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Christine Power
Researcher at UCL Institute of Child Health
Publications - 52
Citations - 8783
Christine Power is an academic researcher from UCL Institute of Child Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 52 publications receiving 7317 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Power include University College London.
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Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment
Aysu Okbay,Jonathan P. Beauchamp,Mark Alan Fontana,James J. Lee,Tune H. Pers,Cornelius A. Rietveld,Patrick Turley,Guo-Bo Chen,Valur Emilsson,S. Fleur W. Meddens,S. Fleur W. Meddens,S. Fleur W. Meddens,Sven Oskarsson,Joseph K. Pickrell,Kevin Thom,Pascal Timshel,Pascal Timshel,Ronald de Vlaming,Abdel Abdellaoui,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Jonas Bacelis,Clemens Baumbach,Gyda Bjornsdottir,Johannes H. Brandsma,Maria Pina Concas,Jaime Derringer,Nicholas A. Furlotte,Tessel E. Galesloot,Giorgia Girotto,Richa Gupta,Leanne M. Hall,Leanne M. Hall,Sarah E. Harris,Edith Hofer,Momoko Horikoshi,Momoko Horikoshi,Jennifer E. Huffman,Kadri Kaasik,Ioanna P. Kalafati,Robert Karlsson,Augustine Kong,Jari Lahti,Sven J. van der Lee,C. deLeeuw,C. deLeeuw,Penelope A. Lind,Karl-Oskar Lindgren,Tian Liu,Massimo Mangino,Massimo Mangino,Jonathan Marten,Evelin Mihailov,Michael B. Miller,Peter J. van der Most,Christopher Oldmeadow,Antony Payton,Natalia Pervjakova,Natalia Pervjakova,Wouter J. Peyrot,Yong Qian,Olli T. Raitakari,Rico Rueedi,Rico Rueedi,Erika Salvi,Börge Schmidt,Katharina E. Schraut,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Raymond A. Poot,Beate St Pourcain,Alexander Teumer,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Niek Verweij,Dragana Vuckovic,Juergen Wellmann,Harm-Jan Westra,Harm-Jan Westra,Jingyun Yang,Wei Zhao,Zhihong Zhu,Behrooz Z. Alizadeh,Najaf Amin,Andrew Bakshi,Sebastian E. Baumeister,Sebastian E. Baumeister,Ginevra Biino,Klaus Bønnelykke,Patricia A. Boyle,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Gail Davies,Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,Panos Deloukas,Panos Deloukas,Ilja Demuth,Jun Ding,Peter Eibich,Peter Eibich,Lewin Eisele,Niina Eklund,David M. Evans,David M. Evans,Jessica D. Faul,Mary F. Feitosa,Andreas J. Forstner,Ilaria Gandin,Bjarni Gunnarsson,Bjarni V. Halldorsson,Bjarni V. Halldorsson,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew C. Heath,Lynne J. Hocking,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Georg Homuth,Michael A. Horan,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Philip L. De Jager,Philip L. De Jager,Philip L. De Jager,Peter K. Joshi,Astanand Jugessur,Marika Kaakinen,Mika Kähönen,Stavroula Kanoni,Liisa Keltigangas-Jarvinen,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Aldi T. Kraja,Martin Kroh,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Antti Latvala,Lenore J. Launer,Maël Lebreton,Douglas F. Levinson,Paul Lichtenstein,Peter Lichtner,David C. Liewald,Anu Loukola,Pamela A. F. Madden,Reedik Mägi,Tomi Mäki-Opas,Riccardo E. Marioni,Riccardo E. Marioni,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Gerardus A. Meddens,George McMahon,Christa Meisinger,Thomas Meitinger,Y. Milaneschi,Lili Milani,Grant W. Montgomery,Ronny Myhre,Christopher P. Nelson,Christopher P. Nelson,Dale R. Nyholt,William E R Ollier,Aarno Palotie,Lavinia Paternoster,Nancy L. Pedersen,K. Petrovic,David J. Porteous,Katri Räikkönen,Susan M. Ring,Antonietta Robino,Olga Rostapshova,Igor Rudan,Aldo Rustichini,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Alan R. Sanders,Antti-Pekka Sarin,Antti-Pekka Sarin,Helena Schmidt,Rodney J. Scott,Blair H. Smith,Jennifer A. Smith,Jan A. Staessen,Jan A. Staessen,Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen,Konstantin