Busselton Health Study

{{short description|Long-term health study of Busselton residents}}

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The Busselton Health Study is a long-term, on-going health cohort study of residents of the Western Australian city of Busselton. Over 20,000 Busselton residents have participated in surveys concerning such health topics as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary function, diabetes, and cancer, resulting in over 400 publications.{{cite web|url=http://bpmri.org.au/research/research-publications.html|title=Research Publications|date=2 May 2014 |publisher=Busselton Population Medical Research Institute|accessdate=28 July 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://bpmri.org.au/research/key-projects-studies/busselton-health-study-2.html|title=Key Projects & studies: Busselton Health Study|date=13 May 2014 |publisher=Busselton Population Medical Research Institute|accessdate=28 July 2019}} The program was initiated by Kevin Cullen, a local general practitioner, and is administered by the Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, which was established in 2000 as the Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation,{{cite web|url=http://bpmri.org.au/about-us/history.html|title=History|date=2 May 2014 |publisher=Busselton Population Medical Research Institute|accessdate=30 July 2019}} and the School of Population and Global Health, University of Western Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.sph.uwa.edu.au/community/busselton_health_study|title=Busselton Health Study|publisher=University of Western Australia|accessdate=30 July 2019}} Data from the study was used in a 1996 paper in Nature showing some of the first genetic links to asthma, along with a 1999 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that was the first to describe the impact of the newly discovered HFE gene causing HFE hereditary haemochromatosis on a population with normal rates of symptoms.{{cite web|url=http://bpmri.org.au/pdfs/news04.pdf|title=Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 1|publisher=Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation|date=October 2004|accessdate=30 July 2019}}{{Cite journal |vauthors=Daniels SE, Bhattacharrya S, James A, etal |title=A genome-wide search for quantitative trait loci underlying asthma. |journal=Nature |volume=383 |issue= 6597 |pages= 247–50 |year= 1996 |pmid= 8805698 |doi= 10.1038/383247a0 |bibcode=1996Natur.383..247D |s2cid=22256638 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Olynyk J, Cullen D, Aquilia S, Rossi E, Summerville L, Powell L |title=A population-based study of the clinical expression of the hemochromatosis gene |journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=341 |issue=10 |pages=718–24 |year=1999 |pmid=10471457 |doi=10.1056/NEJM199909023411002|url=http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/18788/1/population_based_study.pdf }}