Search Results - "Tobin, M D"
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What can genetics tell us about the cause of fixed airflow obstruction?
Published in Clinical and experimental allergy (01-08-2012)“…Summary Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality worldwide with smoking being the most important risk…”
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Body mass index, asthma, and genetic variation
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Genome-wide association study to identify genetic determinants of severe asthma
Published in Thorax (01-09-2012)“…The genetic basis for developing asthma has been extensively studied. However, association studies to date have mostly focused on mild to moderate disease and…”
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Infectious disease models in zebrafish
Published in Methods in cell biology (2017)“…In recent years, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has developed as an important alternative to mammalian models for the study of hostpathogen interactions. Because…”
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DataSHIELD: resolving a conflict in contemporary bioscience—performing a pooled analysis of individual-level data without sharing the data
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-10-2010)“…Background Contemporary bioscience sometimes demands vast sample sizes and there is often then no choice but to synthesize data across several studies and to…”
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Neuronal cell shape and neurite initiation are regulated by the Ndr kinase SAX-1, a member of the Orb6/COT-1/warts serine/threonine kinase family
Published in Molecular biology of the cell (01-09-2000)“…The Caenorhabditis elegans sax-1 gene regulates several aspects of neuronal cell shape. sax-1 mutants have expanded cell bodies and ectopic neurites in many…”
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Adiposity as a cause of cardiovascular disease: a Mendelian randomization study
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-04-2015)“…Adiposity, as indicated by body mass index (BMI), has been associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases in epidemiological studies. We aimed to investigate…”
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Beyond “misunderstanding”: Written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-12-2007)“…Although the need to obtain “informed” consent is institutionalised as a principle of ethical practice in research, there is persistent evidence that the…”
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Combinatorial Expression of TRPV Channel Proteins Defines Their Sensory Functions and Subcellular Localization in C. elegans Neurons
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (18-07-2002)“…C. elegans OSM-9 is a TRPV channel protein involved in sensory transduction and adaptation. Here, we show that distinct sensory functions arise from different…”
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Effect of fatigue on hamstring coactivation during isokinetic knee extensions
Published in European journal of applied physiology (01-11-1998)“…We examined the effect of fatigue of the quadriceps muscles on coactivation of the hamstring muscles and determined if the response is different between two…”
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Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli
Published in Nature (London) (31-10-2002)“…Natural Caenorhabditis elegans isolates exhibit either social or solitary feeding on bacteria. We show here that social feeding is induced by nociceptive…”
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South Asian ethnicity and risk of childhood accidents: an ecological study at enumeration district level in Leicester
Published in Journal of public health (Oxford, England) (01-12-2002)“…Background Surveys of ‘self‐reported’ accidents suggest that South Asian children in the United Kingdom may have lower rates of childhood accidents, but little…”
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Commentary: Development of Mendelian randomization: from hypothesis test to ‘Mendelian deconfounding’
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Olfactory recognition and discrimination in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Rheumatoid arthritis association at 6q23
Published in Nature genetics (01-12-2007)“…The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) identified nine single SNPs putatively associated with rheumatoid arthritis at P = 1 × 10−5 − 5 × 10−7 in a…”
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Enhancements to a multiple model adaptive estimator/image-tracker
Published in IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems (01-07-1988)“…Three major enhancements to a previously devised multiple model adaptive estimator (MMAE) for target image tracking are developed and analyzed. These are:…”
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C14 INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE: ADVANCES ACROSS THE FIELD: Genome-Wide Association Study Of Survival In Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-01-2017)“…Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with IPF susceptibility, but few SNPs identified by…”
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