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Whittaker, HR, Pimenta, JM, Jarvis, D, Kiddle, SJ, Quint, JK. 2020. Characteristics Associated with Accelerated Lung Function Decline in a Primary Care Population with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 15:3079-3091. PubMed PMID:33268984

Wilson, L, Horton, L, Kunzmann, K, Sahakian, BJ, Newcombe, VF, Stamatakis, EA, von Steinbuechel, N, Cunitz, K, Covic, A, Maas, A, Van Praag, D, Menon, D, CENTER-TBI participants and investigators. 2020. Understanding the relationship between cognitive performance and function in daily life after traumatic brain injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry :. PubMed PMID:33268472

Larsson, SC, Mason, AM, Kar, S, Vithayathil, M, Carter, P, Baron, JA, Michaëlsson, K, Burgess, S. 2020. Genetically proxied milk consumption and risk of colorectal, bladder, breast, and prostate cancer: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. BMC Med 18:370. PubMed PMID:33261611

Yiu, S, Su, L. 2020. Joint calibrated estimation of inverse probability of treatment and censoring weights for marginal structural models. Biometrics :. PubMed PMID:33247594

Shin, JJH, Crook, OM, Borgeaud, AC, Cattin-Ortolá, J, Peak-Chew, SY, Breckels, LM, Gillingham, AK, Chadwick, J, Lilley, KS, Munro, S. 2020. Spatial proteomics defines the content of trafficking vesicles captured by golgin tethers. Nat Commun 11:5987. PubMed PMID:33239640

Burren, OS, Reales, G, Wong, L, Bowes, J, Lee, JC, Barton, A, Lyons, PA, Smith, KGC, Thomson, W, Kirk, PDW, Wallace, C. 2020. Genetic feature engineering enables characterisation of shared risk factors in immune-mediated diseases. Genome Med 12:106. PubMed PMID:33239102

Surendran, P, Feofanova, EV, Lahrouchi, N, Ntalla, I, Karthikeyan, S, Cook, J, Chen, L, Mifsud, B, Yao, C, Kraja, AT, Cartwright, JH, Hellwege, JN, Giri, A, Tragante, V, Thorleifsson, G, Liu, DJ, Prins, BP, Stewart, ID, Cabrera, CP, Eales, JM, Akbarov, A, Auer, PL, Bielak, LF, Bis, JC, Braithwaite, VS, Brody, JA, Daw, EW, Warren, HR, Drenos, F, Nielsen, SF, Faul, JD, Fauman, EB, Fava, C, Ferreira, T, Foley, CN, Franceschini, N, Gao, H, Giannakopoulou, O, Giulianini, F, Gudbjartsson, DF, Guo, X, Harris, SE, Havulinna, AS, Helgadottir, A, Huffman, JE, Hwang, SJ, Kanoni, S, Kontto, J, Larson, MG, Li-Gao, R, Lindström, J, Lotta, LA, Lu, Y, Luan, J, Mahajan, A, Malerba, G, Masca, NGD, Mei, H, Menni, C, Mook-Kanamori, DO, Mosen-Ansorena, D, Müller-Nurasyid, M, Paré, G, Paul, DS, Perola, M, Poveda, A, Rauramaa, R, Richard, M, Richardson, TG, Sepúlveda, N, Sim, X, Smith, AV, Smith, JA, Staley, JR, Stanáková, A, Sulem, P, Thériault, S, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Trompet, S, Varga, TV, Velez Edwards, DR, Veronesi, G, Weiss, S, Willems, SM, Yao, J, Young, R, Yu, B, Zhang, W, Zhao, JH, Zhao, W, Zhao, W, Evangelou, E, Aeschbacher, S, Asllanaj, E, Blankenberg, S, Bonnycastle, LL, Bork-Jensen, J, Brandslund, I, Braund, PS et al.. 2020. Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals. Nat Genet 52:1314-1332. PubMed PMID:33230300

Larsson, SC, Burgess, S, Gill, D. 2020. Genetically proxied interleukin-6 receptor inhibition: opposing associations with COVID-19 and pneumonia. Eur Respir J :. PubMed PMID:33214204

