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Species | Dallas R EnglishSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) and concentrations of circulating sex hormones in adulthoodDavid C Muller
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Reprod Biol Endocrinol 9:57. 2011..The objective of this study was to examine whether circulating concentrations of sex hormones and SHBG measured in adulthood was associated with 2D:4D...- Meat consumption and risk of primary hip and knee joint replacement due to osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort studyYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 12:17. 2011..However, whether it affects the risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis is unknown. We performed a prospective cohort study to examine the relationship between meat consumption and risk of primary hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis... - Relationship between body adiposity measures and risk of primary knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort studyYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R31. 2009..It is unknown whether the adipose mass and the distribution of adipose mass are associated with the risk of primary knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis. The aim of the present investigation was to examine this in a cohort study... - Dietary fatty acid intake affects the risk of developing bone marrow lesions in healthy middle-aged adults without clinical knee osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort studyYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R63. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine the association between fatty acid consumption and the incidence of BMLs in healthy middle-aged adults without clinical knee OA... - Reduced rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis in Italian and Greek migrants to Australia: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort StudyYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R86. 2009..The aim of this study was to compare the rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis for Italian and Greek migrants to Australia and Australian-born individuals... - Development of bone marrow lesions is associated with adverse effects on knee cartilage while resolution is associated with improvement--a potential target for prevention of knee osteoarthritis: a longitudinal studyMiranda L Davies-Tuck
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Arthritis Res Ther 12:R10. 2010..To examine the relationship between development or resolution of bone marrow lesions (BMLs) and knee cartilage properties in a 2 year prospective study of asymptomatic middle-aged adults... - Vastus medialis cross-sectional area is positively associated with patella cartilage and bone volumes in a pain-free community-based populationPatricia A Berry
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Central and Eastern Clinical School, Melbourne, Australia
Arthritis Res Ther 10:R143. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine potential determinants of vastus medialis and lateralis cross-sectional areas and the relationship between the cross-sectional area and patella cartilage and bone volumes... 
Ethnicity and risk for colorectal cancers showing somatic BRAF V600E mutation or CpG island methylator phenotypeDallas R English
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1774-80. 2008....- Predictors of mammographic density: insights gained from a novel regression analysis of a twin studyGillian S Dite
The University of Melbourne, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3474-81. 2008..The associations between mammographic density measures and height are consistent with shared early life environmental factors that predispose to both height and percent mammographic density and possibly breast cancer risk... - 20/20--Alcohol and age-related macular degeneration: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort StudyMadeleine K M Adams
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 176:289-98. 2012..The odds ratio for those drinking more than 20 g of alcohol per day for late AMD was 1.44 (95% confidence interval: 0.85, 2.45; P = 0.17). These results show a modest association between alcohol consumption and increased AMD risk... - HFE C282Y homozygosity is associated with an increased risk of total hip replacement for osteoarthritisYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Semin Arthritis Rheum 41:872-8. 2012..Total joint replacement is considered a surrogate measure for symptomatic end-stage osteoarthritis. We examined the relationship between HFE gene mutations and risk of total hip and knee replacement using a prospective cohort study... - A novel association between a SNP in CYBRD1 and serum ferritin levels in a cohort study of HFE hereditary haemochromatosisClare C Constantine
Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Br J Haematol 147:140-9. 2009..004). This putative genetic modifier of iron overload expression accounts for 11% (95% CI 0.4%, 22.6%) of the variance in serum ferritin levels of C282Y homozygotes... - The natural history of serum iron indices for HFE C282Y homozygosity associated with hereditary hemochromatosisLyle C Gurrin
Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Gastroenterology 135:1945-52. 2008..We characterized the development of elevated iron measures in C282Y homozygotes followed for 12 years... - Effect of long-term vigorous physical activity on healthy adult knee cartilageAndrew J Teichtahl
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:985-92. 2012..We then examined whether this effect differed in those with and without bone marrow lesions (BMLs), as an indicator of preclinical joint damage... - Body mass index in early adulthood and endometrial cancer risk for mismatch repair gene mutation carriersAung Ko Win
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Obstet Gynecol 117:899-905. 2011..To investigate the association of body mass index (BMI) in early adulthood and endometrial cancer risk for carriers of a germline mutation in a DNA mismatch repair gene... - Apolipoprotein E gene associations in age-related macular degeneration: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort StudyMadeleine K M Adams
Center for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 175:511-8. 2012..77 (P = 0.005)). These results highlight the importance of stratifying by smoking status in elderly populations. Smokers who survive to old age may be more likely to possess unknown genotypes which modify exposure-disease associations... 
