Job exposure matrices (JEM) have been commonly used in occupational epidemiology since the early 1980’ [1]. A large number of JEM have been described, some designated for population based studies, others designated for use in specific industries such as electronic utilities, paint manufacturing or hard metals and still others for study specific chemicals. But only few could be used for all comm...

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $8.00 Vol. 203, No. 8, August 7, 2006 1833 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20061544 1833 Jennifer Bell, a superlative Executive Editor for the JEM for nearly 3 years, has decided to return to her home and family in Scotland. Jen will be sorely missed, but will continue as a consultant to the JEM, so many of you will see her at meetings and will continue to...

OBJECTIVES To develop a method suitable for estimating exposure risks in population studies of asthma from job titles and international codes, by combining a new job exposure matrix (JEM) with the expert judgement approach. The method was applied in the French epidemiological study of the genetics and environment in asthma (EGEA). METHODS The JEM contains 22 exposure groups including 18 high ...

In this issue of JEM, Bergman et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20160471) challenge the data published in our previous JEM paper on the preventive effect of tolerogenic vaccination with a strong agonist insulin mimetope in type 1 diabetes. Here, we provide a response to these data and suggest that appropriate subimmunogenic conditions are required to induce Foxp3+ regulatory T cell conversion.

INTRODUCTION A Job Exposure Matrix (JEM) for psychosocial job stressors allows assessment of these exposures at a population level. JEMs are particularly useful in situations when information on psychosocial job stressors were not collected individually and can help eliminate the biases that may be present in individual self-report accounts. This research paper describes the development of a JE...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Exp. Med. Vol. 207 No. 5 905 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20100696 Process In the past, each manuscript submitted to the JEM was assigned—by different scientific editors in the JEM office during different weeks—to one of our 12 academic editors. This primary academic editor would send the manuscript and their opinion of it to a secondary academic ed...

OBJECTIVES A system for retrospective occupational exposure assessment combining the efficiency of a job exposure matrix (JEM) and the precision of a subsequent individual expert exposure assessment (IEEA) was developed. All steps of the exposure assessment were performed by an interdisciplinary expert panel in the context of a case-control study on male germ cell cancer nested in the car manuf...

OBJECTIVE To study the performance of a developed job exposure matrix (JEM) for the assessment of psychosocial factors at work in terms of accuracy, possible misclassification bias and predictive ability to detect known associations with depression and low back pain (LBP). MATERIALS AND METHODS We utilized two large population surveys (the Health 2000 Study and the Finnish Work and Health Sur...