A review of selected research priority setting processes at national level in low and middle income countries: towards fair and legitimate priority settingMark Tomlinson
Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Health Res Policy Syst 9:19. 2011
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- Assessment of the proportion of neonates and children in low and middle income countries with access to a healthcare facility: A systematic review
Aruna Chandran
Departments of International Health and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N, Wolfe Street, Suite E8622, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
BMC Res Notes 4:536. 2011
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- An evaluation of the emerging vaccines and immunotherapy against staphylococcal pneumonia in children
Tanvir Huda
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 11:S27. 2011
..Currently there are at least seven vaccine and immunotherapy candidates against S. aureus in the developmental phase targeting both active and passive immunization...
- An evaluation of oxygen systems for treatment of childhood pneumonia
Alastair G Catto
Centre for Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S28. 2011
..This review aims to assess the utility of oxygen systems as a method for reducing childhood mortality from pneumonia...
- A meta-analysis of genome-wide data from five European isolates reveals an association of COL22A1, SYT1, and GABRR2 with serum creatinine level
Cristian Pattaro
Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen Bolzano EURAC, Bolzano, Italy
BMC Med Genet 11:41. 2010
..A substantial proportion of the inter-individual variability in S CR level is explicable by genetic factors...
- Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia
Igor Rudan
Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Split, Croatia
Bull World Health Organ 86:408-16. 2008
..Although based on limited available evidence, recent studies have identified Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and respiratory syncytial virus as the main pathogens associated with childhood pneumonia...
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: assessment of principles and practice
Igor Rudan
Split University School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Croat Med J 48:595-604. 2007
..This prioritization requires a process that is transparent, systematic, and that would take into account many perspectives and build on advantages of previous approaches...
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: universal challenges and conceptual framework
Igor Rudan
Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Soltanska 2, 21000 Split, Croatia
Croat Med J 49:307-17. 2008
Childhood pneumonia deaths: a new role for health workers?Igor Rudan
Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, 21000 Split, Croatia
Lancet 372:781-2. 2008
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: guidelines for implementation of CHNRI method
Igor Rudan
Public Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Croat Med J 49:720-33. 2008
..The CHNRI method is a flexible process that enables prioritizing health research investments at any level: institutional, regional, national, international, or global...
- Inbreeding and nephrolithiasis in Croatian island isolates
I Rudan
School of Public Health A Stampar, University Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 26:11-21. 2002
..45 (p<0.05). The study showed that a large number of predominantly recessive genetic factors might mediate the susceptibility to formation of renal stones in humans...
- Five reasons why inbreeding may have considerable effect on post-reproductive human health
Igor Rudan
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, School of Public Health Andrija Stampar, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:943-50. 2004
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- From genomic advances to public health benefits: the unbearable lightness of being stuck
Igor Rudan
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, School of Public Health Andrija Stampar School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:483-507. 2004
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- Lost in transition--the Island of Susak (1951-2001)
Igor Rudan
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, School of Public Health Andrija Stampar, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:403-21. 2004
..The results confirmed the positive correlation between inbreeding level and blood pressure that has been reported in the literature on several occasions. The last remnants of this traditional island community will soon be lost forever...
- New technologies provide insights into genetic basis of psychiatric disorders and explain their co-morbidity
Igor Rudan
Croatian Centre for Global Health, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Psychiatr Danub 22:190-2. 2010
..New technologies - genome-wide association studies, imaging and the optical manipulation of neural circuits - are promising to provide novel insights and lead to new treatments...
- Effects of genome-wide heterozygosity on a range of biomedically relevant human quantitative traits
Harry Campbell
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Hum Mol Genet 16:233-41. 2007
..Other traits, such as age at menarche, IQ and lifespan, which have been changing during the decades of urbanization, may also have been influenced by demographic factors...
Does inbreeding affect N-glycosylation of human plasma proteins?Ozren Polasek
Department of Public Health, Medical School, University of Split, Soltanska 2, 210000 Split, Croatia
Mol Genet Genomics 285:427-32. 2011
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- Quantifying the increase in average human heterozygosity due to urbanisation
Igor Rudan
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Eur J Hum Genet 16:1097-102. 2008
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- A quantitative trait locus for SBP maps near KCNB1 and PTGIS in a population isolate
Maja Barbalic
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Am J Hypertens 22:663-8. 2009
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- Genetic comparison of a Croatian isolate and CEPH European founders
Pau Navarro
Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Genet Epidemiol 34:140-5. 2010
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- Heritabilities of ocular biometrical traits in two croatian isolates with extended pedigrees
Veronique Vitart
MRC Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, IGMM Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 51:737-43. 2010
..To assess the effects of body stature and years of education, in addition to age and sex, on six oculometric traits and to estimate the heritabilities of these quantitative traits in two Croatian cross-population studies...
