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Erik van Zwet

Associate Professor, Leiden University Medical Center
Verified email at lumc.nl
Cited by 12169

The apparent paradox of maternal seropositivity as a risk factor for congenital cytomegalovirus infection: a population‐based prediction model

JJC de Vries, EW van Zwet, FW Dekker… - Reviews in medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Because maternal seropositivity for CMV is associated with substantial protection against
congenital CMV infection, prevention measures have focused mainly on seronegative …

Endosonography vs conventional bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of sarcoidosis: the GRANULOMA randomized clinical trial

…, C Porsbjerg, T Mauad, FD Bernardi, EW van Zwet… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Tissue verification of noncaseating granulomas is recommended for the diagnosis
of sarcoidosis. Bronchoscopy with transbronchial lung biopsies, the current diagnostic …

The significance filter, the winner's curse and the need to shrink

EW van Zwet, EA Cator - Statistica Neerlandica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… For further details, we refer to van Zwet (2019). We do note that in that article, we discarded
p-… We explore how this may be achieved in van Zwet and Gelman (2020) and van Zwet, …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation signatures link prenatal famine exposure to growth and metabolism

…, AP Stok, PE Thijssen, F Müller, EW Van Zwet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Periconceptional diet may persistently influence DNA methylation levels with phenotypic
consequences. However, a comprehensive assessment of the characteristics of prenatal …

A simple and effective method for predicting travel times on freeways

J Rice, E Van Zwet - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method to predict the time that will be needed to traverse a given section of a
freeway when the departure is at a given time in the future. The prediction is done on the …

Disease variants alter transcription factor levels and methylation of their binding sites

…, CG Schalkwijk, LH Van Den Berg, EW Van Zwet… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Most disease-associated genetic variants are noncoding, making it challenging to design
experiments to understand their functional consequences 1 , 2 . Identification of expression …

Cerebral injury in monochorionic twins with selective intrauterine growth restriction: a systematic review

…, JMM van Klink, TT Stolk, EW van Zwet… - Prenatal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To estimate incidence and risk factors of severe cerebral injury in survivors from
monochorionic pregnancies with selective intrauterine growth restriction (sIUGR) and/or birth …

Fetoscopic laser coagulation of the vascular equator versus selective coagulation for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome: an open-label randomised controlled trial

…, E Lopriore, L Lewi, JM Middeldorp, EW Van Zwet… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Monochorionic twin pregnancies complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
are typically treated with fetoscopic laser coagulation. Postoperative complications can …

[HTML][HTML] Hysterectomy in very obese and morbidly obese patients: a systematic review with cumulative analysis of comparative studies

MD Blikkendaal, EM Schepers, EW van Zwet… - Archives of gynecology …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Some studies suggest that also regarding the patient with a body mass index (BMI)
≥35 kg/m 2 the minimally invasive approach to hysterectomy is superior. However, current …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome-and transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null distribution

M van Iterson, EW van Zwet, Bios Consortium… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
We show that epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association studies (EWAS and TWAS)
are prone to significant inflation and bias of test statistics, an unrecognized phenomenon …