Dr Chin Yang Shapland
PhD, MSc, BSc
Current positions
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Biostatistician, specialises in Genetic Epidemiology, and working at MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. My research interest is in Mendelian randomisations, Bayesian approaches, triangulation, and prior elicitation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNSEEN heatwave mortality
Principal Investigator
Description
To estimate 'plausible' heat-related mortality that could have been in the 2022 record-breaking UK heatwave had the weather pattern been different. Project funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and Cabot Institute…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2024
Publications
Recent publications
30/08/2022Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Profile-likelihood Bayesian model averaging for two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization in the presence of horizontal pleiotropy
Statistics in Medicine
Using Mendelian Randomisation to Prioritise Candidate Maternal Metabolic Traits Influencing Offspring Birthweight
Metabolites
Discordant associations of educational attainment with ASD and ADHD implicate a polygenic form of pleiotropy
Nature Communications
Multivariate Genome-wide Covariance Analyses of Literacy, Language and Working Memory Skills Reveal Distinct Etiologies
npj Science of Learning