- Historic, demographic, and genetic evidence for increased population frequencies of CCR5Delta32 mutation in Croatian Island isolates after lethal 15th century epidemics
Zrinka Biloglav
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Croat Med J 50:34-42. 2009
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- Effects of isolation and inbreeding on human quantitative traits: an example of biochemical markers of hemostasis and inflammation
Drazen Pulanic
Department of Medicine, University Hospital Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia
Hum Biol 80:513-33. 2008
..Weak associations between PGH and MLH and markers of hemostasis and inflammation suggest that their genetic control may not be highly polygenic and that they could be promising targets for genetic association studies...
- Comparative assessment of methods for estimating individual genome-wide homozygosity-by-descent from human genomic data
Ozren Polasek
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
BMC Genomics 11:139. 2010
..0625) were included in this study. All individuals were genotyped with the Illumina HumanHap300 array with 317,503 SNP markers...
- The effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on childhood pneumonia incidence, severe morbidity and mortality
Evropi Theodoratou
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:i172-85. 2010
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- An evaluation of the emerging interventions against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory infections in children
Harish Nair
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S30. 2011
..Currently there are several vaccine and immunoprophylaxis candidates against RSV in the developmental phase targeting active and passive immunization...
- Predictive value of 8 genetic loci for serum uric acid concentration
Grgo Gunjaca
University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Croat Med J 51:23-31. 2010
..To investigate the value of genomic information in prediction of individual serum uric acid concentrations...
- Effects of aging, body mass index, plasma lipid profiles, and smoking on human plasma N-glycans
Ana Knezevic
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Ante Kovacica 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Glycobiology 20:959-69. 2010
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- Ethical aspects of human biobanks: a systematic review
Danijela Budimir
University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Croat Med J 52:262-79. 2011
..To systematically assess the existing literature on ethical aspects of human biobanks...
- Effects of inbreeding, endogamy, genetic admixture, and outbreeding on human health: a (1001 Dalmatians) study
Igor Rudan
Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Croat Med J 47:601-10. 2006
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- Epidemiology and aetiology of maternal parasitic infections in low- and middle-income countries
Tom Roberts
Centre for Population Health Sciences and Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Joint first and joint senior authorship
J Glob Health 1:189-200. 2011
..This systematic review has two aims. The first is to present the prevalence of parasitic infections in the developing world over the last 30 years and the second is to evaluate the quality and distribution of research in this field...
- An evaluation of respiratory administration of measles vaccine for prevention of acute lower respiratory infections in children
Daisy Higginson
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S31. 2011
..Aerosolised measles vaccines are now under development with the hope of challenging the delivery factors currently limiting the coverage of the existing vaccine...
- Bayesian methods for instrumental variable analysis with genetic instruments ('Mendelian randomization'): example with urate transporter SLC2A9 as an instrumental variable for effect of urate levels on metabolic syndrome
Paul M McKeigue
Public Health Sciences Section, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:907-18. 2010
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- Genomics meets glycomics-the first GWAS study of human N-Glycome identifies HNF1α as a master regulator of plasma protein fucosylation
Gordan Lauc
Glycobiology Laboratory, Genos Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
PLoS Genet 6:e1001256. 2010
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- Holistic anthropological research of Hvar Islanders, Croatia--from parish registries to DNA studies in 33 years
Pavao Rudan
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:321-43. 2004
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- Loci associated with N-glycosylation of human immunoglobulin G show pleiotropy with autoimmune diseases and haematological cancers
Gordan Lauc
Glycobiology Laboratory, Genos, Zagreb, Croatia
PLoS Genet 9:e1003225. 2013
..The results may also provide an explanation for the reported pleiotropy and antagonistic effects of loci involved in autoimmune diseases and haematological cancer...
