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Edward Mountjoy

Researcher at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Publications -  14
Citations -  4274

Edward Mountjoy is an academic researcher from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Identification (biology). The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 2111 citations. Previous affiliations of Edward Mountjoy include University of Oxford & University of Bristol.

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Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology

Manuel A. R. Ferreira, +73 more
- 30 Oct 2017 - 
TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of a broad allergic disease phenotype that considers the presence of any one of these three diseases identified 136 independent risk variants, including 73 not previously reported, which implicate 132 nearby genes in allergic disease pathophysiology.
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Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomisation

TL;DR: This study shows that exposure to more years in education contributes to the rising prevalence of myopia, and increasing the length of time spent in education may inadvertently increase the prevalence ofMyopia and potential future visual disability.