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Courtney Gray-McGuire
Biomedicine
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Genetic Epidemiology of Obesity and Cancer
To understand the genetic epidemiology of obesity and cancer means to consider the genetics of not only these two complex diseases but also the many risk factors associated with them and the molecular mechanis...
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Genetic association tests: a method for the joint analysis of family and case-control data
With the trend in molecular epidemiology towards both genome-wide association studies and complex modelling, the need for large sample sizes to detect small effects and to allow for the estimation of many para...
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Localization and replication of the systemic lupus erythematosus linkage signal at 4p16: interaction with 2p11, 12q24 and 19q13 in European Americans
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by both population and phenotypic heterogeneity. Our group previously identified linkage to SLE at 4p16 in European Americans (...
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Genetic characterization and fine map** of susceptibility loci for sarcoidosis in African Americans on chromosome 5
Sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous disease, likely results from both environmental agents and genetic susceptibility. Sarcoidosis is more prevalent in women and, in the United States, African Americans are ...
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Genetic linkage of systemic lupus erythematosus to 13q32 in African American families with affected male members
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disorder involving genetic and environmental factors. Previously, our group showed that SLE females with affected male relatives have higher prevalenc...
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A review of the 'Statistical Analysis for Genetic Epidemiology' (SAGE) software package
The 'Statistical Analysis for Genetic Epidemiology' (S.A.G.E.) software package is an integrated, comprehensive package of computer programs designed to perform many of the different analyses required in the s...
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SLEB3 in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is strongly related to SLE families ascertained through neuropsychiatric manifestations
Seizures and psychosis are neuropsychiatric (NP) manifestations of a large number of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Since NP manifestations were part of the SLE phenotype for some, but not all S...
