2025

• Askelund, Jo Adrian Dahl; Hegemann, Laura Elizabeth; Allegrini, Andrea G.; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Ask, Helga; Davies, Neil Martin. (2025) The Genetic Architecture of Differentiating Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Early Life. Biological Psychiatry
  Academic article
• Birnie, Kate; Howe, Laura D.; Jones, Timothy; Madley-Dowd, Paul; Martin, Florence Z.; Forbes, Harriet. (2025) Life course trajectories of maternal cardiovascular disease risk factors by obstetric history: a UK cohort study using electronic health records. BMC Medicine
  Academic article
• Richards-Belle, Alvin; Launders, Naomi; Hardoon, Sarah; Richards, Al; Man, Kenneth K.C.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2025) Comparative cardiometabolic safety and effectiveness of aripiprazole in people with severe mental illness: A target trial emulation. Nature Methods
  Academic article
• Asheim, Andreas; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Opdahl, Signe; Risnes, Kari; Magnussen, Elisabeth Balstad; Carlsen, Fredrik. (2025) The Effects of Hospital Delivery Volume and Travel Time on Perinatal Mortality and Delivery in Transit: Causal Inference with Triangulation. Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Assary, Elham; Coleman, Jonathan R. I.; Hemani, Gibran; Weijer, Margot P. van de; Howe, Laurence J.; Palviainen, Teemu. (2025) Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes. Nature Human Behaviour
  Academic article
• Feeney, Timothy; Hartwig, Fernando Pires; Davies, Neil Martin. (2025) How to use directed acyclic graphs: guide for clinical researchers. The BMJ
  Academic article
• Lange, Melanie A De; Davies, Neil Martin; Millard, Louise A. C; Tilling, Kate. (2025) A hypothesis-free approach to identifying potential effects of relative age in school year: an instrumental variable phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank. American Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A. P.; Ning, Yuchen; Ahlskog, Rafael; Xia, Charley; Abner, Erik. (2025) Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socio-economic health gradient. Nature Human Behaviour
  Academic article

2024

• Forbes, Harriet; Madley-Dowd, Paul; Ahlqvist, Viktor; Campbell, Jennifer; Davies, Neil Martin; Liebling, Rachel. (2024) First-trimester use of antiseizure medications and the risk of miscarriage: a population-based cohort study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
  Academic article
• Spano, Michelle Arellano; Morris, Tim T.; Davies, Neil Martin; Hughes, Amanda. (2024) Genetic associations of risk behaviours and educational achievement. Communications Biology
  Academic article
• Bann, David; Courtin, Emilie; Davies, Neil Martin; Wright, Liam. (2024) Dialling back ‘impact’ claims: researchers should not be compelled to make policy claims based on single studies. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Editorial
• Souza-Teodoro, L.H.; Davies, Neil Martin; Warren, H.R.; Andrade, L.H.S.G.; Carvalho, L.A.. (2024) DHEA and response to antidepressant treatment: A Mendelian Randomization analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research
  Academic article
• Madley-Dowd, Paul; Ahlqvist, Viktor H.; Forbes, Harriet; Rast, Jessica E.; Martin, Florence Z.; Zhong, Caichen. (2024) Antiseizure medication use during pregnancy and children’s neurodevelopmental outcomes. Nature Communications
  Academic article
• Bradfeld, Jonathan P.; Kember, Rachel L.; Ulrich, Anna; Balkhiyarova, Zhanna; Alyass, Akram; Aris, Izzuddin M.. (2024) Correction to: Trans-ancestral genome-wide association study of longitudinal pubertal height growth and shared heritability with adult health outcomes (Genome Biology, (2024), 25, 1, (22), 10.1186/s13059-023-03136-z). Genome Biology
  Errata
• Walker, Venexia; Sanderson, Eleanor; Levin, Michael G.; Damraurer, Scott M.; Feeney, Timothy; Davies, Neil Martin. (2024) Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist. The BMJ
  Academic article
• Askelund, Adrian Dahl; Wootton, Robyn E.; Torvik, Fartein A.; Lawn, Rebecca B.; Ask, Helga; Corfield, Elizabeth C.. (2024) Assessing causal links between age at menarche and adolescent mental health: a Mendelian randomisation study. BMC Medicine
  Academic article
• Lange, Melanie A. de; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Eastwood, Sophie V.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2024) Insomnia symptom prevalence in England: a comparison of cross-sectional self-reported data and primary care records in the UK Biobank. BMJ Open
  Academic article
• Davies, Neil Martin; Hemani, Gibran; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Martin, Hilary C.; Mills, Melinda C.; Visscher, Peter M.. (2024) The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks. Nature
  Academic article
• Ahlqvist, Viktor H.; Dardani, Christina; Madley-Dowd, Paul; Forbes, Harriet; Rast, Jessica; Zhong, Caichen. (2024) Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy: population co-occurrence, genetic correlations and causal effects. BMJ General Psychiatry (GPSYCH)
  Academic article
• Lange, Melanie A. de; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Birnie, Kate; Shapland, Chin Yang; Tilling, Kate; Davies, Neil Martin. (2024) The effects of daylight saving time clock changes on accelerometer-measured sleep duration in the UK Biobank. Journal of Sleep Research
  Academic article
• Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Kember, Rachel L.; Ulrich, Anna; Balkiyarova, Zhanna; Alyass, Akram; Aris, Izzuddin M.. (2024) Trans-ancestral genome-wide association study of longitudinal pubertal height growth and shared heritability with adult health outcomes. Genome Biology
  Academic article
• Hughes, Amanda M.; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Bergen, Elsje van; Hannigan, Laurie John; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Andreassen, Ole A.. (2024) Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa. npj Science of learning
  Academic article
• Hartwig, Fernando Pires; Davies, Neil Martin; Smith, George Davey. (2024) Re. Using Negative Control Populations to Assess Unmeasured Confounding and Direct Effects. Epidemiology
  Reader opinion piece
• Barry, Ciarrah-Jane S; Walker, Venexia M.; Burden, Christy; Havdahl, Alexandra; Davies, Neil Martin. (2024) Genetic Insights Into Perinatal Outcomes of Maternal Antihypertensive Therapy During Pregnancy. JAMA Network Open
  Academic article

