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Kurklinsky S, Abdul-Hay SO, McGuire MP, Howard EA, Knight J, Leissring MA. The blood glucose-lowering effect of racecadotril is not attributable to inhibition of insulin-degrading enzyme. Horm Metab Res 2014; 46:73-4. [PMID: 23975847 PMCID: PMC10127590 DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1353211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Knight J, Wakeman M, Reeves J. ABEL-SPORT™ TEST FOR ASSESSING OVER TRAINING SYNDROME AND DETECTING INFECTION. Br J Sports Med 2013. [DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-093073.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Tzelepis F, Paul CL, Walsh RA, Knight J, Wiggers J. Who Enrolled in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Quitline Support? Comparison of Participants Versus Nonparticipants. Nicotine Tob Res 2013; 15:2107-13. [DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntt114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Armstrong A, DeBernardo R, Knight J, Otvos B. Evaluation of the cost of CA-125 measurement, office visit and CT scan in the diagnosis of recurrent ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.04.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Tsoi LC, Spain SL, Knight J, Ellinghaus E, Stuart PE, Capon F, Ding J, Li Y, Tejasvi T, Gudjonsson JE, Kang HM, Allen MH, McManus R, Novelli G, Samuelsson L, Schalkwijk J, Ståhle M, Burden AD, Smith CH, Cork MJ, Estivill X, Bowcock AM, Krueger GG, Weger W, Worthington J, Tazi-Ahnini R, Nestle FO, Hayday A, Hoffmann P, Winkelmann J, Wijmenga C, Langford C, Edkins S, Andrews R, Blackburn H, Strange A, Band G, Pearson RD, Vukcevic D, Spencer CCA, Deloukas P, Mrowietz U, Schreiber S, Weidinger S, Koks S, Kingo K, Esko T, Metspalu A, Lim HW, Voorhees JJ, Weichenthal M, Wichmann HE, Chandran V, Rosen CF, Rahman P, Gladman DD, Griffiths CEM, Reis A, Kere J, Nair RP, Franke A, Barker JNWN, Abecasis GR, Elder JT, Trembath RC. Identification of 15 new psoriasis susceptibility loci highlights the role of innate immunity. Nat Genet 2012; 44:1341-8. [PMID: 23143594 PMCID: PMC3510312 DOI: 10.1038/ng.2467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 706] [Impact Index Per Article: 58.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/17/2012] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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To gain further insight into the genetic architecture of psoriasis, we conducted a meta-analysis of 3 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and 2 independent data sets genotyped on the Immunochip, including 10,588 cases and 22,806 controls. We identified 15 new susceptibility loci, increasing to 36 the number associated with psoriasis in European individuals. We also identified, using conditional analyses, five independent signals within previously known loci. The newly identified loci shared with other autoimmune diseases include candidate genes with roles in regulating T-cell function (such as RUNX3, TAGAP and STAT3). Notably, they included candidate genes whose products are involved in innate host defense, including interferon-mediated antiviral responses (DDX58), macrophage activation (ZC3H12C) and nuclear factor (NF)-κB signaling (CARD14 and CARM1). These results portend a better understanding of shared and distinctive genetic determinants of immune-mediated inflammatory disorders and emphasize the importance of the skin in innate and acquired host defense.
