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List of works by George Davey Smith

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Using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables for modifiable risk factors

scientific article published on January 7, 2011

Assessing intrauterine influences on offspring health outcomes: can epidemiological studies yield robust findings?

scientific article published on February 2008

Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and offspring DNA methylation across the lifecourse: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).

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Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight

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New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

scientific article published on 2 December 2012

Weight of nations: a socioeconomic analysis of women in low- to middle-income countries

scientific article published on November 10, 2010

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

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C-reactive protein and its role in metabolic syndrome: mendelian randomisation study

scientific article published in December 2005

Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders

scientific article published on 14 April 2013

What are the causal effects of breastfeeding on IQ, obesity and blood pressure? Evidence from comparing high-income with middle-income cohorts

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Systematic review of long term effects of advice to reduce dietary salt in adults

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Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population

scientific article published on 21 March 2016

Fruit, vegetables, and antioxidants in childhood and risk of adult cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort

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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease

scientific article (published 2011-01-19)

Sleep duration and mortality: the effect of short or long sleep duration on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in working men and women

scientific article published on July 1, 2002

The fat mass- and obesity-associated locus and dietary intake in children

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Association of plasma uric acid with ischaemic heart disease and blood pressure: mendelian randomisation analysis of two large cohorts

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003.

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Cortisol, testosterone, and coronary heart disease: prospective evidence from the Caerphilly study

scientific article published on 11 July 2005

The association between components of adult height and Type II diabetes and insulin resistance: British Women's Heart and Health Study

scientific article published on 28 June 2002

The effect of elevated body mass index on ischemic heart disease risk: causal estimates from a Mendelian randomisation approach

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Prepregnancy cardiovascular risk factors as predictors of pre-eclampsia: population based cohort study

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Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

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Mendelian randomization: can genetic epidemiology help redress the failures of observational epidemiology?

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Gamma-glutamyltransferase is associated with incident vascular events independently of alcohol intake: analysis of the British Women's Heart and Health Study and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 11 October 2007

Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality.

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Does breastfeeding influence risk of type 2 diabetes in later life? A quantitative analysis of published evidence

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Birth weight is inversely associated with incident coronary heart disease and stroke among individuals born in the 1950s: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 29 August 2005

Does greater adiposity increase blood pressure and hypertension risk?: Mendelian randomization using the FTO/MC4R genotype

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

Effect of body mass index and alcohol consumption on liver disease: analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies

scientific article (publication date: 11 March 2010)

Meta-analysis of MTHFR 677C->T polymorphism and coronary heart disease: does totality of evidence support causal role for homocysteine and preventive potential of folate?

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Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

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Epidemiologic Evidence for the Fetal Overnutrition Hypothesis: Findings from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy and Its Outcomes

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The burden of disease associated with filaggrin mutations: a population-based, longitudinal birth cohort study

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Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease

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WNT16 influences bone mineral density, cortical bone thickness, bone strength, and osteoporotic fracture risk

scientific article published in July 2012

Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study

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Gene-centric association signals for lipids and apolipoproteins identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip

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A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci

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Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method

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Genetic epidemiology and public health: hope, hype, and future prospects

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Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Genetic markers of adult obesity risk are associated with greater early infancy weight gain and growth

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2010)

Alcohol, ALDH2, and esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis which illustrates the potentials and limitations of a Mendelian randomization approach

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Assessing the suitability of summary data for two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses using MR-Egger regression: the role of the I2 statistic

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A common genetic variant in the 15q24 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene cluster (CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4) is associated with a reduced ability of women to quit smoking in pregnancy

scientific article published on 09 May 2009

Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study

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