• Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis 

      Bouras, Emmanouil; Karhunen, Ville; Gill, Dipender; Huang, Jian; Haycock, Philip C.; Gunter, Marc J.; Johansson, Mattias; Brennan, Paul; Key, Tim; Lewis, Sarah J.; Martin, Richard M.; Murphy, Neil; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Travis, Ruth; Yarmolinsky, James; Zuber, Verena; Martin, Paul; Katsoulis, Michail; Freisling, Heinz; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Schulze, Matthias B.; Dossus, Laure; Hung, Rayjean J.; Amos, Christopher I.; Ahola-Olli, Ari; Palaniswamy, Saranya; Männikkö, Minna; Auvinen, Juha; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka; Lehtimäki, Terho; Salomaa, Veikko; Raitakari, Olli; Salmi, Marko; Jalkanen, Sirpa; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Dehghan, Abbas; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Epidemiological and experimental evidence has linked chronic inflammation to cancer aetiology. It is unclear whether associations for specific inflammatory biomarkers are causal or due to bias. In order to ...
    • Genome-wide meta-analysis of iron status biomarkers and the effect of iron on all-cause mortality in HUNT 

      Moksnes, Marta Riise; Graham, Sarah E.; Wu, Kuan-Han; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah A.; Zhou, Wei; Thorstensen, Ketil; Fritsche, Lars; Gill, Dipender; Mason, Amy; Cucca, Francesco; Schlessinger, David; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Burgess, Stephen; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Iron is essential for many biological processes, but iron levels must be tightly regulated to avoid harmful effects of both iron deficiency and overload. Here, we perform genome-wide association studies on four iron-related ...
    • Mendelian randomization for studying the effects of perturbing drug targets 

      Gill, Dipender; Georgakis, Marios K.; Walker, Venexia M.; Schmidt, Amand F.; Gkatzionis, Apostolos; Freitag, Daniel F.; Finan, Chris; Hingorani, Aroon D.; Howson, Joanna M.M.; Burgess, Stephen; Swerdlow, Daniel I.; Davey Smith, George; Holmes, Michael V.; Dichgans, Martin; Scott, Robert A.; Zheng, Jie; Psaty, Bruce M.; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Drugs whose targets have genetic evidence to support efficacy and safety are more likely to be approved after clinical development. In this paper, we provide an overview of how natural sequence variation in the genes that ...
    • Relationship between Blood Pressure and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Linear and Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization Analyses 

      Malik, Rainer; Georgakis, Marios K.; Vujkovic, Marijana; Damrauer, Scott M.; Elliott, Paul; Karhunen, Ville; Giontella, Alice; Fava, Cristiano; Hellwege, Jacklyn N.; Shuey, Megan M.; Edwards, Todd L.; Rogne, Tormod; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Burgess, Stephen; Dichgans, Martin; Gill, Dipender (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Observational studies exploring whether there is a nonlinear effect of blood pressure on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk are hindered by confounding. This limitation can be overcome by leveraging randomly allocated genetic ...