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  Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013: Implications for biobanks 

  Staunton C; de Stadler E (2019)

  The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) No. 4 of 2013 is the first comprehensive data-protection regulation to be passed in South Africa (SA). Its objectives include giving effect to the constitutional right to ...
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  The GDPR and the research exemption: considerations on the necessary safeguards for research biobanks. 

  Staunton C; Slokenberga S; Mascalzoni D (2019)

  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018. The aspiration of providing for a high level of protection to individuals' personal data risked placing considerable constraints on scientific ...
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  Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption 

  Bowden J; Del Greco M F; Minelli C; Zhao Q; Lawlor DA; Sheehan NA; Thompson J; Smith GD (2018)

  Background Two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization (MR) incorporating multiple genetic variants within a meta-analysis framework is a popular technique for assessing causality in epidemiology. If all genetic ...
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  The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid (SAHA) Restores Cardiomyocyte Contractility in a Rat Model of Early Diabetes 

  Bocchi L; Motta BM; Savi M; Vilella R; Meraviglia V; Rizzi F; Galati S; Buschini A; Lazzaretti M; Pramstaller PP; Rossini A; Stilli D (2019)

  In early diabetes, hyperglycemia and the associated metabolic dysregulation promote early changes in the functional properties of cardiomyocytes, progressively leading to the appearance of the diabetic cardiomyopathy ...
• emeraLD: rapid linkage disequilibrium estimation with massive datasets 

  Quick C; Fuchsberger C; Taliun D; Abecasis G; Boehnke M; Kang HM (2018)

  Estimating linkage disequilibrium (LD) is essential for a wide range of summary statistics-based association methods for genome-wide association studies. Large genetic datasets, e.g. the TOPMed WGS project and UK Biobank, ...
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  Genome-wide association meta-analysis of PR interval identifies 50 novel loci associated with atrial and atrioventricular electrical activity 

  van Setten J; Brody JA; Jamshidi Y; Swenson BR; Butler AM; Campbell H; Del Greco M F; Evans DS; Gibson Q; Gudbjartsson DF; Kerr KF; Krijthe BP; Lyytikäinen LP; Müller C; Müller-Nurasyid M; Nolte IM; Padmanabhan S; Ritchie MD; Robino A; Smith AV; Steri M; Tanaka T; Teumer A; Trompet S; Ulivi S; Verweij N; Yin X; Arnar DO; Asselbergs FW; Bader JS; Barnard J; Bis S; Blankenberg S; Boerwinkle E; Bradford Y; Buckley BM; Chung MK; Crawford D; den Hoed M; Denny JC; Dominiczak AF; Ehret GB; Eijgelsheim M; Ellinor PT; Felix SB; Franco OH; Franke L; Harris TB; Holm H; Gandin I; Iorio A; Kähönen M; Kolcic I; Kors JA; Lakatta EG; Launer LJ; Lin H; Lin HJ; Loos RJF; Lubitz SA; Macfarlane PW; Magnani JW; Mateo Leach I; Meitinger T; Mitchell BD; Munzel T; Papanicolaou GJ; Peters A; Pfeufer A; Pramstaller PP; Raitakari OT; Rotter JI; Rudan I; Samani NJ; Schlessinger D; Silva Aldana CT; Sinner MF; Smith JD; Snieder H; Soliman EZ; Spector TD; Stott DJ; Strauch K; Tarasov KV; Thorsteinsdottir U; Uitterlinden AG; Van Wagoner DR; Völker U; Völzke H; Waldenberger M; Jan Westra H; Wild PS; Zeller T; Alonso A; Avery CL; Bandinelli S; Benjamin EJ; Cucca F; Dörr M; Ferrucci L; Gasparini P; Gudnason V; Hayward C; Heckbert SR; Hicks AA; Wouter Jukema J; Kääb S; Lehtimäki T; Liu Y; Munroe PB; Parsa A; Polasek O; Psaty BM; Roden DM; Schnabel RB; Sinagra G; Stefansson K; Stricker BH; van der Harst P; van Duijn CM; Wilson JF; Gharib SA; de Bakker PIW; Isaacs A; Arking DE; Sotoodehnia N (2018)

  Electrocardiographic PR interval measures atrio-ventricular depolarization and conduction, and abnormal PR interval is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and heart block. Our genome-wide association study of over 92,000 ...
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  Increased Anxiety-Related Behavior, Impaired Cognitive Function and Cellular Alterations in the Brain of Cend1-deficient Mice 

  Segklia K; Stamatakis A; Stylianopoulou F; Lavdas AA; Matsas R (2019)

