Research focus
Recurring themes across recent publications include Management Knee, Knee Osteoarthritis, Oarsi Recommendations, Recommendations Management. Work appears regularly in The Lancet, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Nature Genetics. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.
Recent publications
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseasesDOI
- The Lancet Commission on pollution and healthDOI
- OsteoarthritisDOI
- OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee osteoarthritisDOI
- OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, Part II: OARSI evidence-based, expert consensus guidelinesDOI
- Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol useDOI
- Body Weight and Mortality among WomenDOI
- Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor I and risk of breast cancerDOI
- OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritisDOI
- A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variantsDOI
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External profiles
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3197-752X
- OpenAlex: openalex.org
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