MRC Biostatistics UnitGenetic 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 […]
Sean Yiu awarded Young Biometrician of the Year 2019
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 […]
Team from MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge celebrate success in global challenge
A team from the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge were among the winners in a global challenge to predict the evolution of Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction Of Longitudinal Evolution (TADPOLE) Challenge has been running since June 2017, with participants from across the globe. TADPOLE is a collaboration between the EuroPOND […]
Excess weight and body fat cause cardiovascular disease
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 […]
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