Duncan C. Thomas

24.2k citations

231 papers · 14.2k · 4 hit papers · h-index 56

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Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.05%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
Speech and Hearing top 0.05%
- Noise Effects and Management

Papers in

Genetics 90
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 63
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 26
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 19
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer 18
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 43
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 34

Co-authors: W. James Gauderman (22 shared papers)John Peters (20 shared papers)Kiros Berhane (17 shared papers)Rob McConnell (14 shared papers)Edward L. Avol (12 shared papers)Frank D. Gilliland (19 shared papers)Fred Lurmann (15 shared papers)Hita Vora (8 shared papers)
Journals: Genetic Epidemiology (28 papers)American Journal of Epidemiology (15 papers)Environmental Health Perspectives (14 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (8 papers)Biometrics (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Duncan C. Thomas

229 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Duncan C. Thomas's Hit Papers

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Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study 2007 · 570 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 The Lancet
2006 Environmental Health Perspectives
2004 New England Journal of Medicine
2000 Environmental Health Perspectives

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1	The Effect of Air Pollution on Lung Development from 10 to 18 Years of Age New England Journal of Medicine ·W. James Gauderman, Edward L. Avol, Frank D. Gilliland, Hita Vora, Duncan C. Thomas, Kiros Berhane, Rob McConnell, Nino Küenzli, Fred Lurmann, Edward B. Rappaport, Helene G. Margolis, David V. Bates, John Peters Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1041
2	Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequences. Environmental Health Perspectives ·Scott L. Zeger, Duncan C. Thomas, Francesca Dominici, Jonathan M. Samet, J. Schwartz, Douglas W. Dockery, Aaron Cohen Hit paper breakdown →	2000	981
3	Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study The Lancet ·W. James Gauderman, Hita Vora, Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Frank D. Gilliland, Duncan C. Thomas, Fred Lurmann, Edward L. Avol, Nino Künzli, Michael Jerrett, John Peters Hit paper breakdown →	2007	570
4	Traffic, Susceptibility, and Childhood Asthma Environmental Health Perspectives ·Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Ling Yao, Michael Jerrett, Fred Lurmann, Frank D. Gilliland, Nino Künzli, Jim Gauderman, Ed Avol, Duncan C. Thomas, John M. Peters Hit paper breakdown →	2006	497
5	Gene–environment-wide association studies: emerging approaches Nature Reviews Genetics ·Duncan C. Thomas	2010	471
6	A Study of Twelve Southern California Communities with Differing Levels and Types of Air Pollution: II. Effects on Pulmonary Function American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·John Peters, Edward L. Avol, W. James Gauderman, William S. Linn, William Navidi, Stephanie J. London, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Hita Vora, Henry Gong, Duncan C. Thomas	1999	387
7	Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields and Risk of Childhood Leukemia American Journal of Epidemiology ·Stephanie J. London, Duncan C. Thomas, Joseph D. Bowman, Eugene Sobel, Tsen-Chung Cheng, John Peters	1991	369
8	Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·W. James Gauderman, Rob McConnell, Frank D. Gilliland, Stephanie J. London, Duncan C. Thomas, Edward L. Avol, Hita Vora, Kiros Berhane, Edward B. Rappaport, FRED LURMANN, Helene G. Margolis, JOHN PETERS	2000	356
9	ON THE NEED FOR THE RARE DISEASE ASSUMPTION IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES American Journal of Epidemiology ·Sander Greenland, Duncan C. Thomas	1982	341
10	A Study of Twelve Southern California Communities with Differing Levels and Types of Air Pollution: I. Prevalence of Respiratory Morbidity American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·John Peters, Edward L. Avol, William Navidi, Stephanie J. London, W. James Gauderman, FRED LURMANN, William S. Linn, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Henry Gong, Duncan C. Thomas	1999	304
