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Christopher A. Maher

Washington University
Verified email at wustl.edu
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Reliability of the PEDro scale for rating quality of randomized controlled trials

CG Maher, C Sherrington, RD Herbert… - Physical …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Background and Purpose. Assessment of the quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
is common practice in systematic reviews. However, the reliability of data obtained with most …

[HTML][HTML] The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

…, FA Feltus, U Gowik, IV Grigoriev, E Lyons, CA Maher… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the ∼730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome analysis informs breast cancer response to aromatase inhibition

…, M Leitch, K Hunt, J Olson, Y Tao, CA Maher… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
To correlate the variable clinical features of oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer with
somatic alterations, we studied pretreatment tumour biopsies accrued from patients in two …

Genomic loss of microRNA-101 leads to overexpression of histone methyltransferase EZH2 in cancer

…, C Kumar-Sinha, RJ Lonigro, N Palanisamy, CA Maher… - science, 2008 - science.org
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a mammalian histone methyltransferase that contributes
to the epigenetic silencing of target genes and regulates the survival and metastasis of …

Global rating of change scales: a review of strengths and weaknesses and considerations for design

SJ Kamper, CG Maher, G Mackay - Journal of Manual & …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Most clinicians ask their patients to rate whether their health condition has improved or
deteriorated over time and then use this information to guide management decisions. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic landscape of non-small cell lung cancer in smokers and never-smokers

…, J Subramanian, ND Dees, KL Kanchi, CA Maher… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
We report the results of whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing of tumor and adjacent
normal tissue samples from 17 patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). We …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer metastasis

…, HX Dang, DA Lim, FY Feng, CA Maher - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Metastasis is a major contributor to cancer-associated deaths. It is characterized by a
multistep process that occurs through the acquisition of molecular and phenotypic changes …

Transcriptome sequencing across a prostate cancer cohort identifies PCAT-1, an unannotated lincRNA implicated in disease progression

…, D Robinson, HK Iyer, N Palanisamy, CA Maher… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) are emerging as key molecules in human cancer, with the
potential to serve as novel markers of disease and to reveal uncharacterized aspects of tumor …

Transcriptome sequencing to detect gene fusions in cancer

CA Maher, C Kumar-Sinha, X Cao… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Recurrent gene fusions, typically associated with haematological malignancies and rare bone
and soft-tissue tumours 1 , have recently been described in common solid tumours 2 , 3 , 4 …

Evidence for physiotherapy practice: a survey of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)

…, RD Herbert, C Sherrington, CG Maher - Australian Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Evidence-based practice involves the use of evidence from systematic reviews and randomised
controlled trials, but the extent of this evidence in physiotherapy has not previously been …