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Amanda Chong

University of BristolORCID 0000-0002-4380-3589Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1

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Evaluation of the Contribution of Natural Selection to Greater Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in South Asian Populations

Daniel Searby, Amanda Chong, George Davey Smith, Nish Chaturvedi, Daniel Lawson, Gibran Hemani

The paper evaluates whether natural selection contributes to higher cardiometabolic disease risk in South Asians by analyzing genetic differentiation at disease-associated loci.

medRxiv · May 23, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

OSBPL11 is an African-specific locus associated with 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and cardiometabolic health

Reagan M. Mogire, John M. Muriuki, Ruth Fiona Bayimenye, Alexander J. Mentzer, Amanda Chong, Mateus Henrique Gouveia, Amy R. Bentley, Gavin Band, Pauline King’ori, Ruth E. Mitchell, Emily L. Webb, Dhriti Sengupta, Lynette Ekunwe, Francis Maina Ndungu, Alireza Morovat, , Sarah Helen Atkinson

The paper identifies a novel genetic locus OSBPL11 associated with vitamin D levels and cardiometabolic health in African populations through genome-wide analysis.

medRxiv · May 27, 2025 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Strategies to investigate and mitigate collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomization studies of disease progression

Ruth E. Mitchell, April E. Hartley, Venexia M. Walker, Apostolos Gkatzionis, James Yarmolinsky, Joshua A. Bell, Amanda Chong, Lavinia Paternoster, Kate M. Tilling, George Davey Smith

This paper reviews statistical methods to detect and adjust for collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomization studies of disease progression using individual and summary-level data.

medRxiv · Apr 22, 2022 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Investigating the effect of sexual behaviour on oropharyngeal cancer risk: a methodological assessment of Mendelian randomization

Mark Gormley, Tom Dudding, Linda Kachuri, Kimberley Burrows, Amanda Chong, Richard Michael Martin, Steven J. Thomas, Jessica Tyrrell, Andy Ness, Paul Brennan, Marcus Robert Munafo, Miranda Pring, Stefania Boccia, Andrew F. Olshan, Brenda B. Diergaarde, , Rebecca Claire Richmond

This study uses Mendelian randomization to assess the causal effect of sexual behavior on oropharyngeal cancer risk, finding attenuated associations after adjusting for confounders.

BMC Medicine · Jan 30, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine