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Michael O. Woods
Researcher at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Publications - 113
Citations - 5356
Michael O. Woods is an academic researcher from Memorial University of Newfoundland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Colorectal cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 98 publications receiving 4205 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael O. Woods include BC Cancer Agency & St. John's University.
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Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database
Bryony A. Thompson,Bryony A. Thompson,Amanda B. Spurdle,John-Paul Plazzer,Marc S. Greenblatt,Kiwamu Akagi,Fahd Al-Mulla,Bharati Bapat,Inge Bernstein,Gabriel Capellá,Johan T. den Dunnen,Desirée du Sart,Aurelie Fabre,Michael Farrell,Susan M. Farrington,Ian M. Frayling,Thierry Frebourg,David E. Goldgar,David E. Goldgar,Christopher D. Heinen,Elke Holinski-Feder,Maija R.J. Kohonen-Corish,Maija R.J. Kohonen-Corish,Maija R.J. Kohonen-Corish,Kristina Lagerstedt Robinson,Suet Yi Leung,Alexandra Martins,Pål Møller,Monika Morak,Minna Nyström,Päivi Peltomäki,Marta Pineda,Ming Qi,Ming Qi,Rajkumar Ramesar,Lene Juel Rasmussen,Brigitte Royer-Pokora,Rodney J. Scott,Rodney J. Scott,Rolf H. Sijmons,Sean V. Tavtigian,Carli M. J. Tops,Thomas P. Weber,Juul T. Wijnen,Michael O. Woods,Finlay A. Macrae,Maurizio Genuardi +46 more
TL;DR: This large-scale endeavor will facilitate the consistent management of families suspected to have Lynch syndrome and demonstrates the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in the curation and classification of variants in public locus-specific databases.
Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height
Eirini Marouli,Mariaelisa Graff,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Ken Sin Lo,Andrew R. Wood,Troels R. Kjaer,Rebecca S. Fine,Yingchang Lu,Claudia Schurmann,Heather M. Highland,Sina Rüeger,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne E. Justice,David Lamparter,Kathleen Stirrups,Valérie Turcot,Kristin L. Young,Thomas W. Winkler,Tõnu Esko,Tugce Karaderi,Adam E. Locke,Nicholas G. D. Masca,Maggie C.Y. Ng,Poorva Mudgal,Manuel A. Rivas,Sailaja Vedantam,Anubha Mahajan,Xiuqing Guo,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Katja K.H. Aben,Linda S. Adair,Dewan S. Alam,Eva Albrecht,Kristine H. Allin,Matthew A. Allison,Philippe Amouyel,Emil V. R. Appel,Dominique Arveiler,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Paul L. Auer,Beverley Balkau,Bernhard Banas,Lia E. Bang,Marianne Benn,Sven Bergmann,Lawrence F. Bielak,Matthias Blueher,Heiner Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Carsten A. Boeger,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Jette Bork-Jensen,Michiel L. Bots,Erwin P. Bottinger,Donald W. Bowden,Ivan Brandslund,Gerome Breen,Murray H. Brilliant,Linda Broer,Amber A. Burt,Adam S. Butterworth,David J. Carey,Mark J. Caulfield,John C. Chambers,Daniel I. Chasman,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Rajiv Chowdhury,Cramer Christensen,Audrey Y. Chu,Massimiliano Cocca,Francis S. Collins,James P. Cook,Janie Corley,Jordi Corominas Galbany,Amanda J. Cox,Gabriel Cuellar-Partida,John Danesh,Gail Davies,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Gert J. de Borst,Simon de Denus,Mark C.H. De Groot,Renée de Mutsert,Ian J. Deary,George Dedoussis,Ellen W. Demerath,Anneke I. den Hollander,Joe Dennis,Emanuele Di Angelantonio,Fotios Drenos,Mengmeng Du,Alison M. Dunning,Douglas F. Easton,Tapani Ebeling,Todd L. Edwards,Patrick T. Ellinor,Paul Elliott,Evangelos Evangelou,Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,Jessica D. Faul,Mary F. Feitosa,Shuang Feng,Ele Ferrannini,Marco M Ferrario,Jean Ferrières,Jose C. Florez,Ian Ford,Myriam Fornage,Paul W. Franks,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Tessel E. Galesloot,Wei Gan,Ilaria Gandin,Paolo Gasparini,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Ayush Giri,Giorgia Girotto,Scott D. Gordon,Penny Gordon-Larsen,Mathias Gorski,Niels Grarup,Megan L. Grove,Vilmundur Gudnason,Stefan Gustafsson,Torben Hansen,Kathleen Mullan Harris,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Caroline Hayward,Liang He,Iris M. Heid,Kauko Heikkilä,Øyvind Helgeland,Jussi Hernesniemi,Alex W. Hewitt,Lynne J. Hocking,Mette Hollensted,Oddgeir L. Holmen,G. Kees Hovingh,Joanna M. M. Howson,Carel B. Hoyng,Paul L. Huang,Kristian Hveem,M. Arfan Ikram,Erik Ingelsson,Anne U. Jackson,Jan-Håkan Jansson,Gail P. Jarvik,Gorm B. Jensen,Min A. Jhun,Yucheng Jia,Xuejuan Jiang,Stefan Johansson,Marit E. Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Bratati Kahali,René S. Kahn,Mika Kähönen,Pia R. Kamstrup,Stavroula Kanoni,Jaakko Kaprio,Maria Karaleftheri,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Fredrik Karpe,Frank Kee,Renske Keeman,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Hidetoshi Kitajima,Kirsten B. Kluivers,Thomas D. Kocher,Pirjo Komulainen,Jukka Kontto,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Jennifer Kriebel,Helena Kuivaniemi,Sébastien Küry,Johanna Kuusisto,Martina La Bianca,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Ethan M. Lange,Leslie A. Lange,Carl D. Langefeld,Claudia Langenberg,Eric B. Larson,I-Te Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Cora E. Lewis,Huaixing Li,Jin Li,Ruifang Li-Gao,Honghuang Lin,Li-An Lin,Xu Lin,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Allan Linneberg,Y Liu,Yongmei Liu,Artitaya Lophatananon,Jian'an Luan,Steven A. Lubitz,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,David A. Mackey,Pamela A. F. Madden,Alisa K. Manning,Satu Männistö,Gaëlle Marenne,Jonathan Marten,Nicholas G. Martin,Angela L. Mazul,Karina Meidtner,Andres Metspalu,Paul Mitchell,Karen L. Mohlke,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Anna Morgan,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Mueller-Nurasyid,Patricia B. Munroe,Mike A. Nalls,Matthias Nauck,Christopher P. Nelson,Matt Neville,Sune F. Nielsen,Kjell Nikus,Pål R. Njølstad,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Ioanna Ntalla,Jeffrey R. O'Connel,Heikki Oksa,Loes M. Olde Loohuis,Roel A. Ophoff,Katharine R. Owen,Chris J. Packard,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Colin N. A. Palmer,Gerard Pasterkamp,Aniruddh P. Patel,Alison Pattie,Oluf Pedersen,Peggy L. Peissig,Gina M. Peloso,Craig E. Pennell,Markus Perola,James A. Perry,John R. B. Perry,Thomas N. Person,Ailith Pirie,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Olli T. Raitakari,Asif Rasheed,Rainer Rauramaa,Dermot F. Reilly,Alexander P. Reiner,Frida Renström,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Neil Robertson,Antonietta Robino,Olov Rolandsson,Igor Rudan,Katherine S. Ruth,Danish Saleheen,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Kevin Sandow,Yadav Sapkota,Naveed Sattar,Marjanka K. Schmidt,Pamela J. Schreiner,Matthias B. Schulze,Robert A. Scott,Marcelo P. Segura-Lepe,Svati H. Shah,Xueling Sim,Suthesh Sivapalaratnam,Kerrin S. Small,Albert V. Smith,Jennifer A. Smith,Lorraine Southam,Tim D. Spector,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,John M. Starr,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael Stumvoll,Praveen Surendran,Leen M 't Hart,Katherine E. Tansey,Jean-Claude Tardif,Kent D. Taylor,Alexander Teumer,Deborah J. Thompson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Betina H. Thuesen,Anke Toenjes,Gerard Tromp,Stella Trompet,Emmanouil Tsafantakis,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,Jonathan Tyrer,Rudolf Uher,André G. Uitterlinden,Sheila Ulivi,Sander W. van der Laan,Andries R. van der Leij,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Natasja M. van Schoor,Jessica van Setten,Anette Varbo,Tibor V. Varga,Rohit Varma,Digna R. Velez Edwards,Sita H. Vermeulen,Henrik Vestergaard,Veronique Vitart,Thomas F. Vogt,Diego Vozzi,Mark Walker,Feijie Wang,Carol A. Wang,Shuai Wang,Yiqin Wang,Nicholas J. Wareham,Helen R. Warren,Jennifer Wessel,Sara M. Willems,James G. Wilson,Daniel R. Witte,Michael O. Woods,Ying Wu,Hanieh Yaghootkar,Jie Yao,Pang Yao,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Robin Young,Eleftheria Zeggini,Xiaowei Zhan,Weihua Zhang,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,He Zheng,Wei Zhou,Jerome I. Rotter,Michael Boehnke,Sekar Kathiresan,Mark I. McCarthy,Cristen J. Willer,Kari Stefansson,Ingrid B. Borecki,Dajiang J. Liu,Kari E. North,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Tune H. Pers,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Claus Oxvig,Zoltán Kutalik,Fernando Rivadeneira,Ruth J. F. Loos,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Panos Deloukas,Guillaume Lettre +370 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that sufficiently large sample sizes can uncover rare and low-frequency variants of moderate-to-large effect associated with polygenic human phenotypes, and that these variants implicate relevant genes and pathways.
