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Identifying dementia outcomes in UK Biobank
Tim Wilkinson, Christian Schnier, Kathryn Bush, Kristiina Rannikmäe, David E Henshall, Chris Lerpiniere, Naomi E Allen, Robin Flaig, Tom C Russ, Deborah Bathgate, Suvankar Pal, John T O'Brien, Cathie LM Sudlow, Dementias Platform UK and UK Biobank
Mar 06, 2019
Prospective, population-based studies that recruit participants in mid-life are valuable resources for dementia research. Follow-up in these studies is often through linkage to routinely-collected healthcare datasets. We...
Best practices for multi-ancestry, meta-analytic transcriptome-wide association studies
Arjun Bhattacharya, Jibril B Hirbo, Dan Zhou, Wei Zhou, Jie Zheng, Masahiro Kanai, Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Eric R Gamazon, Nancy J Cox
Dec 08, 2022
The Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI), through its diversity, provides a valuable opportunity to study population-wide and ancestry-specific genetic associations. However, with multiple ascertainment strategies and...
“I just wanted to learn Japanese and visit Japan”
With growth in English-Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education, there have been increasing calls for research on this expansion, particularly the challenges facing students. Despite the growth in international...
“I just wanted to learn Japanese and visit Japan”
With growth in English-Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education, there have been increasing calls for research on this expansion, particularly the challenges facing students. Despite the growth in international...
Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts.
Ying Wang, Shinichi Namba, Esteban Lopera, Sini Kerminen, Kristin Tsuo, Kristi Läll, Masahiro Kanai, Wei Zhou, Kuan-Han Wu, Marie-Julie Favé, Laxmi Bhatta, Philip Awadalla, Ben Brumpton, Patrick Deelen, Kristian Hveem, Valeria Lo Faro, Reedik Mägi, Yoshinori Murakami, Serena Sanna, Jordan W Smoller, Jasmina Uzunovic, Brooke N Wolford, Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative, Cristen Willer, Eric R Gamazon, Nancy J Cox, Ida Surakka, Yukinori Okada, Alicia R Martin, Jibril Hirbo
Mar 16, 2023
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been widely explored in precision medicine. However, few studies have thoroughly investigated their best practices in global populations across different diseases. We here utilized data from...
Building primary care in Japan
Daisuke Kato, Hikohaku Ryu, Tomoki Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Abe, Makoto Kaneko, Mezhen Ko, Greg Irving, Robin Ramsay, Masatoshi Kondo
Feb 24, 2020
Japan's health system is well known for achieving one of the world's highest life expectancy with universal health coverage. However, the country now faces challenges of a rapidly aging population and changes in patterns and...
Investigation of associations between retinal microvascular parameters and albuminuria in UK Biobank
Euan N Paterson, Chris Cardwell, Thomas J MacGillivray, Emanuele Trucco, Alexander S Doney, Paul Foster, Alexander P Maxwell, Gareth J McKay, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium
May 10, 2021
BACKGROUND: Associations between microvascular variation and chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been reported previously. Non-invasive retinal fundus imaging enables evaluation of the microvascular network and may offer insight...
Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative
Wei Zhou, Masahiro Kanai, Kuan-Han H Wu, Humaira Rasheed, Kristin Tsuo, Jibril B Hirbo, Ying Wang, Arjun Bhattacharya, Huiling Zhao, Shinichi Namba, Ida Surakka, Brooke N Wolford, Valeria Lo Faro, Esteban A Lopera-Maya, Kristi Läll, Marie-Julie Favé, Juulia J Partanen, Sinéad B Chapman, Juha Karjalainen, Mitja Kurki, Mutaamba Maasha, Ben M Brumpton, Sameer Chavan, Tzu-Ting Chen, Michelle Daya, Yi Ding, Yen-Chen A Feng, Lindsay A Guare, Christopher R Gignoux, Sarah E Graham, Whitney E Hornsby, Nathan Ingold, Said I Ismail, Ruth Johnson, Triin Laisk, Kuang Lin, Jun Lv, Iona Y Millwood, Sonia Moreno-Grau, Kisung Nam, Priit Palta, Anita Pandit, Michael H Preuss, Chadi Saad, Shefali Setia-Verma, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Jasmina Uzunovic, Anurag Verma, Matthew Zawistowski, Xue Zhong, Nahla Afifi, Kawthar M Al-Dabhani, Asma Al Thani, Yuki Bradford, Archie Campbell, Kristy Crooks, Geertruida H de Bock, Scott M Damrauer, Nicholas J Douville, Sarah Finer, Lars G Fritsche, Eleni Fthenou, Gilberto Gonzalez-Arroyo, Christopher J Griffiths, Yu Guo, Karen A Hunt, Alexander Ioannidis, Nomdo M Jansonius, Takahiro Konuma, Ming Ta Michael Lee, Arturo Lopez-Pineda, Yuta Matsuda, Riccardo E Marioni, Babak Moatamed, Marco A Nava-Aguilar, Kensuke Numakura, Snehal Patil, Nicholas Rafaels, Anne Richmond, Agustin Rojas-Muñoz, Jonathan A Shortt, Peter Straub, Ran Tao, Brett Vanderwerff, Manvi Vernekar, Yogasudha Veturi, Kathleen C Barnes, Marike Boezen, Zhengming Chen, Chia-Yen Chen, Judy Cho, George Davey Smith, Hilary K Finucane, Lude Franke, Eric R Gamazon, Andrea Ganna, Tom R Gaunt, Tian Ge, Hailiang Huang, Jennifer Huffman, Nicholas Katsanis, Jukka T Koskela, Clara Lajonchere, Matthew H Law, Liming Li, Cecilia M Lindgren, Ruth JF Loos, Stuart MacGregor, Koichi Matsuda, Catherine M Olsen, David J Porteous, Jordan A Shavit, Harold Snieder, Tomohiro Takano, Richard C Trembath, Judith M Vonk, David C Whiteman, Stephen J Wicks, Cisca Wijmenga, John Wright, Jie Zheng, Xiang Zhou, Philip Awadalla, Michael Boehnke, Carlos D Bustamante, Nancy J Cox, Segun Fatumo, Daniel H Geschwind, Caroline Hayward, Kristian Hveem, Eimear E Kenny, Seunggeun Lee, Yen-Feng Lin, Hamdi Mbarek, Reedik Mägi, Hilary C Martin, Sarah E Medland, Yukinori Okada, Aarno V Palotie, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Daniel J Rader, Marylyn D Ritchie, Serena Sanna, Jordan W Smoller, Kari Stefansson, David A van Heel, Robin G Walters, Sebastian Zöllner, Biobank of the Americas, Biobank Japan project, BioMe, BioVU, CanPath - Ontario Health Study, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, deCODE Genetics, Estonian Biobank, FinnGen, Generation Scotland, Genes & Health Research Team, LifeLines, Mass General Brigham Biobank, Michigan Genomics Initiative, National Biobank of Korea, Penn Medicine BioBank, Qatar Biobank, QSkin Sun and Health Study, Taiwan Biobank, HUNT Study, UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative, Uganda Genome Resource, UK Biobank, Alicia R Martin, Cristen J Willer, Mark J Daly, Benjamin M Neale
Mar 16, 2023
Apocalyptic Japan
Melvin L. Ellis
Jan 01, 0001
The devastation of Japan at the end of the Pacific war-- through the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombing of Tokyo and other major cities, and the immense loss of life both on the warfront and at home--...
Japan Anime apocalypse culture loss of innocence duty victim's history Film and Media Studies Japanese Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Sedentary Behavior Research Network (SBRN) - Terminology Consensus Project process and outcome.
Mark S Tremblay, Salomé Aubert, Joel D Barnes, Travis J Saunders, Valerie Carson, Amy E Latimer-Cheung, Sebastien FM Chastin, Teatske M Altenburg, Mai JM Chinapaw, SBRN Terminology Consensus Project Participants
Jul 18, 2018
BACKGROUND: The prominence of sedentary behavior research in health science has grown rapidly. With this growth there is increasing urgency for clear, common and accepted terminology and definitions. Such standardization is...
