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Jie Zheng

Researcher at University of Bristol

Publications -  127
Citations -  9389

Jie Zheng is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mendelian randomization & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 76 publications receiving 4852 citations. Previous affiliations of Jie Zheng include Medical Research Council.

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The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

TL;DR: MR-Base is a platform that integrates a curated database of complete GWAS results (no restrictions according to statistical significance) with an application programming interface, web app and R packages that automate 2SMR, and includes several sensitivity analyses for assessing the impact of horizontal pleiotropy and other violations of assumptions.
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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.
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Systematic identification of genetic influences on methylation across the human life course

TL;DR: It is suggested that methylation may have a causal role consistent with an infinitesimal model in which many methylation sites each have a small influence, amounting to a large overall contribution.