Published in Am J Epidemiol on April 15, 2002
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Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty. Nat Genet (2009) 3.09
Sleep duration and mortality: The effect of short or long sleep duration on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in working men and women. Sleep Med (2002) 3.06
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A common haplotype of the glucokinase gene alters fasting glucose and birth weight: association in six studies and population-genetics analyses. Am J Hum Genet (2006) 2.44
Analysis of self-selection bias in a population-based cohort study of autism spectrum disorders. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2013) 2.42
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Substantial intergenerational increases in body mass index are not explained by the fetal overnutrition hypothesis: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 2.28
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Smoking and ill health: does lay epidemiology explain the failure of smoking cessation programs among deprived populations? Am J Public Health (2003) 2.23
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Meta-analyses of observational and genetic association studies of folate intakes or levels and breast cancer risk. J Natl Cancer Inst (2006) 2.01
Common variants in the region around Osterix are associated with bone mineral density and growth in childhood. Hum Mol Genet (2009) 1.99
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COX-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of gastrointestinal tract complications and myocardial infarction: an instrumental variable analysis. Epidemiology (2013) 1.94
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Commentary: The evolution of methods to assess the effects of treatments, illustrated by the development of treatments for diphtheria, 1825-1918. Int J Epidemiol (2011) 1.76
Early life determinants of adult blood pressure. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens (2005) 1.75
Diabetes status and post-load plasma glucose concentration in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: findings from the original Whitehall study. Cancer Causes Control (2004) 1.74
Birth weight; postnatal, infant, and childhood growth; and obesity in young adulthood: evidence from the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.73
Genome-wide association study of three-dimensional facial morphology identifies a variant in PAX3 associated with nasion position. Am J Hum Genet (2012) 1.73
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Association of insulin resistance with depression: cross sectional findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. BMJ (2003) 1.72
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A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One (2012) 1.72
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Is relative leg length a biomarker of childhood nutrition? Long-term follow-up of the Hyderabad Nutrition Trial. Int J Epidemiol (2011) 1.61
The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study: background, methods and follow-up information on a new resource for the study of life course and intergenerational influences on health. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2004) 1.61
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis. Nat Genet (2011) 1.60