Mr. Mark D. Athanas PA-C, MAT, ATC, EMT
Physician Assistant
5820 CENTRE AVE PITTSBURGH PA, 15206About
Mark Athanas is a physician assistant practicing in PITTSBURGH, PA. Mark specializes in preventing and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of care under the supervision of a physician. A physician assistant's work can include physical exams, ordering and interpreting tests, performing procedures and prescribing medication. Often times, they can assist in surgery but the scope of practice can vary according to jurisdiction or health care setting.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Association of DXA-derived bone mineral density and fat mass with African ancestry.
- Adiponectin pathway polymorphisms and risk of breast cancer in African Americans and Hispanics in the Women's Health Initiative.
- Dissecting vancomycin-intermediate resistance in staphylococcus aureus using genome-wide association.
- Genome-wide association and admixture analysis of glaucoma in the Women's Health Initiative.
- Local and global ancestry inference and applications to genetic association analysis for admixed populations.
- Statistical methods for genome-wide and sequencing association studies of complex traits in related samples.
- Robust inference of population structure for ancestry prediction and correction of stratification in the presence of relatedness.
- Variation in genes controlling warfarin disposition and response in American Indian and Alaska Native people: CYP2C9, VKORC1, CYP4F2, CYP4F11, GGCX.
- Genetics, Diet, and Season Are Associated with Serum 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Concentration in a Yup'ik Study Population from Southwestern Alaska.
- Model-free Estimation of Recent Genetic Relatedness.
- Genetic Diversity and Association Studies in US Hispanic/Latino Populations: Applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
- Genome-wide Association Study of Platelet Count Identifies Ancestry-Specific Loci in Hispanic/Latino Americans.
- Genetic Associations with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Traits in Hispanic/Latino Americans.
- Control for Population Structure and Relatedness for Binary Traits in Genetic Association Studies via Logistic Mixed Models.
- Improved imputation accuracy in Hispanic/Latino populations with larger and more diverse reference panels: applications in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).
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