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2007

  1. Baker R, Sullivan E, Camosso-Stefinovic J, Rashid A, Farooqi A, Blackledge H, Allen J. Making use of mortality data to improve quality and safety in general practice: a review of current approaches. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007;16:2:84-89
  2. Barrett J H, Sheehan NA, Cox A, Worthington J, Cannings C, Teare M D. Family based studies and genetic epidemiology: theory and practice Human Heredity 2007; 64:146-148.
  3. Bowden J, Thompson J.R, Burton PR. A two-stage approach to the correction of ascertainment bias in complex genetic studies involving variance components. Annals of Internal Medicine 2007;71:2:220-229.
  4. Beardsmore C, Paton J, Thompson J, Laverty A, King C, Oliver C, Stocks J Standardizing lung function laboratories for multicentre trials Pediatric Pulmonology 2007;42:51-59.
  5. Brouilette S, Moore J, McMahon A., Thompson J, Ford I, Shepherd J, Packard C, Samani N. Telomere length, risk of coronary heart disease and statin treatment Lancet 2007;369:9556:107-114.
  6. Didelez, V, Sheehan NA. Mendelian Randomization as an Instrumental Variable Approach to Causal Inference Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2007;16:4309-330.
  7. Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft RE, Jackson CJ, Tobin MD, Kivits J, Burton PR, Samani NJ. Beyond "misunderstanding": written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study Social Science and Medicine 2007;65:11:2212-2222.
  8. Eke T, Thompson J. Serious complications of local anaesthesia for cataract surgery: a one-year national survey in the United Kingdom British Journal of Ophthalmology 2007;91:470-475.
  9. Gillies C, Abrams K, Lambert P, Cooper N, Sutton A, Hsu R, Khunti K. Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes mellitus in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British Medical Journal 2007;334:7588:299-302.
  10. Gillies C, Abrams KA, Lambert P, Khunti K, Cooper NJ, Hsu R, Sutton AJ. Systematic review and meta-analysis in diabetes prevention interventions. British Medical Journal 2007;334:299. 
  11. Hansen M, Sullivan E, Jequier AM, Burton PR, Junk S, Yovich J et al. Practitioner reporting on birth defects in children born following assisted reproductive technology: Does it still have a role in surveillance of birth defects? Human Reproduction 2007;22:2:516-520.
  12. Lambert PC, Thompson JR, Weston CL, Dickman P. Estimating and modelling the cure fraction in population-based cancer survival analysis Biostatistics 2007;8:3:576-594.
  13. Mangino M, Braund P, Singh R, Steeds R, Thompson J, Channer K, Samani N. LGALS2 functional variant rs7291467 is not associated with susceptibility to myocardial infarction in Caucasians Atherosclerosis 2007; in press (available electronically)
  14. Maznyczka A, Mangino M, Whittaker A, Braund P, Palmer T, Tobin M, Goodall AH, Bradding P, Samani NJ.  Leukotriene B(4) production in healthy subjects carrying variants of the arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein gene associated with a risk of myocardial infarction. Clinical Science 2007;112:7:411-416. [now available online]
  15. Nsengimana J, Samani NJ, Hall AS, Balmforth AJ, Mangino M, Yuldasheva N, Maqbool A, Braund P, Burton PR, Bishop DT, Ball SG, Barrett J.H. Enhanced linkage of a locus on chromosome 2 to premature coronary artery disease in the absence of hypercholesterolemia. European Journal of Human Genetics 2007;15:3:313-319.
  16. Riley RD, Abrams KR, Lambert PC, Sutton AJ, Thompson JR. An evaluation of bivariate random-effects meta-analysis for the joint synthesis of two correlated outcomes Statistics in Medicine 2007;26:1:78-97.
  17. Riley RD, Abrams KR, Sutton AJ, Lambert PC, Thompson JR. Bivariate random-effects meta-analysis and the estimation of between-study correlation BMC Medical Research Methodology 2007;7:1:3.
  18. Riley RD, Abrams KR, Lambert PC, Sutton AJ, Thompson JR. Application and analytic assessment of bivariate random-effects meta-analysis for the joint synthesis of two correlated summary statistics from healthcare studies. Statistics in Medicine 2007;26:79-97. 
  19. Riley RD, Thompson JR, Abrams KR. An alternative model for bivariate random-effects meta-analysis when the within-study correlations are unknown Biostatistics 2007; available electronically
  20. Ruse CE, Hill MC, Tobin M, Neale N, Connolly MJ, Parker SG, Wardlaw AJ. Tumour necrosis factor gene complex polymorphisms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respiratory Medicine 2007;101:2:340-344. 
  21. Samani N, Erdmann J, Hall A, Hengstenberg C, Mangino M, Mayer B, Dixon R, Meitinger T, Braund P, Wichmann H, Barrett J, König I, Stevens S, Szymczak S, Tregouet D, Iles M, Pahlke F, Pollard H, Lieb W, Cambien F, Fischer M, Ouwehand W, Balmforth A, Baessler A, Ball S, Strom T, Gieger C, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Cardiogenics Consortium, Deloukas P, Tobin M, Ziegler A, Thompson J, Schunkert H. Analysis of two Genome-wide association studies identifies and validates novel gene loci for coronary artery disease New England Journal of Medicine
    2007;357:5:443-453. 
  22. Sutton A, Cooper N, Jones D, Lambert P, Thompson J, Abrams K. Evidence-based sample size calculations based upon updated meta-analysis.  Statistics in Medicine  007;26:12:2479-2500. 
  23. Sheehan NA, Guldbrandtsen B, Sorensen D. A Evaluating the performance of a block updating McMC sampler in a simple genetic application Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 2007;12:2:272-299. 
  24. Sheehan NA, Egeland T. Structured incorporation of prior information in relationship identification problems Annals of Human Genetics 2007; 71:4:501-518. 
  25. Sullivan E, Baker R, Jones DR, Blackledge H, Rashid A, Farooqi A, Allen J. Primary healthcare
    teams' views on using mortality data to review clinical policies. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007;16:359-362. 
  26. The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, including Burton PR, Thompson JR, Tobin MD. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 2007; 447: 661-678. 
  27. The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, including Burton PR, Thompson JR, Tobin MD.. Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants. Nature Genetics 2007 Nov;39(11):1329-1337

