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Thornton, LE, Lamb, KE, White, SR. 2020. The use and misuse of ratio and proportion exposure measures in food environment research. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 17:118. PubMed PMID:32957988

Burgess, S, Gill, D. 2020. Rising numbers of positive covid-19 tests in the UK. BMJ 370:m3605. PubMed PMID:32943434

Scott, D, Ibrahim, F, Hill, H, Tom, B, Prothero, L, Baggott, RR, Bosworth, A, Galloway, JB, Georgopoulou, S, Martin, N, Neatrour, I, Nikiphorou, E, Sturt, J, Wailoo, A, Williams, FM, Williams, R, Lempp, H. 2020. The clinical effectiveness of intensive management in moderate established rheumatoid arthritis: The titrate trial. Semin. Arthritis Rheum. 50:1182-1190. PubMed PMID:32931984

Yang, Z, Edwards, D, Burgess, S, Brayne, C, Mant, J. 2020. Association of Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with Dementia After Stroke: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Alzheimers Dis. :. PubMed PMID:32925051

Foley, CN, Mason, AM, Kirk, PDW, Burgess, S. 2020. MR-Clust: Clustering of genetic variants in Mendelian randomization with similar causal estimates. Bioinformatics :. PubMed PMID:32915962

Titova, OE, Michaëlsson, K, Vithayathil, M, Mason, AM, Kar, S, Burgess, S, Larsson, SC. 2020. Sleep duration and risk of overall and 22 site-specific cancers: A Mendelian randomization study. Int. J. Cancer :. PubMed PMID:32895918

Vuckovic, D, Bao, EL, Akbari, P, Lareau, CA, Mousas, A, Jiang, T, Chen, MH, Raffield, LM, Tardaguila, M, Huffman, JE, Ritchie, SC, Megy, K, Ponstingl, H, Penkett, CJ, Albers, PK, Wigdor, EM, Sakaue, S, Moscati, A, Manansala, R, Lo, KS, Qian, H, Akiyama, M, Bartz, TM, Ben-Shlomo, Y, Beswick, A, Bork-Jensen, J, Bottinger, EP, Brody, JA, van Rooij, FJA, Chitrala, KN, Wilson, PWF, Choquet, H, Danesh, J, Di Angelantonio, E, Dimou, N, Ding, J, Elliott, P, Esko, T, Evans, MK, Felix, SB, Floyd, JS, Broer, L, Grarup, N, Guo, MH, Guo, Q, Greinacher, A, Haessler, J, Hansen, T, Howson, JMM, Huang, W, Jorgenson, E, Kacprowski, T, Kähönen, M, Kamatani, Y, Kanai, M, Karthikeyan, S, Koskeridis, F, Lange, LA, Lehtimäki, T, Linneberg, A, Liu, Y, Lyytikäinen, LP, Manichaikul, A, Matsuda, K, Mohlke, KL, Mononen, N, Murakami, Y, Nadkarni, GN, Nikus, K, Pankratz, N, Pedersen, O, Preuss, M, Psaty, BM, Raitakari, OT, Rich, SS, Rodriguez, BAT, Rosen, JD, Rotter, JI, Schubert, P, Spracklen, CN, Surendran, P, Tang, H, Tardif, JC, Ghanbari, M, Völker, U, Völzke, H, Watkins, NA, Weiss, S, VA Million Veteran Program, Cai, N, Kundu, K, Watt, SB, Walter, K, Zonderman, AB, Cho, K, Li, Y, Loos, RJF, Knight, JC, Georges, M et al.. 2020. The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases. Cell 182:1214-1231.e11. PubMed PMID:32888494

