Strong Children's Research Center
Seychelles Child Development Study
Current Scientific Publications: 2009-2010
- Myers GJ, Clarkson TW, Strain JJ, Watson G, Davidson PW (2009). Can one get amnesia from canned tuna? What are we forgetting? Lancet, 373 (9676), 1672
- Thurston SW, Ruppert D, Davidson, PW (2009). Bayesian models for multiple outcomes nested in domains. Biometrics, 65, 1078-1086.
- van Wijngaarden E, Myers GJ, Thurston SW, Shamlaye CF, Davidson PW (2009). Interpreting epidemiological evidence in the presence of multiple endpoints: an alternative analytic approach using the 9-year follow-up of the Seychelles child development study. Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 82, 1031-1041.
- Myers GJ, Thurston SW, Pearson A, Davidson PW,Cox C, Shamlaye CF, Cernichiari E, Clarkson TW (2009). Postnatal Exposure to Methyl Mercury from Fish Consumption: a Review and New Data from the Seychelles Child Development Study. NeuroToxicology, 30(3), 338-349. PMC 19442817
- Duffy EM, Bonham MP, Wallace JMW, Chang CK, Robson PJ, Myers GJ, Davidson PW, Clarkson TW, Shamlaye CF, Strain JJ (2010). Iron Status in Pregnant Women in the Republic of Seychelles. Public Health Nutrition, Mar; 13(3), 331-337.
- Bonham MP, Duffy EM, Livingstone MBE, Wallace JMW, Robson PJ, Myers GJ, Davidson PW, Clarkson TW, Shamlaye CF, Strain JJ. Nutritional status of pregnant women in Seychelles – dietary status of nutrients essential for pregnancy, fetal and neonatal development with particular reference to fish intakes. In Press, Pub Health Nutrit.
- Huang, L-S, Davidson PW (2009). Analysis of Variance and F-Tests for Partial Linear Models with Applications to Environmental Health Data. Annals of Applied Statistics.
- Stokes-Riner A, Thurston SW, Myers GJ, Strain JJ, Duffy EM, Wallace J, Bonham M, Robson P, Davidson PW. A Longitudinal Analysis of Prenatal MeHg and Fatty-Acid Exposure on Child Development in the Republic of Seychelles. Neurtoxicol Teratol, In Review.
- Davidson PW, Strain JJ, Myers GJ, Shamlaye CF, Thurston S, Bonham MP, Duffy EM, Wallace JMW, Watson G, Clarkson TW. Neurodevelopmental effects of maternal nutrients status and exposure to methyl mercury from eating fish during pregnancy: Evidence from the Seychelles Child Development Study. In Cheng Wang & William Slikker (Eds). Developmental Neurotoxicology Research: Principles, Models, Techniques, Strategies and Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, In Press.
- Ishitobi H, Stern S, Thurston SW, Zareba G, Langdon M, Gelein R, Weiss B (2009). Organic and Inorganic Mercury in Neonatal Rat Brain Following Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury and Mercury Vapor. Environmental Health Perspectives, Online 29 Sept.
- Pugach S and Clarkson TW (2009). Prenatal Mercury Exposure and Postnatal Outcome: Clinical Case Report and Analysis. Clinical Toxicology, Online 8 June.
- Lynch ML, Huang L-S, Cox C, Davidson PW, Strain JJ, Myers GJ, Bonham MP, Shamlaye CF, Stokes-Riner A, Wallace JMW, Duffy EM, Clarkson TW. Varying coefficient function models to explore interactions between maternal nutritional status and prenatal methylmercury toxicity in the Seychelles child developmenta Nutritional study. Environmental Research, In Press.
- Malgorzata K, O'Donoghue JL, Watson G, Pickering IJ, George GN. The chemical nature of mercury in human brain. Science, In Review.
- Davidson PW, Leste A, Benstrong E, Burns CM, Valentin J, Sloane-Reeves J, Huang L-S, Miller WA, Gunzler D, vanWijngaarden E, Watson GE, Zareba G, Shamlaye CF, Myers GJ (2010). Fish Consumption, Mercury Exposure, and Their Associations with Scholastic Achievement in the Seychelles Child Development Study. NeuroToxicology, 1140
- George GN, Singh SP, Myers GJ, Watson GE, and Pickering IJ (2010). The Chemical Forms of Mercury in Human Hair: A Study Using X-ray Absorption spectroscopy. Journal of Biologic Inorganic Chemistry, Online 12 March.
- Watson GE, Blum JD, Johnson MW, Zareba G, Lynch ML, Thurston SW, McKinlay SA, Clarkson TW. Stable Isotope Estimates of Mercury Burden from Dental Amalgam. Science, In Review.
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