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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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A phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study of pancreatic cancer using summary genetic data

TL;DR: Markers of adiposity (BMI and hip circumference) are potential intervention targets for pancreatic cancer prevention and further clarification of the causal relevance of the fibrinogen-cleavage peptides and O-sulfo-l-tyrosine in pancreaticcancer etiology is required.
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Identifying drug targets for neurological and psychiatric disease via genetics and the brain transcriptome.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-sample MR using cis-acting brain-derived expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Alzheimer's Disease consortium (AMP-AD) and the CommonMind Consortium (CMC) meta-analysis study (n = 1,286) was used to predict the effects of 7,137 genes on 12 neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution

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- 20 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: This article proposed a summary statistics-based quality control (QC) method, suspicious loci analysis of meta-analysis summary statistics (SLALOM), that identifies suspicious locus for meta-analytical fine-mapping by detecting outliers in association statistics.
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EpiGraphDB: a database and data mining platform for health data science

TL;DR: This work developed EpiGraphDB, a graph database containing an array of different biomedical and epidemiological relationships and an analytical platform to support their use in human population health data science, and presents three case studies that illustrate the value of this platform.