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Overview

Dallas M. Swallow is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their published works span subfields including Pharmacology, Infectious Diseases, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's research contributions concentrate on topics such as Digestive system and related health, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism, and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment.

Swallow has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Nikolas Maniatis, Winston Lau, Aminah T. Ali, Rosemary Ekong, and Catherine Walker.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Dallas M. Swallow are the following:

  • The hazards of genotype imputation when mapping disease susceptibility variants, 2024, Genome biology
  • The hazards of genotype imputation in chromosomal regions under selection: A case study using the Lactase gene region, 2021, Annals of Human Genetics
  • Group-based pharmacogenetic prediction: is it feasible and do current NHS England ethnic classifications provide appropriate data?, 2020, The Pharmacogenomics Journal
  • Mucin Variable Number Tandem Repeat Polymorphisms and Severity of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease: Significant Association with MUC5AC, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Eugenics history: university geneticists respond, 2020, Nature

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Annals of Human Genetics, BMJ, Genome biology, The Pharmacogenomics Journal, and UNC Libraries. These journals reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their research output, ranging from human genetics to clinical pharmacogenomics.

Best Publications

  • Deglycosylation by small intestinal epithelial cell beta-glucosidases is a critical step in the absorption and metabolism of dietary flavonoid glycosides in humans.

    Kitti Németh;Geoff W. Plumb;Jean Guy Berrin;Nathalie Juge

  • Genetics of Lactase Persistence and Lactose Intolerance

    Dallas M. Swallow

  • Lactose digestion and the evolutionary genetics of lactase persistence

    Catherine J. E. Ingram;Charlotte A. Mulcare;Yuval Itan;Mark G. Thomas

  • Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

    Pascale Gerbault;Anke Liebert;Yuval Itan;Adam Powell

  • Mouse models of rhinovirus-induced disease and exacerbation of allergic airway inflammation

    Nathan W Bartlett;Ross P Walton;Michael R Edwards;Juliya Aniscenko

  • Molecular cloning of cDNAs derived from a novel human intestinal mucin gene.

    James R. Gum;James W. Hicks;James W. Hicks;Dallas M. Swallow;Robert L. Lagace;Robert L. Lagace

  • A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes

    Yuval Itan;Bryony L Jones;Catherine J E Ingram;Dallas M Swallow

  • The human tumour-associated epithelial mucins are coded by an expressed hypervariable gene locus PUM

    Dallas M. Swallow;Sandra Gendler;Beatrice Griffiths;Gerald Corney

  • Human mucin genes assigned to 11p15.5: identification and organization of a cluster of genes.

    Pascal Pigny;Pascal Pigny;Veronique Guyonnet-Duperat;Alexander S. Hill;Wendy S. Pratt

  • Lactase Haplotype Diversity in the Old World

    Edward J. Hollox;Mark Poulter;Marek Zvarik;Vladimir Ferak

  • A novel polymorphism associated with lactose tolerance in Africa: multiple causes for lactase persistence?

    Catherine J. E. Ingram;Mohamed F. Elamin;Charlotte A. Mulcare;Michael E. Weale;Michael E. Weale

  • Serum bilirubin and risk of respiratory disease and death.

    Laura J. Horsfall;Greta Rait;Kate Walters;Dallas M. Swallow

  • The maltase-glucoamylase gene: Common ancestry to sucrase-isomaltase with complementary starch digestion activities

    Buford L. Nichols;Stephen Avery;Partha Sen;Dallas M. Swallow

  • The T Allele of a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism 13.9 kb Upstream of the Lactase Gene (LCT) (C−13.9kbT) Does Not Predict or Cause the Lactase-Persistence Phenotype in Africans

    Charlotte A. Mulcare;Michael E. Weale;Abigail L. Jones;Bruce Connell

  • Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus

    C Warinner;J Hendy;C Speller;E Cappellini

  • The genetically programmed down-regulation of lactase in children

    Yangxi Wang;Clare B. Harvey;Edward J. Hollox;Alan D. Phillips

  • The causal element for the lactase persistence/non-persistence polymorphism is located in a 1 Mb region of linkage disequilibrium in Europeans.

    M. Poulter;E. Hollox;C. B. Harvey;C. Mulcare

  • Human gene mapping using an X/autosome translocation.

    E. Solomon;M. Bobrow;P. N. Goodfellow;W. F. Bodmer

  • Studies on the “Insoluble” Glycoprotein Complex from Human Colon IDENTIFICATION OF REDUCTION-INSENSITIVE MUC2 OLIGOMERS AND C-TERMINAL CLEAVAGE

    Annkatrin Herrmann;Julia R. Davies;Gert Lindell;Stig Mårtensson

  • Expression of ErbB receptors and mucins in the airways of long term current smokers

    R A O'Donnell;A Richter;J Ward;G Angco

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Gum
James R. Gum University of California, San Francisco
Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
Young S. Kim
Young S. Kim University of California, San Francisco
Salvatore Auricchio
Salvatore Auricchio University of Naples Federico II
Riitta Korpela
Riitta Korpela University of Helsinki
Harry Harris
Harry Harris University College London
Ellen Solomon
Ellen Solomon King's College London
Buford L. Nichols
Buford L. Nichols Baylor College of Medicine
James W. Hicks
James W. Hicks University of Southern California
Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London

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