Professor Gibran Hemani
Current positions
Associate Professor in Statistical Genetics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
MR-Base: a database and analytical platform for Mendelian randomization
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
MR-base is a database and analytical platform for Mendelian randomization being developed by the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit and the CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme at the University of Bristol.Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/08/2016
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
12/04/2023Design and quality control of large-scale two-sample Mendelian randomization studies
International Journal of Epidemiology
The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer
EBioMedicine
Sensitivity analyses gain relevance by fixing parameters observable during the empirical analyses
Genetic Epidemiology
Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer
Cancer Causes and Control
DNA methylome-wide association study of genetic risk for depression implicates antigen processing and immune responses
Genome Medicine
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