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Does anybody know a rough target date for completion of MRI scans of 100,000 people in UK Biobank? (ukbiobank.ac.uk/explore-your-p…) #UKBiobank #Epidemiology #MRI #Imaging #Longitudinal

Editor pick from February issue Emma Vincent Caroline Bull Emma Hazelwood & coll Report that intentional weight loss among individuals with recently diagnosed diabetes may modify levels of cancer-related proteins in serum. Read bit.ly/3UMx3uu

There's been a lot of discussion recently about the misuse of MR, except the proliferation of incorrectly drawing your assumptions doesn't seem to stem from the recent explosion in papers. Rather, many high impact papers seminal to the field feature an "incorrect" arrow a 🧵

Investigating internalized weight stigma (IWS), this NEW research, spanning 32 years, explores key risk factors across the life-course. Females, socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals & male & female sexual minorities face heightened risk! tinyurl.com/4kycczkm

Poster number 294 for anyone in sunny Rotterdam! Or available online here for anyone who isn't - nwm.covr.be/cmEpostersV2/#…

How do scientists use health & genetics data to learn more about our health? Come to free event on Thurs 5-7pm to hear about the latest research advances & ask researchers your own questions about health research. Pls share mendelianrandomization.org.uk/roundtable/ University of Bristol NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Children of the 90s

Having a great time at the Mendelian randomization conference so far! Here I am talking about our research combining trial, MR, and lab-based methods to unpick the obesity-colorectal cancer relationship. (Yes this is a whole conference for a statistical method🤩) #mrconf2024

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Does anybody know the average age of the individuals in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) overall breast cancer GWAS?

Check out our latest work exploring the role of circulating proteins in multiple myeloma risk using Mendelian randomization doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… Huge thanks to Matthew Lee Emma Hazelwood Kate Burley Sarah Lewis and Sally Moore. MRC IEU Bristol Cancer Myeloma Society

We are looking forward to a great long weekend at Green Man sharing some fun activities and talking about links between our #environment and our #health. Come and find us in Einstein's Garden from Friday morning. Public Engagement @ Bristol Uni Health Sciences at the University of Bristol Medical Research Council Cancer Research UK

We are re-advertising for an exciting 3-yr postdoc post at Imperial College London using molecular #epidemiology to understand adiposity-driven pancreatic #cancer. Competitive salary and hybrid working options. Deadline 4/11. Email if interested! Pls retweet🙏shorturl.at/vm8BB

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

🚨 Clinical PhD project available to develop methods for spatial, single cell DNA sequencing funded by CRUK available starting in October 2025. Come help us figure out how cancers evolve! Deadline 19th November: crukcambridgecentre.org.uk/education-and-…

Really enjoying this double conference IGES and ASHG trip so far! Come to poster 8006 at 2.30 to hear about how where we carry fat tissue influences our risk of cancer! #ASHG2024

Podcast: The science behind the keto diet Guardian Science theguardian.com/science/audio/… cell.com/cell-reports-m… Aaron Hengist, PhD Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism

These data are from our paper on body size and exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem… Is this an outlier and if so, should they be excluded from the correlation? A thread