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2024

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Genetics

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109
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42781
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551
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Alan F. Wright is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of medicine. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including epidemiology, economics and econometrics, geriatrics and gerontology, rehabilitation, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; frailty in older adults; stroke rehabilitation and recovery; dementia and cognitive impairment research; chronic disease management strategies; geriatric care and nursing homes; and ocular and laser science research.

Alan F. Wright has published in a range of academic venues, with recurring publications in Dental Nursing, Programme Grants for Applied Research, UNC Libraries, BMC Geriatrics, and Pilot and Feasibility Studies.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Rebecca Hawkins, Amanda Farrin, Claire Hulme, Robbie Foy, and Anne Förster.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan F. Wright demonstrate a focus on geriatric care and stroke recovery strategies:

  • Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial, 2022, BMC Geriatrics
  • Longer-term health and social care strategies for stroke survivors and their carers: the LoTS2Care research programme including cluster feasibility RCT, 2021, Programme Grants for Applied Research
  • An intervention to support stroke survivors and their carers in the longer term: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (LoTS2Care), 2023, Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • Cone Deactivation Kinetics and GRK1/GRK7 Expression in Enhanced S Cone Syndrome Caused by Mutations in NR2E3, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Strategies to enhance routine physical activity in care home residents: the REACH research programme including a cluster feasibility RCT, 2021, Programme Grants for Applied Research

Alan F. Wright was recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003.

Best Publications

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Complement C3 Variant and the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    John R W Yates;Tiina Sepp;Baljinder K Matharu;Jane C Khan

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Veronique Vitart

  • SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout

    Veronique Vitart;Igor Rudan;Igor Rudan;Caroline Hayward;Nicola K Gray;Nicola K Gray

  • Seven new loci associated with age-related macular degeneration

    Lars G. Fritsche;Lars G. Fritsche;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Matthew Schu;Brian L. Yaspan

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

  • Photoreceptor degeneration: genetic and mechanistic dissection of a complex trait

    Alan F. Wright;Christina F. Chakarova;Mai M. Abd El-Aziz;Shomi S. Bhattacharya

  • Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Cathy E. Elks;John R B Perry;Patrick Sulem;Daniel I. Chasman

  • High Throughput Isolation and Glycosylation Analysis of IgG–Variability and Heritability of the IgG Glycome in Three Isolated Human Populations

    Maja Pucić;Ana Knezević;Jana Vidic;Barbara Adamczyk

  • Mutation of a nuclear receptor gene, NR2E3, causes enhanced S cone syndrome, a disorder of retinal cell fate

    Neena B. Haider;Samuel G. Jacobson;Artur V. Cideciyan;Ruth Swiderski

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia

    Virginie J M Verhoeven;Pirro G Hysi;Robert Wojciechowski;Robert Wojciechowski;Qiao Fan

  • Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure

    Louise V. Wain;Germaine C. Verwoert;Paul F. O'Reilly;Gang Shi

  • Population choice in mapping genes for complex diseases.

    Alan F Wright;Andrew D Carothers;Mario Pirastu

  • Mutational hot spot within a new RPGR exon in X-linked retinitis pigmentosa

    Raf Vervoort;Alan Lennon;Alan C. Bird;Brian Tulloch

  • Multi-system neurological disease is common in patients with OPA1 mutations

    Patrick Yu-Wai-Man;Philip G. Griffiths;Philip G. Griffiths;G. Gorman;C.-M. Lourenco

  • Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53 949)

    G. Davies;N. Armstrong;J. C. Bis;J. Bressler

  • Novel Associations of Multiple Genetic Loci With Plasma Levels of Factor VII, Factor VIII, and von Willebrand Factor The CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genome Epidemiology) Consortium

    Nicholas L. Smith;Ming Huei Chen;Abbas Dehghan;David P. Strachan

  • Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile.

    Tuomas O Kilpeläinen;M Carola Zillikens;Alena Stančákova;Francis M Finucane

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh
Caroline Hayward
Caroline Hayward University of Edinburgh
Ozren Polasek
Ozren Polasek University of Split
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Veronique Vitart
Veronique Vitart University of Edinburgh
Jennifer E. Huffman
Jennifer E. Huffman VA Boston Healthcare System
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Nicholas D. Hastie
Nicholas D. Hastie University of Edinburgh

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