian individuals along the migration axis: the RODAM-Pros cohort
Verhaar BJH, van der Linden EL, Hayfron-Benjamin CF, Owusu-Dabo E, Darko SN, Twumasi-Ankrah S, Henneman P, Beune E, Meeks KAC, Nieuwdorp M, Herrema H, van den Born BH, Agyemang C. (2025)
Gut Microbes