A comparison of adiposity measures as predictors of all-cause mortality: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort StudyJulie A Simpson
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Council Council Victoria, and Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Level 2 723 Swanston St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:994-1003. 2007..Our goal was to examine five different measures of adiposity as predictors of all-cause mortality...- Fat consumption and its association with age-related macular degenerationElaine W T Chong
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Arch Ophthalmol 127:674-80. 2009..To evaluate associations between past dietary fat intake and the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)... - Using mammographic density to improve breast cancer screening outcomesAnne M Kavanagh
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2818-24. 2008..There would be little additional benefit in targeting screening based on age and hormone therapy use... - Inference about causation from examination of familial confounding: application to longitudinal twin data on mammographic density measures that predict breast cancer riskJennifer Stone
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1149-55. 2012..Mammographic density is a strong risk factor for breast cancer. It is unknown whether there are different causes of variation in mammographic density at different ages... - A flatter proximal trochlear groove is associated with patella cartilage lossAndrew J Teichtahl
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:496-500. 2012.... - Longitudinal effect of vigorous physical activity on patella cartilage morphology in people without clinical knee diseaseAndrew J Teichtahl
Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Arthritis Rheum 61:1095-102. 2009..We examined the effect of participation in vigorous physical activity on changes to patella cartilage over 2 years... - Body size, weight change, and risk of colon cancerJulie K Bassett
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2978-86. 2010..Few studies have investigated effects of weight change on colon cancer risk... - Circulating steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer for postmenopausal womenLaura Baglietto
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:492-502. 2010.... - Dietary patterns and prostate cancer riskDavid C Muller
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council of Victoria and Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:3126-9. 2009..87 to 1.14 and all 95% confidence intervals included 1. The analyses by aggressiveness, Gleason score groups, and age at diagnosis did not show any association (all P(trend) > 0.07)... - No association between common chemokine and chemokine receptor gene variants and prostate cancer riskDesiree C Petersen
Cancer Genetics Group, Children s Cancer Institute Australia, Level 1, Sydney Children s Hospital, P O Box 81, High Street, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3615-7. 2008..96 (95% confidence intervals, 0.80-1.16) to 1.06 (95% confidence intervals, 0.90-1.23). This suggests that these common chemokine and chemokine receptor variants do not play a major, if any, role in susceptibility to prostate cancer... - Effect of physical activity on articular knee joint structures in community-based adultsTina L Racunica
Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Arthritis Rheum 57:1261-8. 2007..We examined the association between intensity, frequency, and duration of physical activity and knee structures in a community-based population... - Common genetic variants associated with breast cancer and mammographic density measures that predict diseaseFabrice Odefrey
Department of Pathology and Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3053, Australia
Cancer Res 70:1449-58. 2010..These findings could help elucidate how those variants and mammographic density measures are associated with breast cancer susceptibility... - A comparison of different methods for including 'age at menopause' in analyses of the association between hormone replacement therapy use and breast cancerJulie A Simpson
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne and the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 33:11-6. 2007.... - Can genetic associations change with age? CFH and age-related macular degenerationMadeleine K M Adams
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hum Mol Genet 21:5229-36. 2012..These findings have important implications for predictive models for AMD and potentially other age-related diseases which extrapolate risks from older cohorts, as they assume homogeneity of association by age, which might not exist... - Are genetic and environmental components of variance in mammographic density measures that predict breast cancer risk independent of within-twin pair differences in body mass index?Gillian S Dite
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Level 3 207 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Breast Cancer Res Treat 131:553-9. 2012.... - Familial correlations in postmenopausal serum concentrations of sex steroid hormones and other mitogens: a twins and sisters studyJennifer Stone