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Puet B, DePriest A, Knight J, Heltsley R, Black DL, Caplan YH, Cone EJ. Urine Drug Testing of Chronic Pain Patients. V. Prevalence of Propoxyphene Following its Withdrawal from the United States Market. J Anal Toxicol 2012; 37:1-4. [DOI: 10.1093/jat/bks083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Clark SM, MacDowell AA, Knight J, Kalkan B, Yan J, Chen B, Williams Q. Beamline 12.2.2: An Extreme Conditions Beamline at the Advanced Light Source. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2012.736832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Knight J, Spain SL, Capon F, Hayday A, Nestle FO, Clop A, Barker JN, Weale ME, Trembath RC. Conditional analysis identifies three novel major histocompatibility complex loci associated with psoriasis. Hum Mol Genet 2012. [PMID: 22914738 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds5344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Psoriasis is a common, chronic, inflammatory skin disorder. A number of genetic loci have been shown to confer risk for psoriasis. Collectively, these offer an integrated model for the inherited basis for susceptibility to psoriasis that combines altered skin barrier function together with the dysregulation of innate immune pathogen sensing and adap-tive immunity. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) harbours the psoriasis susceptibility region which exhibits the largest effect size, driven in part by variation contained on the HLA-Cw*0602 allele. However, the resolution of the number and genomic location of potential independent risk loci are hampered by extensive linkage disequilibrium across the region. We leveraged the power of large psoriasis case and control data sets and the statistical approach of conditional analysis to identify potential further association signals distributed across the MHC. In addition to the major loci at HLA-C (P = 2.20 × 10(-236)), we observed and replicated four additional independent signals for disease association, three of which are novel. We detected evidence for association at SNPs rs2507971 (P = 6.73 × 10(-14)), rs9260313 (P = 7.93 × 10(-09)), rs66609536 (P = 3.54 × 10(-07)) and rs380924 (P = 6.24 × 10(-06)), located within the class I region of the MHC, with each observation replicated in an independent sample (P ≤ 0.01). The previously identified locus is close to MICA, the other three lie near MICB, HLA-A and HCG9 (a non-coding RNA gene). The identification of disease associations with both MICA and MICB is particularly intriguing, since each encodes an MHC class I-related protein with potent immunological function.
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Knight J, Spain SL, Capon F, Hayday A, Nestle FO, Clop A, Barker JN, Weale ME, Trembath RC. Conditional analysis identifies three novel major histocompatibility complex loci associated with psoriasis. Hum Mol Genet 2012; 21:5185-92. [PMID: 22914738 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Psoriasis is a common, chronic, inflammatory skin disorder. A number of genetic loci have been shown to confer risk for psoriasis. Collectively, these offer an integrated model for the inherited basis for susceptibility to psoriasis that combines altered skin barrier function together with the dysregulation of innate immune pathogen sensing and adap-tive immunity. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) harbours the psoriasis susceptibility region which exhibits the largest effect size, driven in part by variation contained on the HLA-Cw*0602 allele. However, the resolution of the number and genomic location of potential independent risk loci are hampered by extensive linkage disequilibrium across the region. We leveraged the power of large psoriasis case and control data sets and the statistical approach of conditional analysis to identify potential further association signals distributed across the MHC. In addition to the major loci at HLA-C (P = 2.20 × 10(-236)), we observed and replicated four additional independent signals for disease association, three of which are novel. We detected evidence for association at SNPs rs2507971 (P = 6.73 × 10(-14)), rs9260313 (P = 7.93 × 10(-09)), rs66609536 (P = 3.54 × 10(-07)) and rs380924 (P = 6.24 × 10(-06)), located within the class I region of the MHC, with each observation replicated in an independent sample (P ≤ 0.01). The previously identified locus is close to MICA, the other three lie near MICB, HLA-A and HCG9 (a non-coding RNA gene). The identification of disease associations with both MICA and MICB is particularly intriguing, since each encodes an MHC class I-related protein with potent immunological function.
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Onoufriadis A, Simpson M, Pink A, Di Meglio P, Smith C, Pullabhatla V, Knight J, Spain S, Nestle F, Burden A, Capon F, Trembath R, Barker J. Mutations in IL36RN/IL1F5 are associated with the severe episodic inflammatory skin disease known as generalized pustular psoriasis. Am J Hum Genet 2011; 89:432-7. [PMID: 21839423 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 362] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2011] [Revised: 07/27/2011] [Accepted: 07/29/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a rare and yet potentially lethal clinical variant of psoriasis, characterized by the formation of sterile cutaneous pustules, neutrophilia, fever and features of systemic inflammation. We sequenced the exomes of five unrelated individuals diagnosed with GPP. Nonsynonymous, splice-site, insertion, and deletion variants with an estimated population frequency of <0.01 were considered as candidate pathogenic mutations. A homozygous c.338C>T (p.Ser113Leu) missense substitution of IL36RN was identified in two individuals, with a third subject found to be a compound heterozygote for c.338C>T (p.Ser113Leu) and a c.142C>T (p.Arg48Trp) missense substitution. IL36RN (previously known as IL1F5) encodes an IL-1 family receptor antagonist, which opposes the activity of the IL-36A and IL-36G innate cytokines. Homology searches revealed that GPP mutations alter evolutionarily conserved residues. Homozygosity for the c.338C>T (p.Ser113Leu) variant is associated with an elevated proinflammatory response following ex vivo stimulation with IL36A. These findings suggest loss of function of IL36RN as the genetic basis of GPP and implicate innate immune dysregulation in this severe episodic inflammatory disease, thereby highlighting IL-1 signaling as a potential target for therapeutic intervention.
