Liver transplant outcome has improved considerably as a direct result of optimized surgical
and anesthesiological techniques and organ allocation programs. Because there remains a …

Background Preoperative risk assessment in cancer surgery is of importance to improve
treatment and outcome. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of CT-assessed …

Identifying large expansions of short tandem repeats (STRs), such as those that cause
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and fragile X syndrome, is challenging for short-read whole-…

Background Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease often have rapid swings between
mobility and immobility, and many respond unsatisfactorily to adjustments in pharmacological …

… John MG van Vugt , John MG van Vugt … ATJIG, JMG van V. and CBMO were all
involved in reviewing the literature and the preparation of the manuscript. …

To identify novel genes associated with ALS, we undertook two lines of investigation. We
carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 controls…

Background & Aims The association between sarcopenia and prognosis in patients with
cirrhosis remains to be determined. In this study, we aimed to quantify the association between …

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has beendesigned as a new barometer of Australians'satisfaction
with their lives, and life inAustralia. It is based on, and develops, thetheoretical …

Objectives To validate the clinical efficacy and practical feasibility of massively parallel
maternal plasma DNA sequencing to screen for fetal trisomy 21 among high risk pregnancies …

… Beute, J. van Vugt, and Mathieu Lenders report no disclosures relevant to the manuscript.
M. Fiorella Contarino received travel support from Medtronic (last in 2005), received speaking …