11	Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children: Results from a Second Cohort American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·W. James Gauderman, G. Frank Gilliland, Hita Vora, Edward L. Avol, Daniel O. Stram, Rob McConnell, Duncan C. Thomas, Fred Lurmann, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Kiros Berhane, John Peters	2002	302
12	SIMULTANEOUSLY MODELLING CENSORED SURVIVAL DATA AND REPEATEDLY MEASURED COVARIATES: A GIBBS SAMPLING APPROACH Statistics in Medicine ·Cheryl L. Faucett, Duncan C. Thomas	1996	269
13	Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Asthma Onset in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study with Individual Exposure Measurement Environmental Health Perspectives ·Michael Jerrett, Ketan Shankardass, Kiros Berhane, W. James Gauderman, Nino Künzli, Edward L. Avol, Frank D. Gilliland, Fred Lurmann, Jassy Molitor, John Molitor, Duncan C. Thomas, John Peters, Rob McConnell	2008	256
14	Dose to the Contralateral Breast From Radiotherapy and Risk of Second Primary Breast Cancer in the WECARE Study International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·Marilyn Stovall, Susan A. Smith, Bryan Langholz, John D. Boice, Roy E. Shore, Michael Andersson, Thomas A. Buchholz, Marinela Capanu, Leslie Bernstein, Charles F. Lynch, Kathleen E. Malone, Hoda Anton‐Culver, Robert W. Haile, Barry S. Rosenstein, Anne S. Reiner, Duncan C. Thomas, Jonine L. Bernstein	2008	248
15	Methods of Cohort Analysis: Appraisal by Application to Asbestos Mining Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) ·F. D. K. Liddell, J C McDonald, Duncan C. Thomas, Stella V. Cunliffe	1977	238
16	Modeling and E-M Estimation of Haplotype-Specific Relative Risks from Genotype Data for a Case-Control Study of Unrelated Individuals Human Heredity ·Daniel O. Stram, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Phillip Bretsky, Matthew L. Freedman, Joel N. Hirschhorn, David Altshuler, Laurence N. Kolonel, Brian E. Henderson, Duncan C. Thomas	2003	208
17	The Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on School Absenteeism Due to Respiratory Illnesses Epidemiology ·Frank D. Gilliland, Kiros Berhane, Edward B. Rappaport, Duncan C. Thomas, Edward L. Avol, W. James Gauderman, Stephanie J. London, Helene G. Margolis, Rob McConnell, K. Talat Islam, John M. Peters	2001	206
18	Environmental epigenetics: prospects for studying epigenetic mediation of exposure–response relationships Human Genetics ·Victoria K. Cortessis, Duncan C. Thomas, A. Joan Levine, Carrie V. Breton, Thomas M. Mack, Kimberly D. Siegmund, Robert W. Haile, Peter W. Laird	2012	199
19	Air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in Southern California children with asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives ·Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Frank D. Gilliland, Stephanie J. London, Hita Vora, Ed Avol, W. James Gauderman, Helene G. Margolis, Fred Lurmann, Duncan C. Thomas, John Peters	1999	190
20	Variation of Breast Cancer Risk Among BRCA1/2 Carriers JAMA ·Colin B. Begg, Robert W. Haile, Åke Borg, Kathleen E. Malone, Patrick Concannon, Duncan C. Thomas, Bryan Langholz, Leslie Bernstein, Jørgen H. Olsen, Charles F. Lynch, Hoda Anton‐Culver, Marinela Capanu, Xiaolin Liang, Amanda Hummer, Cami S. Sima, Jonine L. Bernstein	2008	187

About Duncan C. Thomas

Duncan C. Thomas is a scholar working on Genetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability and Speech and Hearing, having authored 231 papers that have together received 14.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (63 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (34 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (26 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (21 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (19 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (18 papers), Noise Effects and Management (18 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (5.2k citations), Speech and Hearing (1.3k citations), Statistics and Probability (1.2k citations), Genetics (2.9k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.1k citations). Duncan C. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include W. James Gauderman, John Peters, Kiros Berhane, Rob McConnell, Edward L. Avol, Frank D. Gilliland, Fred Lurmann, Hita Vora, Helene G. Margolis and Stephanie J. London. Their work appears in journals such as Genetic Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, The American Journal of Human Genetics and Biometrics.

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