Publications

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Capacity to care: provider agency and socio-structural constraints in breast cancer care across public secondary and tertiary hospitals in Soweto
Seemla D. Malope, Charmaine L. Blanchard, Ngcwalisa Jama, Maureen Joffe & Shane A. Norris, 2026, Global Public Health, 21(1)
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2026.2657635
Type: article
Measuring progress in pregnancy planning and preconception health
Danielle Schoenaker, Jennifer Hall, Sarah Verbiest & Shane A. Norris, 2026, The Lancet, 407(10537), 1471-1482
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00192-3
Type: article
Impaired fetal brain growth and neurodevelopmental deficits at 2 years: deep phenotyping of maternal–fetal pathophysiology
Jose Villar, Maria Carvalho, Robert Gunier & Shane A. Norris, 2026, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health, 2(4), e310-e323
Type: article
MAJIQ-CLIN: A novel tool for the identification of Mendelian disease-causing variants from RNA-Seq data
Joseph K. Aicher, Dina Issakova, Barry Slaff, San Jewell, Nicholas F. Lahens, Gregory R. Grant, Diana Baralle, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Daryl A. Scott, Elizabeth J. Bhoj & Yoseph Barash, 2026, Genetics in Medicine
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.30.25321185
Type: article
Rare variants in embryonic development and cell signalling genes in syndromic and non-syndromic orofacial clefts: Evidence from a Colombian Caribbean cohort
Alejandro Silva, Carolina Jaramillo Oquendo, Jaime E. Bernal, Julio Cesar Martinez, Andrew Collins, Ignacio Briceno, Escilda Benavides, Zulieth López Arrieta & Sarah Ennis, 2026, Journal of Human Genetics, 71(7), 443-451
DOI: 10.1038/s10038-026-01466-x
Type: article
Outcomes of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis
Ezekiel Musa, Tawanda Chivese, Mahmoud Werfalli, Larske M. Soepnel, Veronique Nicolaou, Mushi Matjila, Shane A. Norris & Naomi Levitt, 2026, PLoS ONE, 21(3 March)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0345743
Type: article
Preconception mental health (Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative): Identifying factors associated with probable anxiety and depression among young women living in urban-poor South Africa
Shane A. Norris, Claire Hart, Lukhanyo H. Nyati, Wihan Taljaard, Rayjean J. Hung, Ravi Retnakaran, Stephen Lye, Catherine E. Draper & Ashleigh Craig, 2026, PLoS Medicine, 3
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000578
Type: article