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Breen G, Webb BT, Butler AW, van den Oord EJCG, Tozzi F, Craddock N, Gill M, Korszun A, Maier W, Middleton L, Mors O, Owen MJ, Cohen-Woods S, Perry J, Galwey NW, Upmanyu R, Craig I, Lewis CM, Ng M, Brewster S, Preisig M, Rietschel M, Jones L, Knight J, Rice J, Muglia P, Farmer AE, McGuffin P. A genome-wide significant linkage for severe depression on chromosome 3: the depression network study. Am J Psychiatry 2011; 168:840-7. [PMID: 21572164 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10091342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to find loci for major depression via linkage analysis of a large sibling pair sample. METHOD The authors conducted a genome-wide linkage analysis of 839 families consisting of 971 affected sibling pairs with severe recurrent major depression, comprising waves I and II of the Depression Network Study cohort. In addition to examining affected status, linkage analyses in the full data set were performed using diagnoses restricted by impairment severity, and association mapping of hits in a large case-control data set was attempted. RESULTS The authors identified genome-wide significant linkage to chromosome 3p25-26 when the diagnoses were restricted by severity, which was a maximum LOD score of 4.0 centered at the linkage marker D3S1515. The linkage signal identified was genome-wide significant after correction for the multiple phenotypes tested, although subsequent association mapping of the region in a genome-wide association study of a U.K. depression sample did not provide significant results. CONCLUSIONS The authors report a genome-wide significant locus for depression that implicates genes that are highly plausible for involvement in the etiology of recurrent depression. Despite the fact that association mapping in the region was negative, the linkage finding was replicated by another group who found genome-wide-significant linkage for depression in the same region. This suggests that 3p25-26 is a new locus for severe recurrent depression. This represents the first report of a genome-wide significant locus for depression that also has an independent genome-wide significant replication.
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Knight J, Barnes MR, Breen G, Weale ME. Using functional annotation for the empirical determination of Bayes Factors for genome-wide association study analysis. PLoS One 2011; 6:e14808. [PMID: 21556132 PMCID: PMC3083387 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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A genome wide association study (GWAS) typically results in a few highly
significant ‘hits’ and a much larger set of suggestive signals
(‘near-hits’). The latter group are expected to be a mixture of true
and false associations. One promising strategy to help separate these is to use
functional annotations for prioritisation of variants for follow-up. A key task
is to determine which annotations might prove most valuable. We address this
question by examining the functional annotations of previously published GWAS
hits. We explore three annotation categories: non-synonymous SNPs (nsSNPs),
promoter SNPs and cis expression quantitative trait loci
(eQTLs) in open chromatin regions. We demonstrate that GWAS hit SNPs are
enriched for these three functional categories, and that it would be appropriate
to provide a higher weighting for such SNPs when performing Bayesian association
analyses. For GWAS studies, our analyses suggest the use of a Bayes Factor of
about 4 for cis eQTL SNPs within regions of open chromatin, 3
for nsSNPs and 2 for promoter SNPs.