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Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer
Jeroen R. Huyghe,Stephanie A. Bien,Tabitha A. Harrison,Hyun Min Kang,Sai Chen,Stephanie L. Schmit,David V. Conti,Conghui Qu,Jihyoun Jeon,Christopher K. Edlund,Peyton Greenside,Michael Wainberg,Fredrick R. Schumacher,Joshua D. Smith,David M. Levine,Sarah C. Nelson,Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong,Demetrius Albanes,M. Henar Alonso,Kristin E. Anderson,Coral Arnau-Collell,Volker Arndt,Christina Bamia,Barbara L. Banbury,John A. Baron,Sonja I. Berndt,Stéphane Bézieau,D. Timothy Bishop,Juergen Boehm,Heiner Boeing,Hermann Brenner,Stefanie Brezina,Stephan Buch,Daniel D. Buchanan,Daniel D. Buchanan,Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman,Katja Butterbach,Bette J. Caan,Peter T. Campbell,Christopher S. Carlson,Christopher S. Carlson,Sergi Castellví-Bel,Andrew T. Chan,Andrew T. Chan,Jenny Chang-Claude,Jenny Chang-Claude,Stephen J. Chanock,Maria Dolores Chirlaque,Sang-Hee Cho,Charles M. Connolly,Amanda J. Cross,Katarina Cuk,Keith R. Curtis,Albert de la Chapelle,Kimberly F. Doheny,David Duggan,Douglas F. Easton,Sjoerd G. Elias,Faye Elliott,Dallas R. English,Dallas R. English,Edith J. M. Feskens,Jane C. Figueiredo,Jane C. Figueiredo,Rocky Fischer,Liesel M. FitzGerald,Liesel M. FitzGerald,David Forman,Manish Gala,Steven Gallinger,W. James Gauderman,Graham G. Giles,Graham G. Giles,Elizabeth M. Gillanders,Jian Gong,Phyllis J. Goodman,William M. Grady,John S. Grove,Andrea Gsur,Marc J. Gunter,Robert W. Haile,Jochen Hampe,Heather Hampel,Sophia Harlid,Richard B. Hayes,Philipp Hofer,Michael Hoffmeister,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Wan-Ling Hsu,Wen Yi Huang,Thomas J. Hudson,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Gemma Ibáñez-Sanz,Gregory Idos,Roxann G. Ingersoll,Rebecca D. Jackson,Eric J. Jacobs,Mark A. Jenkins,Amit Joshi,Corinne E. Joshu,Temitope O. Keku,Timothy J. Key,Hyeong Rok Kim,Emiko Kobayashi,Laurence N. Kolonel,Charles Kooperberg,Tilman Kühn,Sébastien Küry,Sun-Seog Kweon,Susanna C. Larsson,Cecelia A. Laurie,Loic Le Marchand,Suzanne M. Leal,Soo-Chin Lee,Flavio Lejbkowicz,Mathieu Lemire,Christopher I. Li,Li Li,Wolfgang Lieb,Yi Lin,Annika Lindblom,Noralane M. Lindor,Hua Ling,Tin Louie,Satu Männistö,Sanford D. Markowitz,Vicente Martín,Giovanna Masala,Caroline McNeil,Marilena Melas,Roger L. Milne,Roger L. Milne,Lorena Moreno,Neil Murphy,Robin Myte,Alessio Naccarati,Polly A. Newcomb,Polly A. Newcomb,Kenneth Offit,Kenneth Offit,Shuji Ogino,Shuji Ogino,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Barbara Pardini,Patrick S. Parfrey,Rachel Pearlman,Vittorio Perduca,Vittorio Perduca,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Mila Pinchev,Elizabeth A. Platz,Ross L. Prentice,Elizabeth W. Pugh,Leon Raskin,Gad Rennert,Gad Rennert,Hedy S. Rennert,Hedy S. Rennert,Elio Riboli,Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco,Jane Romm,Lori C. Sakoda,Lori C. Sakoda,Clemens