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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
Newton, R, Wernisch, L. 2019. A meta-analysis of multiple matched aCGH/expression cancer datasets reveals regulatory relationships and pathway enrichment of potential oncogenes. PLoS ONE 14:e0213221. PubMed PMID:31335867
Newcombe, PJ, Nelson, CP, Samani, NJ, Dudbridge, F. 2019. A flexible and parallelizable approach to genome-wide polygenic risk scores. Genet. Epidemiol. :. PubMed PMID:31328830
Burgess, S, Davey Smith, G. 2019. How humans can contribute to Mendelian randomization analyses. Int J Epidemiol :. PubMed PMID:31326987
Asimit, JL, Rainbow, DB, Fortune, MD, Grinberg, NF, Wicker, LS, Wallace, C. 2019. Stochastic search and joint fine-mapping increases accuracy and identifies previously unreported associations in immune-mediated diseases. Nat Commun 10:3216. PubMed PMID:31324808
Williamson, SF, Villar, SS. 2019. A Response-Adaptive Randomization Procedure for Multi-Armed Clinical Trials with Normally Distributed Outcomes. Biometrics :. PubMed PMID:31322732
Walburn, J, Norton, S, Sarkany, R, Sainsbury, K, Araújo-Soares, V, Morgan, M, Canfield, M, Foster, L, Heydenreich, J, McCrone, P, Mander, A, Sniehotta, FF, Wulf, HC, Weinman, J. 2019. Evaluation of a personalised adherence intervention to improve photoprotection in adults with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP): protocol for the trial of XPAND. BMJ Open 9:e028577. PubMed PMID:31320353
Dua, S, Ruiz-Garcia, M, Bond, S, Durham, SR, Kimber, I, Mills, C, Roberts, G, Skypala, I, Wason, J, Ewan, P, Boyle, R, Clark, A. 2019. The effect of sleep deprivation and exercise on reaction threshold in peanut-allergic adults: a randomised controlled study. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. :. PubMed PMID:31319102
Giblett, JP, Clarke, S, Zhao, T, McCormick, LM, Braganza, DM, Densem, CG, O'Sullivan, M, Adlam, D, Clarke, SC, Steele, J, Fielding, S, West, NEJ, Villar, SS, Hoole, SP. 2019. The role of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Loading on periprocedural myocardial infarction During elective PCI (GOLD-PCI study): A randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Am. Heart J. 215:41-51. PubMed PMID:31277053
Clearkin, L, Ramasamy, B, Wason, J, Tiew, S. 2019. Anti-VEGF intervention in neovascular AMD: benefits and risks restated as natural frequencies. BMJ Open Ophthalmol 4:e000257. PubMed PMID:31276032
Butchart, AG, Zochios, V, Villar, SS, Jones, NL, Curry, S, Agrawal, B, Jenkins, DP, Klein, AA. 2019. Measurement of extravascular lung water to diagnose severe reperfusion lung injury following pulmonary endarterectomy: a prospective cohort clinical validation study. Anaesthesia :. PubMed PMID:31273760
Chiu, YD, Villar, SS, Brand, JW, Patteril, MV, Morrice, DJ, Clayton, J, Mackay, JH. 2019. Logistic early warning scores to predict death, cardiac arrest or unplanned intensive care unit re-admission after cardiac surgery. Anaesthesia :. PubMed PMID:31270799
Chiavenna, C, Presanis, AM, Charlett, A, de Lusignan, S, Ladhani, S, Pebody, RG, De Angelis, D. 2019. Estimating age-stratified influenza-associated invasive pneumococcal disease in England: A time-series model based on population surveillance data. PLoS Med. 16:e1002829. PubMed PMID:31246954
Derham, AM, O'Leary, JM, Connolly, SE, Schumacher, J, Kelly, G. 2019. Performance comparison of 159 Thoroughbred racehorses and matched cohorts before and after desmotomy of the interspinous ligament. Vet. J. 249:16-23. PubMed PMID:31239160
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