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Christopher J. O'Donnell

Researcher at VA Boston Healthcare System

Publications -  914
Citations -  140860

Christopher J. O'Donnell is an academic researcher from VA Boston Healthcare System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 159, co-authored 869 publications receiving 126278 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. O'Donnell include Brown University & Veterans Health Administration.

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Opportunities and challenges in the Genetics of COPD 2010: An international COPD Genetics conference report

TL;DR: COPD is defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) as a disease state characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible (1). Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor for the development of COPD.
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Using Demographic Risk Factors to Explain Variations in the Incidence of Violence Against Women

TL;DR: It is found that the risk of experiencing violence varied with levels of postschool education, income, ethnic background, number and age of children, marital status, and age and employment status, school-leaving age, and socioeconomic status.
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On the Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in Family-Based Designs: A Universal, Robust Analysis Approach and an Application to Four Genome-Wide Association Studies

TL;DR: The new test statistic exploits all available information about the association, while, by virtue of its design, it maintains the same robustness against population admixture as traditional family-based approaches that are based exclusively on the within-family information.
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Input Demands and Inefficiency in U.S. Agriculture

TL;DR: In this paper, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are used to estimate a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) system of input demand functions for U.S. agriculture.
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Association of unstable angina guideline care with improved survival.

TL;DR: Subgroups of patients at highest risk and recommendations firmly based on randomized clinical trial data were most strongly associated with better outcomes, and care as outlined in the unstable angina clinical practice guideline is associated with improved 1-year outcomes.