- Epigenetic silencing of HNF1A associates with changes in the composition of the human plasma N-glycome
Vlatka Zoldos
University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Epigenetics 7:164-72. 2012
..This study represents the first demonstration of epigenetic regulation of plasma glycome composition, suggesting a potential mechanism by which epigenetic deregulation of the glycome may contribute to disease development...
- Inbreeding and susceptibility to osteoporosis in Croatian island isolates
Igor Rudan
School of Public Health Andrija Stampar, University Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:585-601. 2004
..32 in males (p < 0.001) and 0.43 in females (p < 0.001). These results indicate a trend of increased susceptibility to osteoporosis with increasing level of inbreeding in isolated communities of Croatian islands...
- Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review
Igor Rudan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 365:2031-40. 2005
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- A complex pattern of agreement between oscillometric and tonometric measurement of arterial stiffness in a population-based sample
Grgo Gunjaca
Department of Pharmacology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
J Hypertens 30:1444-52. 2012
..In a large population-based sample we performed an agreement analysis of the set of arterial stiffness indices (ASIs) measured by tonometric (SphygmoCor) and oscillometric (Arteriograph) techniques...
- Genome-wide association study of anthropometric traits in Korcula Island, Croatia
Ozren Polasek
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Croat Med J 50:7-16. 2009
..To identify genetic variants underlying six anthropometric traits: body height, body weight, body mass index, brachial circumference, waist circumference, and hip circumference, using a genome-wide association study...
- Variability, heritability and environmental determinants of human plasma N-glycome
Ana Knezevic
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
J Proteome Res 8:694-701. 2009
..Glycome-wide environmental determinants were also detected with statistically significant effects of different variables including diet, smoking and cholesterol levels...
- New loci associated with central cornea thickness include COL5A1, AKAP13 and AVGR8
Veronique Vitart
MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Edinburgh, UK
Hum Mol Genet 19:4304-11. 2010
..These associations offer mechanistic insights into the regulation of CCT and offer new candidate genes for susceptibility to common disorders in which CCT has been implicated, including primary open-angle glaucoma and keratoconus...
- Genome-wide analysis of epistasis in body mass index using multiple human populations
Wen Hua Wei
MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Eur J Hum Genet 20:857-62. 2012
..We conclude that genome-wide analysis of epistasis in multiple populations is an effective approach to provide new insights into the genetic regulation of BMI but requires additional efforts to confirm the findings...
- Sex-specific association of anthropometric measures of body composition with arterial stiffness in a healthy population
Danijela Budimir
Department of Pharmacology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Med Sci Monit 18:CR65-71. 2012
..Little is known, however, about the association of the anthropometric measures with arterial stiffness, especially in a healthy, generally non-obese population...
- An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood meningococcal disease
Debajeet Choudhuri
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S29. 2011
..We aimed to perform a structured assessment of these emerging meningococcal vaccines as a means of reducing global meningococcal disease burden among children under 5 years of age...
- Abundant pleiotropy in human complex diseases and traits
Shanya Sivakumaran
Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
Am J Hum Genet 89:607-18. 2011
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- Strategy for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) by using human metapopulations
Igor Rudan
Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Croat Med J 47:532-42. 2006
..In such cases, the distribution of QT measurements in an (affected) isolate is expected to deviate from that observed in neighboring isolates...
- Performance of WHO Angina Questionnaire in measuring burden of coronary heart disease in human isolate populations
Zrinka Biloglav
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, School of Public Health Andrija Stampar, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 28:205-13. 2004
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- The effect of case management on childhood pneumonia mortality in developing countries
Evropi Theodoratou
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:i155-71. 2010
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- Global estimate of the incidence of clinical pneumonia among children under five years of age
Igor Rudan
Department of Medical Stastistics, Epidemiology and Medical Infomatics, School of Public Health Andrija Stampar, Zagreb, Croatia
Bull World Health Organ 82:895-903. 2004
..026 e/cy, suggesting that more than 95% of all episodes of clinical pneumonia in young children worldwide occur in developing countries...
- Impact analysis of a regional scientific journal (1980-2000): supporting promising local researchers pays the greatest dividends
Pavao Rudan
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 29:1-7. 2005
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- Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Harish Nair
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 378:1917-30. 2011
..We aimed to estimate the global incidence of and mortality from lower respiratory infections associated with influenza in children younger than 5 years...
- Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood pneumonia by 2015
Igor Rudan
Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 8:e1001099. 2011
b>Igor Rudan and colleagues report the results of their consensus building exercise that identified health research priorities to help reduce child mortality from pneumonia.
- Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis
Harish Nair
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 381:1380-90. 2013
..We aimed to estimate the incidence of admissions and deaths for such infections in children younger than 5 years in 2010...
- Aetiology of community-acquired neonatal sepsis in low and middle income countries
Donald Waters
Centre for Population Health Sciences and Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
J Glob Health 1:154-70. 2011
..This review describes and analyses the bacterial aetiology of community-acquired neonatal sepsis in developing countries...
- Association of nephrolithiasis and gene for glucose transporter type 9 (SLC2A9): study of 145 patients
Ozren Polasek
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology, and Medical Informatics, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Croat Med J 51:48-53. 2010
..To investigate the association of nephrolithiasis and solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter, member 9 (SLC2A9), also known as glucose transporter type 9, Glut9...
- Genome-wide association study of biochemical traits in Korcula Island, Croatia
Tatijana Zemunik
University of Split School of Medicine, Soltanska 2, 21000 Split, Croatia
Croat Med J 50:23-33. 2009
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- Complex genetic regulation of protein glycosylation
Gordan Lauc
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, A Kovacica 1, HR 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Mol Biosyst 6:329-35. 2010
..In this review we present some preliminary insights into this fascinating field...
- Gene polymorphisms of the renin-angiotensin system and early development of hypertension
Maja Barbalic
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Am J Hypertens 19:837-42. 2006
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- Risk factors for severe acute lower respiratory infections in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Stewart Jackson
Harish Nair, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, UK
Croat Med J 54:110-21. 2013
..Since these risk factors are potentially preventable, health policies targeted at reducing their prevalence provide a basis for decreasing the burden of childhood pneumonia...
- Evidence of inbreeding depression on human height
Ruth McQuillan
Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
PLoS Genet 8:e1002655. 2012
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- Optimizing community case management strategies to achieve equitable reduction of childhood pneumonia mortality: An application of Equitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST) in five low- and middle-income countries
Donald Waters
Centre for Population Health Sciences and Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
J Glob Health 2:20402. 2012
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- The case for launch of an international DNA-based birth cohort study
Igor Rudan
Centre for Population Health Sciences and Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Croatia
J Glob Health 1:39-45. 2011
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- An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood pneumococcal pneumonia
Julia Webster
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 11:S26. 2011
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- Runs of homozygosity in European populations
Ruth McQuillan
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
Am J Hum Genet 83:359-72. 2008
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- A 'complexity' of urate transporters
Alan F Wright
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, UK
Kidney Int 78:446-52. 2010
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- Global burden of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Harish Nair
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 375:1545-55. 2010
..We aimed to estimate the global incidence of and mortality from episodes of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) due to RSV in children younger than 5 years in 2005...
- Youth and AIDS--a study of attitudes, knowledge, behavior and risks in the post-war Croatia
Dino Pavicić
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 27:161-72. 2003
..In this study, we report on a large related survey and education program among 17-year-old high school pupils that was conducted in years immediately following the War (1996-1999)...
- Seasonality of births in Croatia
Ozren Polasek
Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Coll Antropol 29:249-55. 2005
..Regional analysis showed lack of seasonality in the capital city of Zagreb and either intermittent or stable seasonality pattern in the rest of the country...
- A polygenic basis for late-onset disease
Alan Wright
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
Trends Genet 19:97-106. 2003
..The origin and nature of this variation suggests that current strategies are poorly suited to identifying genes involved in many complex diseases...
- Causes of deaths in children younger than 5 years in China in 2008
Igor Rudan
Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 375:1083-9. 2010
..We identified the main causes of deaths in neonates (<1 month), postneonatal infants (1-11 months), and children (<5 years) in China using information that was available to the public...
- Reducing bias from test misclassification in burden of disease studies: use of test to actual positive ratio--new test parameter
Harry Campbell
1Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Croat Med J 49:402-14. 2008
..Those two values may be very different, their relationship depending on the properties of the diagnostic test applied and true prevalence of the disease in a population...
- Human population structure, genome autozygosity and human health
Harry Campbell
Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
Genome Med 1:91. 2009
..The overall outcome is expected to be beneficial for a range of traits associated with human health and disease that show dominance variance...