2023

• Lee, Jiwoo; Jukarainen, Sakari; Karvanen, Antti; Dixon, Padraig; Davies, Neil Martin; Smith, George Davey. (2023) Quantifying the causal impact of biological risk factors on healthcare costs. Nature Communications
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J; Rasheed, Humaira; Jones, Paul Remy; Boomsma, Dorret I; Evans, David M; Giannelis, Alexandros. (2023) Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Davies, Neil Martin; Dickson, Matt; Smith, George Davey; Windmeijer, Frank; Berg, Gerard J. van den. (2023) The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income: evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Davies, Neil Martin; Howe, Laura D; Bann, David. (2023) Educational attainment and health. The BMJ
  Editorial
• Heuvelman, Hein; Davies, Neil Martin; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav; Emond, Alan; Evans, Jonathan; Gunnell, David. (2023) Antidepressants in pregnancy: applying causal epidemiological methods to understand service-use outcomes in women and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in exposed children. Health Technology Assessment
  Academic article
• Madley-Dowd, Paul; Rast, Jessica; Ahlqvist, Viktor H.; Zhong, Caichen; Martin, Florence Z.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2023) Trends and patterns of antiseizure medication prescribing during pregnancy between 1995 and 2018 in the United Kingdom: A cohort study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  Academic article
• Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Fearon, Pasco; Viding, Essi; Davies, Neil Martin; Munafò, Marcus R.; Smith, George Davey. (2023) The providential randomisation of genotypes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  Academic literature review
• Hartwig, Fernando Pires; Wang, Linbo; Smith, George Davey; Davies, Neil Martin. (2023) Average Causal Effect Estimation Via Instrumental Variables: the No Simultaneous Heterogeneity Assumption. Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Wright, Liam; Davies, Neil Martin; Bann, David. (2023) The association between cognitive ability and body mass index: A sibling-comparison analysis in four longitudinal studies. Nature Methods
  Academic article
• Bann, David; Wright, Liam; Davies, Neil Martin; Moulton, Vanessa. (2023) Weakening of the cognition and height association from 1957 to 2018: Findings from four British birth cohort studies. eLIFE
  Academic article

