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George Davey Smith

Researcher at University of Bristol

Publications -  2646
Citations -  294406

George Davey Smith is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mendelian randomization. The author has an hindex of 224, co-authored 2540 publications receiving 248373 citations. Previous affiliations of George Davey Smith include Keele University & Western Infirmary.

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The Black report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on.

TL;DR: In the 10 years since its publication new information has become available in four areas in particular: the use of alternative measures of socioeconomic position to index mortality risk; the collection of morbidity data; the comparison of inequalities in Britain with those in other industrialised countries; and the understanding of the causes of the differentials.
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Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small-Area Level

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the key principles that were taken into consideration when constructing these four indices and the more recent English Indices of Deprivation 2004, and provide an account of the statistical techniques that were used to operationalise them.

Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution

Cecilia M. Lindgren, +140 more
TL;DR: Vandervell Foundation and Wellcome Trust (068545/Z/02, GR072960 as discussed by the authors, GR076113, GR069224, GR086596/Z /08/Z)
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Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

Padhraig Gormley, +133 more
- 01 Aug 2016 - 
TL;DR: For example, the authors identified 44 independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with migraine risk (P < 5 × 10−8) that mapped to 38 distinct genomic loci, including 28 loci not previously reported and a locus that to date is the first to be identified on chromosome X.
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

Lavinia Paternoster, +154 more
- 19 Oct 2015 - 
TL;DR: This paper performed a meta-analysis of >15 million genetic variants in 21,399 cases and 95,464 controls from populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry, followed by replication in 32,059 cases and 228,628 controls from 18 studies.