  Cend1 is a neuronal-lineage specific modulator involved in coordination of cell cycle exit and differentiation of neuronal precursors. We have previously shown that Cend1−/− mice show altered cerebellar layering caused by ...
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  Analysis of influenza vaccination coverage among the elderly living in Rome, based on a deprivation index, 2009-13 

  Vukovic V; Lillini R; Asta F; Chini F; De Waure C (2018)

  Introduction: Elderly people are more likely to develop influenza-related complications, but despite the recommendations, the optimal vaccination coverage is not reached. The use of deprivation indices can help identifying ...
• Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits 

  Evangelou E; Warren HR; Mosen-Ansorena D; Mifsud B; Pazoki R; Gao H; Ntritsos G; Dimou N; Cabrera CP; Karaman I; Ng FL; Evangelou M; Witkowska K; Tzanis E; Hellwege JN; Giri A; Velez Edwards DR; Sun YV; Cho K; Gaziano JM; Wilson PWF; Tsao PS; Kovesdy CP; Esko T; Mägi R; Milani L; Almgren P; Boutin T; Debette S; Ding J; Giulianini F; Holliday EG; Jackson AU; Li-Gao R; Lin WY; Luan J; Mangino M; Oldmeadow C; Prins BP; Qian Y; Sargurupremraj M; Shah N; Surendran P; Thériault S; Verweij N; Willems SM; Zhao JH; Amouyel P; Connell J; de Mutsert R; Doney ASF; Farrall M; Menni C; Morris AD; Noordam R; Paré G; Poulter NR; Shields DC; Stanton A; Thom S; Abecasis G; Amin N; Arking DE; Ayers KL; Barbieri CM; Batini C; Bis JC; Blake T; Bochud M; Boehnke M; Boerwinkle E; Boomsma DI; Bottinger EP; Braund PS; Brumat M; Campbell A; Campbell H; Chakravarti A; Chambers JC; Chauhan G; Ciullo M; Cocca M; Collins F; Cordell HJ; Davies G; Borst MH; Geus EJ; Deary IJ; Deelen J; Del Greco M F; Demirkale CY; Dörr M; Ehret GB; Elosua R; Enroth S; Erzurumluoglu AM; Ferreira T; Frånberg M; Franco OH; Gandin I; Gasparini P; Giedraitis V; Gieger C; Girotto G; Goel A; Gow AJ; Gudnason V; Guo X; Gyllensten U; Hamsten A; Harris TB; Harris SE; Hartman CA; Havulinna AS; Hicks AA; Hofer E; Hofman A; Hottenga JJ; Huffman JE; Hwang SJ; Ingelsson E; James A; Jansen R; Jarvelin MR; Joehanes R; Johansson Å; Johnson AD; Joshi PK; Jousilahti P; Jukema JW; Jula A; Kähönen M; Kathiresan S; Keavney BD; Khaw KT; Knekt P; Knight J; Kolcic I; Kooner JS; Koskinen S; Kristiansson K; Kutalik Z; Laan M; Larson M; Launer LJ; Lehne B; Lehtimäki T; Liewald DCM; Lin L; Lind L; Lindgren CM; Liu Y; Loos RJF; Lopez LM; Lu Y; Lyytikäinen LP; Mahajan A; Mamasoula C; Marrugat J; Marten J; Milaneschi Y; Morgan A; Morris AP; Morrison AC; Munson PJ; Nalls MA; Nandakumar P; Nelson CP; Niiranen T; Nolte IM; Nutile T; Oldehinkel AJ; Oostra BA; O'Reilly PF; Org E; Padmanabhan S; Palmas W; Palotie A; Pattie A; Penninx BWJH; Perola M; Peters A; Polasek O; Pramstaller PP; Nguyen QT; Raitakari OT; Ren M; Rettig R; Rice K; Ridker PM; Ried JS; Riese H; Ripatti S; Robino A; Rose LM; Rotter JI; Rudan I; Ruggiero D; Saba Y; Sala CF; Salomaa V; Samani NJ; Sarin AP; Schmidt R; Schmidt H; Shrine N; Siscovick D; Smith AV; Snieder H; Sõber S; Sorice R; Starr JM; Stott DJ; Strachan DP; Strawbridge RJ; Sundström J; Swertz MA; Taylor KD; Teumer A; Tobin MD; Tomaszewski M; Toniolo D; Traglia M; Trompet S; Tuomilehto J; Tzourio C; Uitterlinden AG; Vaez A; van der Most PJ; van Duijn CM; Vergnaud AC; Verwoert GC; Vitart V; Völker U; Vollenweider P; Vuckovic D; Watkins H; Wild SH; Willemsen G; Wilson JF; Wright AF; Yao J; Zemunik T; Zhang W; Attia JR; Butterworth AS; Chasman DI; Conen D; Cucca F; Danesh J; Hayward C; Howson JMM; Laakso M; Lakatta EG; Langenberg C; Melander O; Mook-Kanamori DO; Palmer CNA; Risch L; Scott RA; Scott RJ; Sever P; Spector TD; van der Harst P; Wareham NJ; Zeggini E; Levy D; Munroe PB; Newton-Cheh C; Brown MJ; Metspalu A; Hung AM; O'Donnell CJ; Edwards TL; Million Veteran Program; Psaty BM; Tzoulaki I; Barnes MR; Wain LV; Elliott P; Caulfield MJ (2018)

