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82
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1486
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190

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1981 - William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics
  • 1977 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Patricia A. Jacobs is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology and genetics alongside clinical subfields such as anesthesiology, pain medicine, pediatrics, and surgery.

The main topics addressed in their work include genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, epigenetics and DNA methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, pain management and opioid use, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, anesthesia and pain management, and regulation and compliance studies.

Recent papers authored by Patricia A. Jacobs include:

  • The FRAXA and FRAXE allele repeat size of boys from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), 2020, published in Wellcome Open Research
  • Judaism, 2023, published in Cancer treatment and research
  • ACORDOS VS. CONDENAÇÕES EM CONDUTAS UNILATERAIS: UMA ANÁLISE DO PONTO DE VISTA DA EFICIÊNCIA, 2022, published in Revista de Defesa da Concorrência

Frequent collaborators include Eric Prommer and Ambereen K. Mehta, each having coauthored two publications with Jacobs. Other coauthors include Rosie Clark, Steven Gregory, and Susan M. Ring.

The venues where Jacobs has published their research reflect the diversity of their interests, including Wellcome Open Research, Cancer treatment and research, and Revista de Defesa da Concorrência.

Awards received by Patricia A. Jacobs comprise the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 1981, the Fellowship of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom in 1993, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 2009.

Best Publications

  • TRISOMY IN MAN

    Terry J. Hassold;Patricia A . Jacobs

  • Evidence from Turner's syndrome of an imprinted X-linked locus affecting cognitive function

    D.H. Skuse;R.S. James;D.V.M. Bishop;B. Coppin

  • A cytogenetic study of 1000 spontaneous abortions

    T. Hassold;N. Chen;J. Funkhouser;T. Jooss

  • SEGMENTAL ANEUPLOIDY AND THE GENETIC GROSS STRUCTURE OF THE DROSOPHILA GENOME

    Dan L. Lindsley;L. Sandler;Bruce S. Baker;Adelaide T. C. Carpenter

  • Fragile X premutation is a significant risk factor for premature ovarian failure: the International Collaborative POF in Fragile X study--preliminary data.

    Diane J Allingham-Hawkins;Riyana Babul-Hirji;David Chitayat;Jeanette J A Holden

  • Physical mapping across the fragile X: Hypermethylation and clinical expression of the fragile X syndrome

    M.V. Bell;M.C. Hirst;Y. Nakahori;R.N. MacKinnon

  • Estimates of the frequency of chromosome abnormalities detectable in unselected newborns using moderate levels of banding.

    P A Jacobs;C Browne;N Gregson;C Joyce

  • Age- and tissue-specific variation of X chromosome inactivation ratios in normal women.

    Andrew Sharp;David Robinson;Patricia Jacobs

  • Mortality in women with turner syndrome in Great Britain: a national cohort study.

    Minouk J. Schoemaker;Anthony J. Swerdlow;Craig D. Higgins;Alan F. Wright

  • Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Men with Klinefelter Syndrome: A Cohort Study

    Anthony J. Swerdlow;Minouk J. Schoemaker;Craig D. Higgins;Alan F. Wright

  • Turner Syndrome: a cytogenetic and molecular study

    P Jacobs;P Dalton;R James;K Mosse

  • Mortality in patients with Klinefelter syndrome in Britain: a cohort study.

    Anthony J. Swerdlow;Craig D. Higgins;Minouk J. Schoemaker;Alan F. Wright

  • Is the prevalence of Klinefelter syndrome increasing

    Joan K Morris;Eva Alberman;Claire Scott;Patricia Jacobs

  • The complex nature of constitutional de novo apparently balanced translocations in patients presenting with abnormal phenotypes

    S M Gribble;E Prigmore;D C Burford;K M Porter

  • An imprinted gene(s) for diabetes

    I.K. Temple;R.S. James;J.A. Crolla;F.L. Sitch

  • Mortality and cancer incidence in persons with numerical sex chromosome abnormalities: a cohort study.

    A. J. Swerdlow;C. Hermon;P. A. Jacobs;E. Alberman

  • Breakpoint Mapping and Array CGH in Translocations: Comparison of a Phenotypically Normal and an Abnormal Cohort

    Julia Baptista;Catherine Mercer;Elena Prigmore;Susan M. Gribble

  • Trisomy 21: Association between reduced recombination and nondisjunction

    S. L. Sherman;N. Takaesu;S. B. Freeman;M. Grantham

  • Cancer incidence in women with Turner syndrome in Great Britain: a national cohort study

    Minouk J Schoemaker;Anthony J Swerdlow;Craig D Higgins;Alan F Wright

  • The origin of 47, XXY and 47, XXX aneuploidy: heterogeneous mechanisms and role of aberrant recombination

    M. MacDonald;T. Hassold;J. Harvey;L.H. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry J. Hassold
Terry J. Hassold Washington State University
Anthony J. Swerdlow
Anthony J. Swerdlow Institute of Cancer Research
John A. Crolla
John A. Crolla Salisbury District Hospital
Alan F. Wright
Alan F. Wright University of Edinburgh
David Skuse
David Skuse University College London
Stephanie L. Sherman
Stephanie L. Sherman Emory University
Andrew J. Sharp
Andrew J. Sharp Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Margareta Mikkelsen
Margareta Mikkelsen Kennedy Center
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth University of California, San Francisco
Kay E. Davies
Kay E. Davies University of Oxford

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