Publications

Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012): The Fifth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts) * Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR)

peer reviewed

Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments

Large datasets are increasingly common and are often difficult to interpret. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique for reducing the dimensionality of such datasets, ...

Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory

ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R

Abstract Summary After more than fifteen years of existence, the R package ape has continuously grown its contents, and has been used by a growing community of users. The releas...

<scp>genepop</scp>’007: a complete re‐implementation of the<scp>genepop</scp>software for Windows and Linux

Abstract This note summarizes developments of the genepop software since its first description in 1995, and in particular those new to version 4.0: an extended input format, sev...

Electronic structure calculations on workstation computers: The program system turbomole

Hegemonic Masculinity

The concept of hegemonic masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism. The authors trace the origin of the conc...

Aging: A Theory Based on Free Radical and Radiation Chemistry

The phenomenon of growth, decline and death—aging—has been the source of considerable speculation (1, 8, 10). This cycle seems to be a more or less direct function of the metabo...

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

SEVEN-YEAR<i>WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE</i>(<i>WMAP</i>) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION

(Abridged) The 7-year WMAP data and improved astrophysical data rigorously\ntest the standard cosmological model and its extensions. By combining WMAP with\nthe latest distance ...

Investment under Uncertainty