  High blood pressure is a highly heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure) to date in ...
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  Parkin Interacts with Apoptosis-Inducing Factor and Interferes with Its Translocation to the Nucleus in Neuronal Cells 

  Guida M; Zanon A; Montibeller L; Lavdas AA; Ladurner J; Pischedda F; Rakovic A; Domingues FS; Piccoli G; Klein C; Pramstaller PP; Hicks AA; Pichler I (2019)

  Mutations in the PRKN gene (encoding parkin) have been linked to the most frequent known cause of recessive Parkinson's disease (PD), and parkin dysfunction represents a risk factor for sporadic PD. Parkin is widely ...
• Age at menarche and adult body mass index: a Mendelian randomization study 

  Gill D; Brewer CF; Del Greco M F; Sivakumaran P; Bowden J; Sheehan NA; Minelli C (2018)

  BACKGROUND: Pubertal timing has psychological and physical sequelae. While observational studies have demonstrated an association between age at menarche and adult body mass index (BMI), confounding makes it difficult to ...
• Mendelian randomization: Progressing towards understanding causality 

  König IR; Del Greco M F (2018)
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  Evaluating the contribution of rare variants to type 2 diabetes and related traits using pedigrees 

  Jun G; Manning A; Almeida M; Zawistowski M; Wood AR; Teslovich TM; Fuchsberger C; Feng S; Cingolani P; Gaulton KJ; Dyer T; Blackwell TW; Chen H; Chines PS; Choi S; Churchhouse C; Fontanillas P; King R; Lee S; Lincoln SE; Trubetskoy V; DePristo M; Fingerlin T; Grossman R; Grundstad J; Heath A; Kim J; Kim YJ; Laramie J; Lee J; Li H; Liu X; Livne O; Locke AE; Maller J; Mazur A; Morris AP; Pollin TI; Ragona D; Reich D; Rivas MA; Scott LJ; Sim X; Tearle RG; Teo YY; Williams AL; Zöllner S; Curran JE; Peralta J; Akolkar B; Bell GI; Burtt NP; Cox NJ; Florez JC; Hanis CL; McKeon C; Mohlke KL; Seielstad M; Wilson JG; Atzmon G; Below JE; Dupuis J; Nicolae DL; Lehman D; Park T; Won S; Sladek R; Altshuler D; McCarthy MI; Duggirala R; Boehnke M; Frayling TM; Abecasis GR; Blangero J (2018)

  A major challenge in evaluating the contribution of rare variants to complex disease is identifying enough copies of the rare alleles to permit informative statistical analysis. To investigate the contribution of rare ...
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  PR interval genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 50 loci associated with atrial and atrioventricular electrical activity 

