Assessment of deaths attributable to air pollution: should we use risk estimates based on time series or on cohort studies? (Publications)
Epidemiologic studies are crucial to the estimation of numbers of deaths attributable to air pollution. In this paper, the authors present a framework for distinguishing estimates of attributable case
Nucleosome eviction from MHC class II promoters controls positioning of the transcription start site (Publications)
Nucleosome depletion at transcription start sites (TSS) has been documented genome-wide in multiple eukaryotic organisms. However, the mechanisms that mediate this nucleosome depletion and its functio
Quantitative and qualitative analyses in patients with environmentally related disorders (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Diagnostics and therapy of environmentally related disorders are hampered by one-sided assumptions and by discrepancies between therapists' and patients' assessments of the disease cause.
Reference equations for lung function screening of healthy never-smoking adults aged 18-80 years (Publications)
The need for updated spirometric reference values to be used on European populations is widely acknowledged, especially for subjects aged > 70 yrs. Their reference values are generally based on extrap