Molecular epidemiology

Molecular epidemiological studies to assess the risk associated with metabolic polymoiphisms for cancers of head-and-neck and the lung have shown that the overall... 

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Bon, F., Ambert-Balay, K., Giraudon, H., Kaplon, J., Le Guyader, S., Pommepuy, M., Gallay, A., Vaillant, V., de Valk, H., Chikhi-Brachet, R., Flahaut, A., Pothier, P., et al. (2005). Molecular epidemiology of calidviruses deteded in sporadic and outbreak cases of gastroenteritis in France from December 1998 to February 2004. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43, 4659 664. 

Lindell, A. T., GriUner, L., Svensson, L., and Wirgart, B. Z. (2005). Molecular epidemiology of norovirus infections in Stockholm, Sweden, during the years 2000 to 2003 Association of the GGIIb genetic cluster with infection in children. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43,1086-1092. 

Shinkawa, N., Noda, M., Yoshizumi, S., Tokutake, Y., Shiraishi, T., Arita-Nishida, T., Nishio, O., Oka, T., Hansman, G. S., Takeda, N., and Kimura, H. (2008). Molecular epidemiology of noroviruses detected in food handler-associated outbreaks of gastroenteritis in Japan. Intervirology 51, 422 26. 

Zmuda JM, Cauley JA, Ferrell RE. Molecular epidemiology of vitamin D receptor gene variants. Epidemiol Rev 2000 22 203-217. 

Semenza, J.C. and Weasel, L.H., Molecular epidemiology in environmental health the potential of tumor suppressor gene p53 as a biomarker, Env. Health Perspect., 105, 155, 1997. 

Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Leeds Institute for Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, LIGHT Laboratories, Clarendon Way, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK... 

Edited by Gareth Jenkins, Institute of Life Science, Swansea School of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK and Laura J. Hardie, Molecular Epidemiology Unit,... 

Molecular Epidemiology Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK... 

Molecular Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella from Animals and Human Beings in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 307 1-6. 

Nayak, R. and Stewart-King, T. (2008). Molecular epidemiological analysis and microbial source tracking of Salmonella enterica serovars in a preharvest turkey production environment. Foodborne Pathog. Dis. 5,115-126. 

Neumann AS, Sturgis EM, Wei Q. Nucleotide excision repair as a marker for suseeptibility to tobaeeo-related cancers a review of molecular epidemiological studies. Mol Carcinog 2005 42 65-92. 

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Nucleic acid-based approaches and the use of microsatellites are proving of considerable value for investigating genetic variation, the molecular epidemiology and population... 

The author acknowledges the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Australian Research Council and The Wellcome Trust for financial support of his research on the molecular epidemiology of Echinococcus and echinococcosis. He would also like to thank numerous collaborators, especially Li Hua Zhang, Josephine Bowles, Robin Gasser, Thanh Hoa Le, David Blair, Mark Pearson and Mara Rosenzvit, for their significant contributions to the DNA studies. 

McManus, D.P. (2002) The molecular epidemiology of Echinococcus granulosus and cystic hydatid disease. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 96, SI 51 —1 57. 

McManus, D.P. and Thompson, R.C.A. (2003) Molecular epidemiology of cystic echinococcosis. Parasitology S3 7-51. 

Miles, M. A., Feliciangeli, M. D., and Arias, A. R. (2003). American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) and the role of molecular epidemiology in guiding control strategies. BM] 326, 1444-1448. 

Schulte, P.A., and F.P. Perera, eds. 1993. Molecular Epidemiology Principles and Practices. San Diego, CA Academic Press. 

Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition, and Individual Susceptibility (ECNIS) Studying use of biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility and bioindicators of disease in molecular epidemiology of cancer (ECNIS 2005). 

Holland, N.T., M.T. Smith, B. Eskenazi, and M. Bastaki. 2003. Biological sample collection and processing for molecular epidemiological studies. Mutat. Res. 543 (3) 217-234. 

Holland, N.T., L. Pfleger, E. Berger, A. Ho, and M. Bastaki. 2005. Molecular epidemiology biomarkers Sample collection and processing considerations. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 206(2) 261-268. 

Nebert, D.W. 2000. Suggestions for the nomenclature of human alleles Relevance to eco-genetics, pharmacogenetics and molecular epidemiology. Pharmacogenetics 10(4) 279-290. 

Bonassi, S., and W.W. Au. 2002. Biomarkers in molecular epidemiology studies for health risk prediction. Mutat. Res. 511(l) 73-86. 

Perera, F.P. 2000. Molecular epidemiology On the path to prevention J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 

Schulte, P.A., and M. Waters. 1999. Using molecular epidemiology in assessing exposure for risk assessment. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 895 101-111. 

Wild, C.P. 2005. Complementing the genome with an exposome The outstanding challenge of environmental exposure measurement in molecular epidemiology. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 14(8) 1847-1850. 

Nina Holland is an associate adjunct professor of genetics and toxicology and director of the biorepository at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Her scientific interests include molecular epidemiology of children s health, cytogenetics, and reproductive toxicology. In Dr. Holland s Laboratory of Children s Environmental Health, research focuses on the development and implementation of genetic and immuno-... 

G10. Gutierrez, M. I., Bhatia, K., Barriga, F., Diez, B., Muriel, F. S., de Andreas, M. L., Epelman, S., Risueno, C., and Magrath, I. T., Molecular epidemiology of Burkitt s lymphoma from South America Differences in breakpoint location and Epstein—Barr virus association from tumors in other world regions. Blood 19, 3261-3266 (1992). 

CG Dowson, TJ Coffey, BG Spratt. Origin and molecular epidemiology of penicillin-binding protein-mediated resistance to (3-lactam antibiotics. Trends Microbiol 2 361-366, 1994. 

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