Strauch,Antonio Terracciano,Martin D. Tobin,Sheila Ulivi,Simona Vaccargiu,Lydia Quaye,Frank J. A. van Rooij,Cristina Venturini,Cristina Venturini,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Uwe Völker,Henry Völzke,Judith M. Vonk,Diego Vozzi,Johannes Waage,Johannes Waage,Erin B. Ware,Gonneke Willemsen,John Attia,David A. Bennett,Klaus Berger,Lars Bertram,Lars Bertram,Hans Bisgaard,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ingrid B. Borecki,Ute Bültmann,Christopher F. Chabris,Francesco Cucca,Daniele Cusi,Daniele Cusi,Ian J. Deary,George Dedoussis,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Johan G. Eriksson,Barbara Franke,Lude Franke,Paolo Gasparini,Paolo Gasparini,Pablo V. Gejman,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Jacob Gratten,Patrick J. F. Groenen,Vilmundur Gudnason,Pim van der Harst,Caroline Hayward,David A. Hinds,Wolfgang Hoffmann,Elina Hyppönen,Elina Hyppönen,William G. Iacono,Bo Jacobsson,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Terho Lehtimäki,Steven F. Lehrer,Steven F. Lehrer,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nicholas G. Martin,Matt McGue,Andres Metspalu,Neil Pendleton,Neil Pendleton,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Nicola Pirastu,Mario Pirastu,Ozren Polasek,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Christine Power,Michael A. Province,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,David Schlessinger,Reinhold Schmidt,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Roy Thurik,Nicholas J. Timpson,Henning Tiemeier,Joyce Y. Tung,André G. Uitterlinden,Veronique Vitart,Peter Vollenweider,David R. Weir,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,Dalton Conley,Robert F. Krueger,George Davey Smith,Albert Hofman,David Laibson,Sarah E. Medland,Michelle N. Meyer,Jian Yang,Magnus Johannesson,Peter M. Visscher,Tõnu Esko,Philipp Koellinger,Philipp Koellinger,Philipp Koellinger,David Cesarini,Daniel J. Benjamin +296 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for educational attainment were reported, showing that single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with educational attainment disproportionately occur in genomic regions regulating gene expression in the fetal brain.
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment
Aysu Okbay,Jonathan P. Beauchamp,Mark Alan Fontana,James J. Lee,Tune H. Pers,Cornelius A. Rietveld,Patrick Turley,Guo-Bo Chen,Valur Emilsson,S. Fleur W. Meddens,Sven Oskarsson,Joseph K. Pickrell,Kevin Thom,Pascal Timshel,Ronald de Vlaming,Abdel Abdellaoui,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Jonas Bacelis,Clemens Baumbach,Gyda Bjornsdottir,Johannes H. Brandsma,Maria Pina Concas,Jaime Derringer,Nicholas A. Furlotte,Tessel E. Galesloot,Giorgia Girotto,Richa Gupta,Leanne M. Hall,Sarah E. Harris,Edith Hofer,Momoko Horikoshi,Jennifer E. Huffman,Kadri Kaasik,Ioanna P. Kalafati,Robert Karlsson,Augustine Kong,Jari Lahti,Sven J. van der Lee,Christiaan de Leeuw,Penelope A. Lind,Karl-Oskar Lindgren,Tian Liu,Massimo Mangino,Jonathan Marten,Evelin Mihailov,Michael B. Miller,Peter J. van der Most,Christopher Oldmeadow,Antony Payton,Natalia Pervjakova,Wouter J. Peyrot,Yong Qian,Olli T. Raitakari,Rico Rueedi,Erika Salvi,Brge Schmidt,Katharina E. Schraut,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Raymond A. Poot,Beate St Pourcain,Alexander Teumer,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Niek Verweij,Dragana Vuckovic,Juergen Wellmann,Harm-Jan Westra,Jingyun Yang,Wei Zhao,Zhihong Zhu,Behrooz Z. Alizadeh,Najaf Amin,Andrew Bakshi,Sebastian E. Baumeister,Ginevra Biino,Klaus Bønnelykke,Patricia A. Boyle,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Gail Davies,Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,Panos