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  • Gait differences between COPD and healthy controls: systematic review and meta-analysis
    Buekers, Joren; Delgado Ortiz, Laura; Megaritis, Dimitrios; Polhemus, Ashley Marie; Breuls, Sofie; Buttery, Sara C.; Chynkiamis, Nikolaos; Demeyer, Heleen; Gimeno Santos, Elena, 1980-; Hume, Emily; Koch, Sarah; Williams, Parris; Wuyts, Marieke; Hopkinson, Nicholas S.; Vogiatzis, Ioannis; Troosters, Thierry; Frei, Anja; García Aymerich, Judith (European Respiratory Society, 2024)
    Background: Despite the importance of gait as a determinant of falls, disability and mortality in older people, understanding of gait impairment in COPD is limited. This study aimed to identify differences in gait ...
  • Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort
    Pan, Holly; García Aymerich, Judith; Fuertes, Elaine (Elsevier, 2024)
    Background: Gas cooking is an important source of indoor air pollutants, and there is some limited evidence that it might adversely be associated with respiratory health. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the ...
  • Gender-based approach on the social impact and mental health in Spain during COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study
    Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza; López-Jiménez, Tomàs; Medina Perucha, Laura; Bont, Jeroen de; Queiroga Gonçalves, Alessandra; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Berenguera, Anna (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
    Objective: Lockdown has impacts on people's living conditions and mental health. The study aims to assess the relations between social impact and mental health among adults living in Spain during COVID-19 lockdown measures, ...
  • Gene expression changes in blood RNA after swimming in a chlorinated pool
    Salas, Lucas A.; Font Ribera, Laia; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Sumoy Van Dyck, Lauro; Grimalt Obrador, Joan; Bonnin, Sarah; Aguilar Morón, María Asunción; Mattlin, Heidi; Hummel, Manuela; Ferrer Del Alamo, Ana; Kogevinas, Manolis; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina (Elsevier, 2017)
    Exposure to disinfection by-products (DBP) such as trihalomethanes (THM) in swimming pools has been linked to adverse health effects in humans, but their biological mechanisms are unclear. We evaluated short-term changes ...
  • Gene-wide association study reveals RNF122 ubiquitin ligase as a novel susceptibility gene for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Garcia Martínez, Iris; Sánchez-Mora, Cristina; Soler Artigas, María; Rovira, Paula; Pagerols, Mireia; Corrales, Montse; Calvo Sánchez, Eva; Richarte, Vanesa; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Cormand, Bru; Casas, Miguel; Ramos Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Ribasés, Marta (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood-onset neurodevelopmental condition characterized by pervasive impairment of attention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity that can persist into adulthood. ...
  • Generalized hermite distribution modelling with the R package hermite
    Moriña, David; Higueras, Manuel; Puig, Pedro; Oliveira, María (The R Foundation, 2015)
    Abstract The Generalized Hermite distribution (and the Hermite distribution as a particular case) is often used for fitting count data in the presence of overdispersion or multimodality. Despite this, to our knowledge, no ...
  • Genetic and epigenetic regulation of YKL-40 in childhood
    Guerra, Stefano; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Lavi, Iris; Benet, Marta; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Dobaño, Carlota; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Tischer, Christina; Vrijheid, Martine; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Koppelman, Gerard H. (Elsevier, 2018)
    Background: Circulating levels of the chitinase-like protein YKL-40 are influenced by genetic variation in its encoding gene (chitinase 3–like 1 [CHI3L1]) and are increased in patients with several diseases, including ...
  • Genetic and functional characterization of disease associations explains comorbidity
    Rubio Pérez, Carlota, 1990-; Güney, Emre, 1983-; Aguilar, Daniel; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; García-García, Javier, 1982-; Iadarola, Barbara; Sanz, Ferran; Fernández Fuentes, Narcís; Furlong, Laura I., 1971-; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
    Understanding relationships between diseases, such as comorbidities, has important socio-economic implications, ranging from clinical study design to health care planning. Most studies characterize disease comorbidity using ...
  • Genetic and non-genetic predictors of LINE-1 methylation in leukocyte DNA
    Tajuddin, Salman Muhammad; Amaral, André F.S.; Fernández, Agustín F.; Rodriguez Rodero, Sandra; Rodríguez, Ramón María; Moore, Lee E.; Tardón, Adonina; Carrato, Alfredo; García Closas, Montserrat; Silverman, Debra T.; Jackson, Brian P.; García Closas, Reina; Cook, Ashley L.; Cantor, Kenneth P; Chanock, Stephen J.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Rothman, Nathaniel; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2013)
    Background: Altered DNA methylation has been associated with various diseases. Objective: We evaluated the association between levels of methylation in leukocyte DNA at long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE-1) and ...
  • Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age
    Ip, Hill F.; Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Alemany, Silvia; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Boomsma, Dorret I. (Nature Research, 2021)
    Childhood aggressive behavior (AGG) has a substantial heritability of around 50%. Here we present a genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) of childhood AGG, in which all phenotype measures across childhood ages from ...
  • Genetic polymorphisms associated with increased risk of developing chronic myelogenous leukemia.
    Bruzzoni-Giovanelli, Heriberto; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón; Sigaux, François; Villoutreix, Bruno O.; Cayuela, Jean Michel; Guilho, Joëlle; Preudhomme, Claude; Guilhot, François; Poyet, Jean-Luc; Rousselot, Philippe (Impact Journals, 2015)
    Little is known about inherited factors associated with the risk of developing chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). We used a dedicated DNA chip containing 16 561 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) covering 1 916 candidate ...
  • Genetic regulation of newborn telomere length is mediated and modified by DNA methylation
    Wang, Congrong; Alfano, Rossella; Reimann, Brigitte; Hogervorst, Janneke; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; De Vivo, Immaculata; Plusquin, Michelle; Nawrot, Tim S.; Martens, Dries S. (Frontiers, 2022)
    Telomere length at birth determines later life telomere length and potentially predicts ageing-related diseases. However, the genetic and epigenetic settings of telomere length in newborns have not been analyzed. In addition, ...
  • Genetic variants of the FADS gene cluster and ELOVL gene family, colostrums LC-PUFA levels, breastfeeding, and child cognition
    Morales, Eva; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Torrent Quetglas, Maties; Mendez, Michelle A.; García Esteban, Raquel; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; Vrijheid, Martine; Molto Puigmarti, Carolina; López Sabater, M. Carmen; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011)
    Introduction: Breastfeeding effects on cognition are attributed to long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs), but controversy persists. Genetic variation in fatty acid desaturase (FADS) and elongase (ELOVL) enzymes ...
  • Genetic variation in the TP53 pathway and bladder cancer risk: a comprehensive analysis
    Pineda, Silvia; Milne, Roger L.; Calle, M. Luz; Rothman, Nathaniel; López De Maturana, Evangelina; Herranz, Jesús; Kogevinas, Manolis; Chanock, Stephen J.; Tardón, Adonina; Márquez, Mirari; Guey, Lin T.; García Closas, Montserrat; Lloreta, Josep, 1958-; Baum, Erin; González Neira, Anna; Carrato, Alfredo; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Silverman, Debra T.; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)
    Introduction: Germline variants in TP63 have been consistently associated with several tumors, including bladder cancer, indicating the importance of TP53 pathway in cancer genetic susceptibility. However, variants in other ...
  • Genome-wide analyses of vocabulary size in infancy and toddlerhood: Associations with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, literacy, and cognition-related traits
    Verhoef, Ellen; EAGLE Working Group; St. Pourcain, Beate; St. Pourcain, Beate (Elsevier, 2024)
    Background: The number of words children produce (expressive vocabulary) and understand (receptive vocabulary) changes rapidly during early development, partially due to genetic factors. Here, we performed a meta-genome-wide ...
  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences
    Karlsson Linnér, Richard; González, Juan Ramón; Muntané, Gerard; Morcillo Suárez, Carlos, 1969-; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Beauchamp, Jonathan P. (Nature Research, 2019)
    Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1 million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk tolerance, adventurousness, and risky ...
  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms
    Jami, Eshim S.; Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Alemany, Silvia; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Middeldorp, Christel M. (Elsevier, 2022)
    Objective: To investigate the genetic architecture of internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence. Method: In 22 cohorts, multiple univariate genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were performed using repeated ...
  • Genome-wide association study of blood mercury in european pregnant women and children
    Dack, Kyle; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Taylor, Caroline M.; Llop, Sabrina; Lozano Relaño, Manuel; Yousefi, Paul; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Gutzkow, Kristine B.; Brantsaeter, Anne Lise; Mason, Dan; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Lewis, Sarah J. (MDPI, 2023)
    Mercury has high industrial utility and is present in many products, and environmental contamination and occupational exposure are widespread. There are numerous biological systems involved in the absorption, metabolism, ...
  • Genome-wide association study of classical Hodgkin lymphoma identifies key regulators of disease susceptibility
    Sud, Amit; Houlston, Richard S. (Nature Research, 2017)
    Several susceptibility loci for classical Hodgkin lymphoma have been reported. However, much of the heritable risk is unknown. Here, we perform a meta-analysis of two existing genome-wide association studies, a new genome-wide ...
  • Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86 577 women identifies five novel loci and highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics
    Beaumont, Robin N.; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Kogevinas, Manolis; Estivill, Xavier, 1955- (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    Genome-wide association studies of birth weight have focused on fetal genetics, whereas relatively little is known about the role of maternal genetic variation. We aimed to identify maternal genetic variants associated ...

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