Dr Chin Yang Shapland
PhD, MSc, BSc
Current positions
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Biostatistician, specialises in Genetic Epidemiology, and working at MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. My research interest is in Mendelian randomisations, Bayesian approaches, triangulation, and prior elicitation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNSEEN heatwave mortality
Principal Investigator
Description
To estimate 'plausible' heat-related mortality that could have been in the 2022 record-breaking UK heatwave had the weather pattern been different. Project funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and Cabot Institute…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2025Use of genetic correlations to examine selection bias
Genetic Epidemiology
The effects of daylight saving time clock changes on accelerometer-measured sleep duration in the UK Biobank
The effects of daylight saving time clock changes on accelerometer-measured sleep duration in the UK Biobank
Accounting for bias due to outcome data missing not at random
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Genetic variants for head size share genes and pathways with cancer
Cell reports. Medicine
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