Graham Byrnes

Screening for lung cancer

Renee Manser, Anne Lethaby, Louis B Irving, Christine Stone, Graham Byrnes, Michael J Abramson, Don Campbell

Journal article  |  2013  |  COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

BACKGROUND: This is an updated version of the original review published in The Cochrane Library in 1999 and updated in 2004 and 20..

Sibship Analysis of Associations Between SNP Haplotypes and a Continuous Trait With Application to Mammographic Density

J Stone, LC Gurrin, VM Hayes, MC Southey, JL Hopper, GB Byrnes

Journal article  |  2010  |  GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

Haplotype-based association studies have been proposed as a powerful comprehensive approach to identify causal genetic variation u..

Common Genetic Variants Associated with Breast Cancer and Mammographic Density Measures That Predict Disease

Fabrice Odefrey, Jennifer Stone, Lyle C Gurrin, Graham B Byrnes, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S Dite, Jennifer N Cawson, Graham G Giles, Susan A Treloar, Dallas R English, John L Hopper, Melissa C Southey

Journal article  |  2010  |  CANCER RESEARCH

Mammographic density for age and body mass index (BMI) is a heritable risk factor for breast cancer. We aimed to determine if rece..

Rare, Evolutionarily Unlikely Missense Substitutions in ATM Confer Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Sean V Tavtigian, Peter J Oefner, Davit Babikyan, Anne Hartmann, Sue Healey, Florence Le Calvez-Kelm, Fabienne Lesueur, Graham B Byrnes, Shu-Chun Chuang, Nathalie Forey, Corinna Feuchtinger, Lydie Gioia, Janet Hall, Mia Hashibe, Barbara Herte, Sandrine McKay-Chopin, Alun Thomas, Maxime P Vallee, Catherine Voegele, Penelope M Webb, et al.

Journal article  |  2009  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The susceptibility gene for ataxia telangiectasia, ATM, is also an intermediate-risk breast-cancer-susceptibility gene. However, t..

Short-Term Forecasting of Emergency Inpatient Flow

Gad Abraham, Graham B Byrnes, Christopher A Bain

Journal article  |  2009  |  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE

Hospital managers have to manage resources effectively, while maintaining a high quality of care. For hospitals where admissions f..

Hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: an Australian case-cohort study

SA Skull, RM Andrews, GB Byrnes, DA Campbell, HA Kelly, GV Brown, TM Nolan

Journal article  |  2009  |  EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

This study describes the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in elderly Australians for the first time. Using a cas..

Predicting overflow in an emergency department

L Au, GB Byrnes, CA Bain, M Fackrell, C Brand, DA Campbell, PG Taylor

Journal article  |  2009  |  IMA JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT MATHEMATICS

Ambulance bypass occurs when the emergency department (ED) of a hospital becomes so busy that ambulances are requested to take the..

Predictors of Mammographic Density: Insights Gained from a Novel Regression Analysis of a Twin Study

Gillian S Dite, Lyle C Gurrin, Graham B Byrnes, Jennifer Stone, Anoma Gunasekara, Margaret RE McCredie, Dallas R English, Graham G Giles, Jennifer Cawson, Robert A Hegele, Anna M Chiarelli, Martin J Yaffe, Norman F Boyd, John L Hopper

Journal article  |  2008  |  CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Understanding which factors influence mammographically dense and nondense areas is important because percent mammographic density ..

The RAD51D E233G variant and breast cancer risk: population-based and clinic-based family studies of Australian women

James G Dowty, Felicity Lose, Mark A Jenkins, Jiun-Horng Chang, XiaoQing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Gillian S Dite, Melissa C Southey, Graham B Byrnes, Andrea Tesoriero, Graham G Giles, John L Hopper, Amanda B Spurdle

Journal article  |  2008  |  BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT

RAD51D is a homolog of the RAD51 protein, which is known to be an important component of the DNA repair pathway. A rare missense v..

Childhood eczema and asthma incidence and persistence: A cohort study from childhood to middle age

John A Burgess, Shyamali C Dharmage, Graham B Byrnes, Melanie C Matheson, Lyle C Gurrin, Cathryn L Wharton, David P Johns, Michael J Abramson, John L Hopper, E Haydn Waiters

Journal article  |  2008  |  JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

BACKGROUND: The association between eczema and asthma is well documented, but the temporal sequence of this association has not be..