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Vanessa X Tan

Macquarie University
Verified email at mq.edu.au
Cited by 773

The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

…, C Laurin, S Burgess, J Bowden, R Langdon, VY Tan… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.34408.001 Results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can be
used to infer causal relationships between phenotypes, using a strategy known as 2-sample …

[HTML][HTML] Kynurenine pathway metabolomics predicts and provides mechanistic insight into multiple sclerosis progression

CK Lim, A Bilgin, DB Lovejoy, V Tan, S Bustamante… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Activation of the kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan metabolism results from chronic
inflammation and is known to exacerbate progression of neurodegenerative disease. To gain …

[HTML][HTML] Association of fascin-1 with mortality, disease progression and metastasis in carcinomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis

VY Tan, SJ Lewis, JC Adams, RM Martin - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background Fascin-1 is an actin-bundling protein expressed in many human carcinomas,
although absent from most normal epithelia. Fascin-1 promotes filopodia formation, migration …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically proxied therapeutic inhibition of antihypertensive drug targets and risk of common cancers: A mendelian randomization analysis

…, G Paré, VM Walker, EE Vincent, VY Tan… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Epidemiological studies have reported conflicting findings on the potential adverse
effects of long-term antihypertensive medication use on cancer risk. Naturally occurring …

[HTML][HTML] Does milk intake promote prostate cancer initiation or progression via effects on insulin-like growth factors (IGFs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis

…, M Gardner, C Perks, T Gaunt, V Tan… - Cancer Causes & …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose To establish whether the association between milk intake and prostate cancer operates
via the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) pathway (including IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2…

Defects in optineurin-and myosin VI-mediated cellular trafficking in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

V Sundaramoorthy, AK Walker, V Tan… - Human molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder primarily affecting
motor neurons. Mutations in optineurin cause a small proportion of familial ALS cases, and …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying molecular mediators of the relationship between body mass index and endometrial cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

E Hazelwood, E Sanderson, VY Tan, KS Ruth… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in high-income
countries. Elevated body mass index (BMI) is an established modifiable risk factor for this …

Parent perceptions of psychosocial outcomes of equine-assisted interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder

VXL Tan, JG Simmonds - Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018 - Springer
This research explored parents’ perceptions of the psychosocial outcomes of their children’s
experience of receiving equine-assisted interventions (EAI). Participants were the parents …

Mobile phones as a potential vehicle of infection in a hospital setting

…, M Green, A Zargari, R Siddique, V Tan… - … of occupational and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this article is to investigate the potential role of mobile phones as a reservoir
for bacterial colonization and the risk factors for bacterial colonization in a hospital setting. …

Effects of sleep deprivation on the tryptophan metabolism

A Bhat, AS Pires, V Tan… - International …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Sleep has a regulatory role in maintaining metabolic homeostasis and cellular functions.
Inadequate sleep time and sleep disorders have become more prevalent in the modern lifestyle…