Genome-wide association studies for corneal and refractive astigmatism in UK Biobank demonstrate a shared role for myopia susceptibility loci.
Previous studies have suggested that naturally occurring genetic variation contributes to the risk of astigmatism. The purpose of this investigation was to identify genetic markers associated with corneal and refractive...
Astigmatism Biological Specimen Banks Cornea Corneal Diseases Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Humans Male Middle Aged Myopia Nuclear Proteins Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases United Kingdom White People
Japan: Where Did All the People Go? An Empirical Study on Economic and Social Impacts on Low Fertility in Japan
Sasha Heasley
Jan 01, 0001
This project analyzed potential impacts on the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Japan (2010 and 2015), which is dealing with both a declining population and an ageing population in parallel. Results indicate that income per person...
demographics Japan total fertility rate income per capita population decline marriage rate labor force Asian Studies Business Economics Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
Genetic map of regional sulcal morphology in the human brain from UK biobank data.
Benjamin B Sun, Stephanie J Loomis, Fabrizio Pizzagalli, Natalia Shatokhina, Jodie N Painter, Christopher N Foley, Biogen Biobank Team, Megan E Jensen, Donald G McLaren, Sai Spandana Chintapalli, Alyssa H Zhu, Daniel Dixon, Tasfiya Islam, Iyad Ba Gari, Heiko Runz, Sarah E Medland, Paul M Thompson, Neda Jahanshad, Christopher D Whelan
Oct 14, 2022
Genetic associations with macroscopic brain structure can provide insights into brain function and disease. However, specific associations with measures of local brain folding are largely under-explored. Here, we conducted...
The Astropy Project
Abstract
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed...
A Zonca, AM Price-Whelan, PL Lim, N Earl, N Starkman, L Bradley, DL Shupe, AA Patil, L Corrales, CE Brasseur, M Nöthe, A Donath, E Tollerud, BM Morris, A Ginsburg, E Vaher, BA Weaver, J Tocknell, W Jamieson, MH van Kerkwijk, TP Robitaille, B Merry, M Bachetti, HM Günther, C Zhang, TL Aldcroft, JA Alvarado-Montes, AM Archibald, A Bódi, S Bapat, G Barentsen, J Bazán, M Biswas, M Boquien, DJ Burke, D Cara, M Cara, KE Conroy, S Conseil, MW Craig, RM Cross, KL Cruz, F D’Eugenio, N Dencheva, HAR Devillepoix, JP Dietrich, AD Eigenbrot, T Erben, L Ferreira, D Foreman-Mackey, R Fox, N Freij, S Garg, R Geda, L Glattly, Y Gondhalekar, KD Gordon, D Grant, P Greenfield, AM Groener, S Guest, S Gurovich, R Handberg, A Hart, Z Hatfield-Dodds, D Homeier, G Hosseinzadeh, T Jenness, CK Jones, P Joseph, JB Kalmbach, E Karamehmetoglu, M Kałuszyński, MSP Kelley, N Kern, WE Kerzendorf, EW Koch, S Kulumani, A Lee, C Ly, Z Ma, C MacBride, JM Maljaars, D Muna, NA Murphy, H Norman, R O’Steen, KA Oman, C Pacifici, S Pascual, J Pascual-Granado, RR Patil, GI Perren, TE Pickering, T Rastogi, BR Roulston, DF Ryan, ES Rykoff, J Sabater, P Sakurikar
Aug 24, 2022
Using UK Biobank for sexual minority health research
Aim: Despite poorer health and healthcare outcomes experienced by lesbian, gay and bisexual adults, data for research to characterize and address these disparities remain limited. Patients & methods: We describe sexual history...
Genetic map of regional sulcal morphology in the human brain from UK biobank data.
Benjamin B Sun, Stephanie J Loomis, Fabrizio Pizzagalli, Natalia Shatokhina, Jodie N Painter, Christopher N Foley, Biogen Biobank Team, Megan E Jensen, Donald G McLaren, Sai Spandana Chintapalli, Alyssa H Zhu, Daniel Dixon, Tasfiya Islam, Iyad Ba Gari, Heiko Runz, Sarah E Medland, Paul M Thompson, Neda Jahanshad, Christopher D Whelan
Nov 16, 2022
Genetic associations with macroscopic brain structure can provide insights into brain function and disease. However, specific associations with measures of local brain folding are largely under-explored. Here, we conducted...
