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George Davey-Smith

Researcher at University of Bristol

Publications -  90
Citations -  11937

George Davey-Smith is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 87 publications receiving 10850 citations. Previous affiliations of George Davey-Smith include Medical Research Council & University of Lausanne.

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Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci

Richa Saxena, +163 more
TL;DR: Large-scale meta-analysis involving a dense gene-centric approach has uncovered additional loci and variants that contribute to type 2 diabetes risk and suggests substantial overlap of T2D association signals across multiple ethnic groups.
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A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of genome-wide associations with self-reported cat, dust-mite and pollen allergies in 53,862 individuals used generalized estimating equations to model shared and allergy-specific genetic effects and sheds new light on the shared etiology of immune and autoimmune disease.
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Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior

Nicola Barban, +284 more
- 01 Dec 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported a large genome-wide association study of both sexes including 251,151 individuals for AB and 343,072 individuals for NEB and identified 12 independent loci that are significantly associated with AB and NEB.
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Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

David Wormser, +271 more
TL;DR: Adult height has directionally opposing relationships with risk of death from several different major causes of chronic diseases.