 

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

Tobin MD, Sheehan NA, Samani NJ, Burton PR. The Genetic Epidemiology of Hypertension. Chapter in Handbook of Hypertension. Volume on Genetics of Hypertension. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007.

  1. Burton PR, Bowden J, Tobin MD. Epidemiology and Genetic Epidemiology. Chapter in Blading DJ, rd Bishop M, Cannings C. Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 3    Ed. Wiley, Chichester, 2007.
  2. Burton PR, Tobin MD, Hopper JL.. Key Concepts in Genetic Epidemiology. In Davey Smith G, Burton PR, Palmer LJ. ed. An Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology, Policy Press.
  3. Burton PR, Fortier I, Deschenes M, Hansell A, Palmer LJ. Biobanks and Biobank Harmonization. In Davey Smith G, Burton PR, Palmer LJ. ed. An Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology, Policy Press.

 

2006

 

  1. Bowden J, Thompson JR, Burton P. A two-stage approach to the correction of ascertainment bias in complex genetic studies involving variance components. Annals of Human Genetics, 2006. (Electronic Early View)
  2. Bowden J, Thompson JR, Burton P. Using pseudo-data to correct for publication bias in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 2006: (Electronic Early View)
  3. Cosford PA, O'Mahony M, Angell E, Bickler G, Crawshaw S, Glencross J, Horsley SS, McCloskey B, Puleston R, Seare N, Tobin MD. Public health professionals' perceptions toward provision of health protection in England: a survey of expectations of Primary Care Trusts and Health Protection Units in the delivery of health protection. BMC Public Health, 2006;7:6:297.
  4. Ferreira MA, O'Gorman L, Le Souef P, Burton PR, Toelle BG, Robertson CF, Martin NG, Duffy DL. Variance components analyses of multiple asthma traits in a large sample of Australian families ascertained through a twin proband. Allergy, 2006;61:2:245-253.
  5. Oddy WH, Pal S, Kusel MM, Vine D, de Klerk NH, Hartmann P, Holt PG, Sly PD, Burton PR, Stanley FJ, Landau LI. Atopy, eczema and breast milk fatty acids in a high-risk cohort of children followed from birth to 5 yr. Pediatr.Allergy Immunol, 2006;17:1:4-10.

 

 

