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Alan Walker - Verified email at abdn.ac.uk - Cited by 23288
Anthony P Walker - Verified email at ornl.gov - Cited by 17777
Alex Walker - Verified email at phc.ox.ac.uk - Cited by 15032

Wilson's disease

A Ala, AP Walker, K Ashkan, JS Dooley, ML Schilsky - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Progressive hepatolenticular degeneration, or Wilson's disease, is a genetic disorder of
copper metabolism. Knowledge of the clinical presentations and treatment of the disease …

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

AP Walker, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) is increasing, which increases leaf‐scale
photosynthesis and intrinsic water‐use efficiency. These direct responses have the potential …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

H Wang, KR Paulson, SA Pease, S Watson, H Comfort… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …

Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY

EJ Williamson, AJ Walker, K Bhaskaran, S Bacon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly affected mortality worldwide.
There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, and …

[HTML][HTML] A conserved SREBP-1/phosphatidylcholine feedback circuit regulates lipogenesis in metazoans

AK Walker, RL Jacobs, JL Watts, V Rottiers, K Jiang… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) activate genes involved in the
synthesis and trafficking of cholesterol and other lipids and are critical for maintaining lipid …

A prospective study of the risk of tuberculosis among intravenous drug users with human immunodeficiency virus infection

PA Selwyn, D Hartel, VA Lewis… - New England journal …, 1989 - Mass Medical Soc
To determine the risk of active tuberculosis associated with human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) infection, we prospectively studied 520 intravenous drug users enrolled in a …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2018

C Le Quéré, RM Andrew… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere–the “global carbon …

Dominant and diet-responsive groups of bacteria within the human colonic microbiota

AW Walker, J Ince, SH Duncan, LM Webster… - The ISME …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The populations of dominant species within the human colonic microbiota can potentially be
modified by dietary intake with consequences for health. Here we examined the influence of …

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

SJ Salter, MJ Cox, EM Turek, ST Calus, WO Cookson… - BMC biology, 2014 - Springer
Background The study of microbial communities has been revolutionised in recent years by
the widespread adoption of culture independent analytical techniques such as 16S rRNA …