  vvan Setten J; Brody JA; Jamshidi Y; Swenson BR; Butler AM; Campbell H; Del Greco M F; Evans DS; Gibson Q; Gudbjartsson DF; Kerr KF; Krijthe BP; Lyytikäinen LP; Müller C; Müller-Nurasyid M; Nolte IM; Padmanabhan S; Ritchie MD; Robino A; Smith AV; Steri M; Tanaka T; Teumer A; Trompet S; Ulivi S; Verweij N; Yin X; Arnar DO; Asselbergs FW; Bader JS; Barnard J; Bis J; Blankenberg S; Boerwinkle E; Bradford Y; Buckley BM; Chung MK; Crawford D; den Hoed M; Denny JC; Dominiczak AF; Ehret GB; Eijgelsheim M; Ellinor PT; Felix SB; Franco OH; Franke L; Harris TB; Holm H; Ilaria G; Iorio A; Kähönen M; Kolcic I; Kors JA; Lakatta EG; Launer LJ; Lin H; Lin HJ; Loos RJF; Lubitz SA; Macfarlane PW; Magnani JW; Leach IM; Meitinger T; Mitchell BD; Munzel T; Papanicolaou GJ; Peters A; Pfeufer A; Pramstaller PP; Raitakari OT; Rotter JI; Rudan I; Samani NJ; Schlessinger D; Silva Aldana CT; Sinner MF; Smith JD; Snieder H; Soliman EZ; Spector TD; Stott DJ; Strauch K; Tarasov KV; Thorsteinsdottir U; Uitterlinden AG; Van Wagoner DR; Völker U; Völzke H; Waldenberger M; Jan Westra H; Wild PS; Zeller T; Alonso A; Avery CL; Bandinelli S; Benjamin EJ; Cucca F; Dörr M; Ferrucci L; Gasparini P; Gudnason V; Hayward C; Heckbert SR; Hicks AA; Jukema JW; Kääb S; Lehtimäki T; Liu Y; Munroe PB; Parsa A; Polasek O; Psaty BM; Roden DM; Schnabel RB; Sinagra G; Stefansson K; Stricker BH; van der Harst P; van Duijn CM; Wilson JF; Gharib SA; de Bakker PIW; Isaacs A; Arking DE; Sotoodehnia N (2018)

  Electrocardiographic PR interval measures atrio-ventricular depolarization and conduction, and abnormal PR interval is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and heart block. Our genome-wide association study of over 92,000 ...
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  The LRRK2 Variant E193K Prevents Mitochondrial Fission Upon MPP plus Treatment by Altering LRRK2 Binding to DRP1 

  Carrion MP; Pischedda F; Biosa A; Russo I; Straniero L; CivieroL; Guida M; Gloeckner CJ; Ticozzi N; Tiloca C; Mariani C; Pezzoli G; Duga S; Pichler I; Pan L; Landers JE; Greggio E; Hess MW; Goldwurm S; Piccoli G (2018)

  Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2) are associated with familial and sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD). LRRK2 is a complex protein that consists of multiple domains, including 13 putative armadillo-type ...
• Mitochondrial dysfunction in fibroblasts of Multiple System Atrophy 

  Monzio Compagnoni G; Kleiner G; Bordoni A; Fortunato F; Ronchi D; Salani S; Guida M; Corti C; Pichler I; Bergamini C; Fato R; Pellecchia MT; Vallelunga A; Del Sorbo F; Elia A; Reale C; Garavaglia B; Mora G; Albanese A; Cogiamanian F; Ardolino G; Bresolin N; Corti S; Comi GP; Quinzii CM; Di Fonzo A (2018)

  Multiple System Atrophy is a severe neurodegenerative disorder which is characterized by a variable clinical presentation and a broad neuropathological spectrum. The pathogenic mechanisms are almost completely unknown. In ...
• Improving the visualisation, interpretation and analysis of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization via the radial plot and radial regression 

  Bowden J; Spiller W; Del Greco M F; Sheehan N; Thompson J; Minelli C; Davey Smith G (2018)

  Background: data furnishing a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study are often visualized with the aid of a scatter plot, in which single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-outcome associations are plotted against the ...
• Validity and reliability of serological immunophenotyping of multiple blood group systems by ORTHO™ Sera with fully automated procedure 

  Salvadori U; Melotti R; L'Altrella D; Daves M; Al-Khaffaf A; Milizia L; Putzulu R; Filippi R; Carolo A; Lippi G; Gentilini I (2018)

  The increase of immunization against blood group antigens has reinforced the need for automated extensive blood typing. The aim of this study was to assess both the validity and reliability of red blood cell (RBC) automated ...
• Influence of collection tubes during quantitative targeted metabolomics studies in human blood samples 

  Paglia G; Del Greco M F; Sigurdsson BB; Rainer J; Volani C; Hicks AA; Pramstaller PP; Smarason SV (2018)

  BACKGROUND: Plasma and serum are the most widely used matrices in clinical studies. However, some variability in absolute concentrations of metabolites are likely to be observed in these collection tubes matrices. METHODS: We ...
• Structural Consistency of the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire in the Cooperative Health Research In South Tyrol (CHRIS) Population-Based Study 

  Melotti R; Ruscheweyh R; Pramstaller PP; Hicks AA; Pattaro C (2018)

  The self-reported Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire (PSQ) is a valid supplement to experimental pain testing. However, the latent constructs determining the originally proposed 1 general score (PSQ-total) and 2 subscores ...

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