Benjamin Elsworth — University of Edinburgh

Area of research

Genetics · Molecular Biology

Research interest

Research focused on Mendelian randomization and Genome-wide association study, with related work in Phenome, Heritability, Surgical oncology. Notable publications include 'The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome', 'LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic...', and 'Trans-ethnic Mendelian-randomization study reveals causal relationships between cardiometabolic factors and chronic kidney disease'.

Recent publications

Multi-ancestry Mendelian randomization of omics traits revealing drug targets of COVID-19 severity

EBioMedicine 2022cited by 30position: middledoi

Trans-ethnic Mendelian-randomization study reveals causal relationships between cardiometabolic factors and chronic kidney disease

International Journal of Epidemiology 2021cited by 118position: middledoi

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

eLife 2018cited by 8,308position: middledoi

A high-coverage draft genome of the mycalesine butterfly <i>Bicyclus anynana</i>

GigaScience 2017cited by 68position: middledoi

LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis

Bioinformatics 2016cited by 1,023position: middledoi

MicroRNA profiling of the pubertal mouse mammary gland identifies miR-184 as a candidate breast tumour suppressor gene

Breast Cancer Research 2015cited by 48position: middledoi

Grants

No grants ingested yet.

Frequent collaborators

Tom R. Gaunt · University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust3 papers (2016–2022)Jie Zheng · Ruijin Hospital3 papers (2016–2022)David M. Evans · The University of Queensland2 papers (2016–2018)Charles Laurin · University of Notre Dame2 papers (2016–2018)George Davey Smith · Laboratoire d’immunologie intégrative du cancer2 papers (2018–2022)Gibran Hemani · University of Edinburgh2 papers (2016–2018)Philip Haycock · University of Bristol2 papers (2016–2018)Denis Baird · Biogen (United States)2 papers (2018–2022)— · 1 papers (2017–2017)Yu Wei Phua · Monash University1 papers (2015–2015)Kaitlin H. Wade · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine1 papers (2018–2018)A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu · University of Leicester1 papers (2016–2016)Sujai Kumar · University of Edinburgh1 papers (2017–2017)Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan · Broad Institute1 papers (2016–2016)Stephen Burgess · Cambridge University Health Partners1 papers (2018–2018)Valeriia Haberland · University of Bristol1 papers (2018–2018)Xingzi Liu · Nanchang University1 papers (2022–2022)Radhika Nair · UNSW Sydney1 papers (2015–2015)Yi Liu · University of London1 papers (2022–2022)Lin Wang · Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté1 papers (2022–2022)

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