List of works by Neil Martin Davies

A genome-wide association study identifies new loci for factor VII and implicates factor VII in ischemic stroke etiology

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

A systematic review and meta-analysis of effects of early life non-cognitive skills on academic, psychosocial, cognitive and health outcomes

scientific article published in November 2018

An epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis of educational attainment.

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An even clearer portrait of bias in observational studies?

scientific article published on July 2015

Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Bias due to participant overlap in two-sample Mendelian randomization

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Bias in Mendelian randomization due to assortative mating

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Breastfeeding effects on DNA methylation in the offspring: A systematic literature review

scientific article published on 03 March 2017

Can commonly prescribed drugs be repurposed for the prevention or treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases? Protocol for an observational cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

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Can education be personalised using pupils' genetic data?

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Collider bias undermines our understanding of COVID-19 disease risk and severity

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Comment on the Relationship Between Common Variant Schizophrenia Liability and Number of Offspring in the UK Biobank

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Comparison with randomized controlled trials as a strategy for evaluating instruments in Mendelian randomization

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Education, intelligence and Alzheimer's disease: evidence from a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization study

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Estimating Marginal Healthcare Costs Using Genetic Variants as Instrumental Variables: Mendelian Randomization in Economic Evaluation

scientific article published on 02 August 2016

Evaluation of the causal effects between subjective wellbeing and cardiometabolic health: mendelian randomisation study

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Exploring the association of genetic factors with participation in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Genetic evidence for assortative mating on alcohol consumption in the UK Biobank

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

How to compare instrumental variable and conventional regression analyses using negative controls and bias plots.

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Importance of national context in the translation of personalised treatments for smoking cessation

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

Integrating Family-Based and Mendelian Randomization Designs

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Investigating the causal relationship between allergic disease and mental health

scientific article published in 2021

Is population structure in the genetic biobank era irrelevant, a challenge, or an opportunity?

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Long-term effectiveness and safety of varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in people with neurodevelopmental disorders: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Mendel's laws, Mendelian randomization and causal inference in observational data: substantive and nomenclatural issues

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Mendelian Randomization analysis of the causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Mendelian randomization: a novel approach for the prediction of adverse drug events and drug repurposing opportunities.

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization estimates of the effects of intelligence and education on health

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

On the Use of the Lasso for Instrumental Variables Estimation with Some Invalid Instruments

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Outcome trends and safety measures after 30 years of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a systematic review and pooled data analysis.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Population phenomena inflate genetic associations of complex social traits

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Power calculator for instrumental variable analysis in pharmacoepidemiology.

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Prescribing Prevalence, Effectiveness, and Mental Health Safety of Smoking Cessation Medicines in Patients With Mental Disorders

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians.

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Repurposing antihypertensive drugs for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease: a Mendelian randomization study

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Response to: Long-term smoking cessation: from general practice to public health

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Risk of neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular adverse events following treatment with varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a case-crossover study

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Schizophrenia risk and reproductive success: a Mendelian randomization study

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Searching for the causal effects of body mass index in over 300 000 participants in UK Biobank, using Mendelian randomization

scientific article published in February 2019

Selection Bias When Estimating Average Treatment Effects Using One-sample Instrumental Variable Analysis

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Separating the direct effects of traits on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease from those mediated by type 2 diabetes

scientific article published in 2022

Smoking cessation treatment and risk of depression, suicide, and self harm in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Software Application Profile: PHESANT: a tool for performing automated phenome scans in UK Biobank.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Testing the validity of value-added measures of educational progress with genetic data

scientific article published on 09 September 2018

The Food and Drug Administration and varenicline: should risk communication be improved?

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

The causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of over 300,000 individuals from the UK Biobank

The causal effects of education on health outcomes in the UK Biobank

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

The effect of education on adult mortality, health, and income: triangulating across genetic and policy reforms

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The effectiveness of varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy on long-term smoking cessation in primary care: a prospective cohort study of electronic medical records

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

The effects of prescribing varenicline on two-year health outcomes: an observational cohort study using electronic medical records.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

The role of common genetic variation in educational attainment and income: evidence from the National Child Development Study

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study.

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Use of varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in people with and without general practitioner-recorded dementia: retrospective cohort study of routine electronic medical records

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Using Genetic Instruments to Estimate Interactions in Mendelian Randomization Studies

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Using the MR-Base platform to investigate risk factors and drug targets for thousands of phenotypes

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Using the MR-Base platform to investigate risk factors and drug targets for thousands of phenotypes

scientific article published in 2019

Varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy for long-term smoking cessation: an observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

What is the impact of regulatory guidance and expiry of drug patents on dementia drug prescriptions in England? A trend analysis in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

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Why internal weights should be avoided (not only) in MR-Egger regression.

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Within family Mendelian randomization studies

scientific article published on 01 November 2019