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Duncan Thomas
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 255
Citations - 23861
Duncan Thomas is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family life. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 245 publications receiving 22833 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan Thomas include Michigan State University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Health and Wages: Evidence on Men and Women in Urban Brazil
Duncan Thomas,John Strauss +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that height has a large and significant effect on wages: taller men and women earn more than their less-educated counterparts, suggesting that strenght may be rewarded with higher wages.
Study Of The Tsunami Aftermath And Recovery (STAR): Ketahanan dan Pemulihan di Sumatra Setelah Tsunami
TL;DR: The study of the Tsunami aftermath and recovery as discussed by the authors atau STAR merupakan sebuah studi longitudinal ying mengumpulkan informasi dari individu, rumah tangga, komunitas and fasilitas di Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Provinsi Sumatera Utara, di mana diperkirakan 170.000 jiwa tewas and ratusan kilometer lingkungan di sepanjang garis pantai hancur.
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Probing the diabetes and colorectal cancer relationship using gene-environment interaction analyses
Niki Dimou,Andre E. Kim,Orlagh Flanagan,Neil Murphy,Virginia Díez-Obrero,Anna Shcherbina,Elom K. Aglago,Emmanouil Bouras,Peter J. Campbell,Graham Casey,Steven Gallinger,Stephen B. Gruber,Mark A. Jenkins,Yi-Kuei Lin,Victor Moreno,Edward N. Ruiz-Narvaez,Mariana C. Stern,Yu Tian,Kostas Tsilidis,Volker Arndt,Elizabeth L. Barry,James W. Baurley,Sonja I. Berndt,Stéphane Bézieau,Stephanie A. Bien,D. Timothy Bishop,Hermann Brenner,Arif Budiarto,Robert Carreras-Torres,Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro,Andrew T. Chan,Jenny Chang-Claude,Stephen J. Chanock,Xuechen Chen,David V. Conti,Christopher H. Dampier,Matthew Devall,David A. Drew,Jane C. Figueiredo,Graham G. Giles,Andrea Gsur,Tabitha A. Harrison,Akihisa Hidaka,Michael Hoffmeister,Jeroen R. Huyghe,Kristina M. Jordahl,Eric S. Kawaguchi,Temitope O. Keku,Susanna C. Larsson,Loic Le Marchand,Juan Pablo Lewinger,Li Xin Li,Bharuno Mahesworo,John Morrison,Polly A. Newcomb,Christina C. Newton,Mireia Obón-Santacana,Jennifer Ose,Rish K. Pai,J. D. Palmer,Nikos Papadimitriou,Bens Pardamean,Anita R. Peoples,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Elizabeth A. Platz,John D. Potter,Gad Rennert,Peter C. Scacheri,Robert E. Schoen,Catherine M. Tangen,Stephen N. Thibodeau,Duncan Thomas,Cornelia M. Ulrich,Caroline Y. Um,Fränzel J.B. Van Duijnhoven,Kala Visvanathan,Pavel Vodicka,Ludmila Vodickova,Emily White,Alicja Wolk,Michael O. Woods,Conghui Qu,Anshul Kundaje,Li Hsu,W. James Gauderman,Marc J. Gunter,Ulrike Peters +86 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used data from three genetic consortia (CCFR, CORECT, GECCO) and undertook genome-wide gene-environment interaction analyses with colorectal cancer risk, including interaction tests of genetics(G)xdiabetes and joint testing of G xdiabetes, G-colorect cancer association and/or G-diabetes correlation (2,3degrees of freedom joint tests; d.f.).
FREE Dissecting Effects of Complex Mixtures: Who's Afraid of
Allen J. Wilcox,Duncan Thomas,John S. Witte,Sander Greenland,Olga Basso,Patricia G. Moorman,Robert J. Hamilton +6 more
Research, part of a Special Feature on Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster
TL;DR: The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated in this article, using longitudinal population-representative survey data collected in two provinces on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, examining changes in a broad array of indicators of well-being of adults.