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| A M ElliottSummaryAffiliation: University of Manitoba Country: Canada Publications
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Cerebro-osseous-digital syndrome: four new cases of a lethal skeletal dysplasia--distinct from Neu-Laxova SyndromeAlison M Elliott
International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
Am J Med Genet 109:139-48. 2002..Patients 1-4 of this report lack the typical findings of NLS and likely represent a distinct lethal skeletal dysplasia...- Triphalangeal thumb in association with split hand/foot: a phenotypic marker for SHFM3?Alison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, and Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:58-61. 2007..Of the 47 SHFM3 patients analyzed, 15 (31.9%) had triphalangeal thumb (TPT), a limb finding not reported at any other locus... - Osteocraniostenosis-hypomineralized skull with gracile long bones and splenic hypoplasia. Four new cases with distinctive chondro-osseous morphologyAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Am J Med Genet A 140:1553-63. 2006..There are some radiographic and chondro-osseous morphologic similarities between osteocraniostenosis and severe Hallermann-Streiff syndrome (HSS), suggesting the two disorders may be pathogenetically related... - Genotype-phenotype correlations in mapped split hand foot malformation (SHFM) patientsAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, 770 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Am J Med Genet A 140:1419-27. 2006..Comparison with relevant animal models is discussed... - Clinical and epidemiological findings in patients with central ray deficiency: split hand foot malformation (SHFM) in Manitoba, CanadaAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, 770 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Am J Med Genet A 140:1428-39. 2006..Two had deletions involving 9q and 5p respectively. Unlike some other studies, we did not find an excess of males or right-sided defects and only two of the cases--two sisters--were related... - Discrepancies in upper and lower limb patterning in split hand foot malformationA M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Clin Genet 68:408-23. 2005..This article discusses this discrepant clefting pattern between the upper and lower extremities and proposes potential mechanisms... - The duplicated longitudinal epiphysis or "kissing delta phalanx": evolution and variation in three different disordersAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, 770 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 0W3, Canada
Skeletal Radiol 33:345-51. 2004..Magnetic resonance imaging of the kissing delta phalanx has not been previously described... - Central ray deficiency with extensive syndactyly: a dilemma for classificationA M Elliott
Dept of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genet Couns 20:27-43. 2009..This cohort highlights the importance of imaging patients with distal limb anomalies. An effective classification scheme should include relevant clinical and radiographic findings in order to assist clinicians following these patients... - Split hand foot malformation (SHFM)A M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Canada
Clin Genet 68:501-5. 2005..In this article, we briefly review the nomenclature associated with SHFM and its classifications... 
A novel COMP mutation in an Inuit patient with pseudoachondroplasia and severe short statureA M Elliott
WRHA Program of Genetics and Metabolism, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genet Mol Res 9:1785-90. 2010..This exon encodes the first calmodulin-like repeat, which has not been previously implicated in severe short stature. We propose that this novel missense substitution is responsible for the phenotype of this patient...- Cenani-Lenz syndactyly in a patient with features of Kabuki syndromeAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Clin Dysmorphol 13:143-50. 2004.... - Spectrum of dolichospondylic dysplasia: two new patients with distinctive findingsAlison M Elliott
International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
Am J Med Genet 113:351-61. 2002..The spectrum of disorders with tall vertebral bodies as a key feature may include different entities that may be further defined with the characterization of the molecular defect(s)... - The association of split hand foot malformation (SHFM) and congenital heart defectsAlison M Elliott
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:425-34. 2008..SHFM occurs as an isolated finding or in association with other anomalies, including congenital heart defects (CHDs)... - Letter re: fibula aplasia, tibial campomelia, and oligodactylyJane A Evans
Am J Med Genet A 140:1127. 2006 - Hand involvement in Schmid metaphyseal chondrodysplasiaAlison M Elliott
International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Med Genet A 132:191-3. 2005..These changes were subtle and consisted of shortening of the tubular bones and metaphyseal cupping of the proximal phalanges and metacarpals. Mild hand involvement is a common feature of Schmid MCD... - Factors related to the onset and persistence of chronic back pain in the community: results from a general population follow-up studyBlair H Smith
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Aberdeen, UK
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:1032-40. 2004..We compared the prevalence of chronic back pain (CBP) at two points 4 years apart and examined socio-demographic, health, and pain-related factors associated with its onset and persistence... - Cytokine responses and progression to active tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected Ugandans: a prospective studyAlison M Elliott
Uganda Virus Research Institute, P O Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 98:660-70. 2004..04). The association with IL-2 production may reflect a response to tuberculous infection or to activating disease; the associations with IL-10 and IL-5 are in keeping with the expected role of immunosuppressive or type 2 cytokines... 