Deloukas,Ilja Demuth,Jun Ding,Peter Eibich,Lewin Eisele,Niina Eklund,David M. Evans,Jessica D. Faul,Mary F. Feitosa,Andreas J. Forstner,Ilaria Gandin,Bjarni Gunnarsson,Bjarni V. Halldorsson,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew C. Heath,Lynne J. Hocking,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Georg Homuth,Michael A. Horan,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Philip L. De Jager,Peter K. Joshi,Astanand Jugessur,Marika Kaakinen,Mika Kähönen,Stavroula Kanoni,Liisa Keltigangas-Jarvinen,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Aldi T. Kraja,Martin Kroh,Zoltán Kutalik,Antti Latvala,Lenore J. Launer,Maël Lebreton,Douglas F. Levinson,Paul Lichtenstein,Peter Lichtner,David C. Liewald,Anu Loukola,Pamela A. F. Madden,Reedik Mägi,Tomi Mäki-Opas,Riccardo E. Marioni,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Gerardus A. Meddens,George McMahon,Christa Meisinger,Thomas Meitinger,Y. Milaneschi,Lili Milani,Grant W. Montgomery,Ronny Myhre,Christopher P. Nelson,Dale R. Nyholt,William E R Ollier,Aarno Palotie,Lavinia Paternoster,Nancy L. Pedersen,K. Petrovic,David J. Porteous,Katri Räikkönen,Susan M. Ring,Antonietta Robino,Olga Rostapshova,Igor Rudan,Aldo Rustichini,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Antti-Pekka Sarin,Helena Schmidt,Rodney J. Scott,Blair H. Smith,Jennifer A. Smith,Jan A. Staessen,Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen,Konstantin Strauch,Antonio Terracciano,Martin D. Tobin,Sheila Ulivi,Simona Vaccargiu,Lydia Quaye,Frank J. A. van Rooij,Cristina Venturini,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Uwe Völker,Henry Völzke,Judith M. Vonk,Diego Vozzi,Johannes Waage,Erin B. Ware,Gonneke Willemsen,John Attia,David A. Bennett,Klaus Berger,Lars Bertram,Hans Bisgaard,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ingrid B. Borecki,Ute Bültmann,Christopher F. Chabris,Francesco Cucca,Daniele Cusi,Ian J. Deary,George Dedoussis,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Johan G. Eriksson,Barbara Franke,Lude Franke,Paolo Gasparini,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Jacob Gratten,Patrick J. F. Groenen,Vilmundur Gudnason,Pim van der Harst,Caroline Hayward,David A. Hinds,Wolfgang Hoffmann,Elina Hyppnen,William G. Iacono,Bo Jacobsson,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Jaakko Kaprio,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Terho Lehtimäki,Steven F. Lehrer,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nicholas G. Martin,Matt McGue,Andres Metspalu,Neil Pendleton,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Nicola Pirastu,Mario Pirastu,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Christine Power,Michael A. Province,Nilesh J. Samani,David Schlessinger,Reinhold Schmidt,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,Kari Stefansson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Roy Thurik,Nicholas J. Timpson,Henning Tiemeier,Joyce Y. Tung,André G. Uitterlinden,Veronique Vitart,Peter Vollenweider,David R. Weir,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,Dalton Conley,Robert F. Krueger,George Davey Smith,Albert Hofman,David Laibson,Sarah E. Medland,Michelle N. Meyer,Jian Yang,Magnus Johannesson,Peter M. Visscher,Tõnu Esko,Philipp Koellinger,David Cesarini,Daniel J. Benjamin +254 more
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Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study)
Christine Power,Jane Elliott +1 more
TL;DR: The 1958 birth cohort or the National Child Development Study (NCDS) began as a study of Perinatal Mortality focussing on just over 17 000 births in a single week in 1958 and contributed to the improvement of maternity services in Britain and to a reduction in perinatal mortality.
