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Genetic associations for related diseases, such as those that are immune-mediated, are often identified in the same genomic regions and are likely to share some genetic variants that play a role in disease susceptibility. Associated variants usually do not affect disease risk, rather they are highly correlated with the causal variant(s) for disease risk, and […]

Congratulations to Sean Yiu who has been awarded the 2019 Young Biometrician’s Prize for his work on the paper “Covariate association eliminating weights: a unified weighting framework for causal effect estimation” published in the Journal Biometrika. The British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-BIR), jointly with the Fisher Memorial Trust, award a […]

Excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases, according to the first study to investigate this using a method called Mendelian randomisation. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal shows that as body mass index (BMI) and fat mass increase, so does the risk of aortic […]

The Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit Professor Sylvia Richardson, has been made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2019. Sylvia, who received her award for services to medical statistics, has held a Research Professorship at the University of Cambridge since 2012. Prior […]