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  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William G. Newman is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a substantial focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Oncology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health as key subfields.

Their work covers various main topics, including:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • RNA Research and Splicing

William G. Newman has authored numerous papers, some of the most notable recent publications being:

  • Recommendations for clinical interpretation of variants found in non-coding regions of the genome, 2022, published in Genome Medicine
  • Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium Guideline for the Use of Aminoglycosides Based on MT-RNR1 Genotype, 2021, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Rapid Point-of-Care Genotyping to Avoid Aminoglycoside-Induced Ototoxicity in Neonatal Intensive Care, 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors With Breast Cancer Risk, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • John McDermott
  • D. Gareth Evans
  • Anthony Howell
  • Manjeet K. Bolla
  • Glenda M. Beaman

William G. Newman regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Research Square (Research Square)

William G. Newman's professional recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

    J Z Liu;S van Sommeren;H Huang;S C Ng

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Genome-wide association study implicates immune activation of multiple integrin genes in inflammatory bowel disease

    Katrina M de Lange;Loukas Moutsianas;James C Lee;Christopher A Lamb

  • Everolimus-Eluting versus Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Coronary Artery Disease

    Gregg W. Stone;Ali Rizvi;William Newman;Kourosh Mastali

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • 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

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Genome-wide association study of ulcerative colitis identifies three new susceptibility loci, including the HNF4A region

    Jeffrey C Barrett;James C Lee;Charles W Lees;Natalie J Prescott

  • Heterozygous Mutations in TREX1 Cause Familial Chilblain Lupus and Dominant Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome

    Gillian Rice;William G. Newman;John Dean;Teresa Patrick

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

    Ernest Turro;William J Astle;Karyn Megy;Stefan Graf

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Randomized Comparison of Everolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents: 2-Year Follow-Up From the SPIRIT (Clinical Evaluation of the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System) IV Trial

    Gregg W. Stone;Ali Rizvi;Krishnankutty Sudhir;William Newman

  • Germline Mutations in SUFU Cause Gorlin Syndrome–Associated Childhood Medulloblastoma and Redefine the Risk Associated With PTCH1 Mutations

    Miriam J Law Smith;Christian Beetz;Simon G. Williams;Sanjeev S Bhaskar

  • 100,000 Genomes Pilot on Rare-Disease Diagnosis in Health Care - Preliminary Report.

    Damian Smedley;Katherine R. Smith;Antonio Martin

  • 5-Year Results of a Randomized Comparison of XIENCE V Everolimus-Eluting and TAXUS Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents: Final Results From the SPIRIT III Trial (Clinical Evaluation of the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System in the Treatment of Patients With De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions)

    Hemal Gada;Ajay J. Kirtane;William Newman;Mark Sanz

  • Meta-analysis of everolimus-eluting versus paclitaxel-eluting stents in coronary artery disease: final 3-year results of the SPIRIT clinical trials program (Clinical Evaluation of the Xience V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System in the Treatment of Patients With De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions).

    George D. Dangas;Patrick W. Serruys;Dean J. Kereiakes;James Hermiller

  • Dominant Mutations in the Autoimmune Regulator AIRE Are Associated with Common Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases.

    Bergithe E. Oftedal;Alexander Hellesen;Alexander Hellesen;Martina M. Erichsen;Eirik Bratland

  • Perrault Syndrome Is Caused by Recessive Mutations in CLPP, Encoding a Mitochondrial ATP-Dependent Chambered Protease

    Emma M. Jenkinson;Atteeq U. Rehman;Tom Walsh;Jill Clayton-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Gareth Evans
D. Gareth Evans University of Manchester
Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell University of Manchester
Graeme C.M. Black
Graeme C.M. Black University of Manchester
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Adrian S. Woolf
Adrian S. Woolf University of Manchester
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Stephen A Roberts
Stephen A Roberts University of Manchester
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center

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