Objective The environmental trigger behind the increasing prevalence of coeliac disease is
not known. One suggested cause is iron deficiency, which is common in coeliac disease. We …

Many regions in the human genome vary in length among individuals due to variable numbers
of tandem repeats (VNTRs). We recently showed that protein-coding VNTRs underlie …

As of today, almost two million people study annually in a country other than their own with
the support of an international scholarship program. A century and a half ago, when the first, …

Reviewer of the Year. The award for AJPH Paper of the Year recognizes a published paper
that substantially contributes to our knowledge and understanding of an important public …

… They would like to thank Margaux LA Hujoel and Steven Gazal for their help with LDSC
implementation and heritability result interpretation. This work was conducted in part with the …

The Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) is increasingly used to broadly screen for
potential treatment effects, eg, IL6R variant as a proxy for IL6R antagonists. This approach …

Large-scale biobanks, housing vast genetic and phenotypic data, are driving scientific
discoveries across a wide range of diseases. However, harnessing the full potential of biobanks …

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the short-term use of systemic antimicrobials (metronidazole
or doxycycline) and locally delivered antimicrobials (metronidazole, chlorhexidine) in …

… All interdental cleaning aids, such as those included in this study, will reduce certain
periodontal parameters such as bleeding and gingival health indices (Hujoel, Hujoel, and Kotsakis …

Adaptation is a fundamental process in evolution, which leads populations to better survive
and reproduce in changing environments. A key insight of population genetics has been that …