2022

• Barry, Ciarra-Jane S; Walker, Venexia M.; Cheesman, Rosa Catherine Gillespie; Smith, George Davey; Morris, Tim T; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) How to estimate heritability: a guide for genetic epidemiologists. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Austin, Thomas R.; McHugh, Caitlin P.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Bis, Joshua C.; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Bartz, Traci M.. (2022) Proteomics and Population Biology in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS): design of a study with mentored access and active data sharing. European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE)
  Academic article
• Carter, Alice R; Harrison, Sean; Gill, Dipender; Smith, George Davey; Taylor, Amy E; Howe, Laura D. (2022) Educational attainment as a modifier for the effect of polygenic scores for cardiovascular risk factors: Cross-sectional and prospective analysis of UK Biobank. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J.; Tudball, Matthew; Smith, George Davey; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Interpreting Mendelian-randomization estimates of the effects of categorical exposures such as disease status and educational attainment. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Campbell, Desmond; Green, Michael James; Davies, Neil Martin; Demou, Evangelia; Howe, Laura D.; Harrison, Sean. (2022) Effects of depression on employment and social outcomes: A Mendelian randomisation study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
  Academic article
• Bann, David; Wright, Liam; Hardy, Rebecca; Williams, Dylan M.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Polygenic and socioeconomic risk for high body mass index: 69 years of follow-up across life. PLoS Genetics
  Academic article
• Nilsen, Sara Marie; Asheim, Andreas; Carlsen, Fredrik; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Vatten, Lars Johan; Aam, Stina. (2022) How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway. Health Policy
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J.; Nivard, Michel G.; Morris, Tim T.; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Rasheed, Humaira; Cho, Yoonsu. (2022) Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects. Nature Genetics
  Academic article
• Dixon, Padraig; Harrison, Sean; Hollingworth, William; Davies, Neil Martin; Smith, George Davey. (2022) Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization. Economics and Human Biology
  Academic article
• Barry, Ciarrah-Jane Shannon; Davies, Neil Martin; Morris, Tim T.. (2022) Investigating how the accuracy of teacher expectations of pupil performance relate to socioeconomic and genetic factors. Scientific Reports
  Academic article
• Barry, Ciarrah-Jane; Burden, Christy; Davies, Neil Martin; Walker, Venexia. (2022) Pharmacoepidemiology in pregnancy: analysis protocol for an observational cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Wellcome Open Research
  Academic article
• Asheim, Andreas; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Opdahl, Signe; Risnes, Kari; Magnussen, Elisabeth Balstad; Carlsen, Fredrik. (2022) Effect of Hospital Delivery Volume and Travel Time on Perinatal Mortality and Transport Delivery in Norway. Elsevier Elsevier
  Report
• Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Barkhuizen, Wikus; Wang, Biyao; Hannigan, Laurie John; Eilertsen, Espen Moen; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire. (2022) Genetic nurture versus genetic transmission of risk for ADHD traits in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. Molecular Psychiatry
  Academic article
• Svedahl, Ellen Rabben; Pape, Kristine; Austad, Bjarne; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik. (2022) Impact of altering referral threshold from out-of-hours primary care to hospital on patient safety and further health service use: a cohort study. BMJ Quality and Safety
  Academic article
• Korologou-Linden, Roxanna; Bhatta, Laxmi; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Howe, Laura D.; Millard, Louise A. C.; Kolaric, Katarina. (2022) The causes and consequences of Alzheimer’s disease: phenome-wide evidence from Mendelian randomization. Nature Communications
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J.; Evans, David M.; Hemani, Gibran; Smith, George Davey; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Evaluating indirect genetic effects of siblings using singletons. PLoS Genetics
  Academic article
• Hughes, Amanda M.; Sanderson, Eleanor; Morris, Tim; Ayorech, Ziada; Tesli, Martin Steen; Ask, Helga. (2022) Body mass index and childhood symptoms of depression, anxiety, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A within-family Mendelian randomization study. eLIFE
  Academic article
• Morris, Tim T.; Hinke, Stephanie von; Pike, Lindsey; Ingram, Neil R.; Smith, George Davey; Munafò, Marcus R.. (2022) Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy. British Educational Research Journal (BERJ)
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rasheed, Humaira; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Smith, George Davey; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Taller height and risk of coronary heart disease and cancer: A within-sibship Mendelian randomization study. eLIFE
  Academic article
• Hartwig, Fernando Pires; Wang, Linbo; Smith, George Davey; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables. Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Wade, Kaitlin H.; Yarmolinsky, James; Giovannucci, Edward; Lewis, Sarah; Millwood, Iona Y.; Munafò, Marcus R.. (2022) Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer. Cancer Causes and Control
  Academic literature review
• Anderson, Emma L.; Williams, Dylan M.; Walker, Venexia M.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2022) Little genomic support for Cyclophilin A-matrix metalloproteinase-9 pathway as a therapeutic target for cognitive impairment in APOE4 carriers. Scientific Reports
  Academic article
• Walker, Venexia M.; Vujkovic, Marijana; Carter, Alice R.; Davies, Neil Martin; Udler, Miriam S.; Levin, Michael G.. (2022) Separating the direct effects of traits on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease from those mediated by type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia
  Academic article