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Twells L, Knight J, Alaghebandan R, MacDonald D, Bridger T, Barrett B. Obesity and its impact on a provincial health system in Canada. Can J Diabetes 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/s1499-2671(11)52285-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Aldridge RW, Story A, Stagg H, Lipman M, Knight J, Taubman D, Shaji K, Quinn D, Watson J, Abubakar I, Hayward A. S6 Sensitivity and specificity of mobile digital chest radiography for the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis. A cohort study in high risk groups in London. Thorax 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.150912.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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van der Zanden LFM, van Rooij IALM, Feitz WFJ, Knight J, Donders ART, Renkema KY, Bongers EMHF, Vermeulen SHHM, Kiemeney LALM, Veltman JA, Arias-Vásquez A, Zhang X, Markljung E, Qiao L, Baskin LS, Nordenskjöld A, Roeleveld N, Franke B, Knoers NVAM. Common variants in DGKK are strongly associated with risk of hypospadias. Nat Genet 2010; 43:48-50. [DOI: 10.1038/ng.721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2010] [Accepted: 11/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Much attention has been recently directed at fructose consumption because of its association with obesity and subsequent development of chronic diseases. It was recently reported that an increased fructose intake increases the risk of forming kidney stones. It was postulated that fructose consumption may increase urinary oxalate, a risk factor for calcium oxalate kidney stone disease. However, conflicting results have been obtained in human studies examining the relationship between fructose metabolism and oxalate synthesis. To test whether fructose intake influences urinary excretions impacting kidney stone risk, healthy subjects consumed diets controlled in their contents of fructose, oxalate, calcium, and other nutrients. Subjects consumed diets containing 4, 13, and 21% of calories as fructose in a randomized order. No changes in the excretions of oxalate, calcium, and uric acid were observed. In vitro investigations with cultured liver cells incubated with (13)C-labeled sugars indicated that neither fructose nor glucose was converted to oxalate by these cells. Fructose metabolism accounted for 12.4 ± 1.6% of the glycolate detected in the culture medium and glucose 6.4 ± 0.9%. Our results suggest that mechanisms for stone risk associated with fructose intake may lie in factors other than those affecting the major stone risk parameters in urine.
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Cohen-Woods S, Craig I, Gaysina D, Gray J, Gunasinghe C, Craddock N, Elkin A, Jones L, Kennedy J, King N, Korszun A, Knight J, Owen M, Parikh S, Strauss J, Sterne A, Tozzi F, Perry J, Muglia P, Vincent J, McGuffin P, Farmer A. The Bipolar Association Case-Control Study (BACCS) and meta-analysis: No association with the 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene and bipolar disorder. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2010; 153B:1298-304. [PMID: 20552676 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex genetic disease for which the underlying pathophysiology has yet to be fully explained. 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is a crucial enzyme in folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism and folate deficiency can be associated with psychiatric symptoms. A single base variant in MTHFR gene (C677T) results in the production of a mildly dysfunctional thermolabile enzyme and has recently been implicated in BD. We conducted an association study of this polymorphism in 897 patients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder, and 1,687 healthy control subjects. We found no evidence for genotypic or allelic association in this sample. We also performed a meta-analysis of our own, and all published data, and report no evidence for association. Our findings suggest that the MTHFR C677T polymorphism is not involved in the genetic etiology of clinically significant BD.
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Knight J, Nanette Rochberg M, Saccone SF, Nurnberger J, Rice JP. An investigation of candidate regions for association with bipolar disorder. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2010; 153B:1292-7. [PMID: 20872768 PMCID: PMC3321541 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We performed a case-control study of 1,000 cases and 1,028 controls on 1,509 markers, 1,139 of which were located in a 8 Mb region on chromosome 6 (105-113 Mb). This region has shown evidence of involvement in bipolar disorder (BP) in a number of other studies. We find association between BP and two SNPs in the gene LACE1. SNP rs9486880 and rs11153113 (both have P-values of 2 × 10(-5)). Both P-values are in the top 5% of the distribution derived from null simulations (P = 0.02 and 0.01, respectively). LACE is a good candidate for BP; it is an ATPase. We genotyped 173 other markers in 17 other positional and/or functional loci but found no further evidence of association with BP.