Rate and amplification of drug resistance among previously-treated patients with tuberculosis in Kampala, UgandaBeth Temple
Medical Research Council Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
Clin Infect Dis 47:1126-34. 2008..There is a need to measure the extent of and risk factors for drug resistance in such patients...- Why does HIV infection not lead to disseminated strongyloidiasis?Mark E Viney
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
J Infect Dis 190:2175-80. 2004.... - Associations between mild-to-moderate anaemia in pregnancy and helminth, malaria and HIV infection in Entebbe, UgandaLawrence Muhangi
MRC UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Virus Research Institute, P O Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 101:899-907. 2007..This result may relate to relatively good nutrition and low helminth infection intensity. These findings are pertinent to estimating the disease burden of helminths and other infections in pregnancy. [Clinical Trial No. ISRCTN32849447]... - Tubal sterilization, all-cause death, and cancer among women in the United Kingdom: evidence from the Royal College of General Practitioners' Oral Contraception StudyLisa Iversen
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen School of Medicine, Aberdeen, UK
Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:447.e1-8. 2007..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between tubal sterilization and subsequent all-cause death and the risk of any gynecologic and breast cancer in women in the United Kingdom... - The impact of helminths on the response to immunization and on the incidence of infection and disease in childhood in Uganda: design of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, factorial trial of deworming interventions delivered in pregnancy and eAlison M Elliott
Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
Clin Trials 4:42-57. 2007..These effects might develop in utero, through exposure to maternal helminth infections, or through direct exposure in later life... - Symptom experience and subsequent mortality: results from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 studyAlison M Elliott
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Westburn Road, Aberdeen, AB25 2AY, Scotland, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 6:158. 2006..One study has suggested that the number of symptoms people experience may be an important predictor of mortality. This novel and potentially important finding may have important implications but needs to be tested in other cohorts... - Pain and subsequent mortality and cancer among women in the Royal College of General Practitioners Oral Contraception StudyBlair H Smith
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Westburn Road, Aberdeen AB25 2AY
Br J Gen Pract 53:45-6. 2003..75), and a higher risk of subsequent cancer among women reporting head or abdomen pain. Given the high prevalence of pain symptoms, these findings may be important, and warrant further research... - Associations between helminth infection and CD4+ T cell count, viral load and cytokine responses in HIV-1-infected Ugandan adultsAlison M Elliott
Uganda Virus Research Institute, P O Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 97:103-8. 2003..The possibility that chronic helminth infection may suppress HIV replication and that effects on HIV replication may vary during helminth infection and treatment should be considered... - Schistosoma mansoni, nematode infections, and progression to active tuberculosis among HIV-1-infected UgandansMichael Brown
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:819-25. 2006..31; 1.00-5.33). This analysis suggests an effect of S. mansoni infection on progression to active TB among HIV-1-infected Ugandans... - Is chronic pain a distinct diagnosis in primary care? Evidence arising from the Royal College of General Practitioners' Oral Contraception studyBlair H Smith
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Westburn Road, Aberdeen AB25 2AY, UK
Fam Pract 21:66-74. 2004.... - The use of medication for chronic pain in primary care, and the potential for intervention by a practice-based pharmacistM Elaine McDermott
Pain Management Clinic, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK
Fam Pract 23:46-52. 2006.... - Weight change in adult life and health outcomesAlison M Elliott
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Aberdeen AB25 2AY, United Kingdom
Obes Res 13:1784-92. 2005..To investigate the relationship between weight change in adult life and subsequent mortality and cancer incidence in women... - Screening for intestinal helminth infection in a semi-urban cohort of pregnant women in UgandaJoseph W Bukusuba
Uganda Virus Research Institute, PO Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda
Trop Doct 34:27-8. 2004 - Third mailings in epidemiological studies: are they really necessary?Alison M Elliott
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Westburn Road, Aberdeen AB25 2AY, UK
Fam Pract 20:592-4. 2003..Whether or not third mailings are appropriate or worthwhile in postal epidemiological studies has not been thoroughly investigated and requires examination...