2021

• Harrison, Sean; Davies, Neil Martin; Howe, Laura D.; Hughes, Amanda. (2021) Testosterone and socioeconomic position: Mendelian randomization in 306,248 men and women in UK Biobank. Science Advances
  Academic article
• Hughes, Amanda; Wade, Kaitlin H; Dickson, Matt; Rice, Frances; Davies, Alisha R.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2021) Common health conditions in childhood and adolescence, school absence, and educational attainment: Mendelian randomization study. npj Science of learning
  Academic article
• Howe, Laurence J.; Battram, Thomas; Morris, Tim T.; Hartwig, Fernando P.; Hemani, Gibran; Davies, Neil Martin. (2021) Assortative mating and within-spouse pair comparisons. PLoS Genetics
  Academic article
• Skrivankova, Veronika W.; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Woolf, Benjamin A.R.; Davies, Neil Martin; Swanson, Sonja A.; Vanderweele, Tyler J.. (2021) Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): Explanation and elaboration. The BMJ
  Academic article
• Gill, Dipender; Georgakis, Marios K.; Walker, Venexia M.; Schmidt, Amand F.; Gkatzionis, Apostolos; Freitag, Daniel F.. (2021) Mendelian randomization for studying the effects of perturbing drug targets. Wellcome Open Research
  Academic article
• Carter, Alice Rose; Gill, Dipender; Smith, George Davey; Taylor, Amy E; Davies, Neil Martin; Howe, Laura D. (2021) Cross-sectional analysis of educational inequalities in primary prevention statin use in UK Biobank. Heart
  Academic article
• Davies, Neil Martin; Korologou-Linden, Roxanna; Anderson, Emma L.. (2021) BMI is unlikely to be a plausible intervention target for reducing the incidence of dementia. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Reader opinion piece
• Ludwig, Jan Ole; Davies, Neil Martin; Bor, Jacob; Neve, Jan-Walter De. (2021) Causal effect of children's secondary education on parental health outcomes: findings from a natural experiment in Botswana. BMJ Open
  Academic article
• Levin, Michael G.; Klarin, Derek; Walker, Venexia M.; Gill, Dipender; Lynch, Julie; Hellwege, Jacklyn N.. (2021) Association Between Genetic Variation in Blood Pressure and Increased Lifetime Risk of Peripheral Artery Disease. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  Academic article
• Dardani, Christina; Riglin, Lucy; Leppert, Beate; Sanderson, Eleanor; Rai, Dheeraj; Howe, Laura D.. (2021) Is genetic liability to ADHD and ASD causally linked to educational attainment?. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Skrivankova, Veronika W.; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Woolf, Benjamin A. R.; Yarmolinsky, James; Davies, Neil Martin; Swanson, Sonja A.. (2021) Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization: The STROBE-MR Statement. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
  Academic article
• Holmes, Michael V.; Richardson, Tom G.; Ference, Brian A.; Davies, Neil Martin; Smith, George Davey. (2021) Integrating genomics with biomarkers and therapeutic targets to invigorate cardiovascular drug development. Nature Reviews Cardiology
  Academic literature review
• Carter, Alice; Sanderson, Eleanor; Hammerton, Gemma; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Smith, George Davey; Heron, Jon. (2021) Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation. European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE)
  Academic article
• Morris, Tim T.; Dorling, Danny; Davies, Neil Martin; Smith, George Davey. (2021) Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study. npj Science of learning
  Academic article
• Liu, Chao-Yu; Schoeler, Tabea; Davies, Neil Martin; Peyre, Hugo; Lim, Kai-Xiang; Barker, Edward D.. (2021) Are there causal relationships between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and body mass index? Evidence from multiple genetically informed designs. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Campbell, Desmond; Green, Michael; Davies, Neil Martin; Demou, Evangelia; Ward, Joey; Howe, Laura D.. (2021) Effects of increased body mass index on employment status: a Mendelian randomisation study. International Journal of Obesity
  Academic article
• Budu-Aggrey, Ashley; Joyce, Sally; Davies, Neil Martin; Paternoster, Lavinia; Munafò, Marcus R.; Brown, Sara J.. (2021) Investigating the causal relationship between allergic disease and mental health. Clinical and Experimental Allergy
  Academic article
• Harrison, Sean; Dixon, Padraig; Jones, Hayley E.; Davies, Alisha R.; Howe, Laura D.; Davies, Neil Martin. (2021) Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for obesity: A mendelianAU randomisation: PerPLOSstyle study ; eponymic. Nature Methods
  Academic article

