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Jonathan Wasserman

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Jeffrey Wasserman

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Investing in youth tobacco control: a review of smoking prevention and control strategies

…, J Wasserman, HA Pollack, J Berson… - Tobacco …, 2000 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
… Jacobson and Wasserman suggested that the Synar amendment has led to a number of …
of tobacco control laws, Jacobson and Wasserman concluded that ongoing enforcement is the …

[HTML][HTML] Non-pharmaceutical public health interventions for pandemic influenza: an evaluation of the evidence base

JE Aledort, N Lurie, J Wasserman, SA Bozzette - BMC public health, 2007 - Springer
Background In an influenza pandemic, the benefit of vaccines and antiviral medications will
be constrained by limitations on supplies and effectiveness. Non-pharmaceutical public …

Cancer screening recommendations for individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome

…, LC Strong, DGR Evans, JD Wasserman… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is an autosomal dominantly inherited condition caused by
germline mutations of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene encoding p53, a transcription factor …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequencing of pediatric medulloblastoma links catastrophic DNA rearrangements with TP53 mutations

…, D Martin, C Zhang, R Porat, DM Merino, J Wasserman… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Genomic rearrangements are thought to occur progressively during tumor development.
Recent findings, however, suggest an alternative mechanism, involving massive chromosome …

The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking

J Wasserman, WG Manning, JP Newhouse… - Journal of health …, 1991 - Elsevier
We estimate a generalized linear model to examine adult and teenage cigarette demand.
Our analysis focuses on the extent to which exice taxes and regulations restricting smoking in …

The relationship between modifiable health risks and health care expenditures: an analysis of the multi-employer HERO health risk and cost database

…, RJ Ozminkowski, RL Dunn, J Wasserman… - … of occupational and …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
This investigation estimates the impact of ten modifiable health risk behaviors and measures
and their impact on health care expenditures, controlling for other measured risk and …

[HTML][HTML] Improved diagnostic yield compared with targeted gene sequencing panels suggests a role for whole-genome sequencing as a first-tier genetic test

…, J Sutherland, A Vincent, JD Wasserman… - Genetics in …, 2018 - nature.com
Purpose Genetic testing is an integral diagnostic component of pediatric medicine. Standard
of care is often a time-consuming stepwise approach involving chromosomal microarray …

[HTML][HTML] The Drosophila Forkhead transcription factor FOXO mediates the reduction in cell number associated with reduced insulin signaling

MA Jünger, F Rintelen, H Stocker, JD Wasserman… - Journal of biology, 2003 - Springer
… In a chico -/- background, loss of dFOXO leads to increased cell numbers in the eye (g)
and in the wing (j) compared to the chico single mutant. Although organ and tissue size is …

Biochemical and imaging surveillance in germline TP53 mutation carriers with Li-Fraumeni syndrome: 11 year follow-up of a prospective observational study

A Villani, A Shore, JD Wasserman, D Stephens… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Carriers of a germline TP53 pathogenic variant have a substantial lifetime risk
of developing cancer. In 2011, we did a prospective observational study of members of …

The taxes of sin: do smokers and drinkers pay their way?

…, EB Keeler, JP Newhouse, EM Sloss, J Wasserman - Jama, 1989 - jamanetwork.com
… enrollment were excluded from the HIE sample of 5809 person j, we used data regarding …
were to treat the costs of such deaths as external, some 1600 people in 1984 (J. Hall, oral …