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DR GRAHAM BYRNES



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Organization: Population Health
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Sydney 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney 31-Dec-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Appropriate pneumococcal vaccination in infants in Fiji Chief Investigator NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Research Project Grants 30/09/2002
Modelling patient flows through hospitals: optimizing effective use of resources Chief Investigator MELBOURNE HEALTH,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Appropriate pneumococcal vaccination in infants in Fiji Chief Investigator NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Research Project Grants 30/09/2005
WHAT GENES AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CAUSE CHANGE IN CHRONIC RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD? Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
Cancer and low-dose radiation - possible effects of CT scans in childhood Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
The mortality benefit of mammographic screening in Australia Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: an Australian case-cohort study
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Epidemiology and Infection
    Volume: 137
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 194-202
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Risks to relatives


    Year: 2008
    Book: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Journal Articles

  • ICD-10 codes are a valid tool for identification of pneumonia in hospitalized patients aged ≥65 years


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Epidemiology and Infection
    Volume: 136
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 232-240
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  • Predicting Overflow in an Emergency Department


    Year: 2008
    Journal: IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-49
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  • The RAD51D E233G variant and breast cancer risk: population-based and clinic-based family studies of Australian women


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 35-39
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  • Are the so-called low penetrance breast cancer genes, ATM, BRIP1, PALB2 and CHEK2, high risk for women with strong family histories?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Breast Cancer Research
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 208-214
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  • Association of a common AKAP9 variant with breast cancer risk: A collaborative analysis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
    Volume: 100
    Page numbers: 437-442
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  • Childhood eczema and asthma incidence and persistence: A cohort study from childhood to middle age
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 280-285
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  • Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Cancer
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 1475-1481
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  • Predictors of mammographic density: Insights gained from a novel regression analysis of a twin study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 3474-3481
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A systematic approach to analysing gene-gene interactions: polymorphisms at the microsomal Epoxide Hydrolase EPHX and Glutathione S-transferase GSTM1, GSTT1, and GSTP1 loci and breast cancer risk


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 769-774
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  • Mammographic density and candidate gene variants: a twins and sisters study


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1479-1484
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  • Variants on 9p24 and 8q24 are associated with risk of colorectal cancer: results from the Colon Cancer Family Registry


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 11128-11132
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  • Association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms in hormone metabolism and DNA repair genes and epithelial ovarian cancer: results from two Australian studies and an additional validation set
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2557-2565
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  • COMT Val158Met and 5HTTLPR functional loci interact to predict persistence of anxiety across adolescence: results from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Genes, Brain and Behavior
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 647-652
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  • Childhood adiposity predicts adult-onset current asthma in females: a 25-yr propsective study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Respiratory Journal
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 668-675
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  • Childhood allergic rhinitis predicts asthma incidence and persistence to middle age: A longitudinal study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    Volume: 120
    Page numbers: 863-869
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  • Comprehensive multi-stage linkage analyses identify a locus for adult height on chromosome 3p in a healthy Caucasian population
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Human Genetics
    Volume: 121
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 213-222
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  • Missed opportunities to vaccinate a cohort of hospitalised elderly with pneumococcal and influenza vaccines.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 5146-5154
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  • Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine may not prevent hospitalization for pneumonia in elderly individuals.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 617-621
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  • Prevention of community-acquired pneumonia among a cohort of hospitalized elderly: Benefit due to influenza and pneumococcal vaccination not demonstrated.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 4631-4640
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  • Validity of self-reported influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status among a cohort of hospitalized elderly inpatients
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 4775-4783
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Proof-of-Principle Phase II MRI Studies in Stroke.  Sample size estimates from dichotomous and continuous data


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Stroke
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 2521-2525
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  • Sex differences in genetic and environmental determinants of pulse pressure


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Genetic Epidemiology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 397-408
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  • Parathyroid hormone-related protein localization in breast cancers predict improved prognosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 2250-2256
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  • Surgery for non-small cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Thorax
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 597-603
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  • Tuberculosis Recurrence and Mortality after Successful Treatment: Impact of Drug Resistance
    Year: 2006
    Journal: PLoS Medicine
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1836-1843
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  • Validity of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) utility instrument in patients with operable and inoperable lung cancer.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Lung Cancer
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 217-229
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  • Who remembers whether they had asthma as children?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Asthma (New York)
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 727-730
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Association between 5-HTTLPR genotypes and persisting patterns of anxiety and alcohol use: results from a 10 year longitudinal study of adolescent mental health
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Psychiatry
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 868-876
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers(Basingstroke)
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  • Association between the COMT Val158Met polymorphism and propensity to anxiety in an Australian population-based longitudinal study of adolescent health
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Psychiatric Genetics
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 109-115
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  • Cost-effectiveness analaysis of screening for lung cancer with low dose spiral CT (computed tomography) in the Australian setting
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Lung Cancer
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 171-185
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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  • Hormone replacement therapy, percent mammographic density, and sensitivity of mammography
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1060-1064
    Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research(Alabama)
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  • Incidental lung cancers identified at coronial autopsy: implications for overdiagnosis of lung cancer by screening
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Respiratory Medicine
    Volume: 99
    Page numbers: 501-507
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co
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  • Influenza and penumococcal vaccine coverage among a random sample of hospitalised persons aged 65 years or more, Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 283-288
    Publisher: Department of Health and Family Services
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  • Publication policy or publication bias?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1363
    Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research(Alabama)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Head lice prevalence in primary schools in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 616-619
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Insulin resistance is a risk factor for progression to type 1 diabetes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Diabetologia
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 1661-1667
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Risk factors for post-engraftment invasive aspergillosis in allogeneic stem cell transplantation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Bone Marrow Transplantation
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 115-121
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • Screening for lung cancer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    Volume: .
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1-31
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  • Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-40
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Dried venous blood samples for the detection and quantification of measles IgG using a commercial enzyme immunoassay
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 701-706
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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  • Screening for lung cancer: a systematic rview and meta-analysis of controlled trials
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Thorax
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 784-789
    Publisher: British Medical Journal Publishing Group(London)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A markov model for sample size calculation and inference in vaccine cost-effectiveness studies
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Statistics in Medicine
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 3249-3260
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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  • Acute Hyperglycemia Adversely Affects Stroke outcome: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 20-28
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Ceftriaxone and cefotaxime use in victorian hospitals
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 176
    Issue: 3 June 2002
    Page numbers: 524-529
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Influenza vaccine for healthy working adults


    Year: 2001
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 285
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 290-291
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  • Beyond the hype of the human genome
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australasian Epidemiologist
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 16-20
    Publisher: The Australasian Epidemiological Association(Melbourne)
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  • Impact of different criteria for defining hypopneas in the apnea-hypopnea index
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chest
    Volume: 120
    Page numbers: 909-914
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  • Maternal age and risk of type 1 diabetes in children
    Year: 2001
    Journal: BMJ
    Volume: 322
    Page numbers: 1489
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