Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

…, A Mahajan, R Malik, AJ Mansur, GM Marcus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide 1 and has a complex
heritability 2 . We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (…

Recdroid: An android resource access permission recommendation system

…, C Fung, G Bond, S Jackson, M Pare… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, it is prohibitive for apps market places, such as Google App Store, to thoroughly
verify an app's resource permission requests to be legitimate or malicious. As a result, …

Epigenetic age and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation

…, N Sotoodehnia, EJ Benjamin, S Horvath, GM Marcus - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The most prominent risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF) is chronological age;
however, underlying mechanisms are unexplained. Algorithms using epigenetic modifications …

[PDF][PDF] The Evolution of Materials in Arms and Armors: Medieval Era

BM Pare, CJ Harrop, MK Chung-Chuen-Yeung, SC Mui - Evolution, 2011 - core.ac.uk
During the medieval ages, the development of armor was ever-changing because of the
constant need for better protection. This project is devoted to the evolution of armors during the …

RecDroid: a resource access permission control portal and recommendation service for smartphone users

G Bond, S Jackson, M Pare - 2015 - scholarscompass.vcu.edu
The rapid growth of the smartphone applications market raises security concerns regarding
untrusted applications. Studies have shown that most apps in markets request to collect data …

[PDF][PDF] Forest biomass, carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation

…, V Dale, G Egnell, M Lindner, L Marelli, D Paré… - From science to …, 2016 - efi.int
Energy Framework set ambitious but necessary targets. Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions by phasing out the technologies and infrastructures that cause fossil carbon …

New approaches for interpreting projected bone densitometry data

…, ML Bouxsein, R Marcus - Journal of bone and …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
… We demonstrate that this measure can be misleading when used to compare bones of
different sizes due to inherent biases caused by bone thickness differences. For example, as…

PPARA Polymorphism Influences the Cardiovascular Benefit of Fenofibrate in Type 2 Diabetes: Findings From ACCORD-Lipid

…, A Pandolfi, MG Pezzolesi, RJ Sigal, G Paré… - Diabetes, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The cardiovascular benefits of fibrates have been shown to be heterogeneous and to depend
on the presence of atherogenic dyslipidemia. We investigated whether genetic variability …

Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

…, M Farrall, C Menni, AD Morris, R Noordam, G Pare… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

Crowdsourced databases: Query processing with people

A Marcus, E Wu, DR Karger, S Madden, RC Miller - 2011 - dspace.mit.edu
… users to score many items, or to simply compare two. How can the system optimize each HIT…
JoinPredicate HITs could then only compare items that are compatible, reducing the search …