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Joanne Cecil
 
  Joanne Cecil  

Joanne is a member of the Bute Medical School and her research interests include the short-term biopsychological controls of appetite, ingestive behaviour and obesity. Recent research has focussed on the relationship between genotype and behavioural phenotype in the maintenance of child energy balance and obesity.

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2007; JE Cecil, CN Palmer, B Fischer, P Watt, DJ Wallis, I Murie, M Hetherington; "Variants of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor - and ß-adrenergic receptor genes are associated with measures of compensatory eating behaviors in young children"; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; 86(1):1837-1843
2006; CN Palmer, AD Irvine, Terron-Kwiatkowski A Terron-Kwiatkowski, Zhao Y Zhao, H Liao, SP Lee, DR Goudie, A Sandilands, LE Campbell, FJ Smith, GM O'regan, RM Watson, JE Cecil, SJ Bale, JG Compton, JJ Digiovanna, P Fleckman, S Lewis-Jones, G Arseculeratne, A Sergeant, CS Munro, B El Houate, K McElreavey, LB Halkjaer, H Bisgaard, S Mukhopadhyay, WH McLean; "Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis"; Nature Medicine; 38(4):441-6;
2006; JE Cecil, P Watt, CN Palmer, M Hetherington; "Energy balance and food intake: the role of PPARγ gene polymorphisms"; Physiology and Behavior; 88(3):227-233;
2005; JE Cecil, P Watt, IS Murrie, W Wrieden, DJ Wallis, MM Hetherington, C Bolton-Smith, CN Palmer; "Childhood obesity and socioeconomic status: a novel role for height growth limitation"; International Journal of Obesity; 29(10):1199-1203;
 
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