2020

• Griffith, Gareth J.; Morris, Tim T.; Tudball, Matthew J.; Herbert, Annie; Mancano, Giulia; Pike, Lindsey. (2020) Collider bias undermines our understanding of COVID-19 disease risk and severity. Nature Communications
  Academic article
• Harrison, Sean; Davies, Alisha R; Dickson, Matt; Tyrell, Jessica; Green, Michael J; Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal. (2020) The causal effects of health conditions and risk factors on social and socioeconomic outcomes: Mendelian randomization in UK Biobank. International Journal of Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Morris, Tim T; Davies, Neil Martin; Hemani, Gibran; Davey-Smith, George. (2020) Population phenomena inflate genetic associations of complex social traits. Science Advances
  Academic article
• Walker, Venexia M; Davies, Neil Martin; Martin, Richard M; Kehoe, Patrick G.. (2020) Comparison of antihypertensive drug classes for dementia prevention. Epidemiology
  Academic article
• Thomas, Kyla H.; Davies, Neil Martin; Taylor, Amy E.; Taylor, Gemma M. J.; Gunnell, David; Martin, Richard M.. (2020) Risk of neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular adverse events following treatment with varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a case–cross-over study. Addiction
  Academic article
• Brumpton, Ben Michael; Sanderson, Eleanor; Heilbron, Karl; Hartwig, FP; Harrison, S; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge. (2020) Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses. Nature Communications
  Academic article
• Davies, Neil Martin; Taylor, Amy E.; Taylor, Gemma M.J.; Itani, Taha; Jones, Tim; Martin, Richard M.. (2020) Varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy for long-term smoking cessation: an observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Health Technology Assessment
  Academic article
• Burgess, Stephen; Davey-Smith, George; Davies, Neil Martin; Dudbridge, Frank; Gill, Dipender; Hartwig, Fernando Pires. (2020) Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations. Wellcome Open Research
  Academic article
• Ponsford, Mark J; Gkatzionis, Apostolos; Walker, Venexia M; Grant, Andrew J; Wootton, Robyn E; Moore, Luke. (2020) Cardiometabolic traits, sepsis and severe covid-19: a Mendelian randomization investigation. Circulation
  Academic article
• Walkden, Graham J; Gill, Hannah; Davies, Neil Martin; Peters, Alethea E.; Wright, Ingram; Pickering, Anthony E.. (2020) Early Childhood General Anesthesia and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Birth Cohort. Anesthesiology
  Academic article
• Morris, Tim T; Davies, Neil Martin; Davey-Smith, George. (2020) Can education be personalised using pupils’ genetic data?. eLIFE
  Academic article