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:4793-800. 2009..Serum concentrations of some hormones are risk factors for certain cancers, but little is known about their familial associations especially for females... - Asthma, asthma medications, and prostate cancer riskGianluca Severi
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council of Victoria, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2318-24. 2010..The aim of this study was to assess whether a history of asthma or the use of asthma medications is associated with prostate cancer risk... - Women have increased rates of cartilage loss and progression of cartilage defects at the knee than men: a gender study of adults without clinical knee osteoarthritisFahad S Hanna
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Menopause 16:666-70. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine whether there are longitudinal gender differences in knee cartilage in a cohort of healthy, asymptomatic adults with no clinical knee disease... - A comparison of self-reported and record-linked blood donation history in an Australian cohortNadine A Bertalli
Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Transfusion 51:2189-98. 2011..This study aimed to retrieve electronic records from a national blood donation service and link them to self-reported history of donation to assess agreement between the two sources... - Body size and composition and colon cancer risk in womenRobert J Macinnis
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Int J Cancer 118:1496-500. 2006..Central adiposity appears to be associated with colon cancer risk in women... - Association of bone marrow lesions with knee structures and risk factors for bone marrow lesions in the knees of clinically healthy, community-based adultsFerencz J Baranyay
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Semin Arthritis Rheum 37:112-8. 2007..Little is known about their role in the knee in those without clinical OA. Our aim was to examine the prevalence and risk factors for BML, and their relationship with other knee structures in community-based adults without clinical OA... - Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular mortality accounting for possible misclassification of intake: 11-year follow-up of the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort StudyLinton R Harriss
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Addiction 102:1574-85. 2007..To investigate the relationship between usual daily alcohol intake, beverage type and drinking frequency on cardiovascular (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, accounting for systematic misclassification of intake... - Red meat and chicken consumption and its association with age-related macular degenerationElaine W T Chong
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne 3002, Victoria, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 169:867-76. 2009..43, 95% confidence interval: 0.20, 0.91; P-trend = 0.007). These results suggest that different meats may differently affect AMD risk and may be a target for lifestyle modification... - The heritability of mammographically dense and nondense breast tissueJennifer Stone
Centre for Molecular Environmental Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:612-7. 2006..Our previous twin study showed that the heritability of PMD was 63%. This study determined the heritabilities of the components of PMD, the areas of dense and nondense tissue in the mammogram... - Body size and composition and the risk of gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinomaRobert J Macinnis
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, and Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Int J Cancer 118:2628-31. 2006..An increasing prevalence of obesity may be associated with the increasing incidence of gastro-oesophageal cancer observed in many populations... - Incidence and survival of lymphohematopoietic neoplasms according to the World Health Organization classification: a population-based study from the Victorian Cancer Registry in AustraliaHarindra Jayasekara
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Leuk Lymphoma 51:456-68. 2010..001). Female sex was associated with higher survival for most myeloid subtypes. The results represent a rare epidemiological characterization of the whole range of LHN according to WHO subtypes... - Body size and composition and the risk of lymphohematopoietic malignanciesRobert J Macinnis
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1154-7. 2005..83, 95% CI = 1.15 to 2.90; P = .01), and waist circumference (per 10-cm increase HR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.06 to 1.72; P = .02). Lymphoproliferative malignancies and subgroups showed little relationship with body size... - Season of diagnosis has no effect on survival from malignant melanomaHarindra Jayasekara
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Int J Cancer 125:488-90. 2009..Our findings do not support the hypothesis that melanoma cases diagnosed in winter have worse prognosis than cases diagnosed in other seasons... - Body size and composition and prostate cancer riskRobert J Macinnis
