Browsing by Author "Coit, Julia"

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    • Evaluation of high-dose rifampin in patients with new, smear-positive tuberculosis (HIRIF): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial 

      Milstein, Meredith; Lecca, Leonid; Peloquin, Charles; Mitchison, Denis; Seung, Kwonjune; Pagano, Marcello; Coleman, David; Osso, Elna; Coit, Julia; Vargas Vasquez, Dante Elmo; Sanchez Garavito, Epifanio; Calderon, Roger; Contreras, Carmen; Davies, Geraint; Mitnick, Carole D. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Evidence has existed for decades that higher doses of rifampin may be more effective, but potentially more toxic, than standard doses used in tuberculosis treatment. Whether increased doses of rifampin could ...

    • A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals 

      Asgari, Samira; Luo, Yang; Akbari, Ali; Belbin, Gillian M.; Li, Xinyi; Harris, Daniel N.; Selig, Martin; Bartell, Eric; Calderon, Roger; Slowikowski, Kamil; Contreras, Carmen; Yataco, Rosa; Galea, Jerome; Jimenez, Judith; Coit, Julia; Farroñay, Chandel; Nazarian, Rosalynn; O’Connor, Timothy D.; Dietz, Harry C.; Hirschhorn, Joel; Guio, Heinner; Lecca, Leonid; Kenny, Eimear E.; Freeman, Esther E.; Murray, Megan B.; Raychaudhuri, Soumya; Murray (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-13)
      On average, the Peruvian population is among the shortest in the world1. Here we show that Native American ancestry is associated with reduced height in an ethnically diverse group of Peruvians, and identify a novel, ...