Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Mendelian randomization for nephrologists

E Dobrijevic, A van Zwieten, K Kiryluk, AJ Grant… - Kidney international, 2023 - Elsevier
Confounding is a major limitation of observational studies. Mendelian randomization (MR) is
a powerful study design that uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to enable …

A guideline for reporting mediation analyses of randomized trials and observational studies: the AGReMA statement

H Lee, AG Cashin, SE Lamb, S Hopewell… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mediation analyses of randomized trials and observational studies can generate
evidence about the mechanisms by which interventions and exposures may influence health …

Long-term exposure to multiple ambient air pollutants and association with incident depression and anxiety

T Yang, J Wang, J Huang, FJ Kelly, G Li - JAMA psychiatry, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Air pollution is increasingly recognized as an important environmental risk factor
for mental health. However, epidemiologic evidence on long-term exposure to low levels of …

Conformal inference of counterfactuals and individual treatment effects

L Lei, EJ Candès - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Evaluating treatment effect heterogeneity widely informs treatment decision making. At the
moment, much emphasis is placed on the estimation of the conditional average treatment …

Management and implications of severe COVID‐19 in pregnancy in the UK: data from the UK obstetric surveillance system national cohort

N Vousden, R Ramakrishnan, K Bunch… - Acta obstetricia et …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction There is a lack of population level data on risk factors and impact of severe
COVID‐19 in pregnancy. The aims of this study were to determine the characteristics, and …

Effects of prenatal exposure to maternal COVID-19 and perinatal care on neonatal outcome: results from the INTERCOVID Multinational Cohort Study

F Giuliani, D Oros, RB Gunier, S Deantoni… - American journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The effect of COVID-19 in pregnancy on maternal outcomes and its association
with preeclampsia and gestational diabetes mellitus have been reported; however, a …

Risk factors for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children–A population-based cohort study of over 2 million children

S Rhedin, C Lundholm, AC Horne, AI Smew… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Although severe acute COVID-19 is rare in children, SARS-CoV-2 infection can
trigger the novel post-infectious condition multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children …

[HTML][HTML] Severity of maternal infection and perinatal outcomes during periods of SARS-CoV-2 wildtype, alpha, and delta variant dominance in the UK: prospective …

N Vousden, R Ramakrishnan, K Bunch, E Morris… - BMJ …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Severity of maternal infection and perinatal outcomes during periods of SARS-CoV-2
wildtype, alpha, and delta variant dominance in the UK: prospective cohort study - PMC …

Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs

KD Ferguson, M McCann, SV Katikireddi… - International journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are popular tools for identifying
appropriate adjustment strategies for epidemiological analysis. However, a lack of direction …