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Campbell DD, Sham PC, Knight J, Wickham H, Landau S. Software for generating liability distributions for pedigrees conditional on their observed disease states and covariates. Genet Epidemiol 2010; 34:159-70. [PMID: 19771574 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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For many multifactorial diseases, aetiology is poorly understood. A major research aim is the identification of disease predictors (environmental, biological, and genetic markers). In order to achieve this, a two-stage approach is proposed. The initial or synthesis stage combines observed pedigree data with previous genetic epidemiological research findings, to produce estimates of pedigree members' disease risk and predictions of their disease liability. A further analysis stage uses the latter as inputs to look for associations with potential disease markers. The incorporation of previous research findings into an analysis should lead to power gains. It also allows separate predictions for environmental and genetic liabilities to be generated. This should increase power for detecting disease predictors that are environmental or genetic in nature. Finally, the approach brings pragmatic benefits in terms of data reduction and synthesis, improving comprehensibility, and facilitating the use of existing statistical genetics tools. In this article we present a statistical model and Gibbs sampling approach to generate liability predictions for multifactorial disease for the synthesis stage. We have implemented the approach in a software program. We apply this program to a specimen disease pedigree, and discuss the results produced, comparing its results with those generated under a more naïve model. We also detail simulation studies that validate the software's operation.
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Wye P, Bowman J, Wiggers J, Baker A, Carr V, Terry M, Knight J, Clancy R. Providing nicotine dependence treatment to psychiatric inpatients: the views of Australian nurse managers. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 2010; 17:319-27. [PMID: 20529182 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01524.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The prevalence of smoking in psychiatric settings remains high. This study aims to describe the views of nurse managers in psychiatric inpatient settings regarding the provision of nicotine dependence treatment, and whether there were associations between such views and the provision of nicotine dependence treatment. A cross-sectional survey was mailed to all public psychiatric inpatient units in New South Wales, Australia, for completion by nurse managers. Of the identified 131 service units, 123 completed questionnaires were returned (94%). Patient-related factors were considered to have a high level of influence on the provision of nicotine dependence treatment: patients requesting assistance to quit (58%), patients being receptive to interventions (52%), and patient health improving with quitting (45%). Units where the respondent reported that nicotine dependence treatment was as important as other roles were more likely to provide nicotine dependence treatment compared to units whose respondents did not hold this view (OR = 0.257, d.f. = 1, P < 0.01). While the results indicate strong support for the provision of nicotine dependence treatment, this support appears qualified by perceived patient readiness to quit, suggesting care is provided selectively rather than systematically. Positioning smoking as an addiction requiring treatment within a traditional curative approach may lead to a health service more conducive to the routine provision of nicotine dependence treatment.
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Knight J. Understanding disease: the ninjas are with you. West J Med 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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May D, Pearson K, Durran A, Davies C, Magan A, Knight J. Buttock cellulitis as a presentation of psoas abscess: a clinical reminder. Acute Med 2010; 9:82-83. [PMID: 21597579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Cellulitis is a common condition that is frequently managed by the general physicians on an acute medical take. This case report describes buttock cellulitis as a presentation of an iliopsoas abscess and illustrates the importance of considering a deep abscess when there are atypical features, when the cellulitis is in an unusual location or when the patient fails to improve with standard anti-microbial therapy.
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Gathorne-Hardy A, Knight J, Woods J. Biochar as a soil amendment positively interacts with nitrogen fertiliser to improve barley yields in the UK. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1088/1755-1307/6/37/372052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Al-Rawi S, Woodward LJ, Knight J. Puerperal streptococcal toxic shock syndrome treated with recombinant human activated protein C and intravenous immunoglobulin. Int J Obstet Anesth 2009; 18:169-72. [PMID: 19195874 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2008.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Group A streptococcal sepsis is an uncommon management challenge and has a potentially fulminate course. We present the case of a 25-year-old woman who, within 24h of spontaneous vaginal delivery at 32 weeks of gestation, developed signs of systemic infection and multi-organ failure requiring admission to the intensive care unit. Recombinant human activated protein C and intravenous immunoglobulin were used; subsequently heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and pulmonary embolus also required treatment.
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Cohen-Woods S, Gaysina D, Craddock N, Farmer A, Gray J, Gunasinghe C, Hoda F, Jones L, Knight J, Korszun A, Owen MJ, Sterne A, Craig IW, McGuffin P. Depression Case Control (DeCC) Study fails to support involvement of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2 (CHRM2) gene in recurrent major depressive disorder. Hum Mol Genet 2009; 18:1504-9. [PMID: 19181679 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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