2005

  1. Al-Azzawi F, Lees B, Thompson J, Stevenson J. Bone mineral density in postmenopausal women treated with a vaginal ring delivering systemic doses of estradiol acetate. Menopause: The Journal of the North American Menopause Society 2005;12:331-339
  2. Burton PR, Scurrah KJ, Tobin MD, Palmer LJ. Covariance components models for longitudinal family data. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;34:1063-1067
  3. Burton PR, Tobin MD, Hopper JL. Genetic Epidemiology 1:Key concepts in genetic epidemiology. Lancet 2005;366:941- 951
  4. Bowden J, Thompson JR, Burton PR. Using pseudo-data to correct for publication bias in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine (in press 2006; early access on line - www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/ abstract/112223054/ABSTRACT)
  5. Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Lewis S, Hansell AL, Palmer LJ, Burton PR. Genetic Epidemiology 7: Genetic epidemiology and public health: hope, hype, and future prospects. Lancet 2005;366:1484-1498
  6. Dias J, Wildin C, Bhowal B, Thompson J. Should acute scaphoid fractures be fixed? A randomized controlled trial.Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [US] 2005;87:2160-2168
  7. Ferreira MAR, O’Gorman L, Le Souëf P, Burton PR, Toelle BG,Robertson CF, Visscher PM, Martin NG, Duffy DL. Robust estimation of experiment-wise P-values applied to a genomescan of multiple asthma traits identifies a new region of  significant linkage on chromosome 20q13. American Journal Human Genetics 2005;77:1075-1085.
  8. Hetherington S, Singh R, Goodall A, Lodwick D, Thompson J, Samani N. A Dimorphism in the P2RY1 ADP receptor gene is associated with increased platelet activation response to ADP. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis and vascular biology 2005;25:252-257
  9. Kendrick D, Watson M, Mulvaney C, Burton P. How useful are home safety behaviours for predicting childhood injury? A cohort study. Health Education Research 2005;20:709-718.
  10. Kendrick D, Mulvaney C, Burton PR, Watson M. Relationships between child, family and neighbourhood characteristics and childhood injury: A cohort study. Social Science and Medicine 2005;61:1905-1915
  11. Lambert PC, Sutton AJ, Burton PR, Abrams KR, Jones DR. How Vague is Vague? A simulation study of the impact of the use of vague prior distributions in MCMC using WinBUGS. Statistics in Medicine 2005;24:2401-2428.
  12. Minelli C, Thompson J, Abrams K, Lambert P. Bayesian implementation of a genetic model-free approach to the meta-analysis of genetic association studies. Statistics in Medicine 2005;24:3845-3861
  13. Minelli C, Thompson J, Abrams K, Thakkinstian A, Attia J. The choice of genetic model in the meta-analysis of molecular association studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;24:1319-1328
  14. Oddy WH, Pal S, Kusel MMH, Vine D, de Klerk NH, Hartmann P, Holt PG, Sly PD, Burton PR, Stanley FJ, Landau LI. Atopy, eczema and breast milk fatty acids in a high-risk cohort of children followed from birth to 5 yr. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (in press 2006; access on line – www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1399- 3038.2005.00340.x)
  15. Pilling R, Thompson J, Gottlob I. Social and visual function in nystagmus. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2005;89:1278- 1281
  16. Riley R, Abrams KR, Lambert P, Sutton A, Thompson J. An evaluation of bivariate random-effects meta-analysis for the synthesis of two correlated outcomes. Statistics in Medicine (in press 2006; early access on line –www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/abstract/112471136/ABSTRACT)
  17. Seale C, Kirk DD, Tobin MD, Burton PR, Grundy R, Pritchard-Jones K, Dixon-Woods M. Mass media portrayals of removal of children’s tissue and impact on a tumour bank: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. British Medical Journal 2005;331:401-403.
  18. Taylor A, Guzail M, Wahab M, Thompson J, Al-Azzawi F.Quantitative histomorphometric analysis of gonadal steroid receptor distribution in the normal human endometrium through the menstrual cycle. Histochemistry and cell biology 2005;123:463-474
  19. Thakkinstian A, McEvoy M, Minelli C, Gibson P, Hancox R, Duffy D, Thompson J, et al. Systematic review and metaanalysis of the association between beta2-adrenoceptor polymorphisms and asthma: A HuGE review. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005;162:201-211
  20. Thompson JR, Minelli C, Abrams KR, Tobin MD, Riley R. Meta-analysis of genetic studies using Mendelian randomisation: a multivariate approach. Statistics in Medicine2005;24(14):2241-2254.
  21. Tobin MD, Sheehan NA, Scurrah KJ, Burton PR. Adjusting for treatment effects in studies of quantitative traits: antihypertensive therapy and systolic blood pressure. Statistics in Medicine 2005;24:2911-2935.
  22. Tobin MD, Raleigh SM, Newhouse S, Braund P, Bodycote C, Ogleby J, Cross D, Gracey J, Hayes S, Smith T, Ridge C, Caulfield M, Sheehan NA, Munroe PB, Burton PR, Samani NJ. Association of PRKWNK1 gene polymorphisms and haplotypes with ambulatory blood pressure in the general population. Circulation 2005;112:3423-3429.
  23. Vasa-Nicotera M, Brouilette S, Mangino M, Thompson J, Braund P, Clemitson J, Mason A, Bodycare C, Raleigh S, Louis E, Samani N. Mapping of a major locus that determines telomere length in humans. American Journal of Human Genetics 2005;76:147-151
  24. The BHF Family Heart Study Research Group (including Burton PR). A genome-wide linkage study of 1933 families affected by premature coronary artery disease. The British Heart Foundation Family Heart Study. American Journal Human Genetics 2005;77:1011-1020.

 

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