Schafmayer,Robert E. Schoen,Daniela Seminara,Mitul Shah,Tameka Shelford,Min-Ho Shin,Katerina Shulman,Sabina Sieri,Martha L. Slattery,Melissa C. Southey,Zsofia K. Stadler,Christa Stegmaier,Yu Ru Su,Catherine M. Tangen,Stephen N. Thibodeau,Duncan C. Thomas,Sushma S. Thomas,Amanda E. Toland,Antonia Trichopoulou,Cornelia M. Ulrich,David Van Den Berg,Fränzel J.B. Van Duijnhoven,Bethany Van Guelpen,Henk J. van Kranen,Joseph Vijai,Kala Visvanathan,Pavel Vodicka,Pavel Vodicka,Ludmila Vodickova,Ludmila Vodickova,Veronika Vymetalkova,Veronika Vymetalkova,Korbinian Weigl,Korbinian Weigl,Stephanie J. Weinstein,Emily White,Aung Ko Win,Aung Ko Win,C. Roland Wolf,Alicja Wolk,Alicja Wolk,Michael O. Woods,Anna H. Wu,Syed H.E. Zaidi,Brent W. Zanke,Qing Zhang,Wei Zheng,Peter C. Scacheri,John D. Potter,Michael C. Bassik,Anshul Kundaje,Graham Casey,Victor Moreno,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Deborah A. Nickerson,Stephen B. Gruber,Li Hsu,Li Hsu,Ulrike Peters,Ulrike Peters +224 more
TL;DR: Genome-wide association analyses based on whole-genome sequencing and imputation identify 40 new risk variants for colorectal cancer, including a strongly protective low-frequency variant at CHD1 and loci implicating signaling and immune function in disease etiology.
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Mutations in MKKS cause obesity, retinal dystrophy and renal malformations associated with Bardet-Biedl syndrome
Nicholas Katsanis,Philip L. Beales,Philip L. Beales,Michael O. Woods,Michael O. Woods,Richard A. Lewis,Jane Green,Patrick S. Parfrey,Stephen J. Ansley,William S. Davidson,William S. Davidson,James R. Lupski +11 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that a complete loss of function of the MKKS product, and thus an inability to fold a range of target proteins, is responsible for the clinical manifestations of BBS.
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Determining Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Starting Age of Screening Based on Lifestyle, Environmental, and Genetic Factors.
Jihyoun Jeon,Mengmeng Du,Robert E. Schoen,Michael Hoffmeister,Polly A. Newcomb,Sonja I. Berndt,Bette J. Caan,Peter T. Campbell,Andrew T. Chan,Andrew T. Chan,Jenny Chang-Claude,Graham G. Giles,Jian Gong,Tabitha A. Harrison,Jeroen R. Huyghe,Eric J. Jacobs,Li Li,Yi Lin,Loic Le Marchand,John D. Potter,Conghui Qu,Stephanie A. Bien,Niha Zubair,Robert J. MacInnis,Daniel D. Buchanan,Daniel D. Buchanan,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Yin Cao,Reiko Nishihara,Gad Rennert,Martha L. Slattery,Duncan C. Thomas,Michael O. Woods,Ross L. Prentice,Stephen B. Gruber,Yingye Zheng,Hermann Brenner,Richard B. Hayes,Emily White,Ulrike Peters,Li Hsu +41 more
TL;DR: The models determined risk of CRC and starting ages for screening with greater accuracy than the family history only model, which is based on the current screening guideline, might serve as a first step toward developing individualized CRC prevention strategies.