Published Research

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Barber, MRW, Hanly, JG, Su, L, Urowitz, MB, St Pierre, Y, Romero-Diaz, J, Gordon, C, Bae, SC, Bernatsky, S, Wallace, DJ, Merrill, JT, Isenberg, DA, Rahman, A, Ginzler, EM, Petri, M, Bruce, IN, Dooley, MA, Fortin, PR, Gladman, DD, Sanchez-Guerrero, J, Steinsson, K, Ramsey-Goldman, R, Khamashta, MA, Aranow, C, Mackay, M, Alarcón, GS, Manzi, S, Nived, O, Jönsen, A, Zoma, AA, van Vollenhoven, RF, Ramos-Casals, M, Ruiz-Irastorza, G, Lim, SS, Kalunian, KC, Inanc, M, Kamen, DL, Peschken, CA, Jacobsen, S, Askanase, A, Farewell, V, Stoll, T, Buyon, J, Clarke, AE. 2019. Economic evaluation of damage accrual in an international SLE inception cohort using a multi-state model approach. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) :. PubMed PMID:31609532

Strauss, ME, Kirk, PDW, Reid, JE, Wernisch, L. 2019. GPseudoClust: deconvolution of shared pseudo-profiles at single-cell resolution. Bioinformatics :. PubMed PMID:31608923

Bonnett, LJ, White, SR. 2019. Investigating populations via penguins and their poo!. Teach Stat 41:101-105. PubMed PMID:31588155

Seaman, S, Dukes, O, Keogh, R, Vansteelandt, S. 2019. Adjusting for time-varying confounders in survival analysis using structural nested cumulative survival time models. Biometrics :. PubMed PMID:31562652

Hickman, M, Dillon, JF, Elliott, L, De Angelis, D, Vickerman, P, Foster, G, Donnan, P, Eriksen, A, Flowers, P, Goldberg, D, Hollingworth, W, Ijaz, S, Liddell, D, Mandal, S, Martin, N, Beer, LJZ, Drysdale, K, Fraser, H, Glass, R, Graham, L, Gunson, RN, Hamilton, E, Harris, H, Harris, M, Harris, R, Heinsbroek, E, Hope, V, Horwood, J, Inglis, SK, Innes, H, Lane, A, Meadows, J, McAuley, A, Metcalfe, C, Migchelsen, S, Murray, A, Myring, G, Palmateer, NE, Presanis, A, Radley, A, Ramsay, M, Samartsidis, P, Simmons, R, Sinka, K, Vojt, G, Ward, Z, Whiteley, D, Yeung, A, Hutchinson, SJ. 2019. Evaluating the population impact of hepatitis C direct acting antiviral treatment as prevention for people who inject drugs (EPIToPe) - a natural experiment (protocol). BMJ Open 9:e029538. PubMed PMID:31551376

Pereira, DIA, Mohammed, NI, Ofordile, O, Camara, F, Baldeh, B, Mendy, T, Sanyang, C, Jallow, AT, Hossain, I, Wason, J, Prentice, AM. 2018. A novel nano-iron supplement to safely combat iron deficiency and anaemia in young children: The IHAT-GUT double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial protocol. Gates Open Res 2:48. PubMed PMID:30569038

Rees, JMB, Wood, AM, Dudbridge, F, Burgess, S. 2019. Robust methods in Mendelian randomization via penalization of heterogeneous causal estimates. PLoS ONE 14:e0222362. PubMed PMID:31545794

Steyerberg, EW, Wiegers, E, Sewalt, C, Buki, A, Citerio, G, De Keyser, V, Ercole, A, Kunzmann, K, Lanyon, L, Lecky, F, Lingsma, H, Manley, G, Nelson, D, Peul, W, Stocchetti, N, von Steinbüchel, N, Vande Vyvere, T, Verheyden, J, Wilson, L, Maas, AIR, Menon, DK, CENTER-TBI Participants and Investigators. 2019. Case-mix, care pathways, and outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury in CENTER-TBI: a European prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, cohort study. Lancet Neurol 18:923-934. PubMed PMID:31526754

Mourragui, S, Loog, M, van de Wiel, MA, Reinders, MJT, Wessels, LFA. 2019. PRECISE: a domain adaptation approach to transfer predictors of drug response from pre-clinical models to tumors. Bioinformatics 35:i510-i519. PubMed PMID:31510654