Burnett, T, Mozgunov, P, Pallmann, P, Villar, SS, Wheeler, GM, Jaki, T. 2020. Adding flexibility to clinical trial designs: an example-based guide to the practical use of adaptive designs. BMC Med 18:352. PubMed PMID:33208155

Larsson, SC, Carter, P, Vithayathil, M, Mason, AM, Michaëlsson, K, Baron, JA, Burgess, S. 2020. Genetically predicted plasma phospholipid arachidonic acid concentrations and 10 site-specific cancers in UK biobank and genetic consortia participants: A mendelian randomization study. Clin Nutr :. PubMed PMID:33199044

Rogne, T, Solligård, E, Burgess, S, Brumpton, BM, Paulsen, J, Prescott, HC, Mohus, RM, Gustad, LT, Mehl, A, Åsvold, BO, DeWan, AT, Damås, JK. 2020. Body mass index and risk of dying from a bloodstream infection: A Mendelian randomization study. PLoS Med 17:e1003413. PubMed PMID:33196656

Zhu, Y, Chiu, YD, Villar, SS, Brand, JW, Patteril, MV, Morrice, DJ, Clayton, J, Mackay, JH. 2020. Dynamic individual vital sign trajectory early warning score (DyniEWS) versus snapshot national early warning score (NEWS) for predicting postoperative deterioration. Resuscitation :. PubMed PMID:33181231

Crook, OM, Geladaki, A, Nightingale, DJH, Vennard, OL, Lilley, KS, Gatto, L, Kirk, PDW. 2020. A semi-supervised Bayesian approach for simultaneous protein sub-cellular localisation assignment and novelty detection. PLoS Comput Biol 16:e1008288. PubMed PMID:33166281

Sisk, R, Lin, L, Sperrin, M, Barrett, JK, Tom, B, Diaz-Ordaz, K, Peek, N, Martin, GP. 2020. Informative presence and observation in routine health data: A review of methodology for clinical risk prediction. J Am Med Inform Assoc :. PubMed PMID:33164082

Atkinson, SR, Grove, JI, Liebig, S, Astbury, S, Vergis, N, Goldin, R, Quaglia, A, Bantel, H, Guha, IN, Thursz, MR, Newcombe, P, Strnad, P, Aithal, GP. 2020. In Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis, Serum Keratin-18 Fragments Are Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Theragnostic Biomarkers. Am J Gastroenterol 115:1857-1868. PubMed PMID:33156105

Münch, MM, van de Wiel, MA, Richardson, S, Leday, GGR. 2020. Drug sensitivity prediction with normal inverse Gaussian shrinkage informed by external data. Biom J :. PubMed PMID:33155717

Grant, AJ, Burgess, S. 2020. An efficient and robust approach to Mendelian randomization with measured pleiotropic effects in a high-dimensional setting. Biostatistics :. PubMed PMID:33155035

Witham, MD, Anderson, E, Carroll, CB, Dark, PM, Down, K, Hall, AS, Knee, J, Maher, ER, Maier, RH, Mountain, GA, Nestor, G, O'Brien, JT, Oliva, L, Wason, J, Rochester, L, NIHR CRN INCLUDE Steering Group. 2020. Ensuring that COVID-19 research is inclusive: guidance from the NIHR INCLUDE project. BMJ Open 10:e043634. PubMed PMID:33154065

McClure, ME, Zhu, Y, Smith, RM, Gopaluni, S, Tieu, J, Pope, T, Kristensen, KE, Jayne, DRW, Barrett, J, Jones, RB. 2020. Long-term maintenance rituximab for ANCA-associated vasculitis: relapse and infection prediction models. Rheumatology (Oxford) :. PubMed PMID:33141217

Zuber, V, Gill, D, Ala-Korpela, M, Langenberg, C, Butterworth, A, Bottolo, L, Burgess, S. 2020. High-throughput multivariable Mendelian randomization analysis prioritizes apolipoprotein B as key lipid risk factor for coronary artery disease. Int J Epidemiol :. PubMed PMID:33130851

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