Published in Obes Surg on September 01, 2005
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Y-chromosome evidence of southern origin of the East Asian-specific haplogroup O3-M122. Am J Hum Genet (2005) 1.86
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Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age. BMC Biol (2010) 1.55
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Refined geographic distribution of the oriental ALDH2*504Lys (nee 487Lys) variant. Ann Hum Genet (2009) 1.49
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Mutations in TUBB8 and Human Oocyte Meiotic Arrest. N Engl J Med (2016) 1.46
Transposon-free insertions for insect genetic engineering. Nat Biotechnol (2006) 1.46
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The role of Surgical Champions in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program--a national survey. J Surg Res (2010) 1.43
The elimination of indigenous measles transmission in England and Wales. J Infect Dis (2003) 1.42
Genetic dating indicates that the Asian-Papuan admixture through Eastern Indonesia corresponds to the Austronesian expansion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.41
Mitochondrial DNA evidence for a diversified origin of workers building First Emperor of China. PLoS One (2008) 1.40
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Central role of E3 ubiquitin ligase MG53 in insulin resistance and metabolic disorders. Nature (2013) 1.35
Preoperative oral antibiotics in colorectal surgery increase the rate of Clostridium difficile colitis. Arch Surg (2005) 1.33
Paternal genetic affinity between Western Austronesians and Daic populations. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 1.33
Genetic variations of mTORC1 genes and risk of gastric cancer in an Eastern Chinese population. Mol Carcinog (2013) 1.32
Tagging SNPs in non-homologous end-joining pathway genes and risk of glioma. Carcinogenesis (2007) 1.30
The EMPOWER study: randomized, prospective, double-blind, multicenter trial of vagal blockade to induce weight loss in morbid obesity. Obes Surg (2012) 1.30
Relationship between hospital volume, system clinical resources, and mortality in pancreatic resection. J Am Coll Surg (2009) 1.29
Does gastric bypass alter alcohol metabolism? Surg Obes Relat Dis (2007) 1.28
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Integrated analysis of mutations, miRNA and mRNA expression in glioblastoma. BMC Syst Biol (2010) 1.26
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Extended Y chromosome investigation suggests postglacial migrations of modern humans into East Asia via the northern route. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 1.25
Totally robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Arch Surg (2005) 1.25
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Randomly distributed crossovers may generate block-like patterns of linkage disequilibrium: an act of genetic drift. Hum Genet (2003) 1.23
Global distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroup C reveals the prehistoric migration routes of African exodus and early settlement in East Asia. J Hum Genet (2010) 1.22
The human gut microbiome: a review of the effect of obesity and surgically induced weight loss. JAMA Surg (2013) 1.19
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Extended kalman filter for estimation of parameters in nonlinear state-space models of biochemical networks. PLoS One (2008) 1.19
Association of the OCA2 polymorphism His615Arg with melanin content in east Asian populations: further evidence of convergent evolution of skin pigmentation. PLoS Genet (2010) 1.17
Confirmation of papillary thyroid cancer susceptibility loci identified by genome-wide association studies of chromosomes 14q13, 9q22, 2q35 and 8p12 in a Chinese population. J Med Genet (2013) 1.17
Induction of apoptosis and fibrillin 1 expression in human dermal endothelial cells by scleroderma sera containing anti-endothelial cell antibodies. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 1.16
Genome amplification of single sperm using multiple displacement amplification. Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 1.16
Partial deletions are associated with an increased risk of complete deletion in AZFc: a new insight into the role of partial AZFc deletions in male infertility. J Med Genet (2007) 1.16
Population genetic structure of peninsular Malaysia Malay sub-ethnic groups. PLoS One (2011) 1.16
Weighing in on bariatric surgery: procedure use, readmission rates, and mortality. JAMA (2005) 1.16
Is patient safety improving? National trends in patient safety indicators: 1998-2007. Health Serv Res (2011) 1.15
The Y-chromosome landscape of the Philippines: extensive heterogeneity and varying genetic affinities of Negrito and non-Negrito groups. Eur J Hum Genet (2010) 1.15
Medical versus surgical management of biliary tract disease in pregnancy. Am J Surg (2004) 1.15
Toward the evaluation of function in genetic variability: characterizing human SNP frequencies and establishing BAC-transgenic mice carrying the human CYP1A1_CYP1A2 locus. Hum Mutat (2005) 1.15
Steroid effects on osteogenesis through mesenchymal cell gene expression. Osteoporos Int (2004) 1.15
The b2/b3 subdeletion shows higher risk of spermatogenic failure and higher frequency of complete AZFc deletion than the gr/gr subdeletion in a Chinese population. Hum Mol Genet (2008) 1.13
Iron encapsulated within pod-like carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl (2012) 1.13
Succinylcholine: a useful drug in bariatric surgery. Obes Surg (2008) 1.13
Evidence for linkage of red blood cell size and count: genome-wide scans in the Framingham Heart Study. Am J Hematol (2007) 1.12
Potentially functional variants of PLCE1 identified by GWASs contribute to gastric adenocarcinoma susceptibility in an eastern Chinese population. PLoS One (2012) 1.12
The GenoChip: a new tool for genetic anthropology. Genome Biol Evol (2013) 1.12
A spatial analysis of genetic structure of human populations in China reveals distinct difference between maternal and paternal lineages. Eur J Hum Genet (2008) 1.12
Leptospirosis vaccines. Microb Cell Fact (2007) 1.11
High genetic diversity of measles virus, World Health Organization European Region, 2005-2006. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.11