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William E R Ollier is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and has focused their research predominantly within the field of Medicine, contributing to 67 publications. Their work extensively covers several subfields, including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Oncology, and Genetics.

Their research topics mainly address conditions and concerns such as Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Diabetes and associated disorders, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Diabetes Management and Research, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Their recent publications reveal an emphasis on immunology, epidemiology, and the clinical aspects of diabetes and COVID-19, including:

  • Antibodies against immunogenic epitopes with high sequence identity to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune dermatomyositis (2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)
  • Prediction models for prostate cancer to be used in the primary care setting: a systematic review (2020, BMJ Open)
  • Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Population Level Analysis of Potential Risk Factors (2022, Diabetes Therapy)
  • Association of Nongenetic Factors With Breast Cancer Risk in Genetically Predisposed Groups of Women in the UK Biobank Cohort (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • Low copy numbers of complement C4 and C4A deficiency are risk factors for myositis, its subgroups and autoantibodies (2022, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)

William E R Ollier frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom notable recurring partners include Adrian Heald, Martin Gibson, Hector Chinoy, Janine A. Lamb, and Richard Williams.

The primary venues that publish their work include Diabetes Therapy, where they have contributed to six papers; International Journal of Clinical Practice with three publications; Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Lara D. Veeken, and Arthritis & Rheumatology, each featuring multiple contributions.

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

    G. Davies;A. Tenesa;A. Tenesa;A. Payton;J. Yang

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

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

  • Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

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  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the MHC class I, IL10, and IL23R-IL12RB2 regions associated with Behcet's disease

    Elaine F. Remmers;Fulya Cosan;Yohei Kirino;Michael J. Ombrello

  • Visual manifestations of giant cell arteritis. Trends and clinical spectrum in 161 patients.

    Miguel A. González-Gay;Carlos García-Porrúa;Javier Llorca;Ali H. Hajeer

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence

    Suzanne Sniekers;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen

  • HLA-DRB1 and persistent chronic inflammation contribute to cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

    Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay;Carlos Gonzalez-Juanatey;Maria J. Lopez-Diaz;Angela Piñeiro

  • Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): A genome-wide association study

    E Zeggini;K Panoutsopoulou

  • The diagnostic utility of myositis autoantibody testing for predicting the risk of cancer-associated myositis

    Hector Chinoy;Noreen Fertig;Chester V Oddis;William E R Ollier

  • Genetic variation in the interleukin 10 gene promoter and systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Mark Lazarus;Ali H. Hajeer;David Turner;Paul Sinnott

  • UK Biobank: from concept to reality

    William Ollier;Tim Sprosen;Tim Peakman

  • Endotoxin exposure, CD14, and allergic disease: an interaction between genes and the environment.

    Angela Simpson;Sally L. John;Francine Jury;Rob Niven

  • 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

  • GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

    Joey W Trampush;M L Z Yang;J Yu;E. Knowles

  • Whole-Genome Scan, in a Complex Disease, Using 11,245 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms: Comparison with Microsatellites

    Sally John;Neil Shephard;Guoying Liu;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • Patterns of radiological progression in early rheumatoid arthritis: results of an 8 year prospective study

    Michael J. Plant;Peter W. Jones;Jacqueline Saklatvala;William E R Ollier

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association meta- Analysis of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence

    S. Sniekers;S. Stringer;K. Watanabe;P.R. Jansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali H. Hajeer
Ali H. Hajeer King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Wendy Thomson
Wendy Thomson University of Manchester
Miguel A. González-Gay
Miguel A. González-Gay University of Cantabria
Jane Worthington
Jane Worthington University of Manchester
Alan J. Silman
Alan J. Silman University of Oxford
Janine A. Lamb
Janine A. Lamb University of Manchester
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Stuart D. Carter
Stuart D. Carter University of Liverpool
Gail Davies
Gail Davies University of Edinburgh

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