Research focus
Recurring themes across recent publications include Type Diabetes, Macrovascular Events, Randomised Controlled, Controlled Trial. Work appears regularly in Nature Genetics, The Lancet, Nature. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.
Recent publications
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humansDOI
- Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and in Nondiabetic Subjects with and without Prior Myocardial InfarctionDOI
- Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trialDOI
- Resveratrol Improves Mitochondrial Function and Protects against Metabolic Disease by Activating SIRT1 and PGC-1伪DOI
- Effects of long-term fenofibrate therapy on cardiovascular events in 9795 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (the FIELD study): randomised controlled trialDOI
- Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studiesDOI
- Acarbose for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the STOP-NIDDM randomised trialDOI
- Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol useDOI
- Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome mapsDOI
- Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetesDOI
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External profiles
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3394-7749
- OpenAlex: openalex.org
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