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Overview

Wendy Thomson is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research productivity spans multiple contributions primarily within the broad field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields such as Hematology, Speech and Hearing, Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their work largely explores topics related to autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and family and disability support research.

Among recent publications, they have contributed to papers including:

  • Diversity of peripheral blood human NK cells identified by single-cell RNA sequencing, 2020, Blood Advances
  • Combined genetic analysis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis clinical subtypes identifies novel risk loci, target genes and key regulatory mechanisms, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Frequency of biologic switching and the outcomes of switching in children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a national cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Rheumatology
  • Patient-reported wellbeing and clinical disease measures over time captured by multivariate trajectories of disease activity in individuals with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the UK: a multicentre prospective longitudinal study, 2020, The Lancet Rheumatology
  • Genomic risk scores for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and its subtypes, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Thomson frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Kimme L Hyrich, Samantha Smith, John Bowes, Lucy R. Wedderburn, and Stephanie Shoop-Worrall.

Their publications commonly appear in venues such as:

  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • British Journal of Healthcare and Medical Research
  • The Lancet Rheumatology
  • Pediatric Rheumatology

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

  • Genome-wide association study meta-analysis identifies seven new rheumatoid arthritis risk loci

    Eli A Stahl;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Elaine F Remmers;Gang Xie

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Twin concordance rates for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a nationwide study.

    A. J. Silman;A. J. Macgregor;W. Thomson;S. Holligan

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

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

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies 14 new susceptibility loci for juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    Anne Hinks;Anne Hinks;Joanna E. Cobb;Joanna E. Cobb;Miranda C. Marion;Sampath Prahalad

  • Rheumatoid arthritis association at 6q23.

    Wendy Thomson;Anne Barton;Xiayi Ke;Steve Eyre

  • Association between the PTPN22 gene and rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a UK population: further support that PTPN22 is an autoimmunity gene.

    Anne Hinks;Anne Barton;Sally John;Ian Bruce

  • Genetic variants at CD28, PRDM1, and CD2/CD58 are associated with rheumatoid arthritis risk

    Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Brian P Thomson;Elaine F Remmers;Stephen Eyre

  • Quantitative heritability of anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive and anti-citrullinated protein antibody-negative rheumatoid arthritis.

    Diane van der Woude;Jeanine J. Houwing-Duistermaat;René E. M. Toes;Tom W. J. Huizinga

  • Association of rheumatoid factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide positivity, but not carriage of shared epitope or PTPN22 susceptibility variants, with anti-tumour necrosis factor response in rheumatoid arthritis

    C Potter;K L Hyrich;A Tracey;M Lunt

  • Mutation screening of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor gene: positive association of a functional polymorphism of macrophage migration inhibitory factor with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

    Rachelle Donn;Zaynab Alourfi;Fabrizio De Benedetti;Cristina Meazza

  • A novel 5′‐flanking region polymorphism of macrophage migration inhibitory factor is associated with systemic‐onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    R. P. Donn;E. Shelley;W. E. R. Ollier;W. Thomson

  • HLA-DRB1*0401/0404 genotype and rheumatoid arthritis: increased association in men, young age at onset, and disease severity.

    A. J. MacGregor;W. E R Ollier;W. Thomson;D. Jawaheer

  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis classified by the ILAR criteria: HLA associations in UK patients

    W. Thomson;J. H. Barrett;R. Donn;L. Pepper

  • Population genetics of rheumatoid arthritis.

    William Ollier;Wendy Thomson

  • Association of the HLA-DRB1 gene with premature death, particularly from cardiovascular disease, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory polyarthritis.

    Tracey M. Farragher;Nicola J. Goodson;Haris Naseem;Alan J. Silman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimme L. Hyrich
Kimme L. Hyrich University of Manchester
Lucy R. Wedderburn
Lucy R. Wedderburn University College London
Anne Hinks
Anne Hinks University of Manchester
Anne Barton
Anne Barton University of Manchester
Jane Worthington
Jane Worthington University of Manchester
Alan J. Silman
Alan J. Silman University of Oxford
William E R Ollier
William E R Ollier University of Manchester
John Bowes
John Bowes University of Manchester
Ali H. Hajeer
Ali H. Hajeer King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Susan D. Thompson
Susan D. Thompson Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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