- Y chromosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates
Lovorka Barac
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Eur J Hum Genet 11:535-42. 2003
..Interestingly, the same population also harbored mitochondrial haplogroup F that is virtually absent in European populations--indicating a connection with Central Asian populations, possibly the Avars...
- Common variation near CDKN1A, POLD3 and SHROOM2 influences colorectal cancer risk
Malcolm G Dunlop
Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Medical Research Council MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
Nat Genet 44:770-6. 2012
..2 (rs5934683, near SHROOM2; P = 7.30 × 10(-10)) This brings the number of independent loci associated with CRC risk to 20 and provides further insight into the genetic architecture of inherited susceptibility to CRC...
- The TCF7L2 diabetes risk variant is associated with HbA₁(C) levels: a genome-wide association meta-analysis
Christopher S Franklin
Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ann Hum Genet 74:471-8. 2010
..The strongest association was with the TCF7L2 gene (rs7903146, P= 1.48 × 10⁻⁷). This is also the strongest common genetic risk factor for T2D but it has not been identified in previous genome-wide studies of glycated haemoglobin...
- Childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea: setting our priorities right
Igor Rudan
Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative, Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet Infect Dis 7:56-61. 2007
..We believe that only in this way will proper attention be given to delivery of proven interventions to reduce the high childhood mortality caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea...
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: addressing values of stakeholders
Lydia Kapiriri
Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Medical School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Croat Med J 48:618-27. 2007
..To identify main groups of stakeholders in the process of health research priority setting and propose strategies for addressing their systems of values...
- Inbreeding and the genetic complexity of human hypertension
Igor Rudan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, United Kingdom
Genetics 163:1011-21. 2003
..The global impact of inbreeding on hypertension may be substantial since, although inbreeding is declining in Western societies, an estimated 1 billion people globally show rates of consanguineous marriages >20%...
- Contribution of consanguinuity to polygenic and multifactorial diseases
Igor Rudan
Nat Genet 38:1224-5. 2006
- SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout
Veronique Vitart
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
Nat Genet 40:437-42. 2008
..SLC2A9 is a known fructose transporter, and we now show that it has strong uric acid transport activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes...
- Setting priorities in child health research investments for South Africa
Mark Tomlinson
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
PLoS Med 4:e259. 2007
- Our "Collegium Antropologicum" officially the most improved social science journal in the world for mid-2002
Pavao Rudan
Coll Antropol 27:S1-4. 2003
..We hope that this is an early sign of revival of the scientific activity in our country after the War in Croatia (1991-1995)...
- Scaling-up of training and education for health workers
Igor Rudan
Croat Med J 49:295-7. 2008
- For free or for fee? Dilemma of small scientific journals
Marko Kljakovic-Gaspic
Croat Med J 48:292-9. 2007
..Our experience may be similar to that of the many biomedical journals which find themselves in a dilemma whether to join major publishers or not...
- [The Mediterranean diet and occurrence of malignant tumors of the digestive system in the Croatian islands]
Igor Rudan
Katedra za medicinsku statistiku, epidemiologiju i medicinsku informatiku Medicinskog fakulteta Sveucilista u Zagrebu
Lijec Vjesn 125:60-7. 2003
..The study showed that "Mediterranean" type of diet could have a protective effect against gastric and pancreatic cancer...
- Genetic variation at nine short tandem repeat loci among islanders of the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia
Irena Martinovic Klaric
Institute for Anthropological Research, Amruseva 8, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Hum Biol 77:471-86. 2005
..High mutation rates of the studied loci together with local drift effects are likely explanations for interisland genetic variation and the observed lack of reduced genetic diversity among the island populations...
- Health effects of human population isolation and admixture
Igor Rudan
Croat Med J 47:526-31. 2006
- Methodological and quality issues in epidemiological studies of acute lower respiratory infections in children in developing countries
Claudio F Lanata
Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional, AP 18-0191, Lima 18, Peru
Int J Epidemiol 33:1362-72. 2004
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- Primary health care: making Alma-Ata a reality
John Walley
Nuffield Centre for Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Lancet 372:1001-7. 2008
..Progress should be measured and accountability assured. We prioritise research questions and suggest actions and measures for stakeholders both locally and globally, which are required to revitalise primary health care...