Chen, MH, Raffield, LM, Mousas, A, Sakaue, S, Huffman, JE, Moscati, A, Trivedi, B, Jiang, T, Akbari, P, Vuckovic, D, Bao, EL, Zhong, X, Manansala, R, Laplante, V, Chen, M, Lo, KS, Qian, H, Lareau, CA, Beaudoin, M, Hunt, KA, Akiyama, M, Bartz, TM, Ben-Shlomo, Y, Beswick, A, Bork-Jensen, J, Bottinger, EP, Brody, JA, van Rooij, FJA, Chitrala, K, Cho, K, Choquet, H, Correa, A, Danesh, J, Di Angelantonio, E, Dimou, N, Ding, J, Elliott, P, Esko, T, Evans, MK, Floyd, JS, Broer, L, Grarup, N, Guo, MH, Greinacher, A, Haessler, J, Hansen, T, Howson, JMM, Huang, QQ, Huang, W, Jorgenson, E, Kacprowski, T, Kähönen, M, Kamatani, Y, Kanai, M, Karthikeyan, S, Koskeridis, F, Lange, LA, Lehtimäki, T, Lerch, MM, Linneberg, A, Liu, Y, Lyytikäinen, LP, Manichaikul, A, Martin, HC, Matsuda, K, Mohlke, KL, Mononen, N, Murakami, Y, Nadkarni, GN, Nauck, M, Nikus, K, Ouwehand, WH, Pankratz, N, Pedersen, O, Preuss, M, Psaty, BM, Raitakari, OT, Roberts, DJ, Rich, SS, Rodriguez, BAT, Rosen, JD, Rotter, JI, Schubert, P, Spracklen, CN, Surendran, P, Tang, H, Tardif, JC, Trembath, RC, Ghanbari, M, Völker, U, Völzke, H, Watkins, NA, Zonderman, AB, VA Million Veteran Program, Wilson, PWF, Li, Y, Butterworth, AS, Gauchat, JF, Chiang, CWK et al.. 2020. Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations. Cell 182:1198-1213.e14. PubMed PMID:32888493

Burgess, S, Ponsford, MJ, Gill, D. 2020. Are we underestimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2?. BMJ 370:m3364. PubMed PMID:32883673

Samartsidis, P, Montagna, S, Laird, AR, Fox, PT, Johnson, TD, Nichols, TE. 2020. Estimating the prevalence of missing experiments in a neuroimaging meta-analysis. Res Synth Methods :. PubMed PMID:32860642

Horsfall, LJ, Burgess, S, Hall, I, Nazareth, I. 2020. Genetically raised serum bilirubin levels and lung cancer: a cohort study and Mendelian randomisation using UK Biobank. Thorax :. PubMed PMID:32855344

Taylor-Robinson, D, Schlüter, DK, Diggle, PJ, Barrett, JK. 2020. Explaining the sex effect on survival in cystic fibrosis: a joint modeling study of UK registry data. Epidemiology :. PubMed PMID:32841985

Treasure, T, Leonard, P, Milosevic, M, Williams, NR, Macbeth, F, Farewell, V. 2020. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: the PulMiCC randomised controlled trial. Br J Surg :. PubMed PMID:32820820

Khandaker, GM, Zuber, V, Rees, JMB, Carvalho, L, Mason, AM, Foley, CN, Gkatzionis, A, Jones, PB, Burgess, S. 2020. Correction: Shared mechanisms between coronary heart disease and depression: findings from a large UK general population-based cohort. Mol. Psychiatry :. PubMed PMID:32807844

Yuan, S, Carter, P, Bruzelius, M, Vithayathil, M, Kar, S, Mason, AM, Lin, A, Burgess, S, Larsson, SC. 2020. Effects of tumour necrosis factor on cardiovascular disease and cancer: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study. EBioMedicine 59:102956. PubMed PMID:32805626

Wason, JMS, Robertson, DS. 2020. Controlling type I error rates in multi-arm clinical trials: A case for the false discovery rate. Pharm Stat :. PubMed PMID:32790026

Xu, ZM, Burgess, S. 2020. Polygenic modelling of treatment effect heterogeneity. Genet. Epidemiol. :. PubMed PMID:32779269

Burgess, S, Davey Smith, G, Davies, NM, Dudbridge, F, Gill, D, Glymour, MM, Hartwig, FP, Holmes, MV, Minelli, C, Relton, CL, Theodoratou, E. 2019. Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations. Wellcome Open Res 4:186. PubMed PMID:32760811

Gleadall, NS, Veldhuisen, B, Gollub, J, Butterworth, AS, Ord, J, Penkett, CJ, Timmer, TC, Sauer, CM, van der Bolt, N, Brown, C, Brugger, K, Dilthey, AT, Duarte, D, Grimsley, S, van den Hurk, K, Jongerius, JM, Luken, J, Megy, K, Miflin, G, Nelson, CS, Prinsze, FJ, Sambrook, J, Simeoni, I, Sweeting, M, Thornton, N, Trompeter, S, Tuna, S, Varma, R, Walker, MR, NIHR BioResource, Danesh, J, Roberts, DJ, Ouwehand, WH, Stirrups, KE, Rendon, A, Westhoff, CM, Di Angelantonio, E, van der Schoot, CE, Astle, WJ, Watkins, NA, Lane, WJ. 2020. Development and validation of a universal blood donor genotyping platform: a multinational prospective study. Blood Adv 4:3495-3506. PubMed PMID:32750130

Hutchinson, A, Asimit, J, Wallace, C. 2020. Fine-mapping genetic associations. Hum. Mol. Genet. :. PubMed PMID:32744321

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