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Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses
Aysu Okbay,Bart M. L. Baselmans,Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,Patrick Turley,Michel G. Nivard,Mark Alan Fontana,S. Fleur W. Meddens,S. Fleur W. Meddens,S. Fleur W. Meddens,Richard Karlsson Linnér,Richard Karlsson Linnér,Richard Karlsson Linnér,Cornelius A. Rietveld,Jaime Derringer,Jacob Gratten,James J. Lee,Jimmy Z. Liu,Ronald de Vlaming,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Jadwiga Buchwald,Alana Cavadino,Alexis C. Frazier-Wood,Nicholas A. Furlotte,Victoria Garfield,Marie Henrike Geisel,Juan R. González,Saskia Haitjema,Robert Karlsson,Sander W. van der Laan,Karl-Heinz Ladwig,Jari Lahti,Sven J. van der Lee,Penelope A. Lind,Tian Liu,Lindsay K. Matteson,Evelin Mihailov,Michael B. Miller,Camelia C. Minică,Ilja M. Nolte,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Peter J. van der Most,Christopher Oldmeadow,Yong Qian,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari,Rajesh Rawal,Anu Realo,Anu Realo,Rico Rueedi,Rico Rueedi,Börge Schmidt,Albert V. Smith,Evie Stergiakouli,Toshiko Tanaka,Kent D. Taylor,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Juho Wedenoja,Juergen Wellmann,Harm-Jan Westra,Sara M. Willems,Wei Zhao,Najaf Amin,Andrew Bakshi,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Gyda Bjornsdottir,Patricia A. Boyle,Samantha Cherney,Simon R. Cox,Gail Davies,Oliver S. P. Davis,Jun Ding,Nese Direk,Peter Eibich,Peter Eibich,Rebecca T. Emeny,Ghazaleh Fatemifar,Jessica D. Faul,Luigi Ferrucci,Andreas J. Forstner,Christian Gieger,Richa Gupta,Tamara B. Harris,Juliette Harris,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Philip L. De Jager,Philip L. De Jager,Philip L. De Jager,Marika Kaakinen,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Eero Kajantie,Ville Karhunen,Ivana Kolcic,Meena Kumari,Lenore J. Launer,Lude Franke,Ruifang Li-Gao,David C. Liewald,Marisa Koini,Anu Loukola,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Grant W. Montgomery,Miriam A. Mosing,Lavinia Paternoster,Alison Pattie,K. Petrovic,Laura Pulkki-Råback,Lydia Quaye,Katri Räikkönen,Igor Rudan,Rodney J. Scott,Jennifer A. Smith,Angelina R. Sutin,Angelina R. Sutin,Maciej Trzaskowski,Maciej Trzaskowski,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Lei Yu,Delilah Zabaneh,John Attia,David A. Bennett,Klaus Berger,Lars Bertram,Lars Bertram,Dorret I. Boomsma,Harold Snieder,Shun-Chiao Chang,Francesco Cucca,Ian J. Deary,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Johan G. Eriksson,Johan G. Eriksson,Ute Bültmann,Eco J. C. de Geus,Patrick J. F. Groenen,Vilmundur Gudnason,Torben Hansen,C.A. Hartman,Claire M. A. Haworth,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,David A. Hinds,Elina Hyppönen,Elina Hyppönen,William G. Iacono,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen,Peter Kraft,Laura D. Kubzansky,Terho Lehtimäki,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nicholas G. Martin,Matt McGue,Andres Metspalu,Melinda Mills,Renée de Mutsert,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Gerard Pasterkamp,Nancy L. Pedersen,Robert Plomin,Ozren Polasek,Christine Power,Stephen S. Rich,Frits R. Rosendaal,Hester M. den Ruijter,David Schlessinger,Helena Schmidt,Rauli Svento,Reinhold Schmidt,Behrooz Z. Alizadeh,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,John M. Starr,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Andrew Steptoe,Antonio Terracciano,Antonio Terracciano,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Roy Thurik,Nicholas J. Timpson,Henning Tiemeier,André G. Uitterlinden,Peter Vollenweider,Gert G. Wagner,Gert G. Wagner,Gert G. Wagner,David R. Weir,Jian Yang,Dalton Conley,George Davey Smith,Albert Hofman,Albert Hofman,Magnus Johannesson,David Laibson,Sarah E. Medland,Michelle N. Meyer,Michelle N. Meyer,Joseph K. Pickrell,Tõnu Esko,Robert F. Krueger,Jonathan P. Beauchamp,Philipp Koellinger,Philipp Koellinger,Philipp Koellinger,Daniel J. Benjamin,Meike Bartels,David Cesarini +216 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (n = 298,420), depressive symptoms (n= 161,460), and neuroticism(n = 170,911).
