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Overview

David P. Strachan is affiliated with St George's, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Genetics, Immunology and Allergy, and Ophthalmology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Retinal Imaging and Analysis
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Dermatology and Skin Diseases

David P. Strachan has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Worldwide trends in the burden of asthma symptoms in school-aged children: Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study (2021, The Lancet)
  • Trends in worldwide asthma prevalence (2020, European Respiratory Journal)
  • The burden of asthma, hay fever and eczema in children in 25 countries: GAN Phase I study (2022, European Respiratory Journal)
  • The burden of asthma, hay fever and eczema in adults in 17 countries: GAN Phase I study (2022, European Respiratory Journal)
  • Genome-wide analysis in over 1 million individuals of European ancestry yields improved polygenic risk scores for blood pressure traits (2024, Nature Genetics)

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Allergy

David P. Strachan collaborates regularly with several co-authors, among the most frequent are:

  • Neil Pearce
  • Eamon Ellwood
  • Luis García-Marcos
  • Eva Morales
  • Charlotte E Rutter

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Hay fever, hygiene, and household size.

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  • Worldwide time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat multicountry cross-sectional surveys

    M. Innes Asher;Stephen Montefort;Bengt Björksten;Christopher K. W. Lai

  • International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods.

    M. I. Asher;U. Keil;H. R. Anderson;R. Beasley

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • A large-scale, consortium-based genomewide association study of asthma.

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Ivo G. Gut;Florence Demenais;David P. Strachan

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Genetic variants regulating ORMDL3 expression contribute to the risk of childhood asthma

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Michael Kabesch;Liming Liang;Anna L. Dixon

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

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

  • Family size, infection and atopy: the first decade of the "hygiene hypothesis".

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  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Sequence variants in the autophagy gene IRGM and multiple other replicating loci contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility.

    Miles Parkes;Jeffrey C Barrett;Natalie J Prescott;Mark Tremelling

  • Worldwide variations in the prevalence of symptoms of atopic eczema in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood.

    Hywel Williams;Colin Robertson;Alistair Stewart;Nadia Aït-Khaled

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Jing Hua Zhao
Jing Hua Zhao University of Cambridge

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