Duncan Thomas

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Top papers

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1 The effect of air pollution on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age. N Engl J Med 2004 8.58
2 Ambient air pollution and atherosclerosis in Los Angeles. Environ Health Perspect 2005 6.19
3 Traffic, susceptibility, and childhood asthma. Environ Health Perspect 2006 5.50
4 Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study. Lancet 2007 5.34
5 Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature 2012 4.46
6 Association between changes in air pollution levels during the Beijing Olympics and biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis in healthy young adults. JAMA 2012 3.52
7 Fine-scale mapping of disease genes with multiple mutations via spatial clustering techniques. Am J Hum Genet 2003 2.57
8 Reporting, appraising, and integrating data on genotype prevalence and gene-disease associations. Am J Epidemiol 2002 2.56
9 The healthy migrant effect: new findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey. Am J Public Health 2007 2.47
10 Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests. Ecol Lett 2006 2.36
11 Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models. Ecol Lett 2006 2.17
12 Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami. Am J Public Health 2008 1.89
13 Application of Bayesian spatial statistical methods to analysis of haplotypes effects and gene mapping. Genet Epidemiol 2003 1.73
14 Association between air pollution and lung function growth in southern California children: results from a second cohort. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002 1.72
15 A general framework for the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities. Ecol Lett 2008 1.68
16 Prospective study of air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in children with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003 1.66
17 Cardiorespiratory biomarker responses in healthy young adults to drastic air quality changes surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Res Rep Health Eff Inst 2013 1.45
18 Assessing uncertainty in spatial exposure models for air pollution health effects assessment. Environ Health Perspect 2007 1.45
19 Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers. J Marriage Fam 2005 1.43
20 Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia. Demography 2005 1.35
21 Bayesian modeling of air pollution health effects with missing exposure data. Am J Epidemiol 2006 1.23
22 Panel discussion review: session three--issues involved in interpretation of epidemiologic analyses--statistical modeling. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2007 1.13
23 Inherited predisposition of lung cancer: a hierarchical modeling approach to DNA repair and cell cycle control pathways. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007 1.11
24 Multiple imputation methods for longitudinal blood pressure measurements from the Framingham Heart Study. BMC Genet 2003 1.09
25 Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species. Ecol Lett 2014 0.97
26 Dog ownership enhances symptomatic responses to air pollution in children with asthma. Environ Health Perspect 2006 0.95
27 Links between childhood and adult social circumstances and obesity and hypertension in the Mexican population. J Aging Health 2011 0.92
28 Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: gene expression analysis and approaches to detecting multiple functional loci. BMC Proc 2007 0.89
29 A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities. PLoS One 2013 0.84
30 A survey of current Bayesian gene mapping methods. Hum Genomics 2004 0.83
31 Genetic Analysis Workshop 13: introduction to workshop summaries. Genet Epidemiol 2003 0.82
32 Diagnostic chest X-rays and breast cancer risk before age 50 years for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2013 0.81
33 Can expanding access to basic healthcare improve children's health status? Lessons from Indonesia's 'midwife in the village' programme. Popul Stud (Camb) 2005 0.81
34 The impact of parental death on child well-being: evidence from the Indian Ocean tsunami. Demography 2014 0.78
35 The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster. Demography 2015 0.77
36 Links between socio-economic circumstances and changes in smoking behavior in the Mexican population: 2002-2010. J Cross Cult Gerontol 2013 0.77
37 Effect of village midwife program on contraceptive prevalence and method choice in Indonesia. Stud Fam Plann 2013 0.75
38 The flip side of the coin-a doctor's experience of renal failure. J Ren Care 2009 0.75