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Kairsten Fay

Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
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[HTML][HTML] Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

A Afshin, PJ Sur, KA Fay, L Cornaby, G Ferrara… - The lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Suboptimal diet is an important preventable risk factor for non-communicable
diseases (NCDs); however, its impact on the burden of NCDs has not been systematically …

[HTML][HTML] The Burden of Proof studies: assessing the evidence of risk

…, L Cornaby, X Dai, MA Dirac, K Estep, KA Fay… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Exposure to risks throughout life results in a wide variety of outcomes. Objectively judging
the relative impact of these risks on personal and population health is fundamental to …

Evaluating specimen quality and results from a community-wide, home-based respiratory surveillance study

…, J Mooney, M Ilcisin, KA Fay… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
While influenza and other respiratory pathogens cause significant morbidity and mortality,
the community-based burden of these infections remains incompletely understood. The …

SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology on a public university campus in Washington State

…, JC Craft, KM Schwabe-Fry, KA Fay… - Open Forum …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background We aimed to evaluate a testing program to facilitate control of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission at a large university and …

Seattle Flu Study-Swab and Send: Study protocol for at-home surveillance methods to estimate the burden of respiratory pathogens on a City-Wide Scale

…, J Mooney, MJ Rieder, M Ilcisin, KA Fay… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Introduction While seasonal influenza and other respiratory pathogens cause significant
morbidity and mortality each year, the community-based burden of these infections remains …

Genetic and Genomic Response to Selection for Food Consumption in Drosophila melanogaster

…, LJ Everett, S Zhou, AW Gearhart, KA Fay… - Behavior Genetics, 2017 - Springer
Food consumption is an essential component of animal fitness; however, excessive food intake
in humans increases risk for many diseases. The roles of neuroendocrine feedback loops…

Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington state

…, E Brandstetter, S Cho, D Giroux, PD Han, K Fay… - Science, 2020 - science.org
After its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late November or early December 2019, the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus rapidly spread globally. …

Comparison of symptoms and RNA levels in children and adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the community setting

…, R Burstein, E Brandstetter, PD Han, K Fay… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The association between COVID-19 symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 viral levels in
children living in the community is not well understood. Objective To characterize symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] Augur: a bioinformatics toolkit for phylogenetic analyses of human pathogens

…, J Hadfield, TR Sibley, J Lee, K Fay… - Journal of open …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The analysis of human pathogens requires a diverse collection of bioinformatics tools. These
tools include standard genomic and phylogenetic software and custom software developed …

Winter color polymorphisms identify global hot spots for evolutionary rescue from climate change

…, A Dietz, AV Abramov, N Lopatina, K Fay - Science, 2018 - science.org
Maintenance of biodiversity in a rapidly changing climate will depend on the efficacy of
evolutionary rescue, whereby population declines due to abrupt environmental change are …