Miss Si Fang
BSc, BSc, MPhil
Current positions
Research Associate - Wellcome Trust Transition Fellowship
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
With a background in Genetics and Genomic Medicine, I am very much interested in genetic epidemiology. For my main PhD project, I'll be working on integrating polygenic risk scores (PRS) and Mendelian randomization (MR) to identify disease-causing modifiable risk factors.
Publications
Recent publications
03/01/2023Association between genetically proxied PCSK9 inhibition and prostate cancer risk
PLoS Medicine
A multivariant recall-by-genotype study of the metabolomic signature of BMI
Obesity
Childhood body size directly increases type 1 diabetes risk based on a lifecourse Mendelian randomization approach
Nature Communications
Constructing an atlas of associations between polygenic scores from across the human phenome and circulating metabolic biomarkers
eLife
Evaluating and implementing block jackknife resampling Mendelian randomization to mitigate bias induced by overlapping samples
Human Molecular Genetics
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Dr Laura Corbin
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Ms Grace Power
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