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Overview

Ryk Ward was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research career spanned multiple fields within medicine, with a focus on specialized areas including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, rheumatology, and oncology.

Their work prominently featured investigations into monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, systemic lupus erythematosus, and cytokine signaling pathways and interactions. These topics were among the main scientific interests guiding their scholarly output.

Ryk Ward published research papers primarily in venues such as UNC Libraries. One of their documented papers is titled "A Genomewide Screen in Multiplex Rheumatoid Arthritis Families Suggests Genetic Overlap with Other Autoimmune Diseases", published in 2020. This paper involved collaboration with several coauthors who frequently worked with Ward, including:

  • Damini Jawaheer
  • Michael F. Seldin
  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Wei V. Chen
  • Russell Shigeta

Throughout their career, Ward contributed to advancing knowledge within the following main fields:

  • Medicine

Within medicine, their research addressed subfields such as:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Rheumatology
  • Oncology

Key topics examined in their work included:

  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions

Best Publications

  • The Structure of Haplotype Blocks in the Human Genome

    Stacey B. Gabriel;Stephen F. Schaffner;Huy Nguyen;Jamie M. Moore

  • Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure

    Pardis C Sabeti;David E Reich;John M Higgins;Haninah Z P Levine

  • Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

    David E. Reich;Michele Cargill;Michele Cargill;Stacey Bolk;James Ireland

  • Race and Genomics

    Richard S. Cooper;Jay S. Kaufman;Ryk Ward

  • Informativeness of Genetic Markers for Inference of Ancestry

    Noah A. Rosenberg;Lei M. Li;Ryk Ward;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution.

    Alan Cooper;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Simon Anderson;Andrew Rambaut

  • The retrieval of ancient human DNA sequences

    O. Handt;M. Krings;R. H. Ward;Svante Pääbo

  • A genomewide screen in multiplex rheumatoid arthritis families suggests genetic overlap with other autoimmune diseases.

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

  • The genetics revolution and the assault on rheumatoid arthritis.

    Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Ryk Ward;Peter K. Gregersen

  • Variation in Genetic Diversity across the Range of North American Brown Bears

    David Paetkau;Lisette P. Waits;Peter L. Clarkson;Lance Craighead

  • mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry

    Agnar Helgason;Agnar Helgason;Eileen Hickey;Sara Goodacre;Vidar Bosnes

  • Linkage and Association Analysis of Angiotensin I–Converting Enzyme (ACE)–Gene Polymorphisms with ACE Concentration and Blood Pressure

    Xiaofeng Zhu;Nourdine Bouzekri;Lorraine Southam;Richard S. Cooper

  • The risk of preterm birth across generations

    T F Porter;A M Fraser;C Y Hunter;R H Ward

  • mtDNA sequences suggest a recent evolutionary divergence for Beringian and northern North American populations.

    G F Shields;A M Schmiechen;B L Frazier;A Redd

  • mtDNA and the Origin of the Icelanders: Deciphering Signals of Recent Population History

    Agnar Helgason;Sigrún Sigurðardóttir;Jeffrey R. Gulcher;Ryk Ward

  • Estimating Scandinavian and Gaelic Ancestry in the Male Settlers of Iceland

    Agnar Helgason;Sigrún Sigurðardóttir;Jayne Nicholson;Bryan Sykes

  • Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: A replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

  • Genetic and linguistic differentiation in the Americas

    R. H. Ward;Alan Redd;Diana Valencia;Barbara Frazier

  • Angiotensinogen gene in human hypertension. Lack of an association of the 235T allele among African Americans.

    C Rotimi;L Morrison;R Cooper;C Oyejide

  • ACE, angiotensinogen and obesity: a potential pathway leading to hypertension

    R Cooper;N McFarlane-Anderson;F I Bennett;R Wilks

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Cooper
Richard S. Cooper Loyola University Chicago
Adebowale Adeyemo
Adebowale Adeyemo National Institutes of Health
Terrence Forrester
Terrence Forrester University of the West Indies
Agnar Helgason
Agnar Helgason University of Iceland
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Pardis C. Sabeti
Pardis C. Sabeti Harvard University
Charles N. Rotimi
Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University

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