Cohort Profile: The Boyd Orr cohort—an historical cohort study based on the 65 year follow-up of the Carnegie Survey of Diet and Health (1937–39)

A simple salting out procedure for extracting DNA from human nucleated cells

1988 • 20,341 citations

INFANT MORTALITY, CHILDHOOD NUTRITION, AND ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES

1986 • 2,727 citations

Rapid Amplification of Plasmid and Phage DNA Using Phi29 DNA Polymerase and Multiply-Primed Rolling Circle Amplification

2001 • 1,045 citations

Are poor living conditions in childhood and adolescence an important risk factor for arteriosclerotic heart disease?

1977 • 749 citations

Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular mortality: a 57-y follow-up study based on the Boyd Orr cohort

1998 • 564 citations

PicoGreen quantitation of DNA: effective evaluation of samples pre- or post-PCR

1996 • 462 citations

Fruit, vegetables, and antioxidants in childhood and risk of adult cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort

2003 • 333 citations

The maternal and fetal origins of cardiovascular disease.

1992 • 318 citations

Whole genome amplification using a degenerate oligonucleotide primer allows hundreds of genotypes to be performed on less than one nanogram of genomic DNA

1996 • 270 citations

Childhood leg length and adult mortality: follow up of the Carnegie (Boyd Orr) Survey of Diet and Health in Pre-war Britain

1998 • 243 citations

Diet in childhood and adult cardiovascular and all cause mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort

2005 • 199 citations

Childhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer: the boyd orr cohort study

1998 • 182 citations

How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly, and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood?

2000 • 166 citations

Socio‐economic and dietary influences on leg length and trunk length in childhood: a reanalysis of the Carnegie (Boyd Orr) survey of diet and health in prewar Britain (1937–39)

1998 • 153 citations

Association between breast feeding and growth: the Boyd-Orr cohort study

2002 • 133 citations

Commentary: Can adult anthropometry be used as a ‘biomarker’ for prenatal and childhood exposures?

2002 • 132 citations

The use of long PCR to confirm three common alleles at the CYP2A6 locus and the relationship between genotype and smoking habit

2000 • 127 citations

When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate

1993 • 121 citations

Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort

2001 • 120 citations

Growth and Health

1951 • 107 citations

Leg length and risk of cancer in the Boyd Orr cohort

1998 • 103 citations

Commentary: Can adult anthropometry be used as a ‘biomarker’ for prenatal and childhood exposures?

2002 • 95 citations

Lifecourse exposure and later disease: a follow-up study based on a survey of family diet and health in pre-war Britain (1937–1939)

1996 • 85 citations

Breastfeeding and Atherosclerosis

2005 • 84 citations

Breastfeeding and cardiovascular mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort and a systematic review with meta-analysis

2004 • 83 citations

Childhood Socioeconomic Position and Adult Cardiovascular Mortality: The Boyd Orr Cohort

1999 • 83 citations

Parents’ Growth in Childhood and the Birth Weight of Their Offspring

2004 • 75 citations

Childhood body mass index and later cancer risk: A 50‐year follow‐up of the Boyd Orr study

2004 • 71 citations

How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly, and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood?

2000 • 59 citations

Reconstructing the life course health during early old age in a follow-up study based on the Boyd Orr cohort

1999 • 47 citations

Separating in-utero and postnatal influences on later disease

1999 • 43 citations

How accurate is self reported birth weight among the elderly?

2000 • 35 citations

The effects of dietary supplementation on growth and adult mortality

2000 • 13 citations

Diets of working-class families with children before and after the Second World War with a section on height and weight of children.

1963 • 11 citations

Finding and Using Inter-war Maternity Records

1997 • 9 citations

The effects of dietary supplementation on growth and adult mortality a re-analysis and follow-up of a pre-war study

2000 • 9 citations