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:1417-21. 2003..2 (95% confidence interval, 1.2-4.1). For each 10-kg increase in fat mass, the risk ratio was 1.4 (95% confidence interval, 1.0-1.8). Energy imbalance may play a role in the development of aggressive prostate cancer... - Mammographic screening and breast cancer mortality: a case-control study and meta-analysisCarolyn Nickson
Centre for Women s Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1479-88. 2012.... - Body composition and knee cartilage properties in healthy, community-based adultsYuanyuan Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ann Rheum Dis 66:1244-8. 2007..Although obesity is widely accepted as a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis, whether weight per se or the specific components of body composition are the major determinants of properties of articular knee cartilage is unclear... - Hormone therapy and breast cancer: what factors modify the association?Dorota M Gertig
Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Menopause 13:178-84. 2006..To determine factors that may modify the association between hormone therapy (HT) and breast cancer risk... - Abdominal obesity and age-related macular degenerationMadeleine K M Adams
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 173:1246-55. 2011..New data are provided on complex interactions between environmental exposures and AMD risk... - NMR-determined lipoprotein subclass profile predicts type 2 diabetesAllison M Hodge
University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, St Vincent s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 83:132-9. 2009..To determine whether nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-determined lipoprotein profiles predict type 2 diabetes... - Evaluation of an FFQ for assessment of antioxidant intake using plasma biomarkers in an ethnically diverse populationAllison M Hodge
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Public Health Nutr 12:2438-47. 2009.... - Non-mydriatic digital macular photography: how good is the second eye photograph?Khin Zaw Aung
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Ophthalmic Epidemiol 16:254-61. 2009..In an elderly Australian population, to evaluate the quality of fundus photographs taken non-mydriatically in both eyes, and to compare the quality of those taken second with those taken first... - Prevalence of trachoma in a single community, 1975-2007Hugh R Taylor
Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 40:121-6. 2012..Design: Data used from two cross-sectional studies repeated in the same community 32 years apart. PARTICIPANTS OR SAMPLES: Children aged 5-13 years living in the community... - Variants in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) gene and prostate cancer risk, survival, and circulating PSAGianluca Severi
Cancer Epidemiology Center, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1142-7. 2006..The genotypes and haplotypes studied might be associated with the PSA gene function or be in linkage disequilibrium with other unmeasured and functional variants in the PSA or other genes... - Early growth, adult body size and prostate cancer riskGraham G Giles
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Int J Cancer 103:241-5. 2003.... - An ecological study of organochlorine pesticides and breast cancer in rural Victoria, AustraliaNarges Khanjani
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria, 3181, Australia
Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 50:452-61. 2006..Our study may provide limited support for the role of environmental contamination with organochlorine pesticides in the development of breast cancer... - Red meat, chicken, and fish consumption and risk of colorectal cancerDallas R English
Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1509-14. 2004..Evidence on the relationship between risk of colorectal cancer and poultry and fish consumption is inconsistent... - Is there overlap between the genetic determinants of mammographic density and bone mineral density?Gillian S Dite
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Vic, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2266-8. 2005..09 and 0.16 (SEs, 0.07-0.09) and independent of zygosity (all P > 0.05). We conclude that there is little, if any, overlap between the genetic or environmental determinants of disease risk associated with these traits... - Incidence of new and changed nevi and melanomas detected using baseline images and dermoscopy in patients at high risk for melanomaJeremy P Banky
Dermatology Unit and Victorian Melanoma Service, The Alfred, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Arch Dermatol 141:998-1006. 2005..A new or changed pigmented lesion is more likely to be a melanoma in patients older than 50 years... - HFE C282Y/H63D compound heterozygotes are at low risk of hemochromatosis-related morbidityLyle C Gurrin
Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hepatology 50:94-101. 2009..Although compound heterozygotes might maintain elevated iron indices during middle age, documented iron overload-related disease is rare...