Professor Jon Tobias
Current positions
Professor of Rheumatology
Bristol Medical School (THS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Lifelong Health & Wellbeing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2017
Lifelong Health & Wellbeing Scheme: Describing habitual levels of physical activity (PA) in older people in terms of impact loads and how this relates to bone and other systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2017
Thesis supervisions
Describing the development of hip shape in adolescence, and environmental and genetic influences on this process, in ALSPAC offspring
Supervisors
An investigation into the role of bone mass and other factors in determining fracture risk in children
Supervisors
Understanding the Role of Bone in the Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis
Supervisors
Impact of osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older women
Supervisors
Genetic and epidemiologic approaches to elucidate the role of abnormal hip shape in the development of hip osteoarthritis
Supervisors
An investigation into the role of bone mass and other factors in determining fracture risk in children
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
20/01/2023A Genome-Wide Association Study Meta-Analysis of Alpha Angle Suggests Cam-Type Morphology May Be a Specific Feature of Hip Osteoarthritis in Older Adults
Arthritis and Rheumatology
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: A lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study
European Journal of Epidemiology
Rare and common variants in GALNT3 may affect bone mass independently of phosphate metabolism
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
B4GALNT3 regulates glycosylation of sclerostin and bone mass
EBioMedicine
Automatic Segmentation of Hip Osteophytes in DXA Scans using U-Nets
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022 - 25th International Conference, Proceedings
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