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Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data
Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Caroline Dale,Luisa Zuccolo,Richard J. Silverwood,Yiran Guo,Zheng Ye,David Prieto-Merino,Abbas Dehghan,Stella Trompet,Andrew Wong,Alana Cavadino,Dagmar Drogan,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Shanshan Li,Ajay Yesupriya,Maarten Leusink,Johan Sundström,Jaroslav A. Hubacek,Hynek Pikhart,Daniel I. Swerdlow,Andrie G. Panayiotou,S. A. Borinskaya,Chris Finan,Sonia Shah,Karoline Kuchenbaecker,Tina Shah,Jorgen Engmann,Lasse Folkersen,Per Eriksson,Fulvio Ricceri,Olle Melander,Carlotta Sacerdote,Dale M Gamble,Sruti Rayaprolu,Owen A. Ross,Stela McLachlan,OV Vikhireva,Ivonne Sluijs,Robert A. Scott,Vera Adamkova,Leon Flicker,Frank M. van Bockxmeer,Christine Power,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Tom W. Meade,Michael Marmot,José M. Ferro,Sofia Paulos-Pinheiro,Steve E. Humphries,Philippa J. Talmud,Irene Mateo Leach,Niek Verweij,Allan Linneberg,Tea Skaaby,Pieter A. Doevendans,Maarten J Cramer,Pim van der Harst,Olaf H. Klungel,Nicole F. Dowling,Anna F. Dominiczak,Meena Kumari,Andrew N. Nicolaides,Cornelia Weikert,Heiner Boeing,Shah Ebrahim,Tom R. Gaunt,Jackie F. Price,Lars Lannfelt,Anne Peasey,Ruzena Kubinova,Andrzej Pajak,Sofia Malyutina,Mikhail Voevoda,Mikhail Voevoda,Abdonas Tamosiunas,Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee,Paul Norman,Graeme J. Hankey,Graeme J. Hankey,Manuela M. Bergmann,Albert Hofman,Oscar H. Franco,Jackie A. Cooper,Jutta Palmen,Wilko Spiering,Pim A. de Jong,Diana Kuh,Rebecca Hardy,André G. Uitterlinden,M. Arfan Ikram,Ian Ford,Elina Hyppönen,Elina Hyppönen,Osvaldo P. Almeida,Osvaldo P. Almeida,Nicholas J. Wareham,Kay-Tee Khaw,Anders Hamsten,Anders Hamsten,Lise Lotte N. Husemoen,Anne Tjønneland,Janne Schurmann Tolstrup,Eric B. Rimm,Eric B. Rimm,Joline W.J. Beulens,W. M. Monique Verschuren,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,S. Goya Wannamethee,Peter H. Whincup,Richard W Morris,Astrid M. Vicente,Hugh Watkins,Hugh Watkins,Martin Farrall,Martin Farrall,J. Wouter Jukema,James F. Meschia,L. Adrienne Cupples,Stephen J. Sharp,Myriam Fornage,Charles Kooperberg,Andrea Z. LaCroix,James Y. Dai,Matthew B. Lanktree,David S. Siscovick,Eric Jorgenson,Bonnie Spring,Josef Coresh,Yun Li,Sarah G. Buxbaum,Pamela J. Schreiner,R. Curtis Ellison,Michael Y. Tsai,Sanjay R. Patel,Sanjay R. Patel,Susan Redline,Andrew D. Johnson,Ron C. Hoogeveen,Hakon Hakonarson,Jerome I. Rotter,Eric Boerwinkle,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Mika Kivimäki,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Naveed Sattar,Debbie A Lawlor,John C. Whittaker,John C. Whittaker,George Davey Smith,Kenneth J. Mukamal,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,James G. Wilson,Leslie A. Lange,Ajna Hamidovic,Aroon D. Hingorani,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Martin Bobak,David A. Leon,Claudia Langenberg,Tom Palmer,Alexander P. Reiner,Brendan J. Keating,Brendan J. Keating,Frank Dudbridge,Juan P. Casas,Juan P. Casas +170 more
TL;DR: In this article, the causal role of alcohol consumption in cardiovascular disease was investigated using a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis of 56 epidemiological studies, including 20 259 coronary heart disease cases and 10 164 stroke events.