• Common health conditions in childhood and adolescence, school absence, and educational attainment: Mendelian randomization study 

      Hughes, Amanda; Wade, Kaitlin H; Dickson, Matt; Rice, Frances; Davies, Alisha R.; Davies, Neil Martin; Howe, Laura D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Good health is positively related to children’s educational outcomes, but relationships may not be causal. Demonstrating a causal influence would strongly support childhood and adolescent health as important for education ...
    • Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study 

      Howe, Laurence J; Rasheed, Humaira; Jones, Paul Remy; Boomsma, Dorret I; Evans, David M; Giannelis, Alexandros; Hayward, Caroline; Hopper, John L; Hughes, Amanda; Lahtinen, Hannu; Li, Shuai; Lind, Penelope A; Martin, Nicholas G; Martikainen, Pekka; Medland, Sarah E; Morris, Tim T; Nivard, Michel G; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Silventoinen, Karri; Smith, Jennifer A; Willoughby, Emily A; Wilson, James F; Ahlskog, Rafael; Andreassen, Ole; Ask, Helga; Campbell, Archie; Cheesman, Rosa Catherine Gillespie; Cho, Yoonsu; Christensen, Kaare; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Dahm, Christina C.; Havdahl, Alexandra; Hill, William D; Kerr, Shona M; Nygaard, Marianne Rodriguez; Palviainen, Teemu; Pedersen, Nancy L; Plomin, Robert; Southey, Melissa C; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Næss, Øyvind Erik; Davey Smith, George; Kaprio, Jaakko; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies using population samples (population MR) have provided evidence for beneficial effects of educational attainment on health outcomes in adulthood. However, estimates ...
    • Testosterone and socioeconomic position: Mendelian randomization in 306,248 men and women in UK Biobank 

      Harrison, Sean; Davies, Neil Martin; Howe, Laura D.; Hughes, Amanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Men with more advantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) have been observed to have higher levels of testosterone. It is unclear whether these associations arise because testosterone has a causal impact on SEP. In 306,248 ...
    • Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects 

      Howe, Laurence J.; Nivard, Michel G.; Morris, Tim T.; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Rasheed, Humaira; Cho, Yoonsu; Chittoor, Geetha; Ahlskog, Rafael; Lind, Penelope A.; Palviainen, Teemu; van der Zee, Matthijs D.; Cheesman, Rosa Catherine Gillespie; Mangino, Massimo; Wang, Yunzhang; Li, Shuai; Klaric, Lucija; Ratliff, Scott M.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Nygaard, Marianne; Giannelis, Alexandros; Willoughby, Emily A.; Reynolds, Chandra A.; Balbona, Jared V.; Andreassen, Ole; Ask, Helga; Baras, Aris; Bauer, Christopher R.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Campbell, Archie; Campbell, Harry; Chen, Zhengming; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Dahm, Christina C.; Dokuru, Deepika R.; Evans, Luke M.; de Geus, Eco J. C.; Giddaluru, Sudheer; Gordon, Scott D.; Harden, K. Paige; Hill, W. David; Hughes, Amanda; Kerr, Shona M.; Kim, Yongkang; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Latvala, Antti; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Li, Liming; Lin, Kuang; Magnus, Per Minor; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Mallard, Travis T.; Martikainen, Pekka; Mills, Melinda C.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Overton, John D.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Porteous, David J.; Reid, Jeffrey; Silventoinen, Karri; Southey, Melissa C.; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Wright, Margaret J.; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Turley, Patrick; Howe, Laurence J.; Nivard, Michel G.; Morris, Tim T.; Plomin, Robert; Havdahl, Alexandra; Bartels, Meike; Martin, Nicholas G.; Oskarsson, Sven; Justice, Anne E.; Millwood, Iona Y.; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Kaprio, Jaakko; Medland, Sarah E.; Walters, Robin G.; Evans, David M.; Smith, George Davey; Hayward, Caroline; Brumpton, Ben; Hemani, Gibran; Davies, Neil Martin; Hewitt, John K.; Keller, Matthew C.; Stallings, Michael C.; Lee, James J.; Christensen, Kaare; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Peyser, Patricia A.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Wilson, James F.; Hopper, John L.; Hägg, Sara; Spector, Tim D.; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Næss, Øyvind Erik; Davey Smith, George; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification, assortative mating) and relatives (indirect ...