Chen, H, Moreno-Moral, A, Pesce, F, Devapragash, N, Mancini, M, Heng, EL, Rotival, M, Srivastava, PK, Harmston, N, Shkura, K, Rackham, OJL, Yu, WP, Sun, XM, Tee, NGZ, Tan, ELS, Barton, PJR, Felkin, LE, Lara-Pezzi, E, Angelini, G, Beltrami, C, Pravenec, M, Schafer, S, Bottolo, L, Hubner, N, Emanueli, C, Cook, SA, Petretto, E. 2019. Author Correction: WWP2 regulates pathological cardiac fibrosis by modulating SMAD2 signaling. Nat Commun 10:4085. PubMed PMID:31501434

Bird, SM. 2019. Health in the UK. Lancet 394:827-828. PubMed PMID:31498093

Bonnett, LJ, White, SR. 2018. May the odds be ever in your favour. Teach Stat 40:94-97. PubMed PMID:31427834

Mullis, R, Aquino, MRJR, Dawson, SN, Johnson, V, Jowett, S, Kreit, E, Mant, J, IPCAS investigator team. 2019. Improving Primary Care After Stroke (IPCAS) trial: protocol of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a novel model of care for stroke survivors living in the community. BMJ Open 9:e030285. PubMed PMID:31427339

Lakhal-Chaieb, L, Cook, RJ, Zhong, Y. 2019. Testing the heritability and parent-of-origin hypotheses for ages at onset of Psoriatic arthritis under biased sampling. Biometrics :. PubMed PMID:31424087

Chen, H, Moreno-Moral, A, Pesce, F, Devapragash, N, Mancini, M, Heng, EL, Rotival, M, Srivastava, PK, Harmston, N, Shkura, K, Rackham, OJL, Yu, WP, Sun, XM, Tee, NGZ, Tan, ELS, Barton, PJR, Felkin, LE, Lara-Pezzi, E, Angelini, G, Beltrami, C, Pravenec, M, Schafer, S, Bottolo, L, Hubner, N, Emanueli, C, Cook, SA, Petretto, E. 2019. WWP2 regulates pathological cardiac fibrosis by modulating SMAD2 signaling. Nat Commun 10:3616. PubMed PMID:31399586

Pennington, M, Ring, H, Howlett, J, Smith, C, Redley, M, Murphy, C, Hook, R, Platt, A, Gilbert, N, Jones, E, Kelly, J, Pullen, A, Mander, A, Donaldson, C, Rowe, S, Wason, J, Irvine, F. 2019. The impact of an epilepsy nurse competency framework on the costs of supporting adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability: findings from the EpAID study. J Intellect Disabil Res :. PubMed PMID:31397022

Hanly, JG, Li, Q, Su, L, Urowitz, MB, Gordon, C, Bae, SC, Romero-Diaz, J, Sanchez-Guerrero, J, Bernatsky, S, Clarke, AE, Wallace, DJ, Isenberg, DA, Rahman, A, Merrill, JT, Fortin, PR, Gladman, DD, Bruce, IN, Petri, M, Ginzler, EM, Dooley, MA, Steinsson, K, Ramsey-Goldman, R, Zoma, AA, Manzi, S, Nived, O, Jonsen, A, Khamashta, MA, Alarcón, GS, Svenungsson, E, van Vollenhoven, RF, Aranow, C, Mackay, M, Ruiz-Irastorza, G, Ramos-Casals, M, Lim, SS, Inanc, M, Kalunian, KC, Jacobsen, S, Peschken, CA, Kamen, DL, Askanase, A, Theriault, C, Farewell, V. 2019. Peripheral nervous system disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results from an international, inception cohort study. :. PubMed PMID:31390162

Wason, JMS, Brocklehurst, P, Yap, C. 2019. When to keep it simple - adaptive designs are not always useful. BMC Med 17:152. PubMed PMID:31370839

Rees, JMB, Foley, CN, Burgess, S. 2019. Factorial Mendelian randomization: using genetic variants to assess interactions. Int J Epidemiol :. PubMed PMID:31369124

Deveduthras, N, Balakrishna, Y, Muckart, D, Harrichandparsad, R, Hardcastle, T. 2019. The prevalence of sodium abnormalities in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury patients in a level 1 Trauma unit in Durban. S Afr J Surg 57:62. PubMed PMID:31342687

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