Demystifying Ambiguous Words in Request for Proposals of Information Systems in Japan
Disagreements in interpreting words in software requirements specifications (SRSs) can lead to project failure. Various approaches to identifying and preventing ambiguous words in SRSs have been proposed. Yet, it is unclear...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Connecting Enterprise Architecture and Project Portfolio Management
Christof Gellweiler
Jan 01, 2020
Enterprise architecture (EA) and project portfolio management (PPM) are key areas when it comes to connecting enterprise strategy and information technology (IT) projects. Both management disciplines enhance business...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Using UK Biobank for sexual minority health research
Aim: Despite poorer health and healthcare outcomes experienced by lesbian, gay and bisexual adults, data for research to characterize and address these disparities remain limited. Patients & methods: We describe sexual history...
Welfare Genome Project
Yeonsu Jeon, Sungwon Jeon, Asta Blazyte, Yeo Jin Kim, Jasmin Junseo Lee, Youngjune Bhak, Yun Sung Cho, Yeshin Park, Eui-Kyu Noh, Andrea Manica, Jeremy S Edwards, Dan Bolser, Sukyeon Kim, Yuji Lee, Changhan Yoon, Semin Lee, Byung Chul Kim, Neung Hwa Park, Jong Bhak
Mar 08, 2021
The Welfare Genome Project (WGP) provided 1,000 healthy Korean volunteers with detailed genetic and health reports to test the social perception of integrating personal genetic and healthcare data at a large-scale. WGP was...
Using UK Biobank for sexual minority health research.
Aim: Despite poorer health and healthcare outcomes experienced by lesbian, gay and bisexual adults, data for research to characterize and address these disparities remain limited. Patients & methods: We describe sexual history...
Consonant Cluster Reduction Observed in the Anglophone Community of Japan
Keiko Hirano
Sep 26, 2014
This paper investigates the consequences of frequent interaction with non-nativeEnglish speakers on the English usage of native English speakers living in Japan.Isolation from native speakers of English and frequent contact with...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
US Bilateral Relations With China and Their Effects on US-Japan and US-India Relations
Mackenzie Owens
Jan 01, 0001
How do US-China relations impact US relations with other Asian nations, specifically with India and Japan? US-China relations can be seen as the main driver in US relations with Japan and India following rapprochement with the...
United States China Japan india USSR 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict International Relations Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
Plurilingualism and STEAM
This contribution attempts to clarify the relationship between the practice of plurilingual education and STEAM (interdisciplinary pedagogy that incorporates science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) through the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
NAVIGATOR
Rita Borgheresi, Andrea Barucci, Sara Colantonio, Gayane Aghakhanyan, Massimiliano Assante, Elena Bertelli, Emanuele Carlini, Roberto Carpi, Claudia Caudai, Diletta Cavallero, Dania Cioni, Roberto Cirillo, Valentina Colcelli, Andrea Dell'Amico, Domnico Di Gangi, Paola Anna Erba, Lorenzo Faggioni, Zeno Falaschi, Michela Gabelloni, Rosa Gini, Lucio Lelii, Pietro Liò, Antonio Lorito, Silvia Lucarini, Paolo Manghi, Francesco Mangiacrapa, Chiara Marzi, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Laura Mercatelli, Antonella Mirabile, Francesco Mungai, Vittorio Miele, Maristella Olmastroni, Pasquale Pagano, Fabiola Paiar, Giancarlo Panichi, Maria Antonietta Pascali, Filippo Pasquinelli, Jorge Eduardo Shortrede, Lorenzo Tumminello, Luca Volterrani, Emanuele Neri, NAVIGATOR Consortium Group
Nov 08, 2022
NAVIGATOR is an Italian regional project boosting precision medicine in oncology with the aim of making it more predictive, preventive, and personalised by advancing translational research based on quantitative imaging and...
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