Debbie A. Lawlor

Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence?

Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology

Abstract Observational epidemiological studies suffer from many potential biases, from confounding and from reverse causation, and this limits their ability to robustly identify...

Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a transgenerational prospective observational study investigating influences on health and development across the...

Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

Gender Differences in Relative Dilatation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

A Common Variant in the <i>FTO</i> Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity

Obesity is a serious international health problem that increases the risk of several common diseases. The genetic factors predisposing to obesity are poorly understood. A genome...