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Daniel Avery

University of OxfordORCID 0000-0002-9823-9575Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 5 Organism:human· 5 Approach:statistical model· 5 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 4 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Canqing YuiD· 5 shared Iona Y. MillwoodiD· 5 shared Liming LiiD· 5 shared Robin G. WaltersiD· 5 shared Zhengming CheniD· 5 shared Dan SchmidtiD· 4 shared Dianjianyi SuniD· 3 shared Jun LviD· 3 shared

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Copy number variant association analysis in 94,730 Chinese adults reveals loci influencing anthropometric and cardiometabolic traits

Isobel Howard, Iona Y. Millwood, Sam Morris, Kuang Lin, Daniel Avery, Canqing Yu, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun, Pei Pei, Liming Li, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Robin G. Walters, Fiona Bragg, Derrick Bennett

This study identifies 19 CNV associations with anthropometric and cardiometabolic traits in 94,730 Chinese adults, expanding ancestry diversity in CNV research.

medRxiv · Aug 14, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Phenome-wide associations of polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depression in 100,000 Chinese adults

Baihan Wang, Sam Morris, Hannah Fry, Andri Iona, Jonathan Clarke, Kuang Lin, Igor Pupko, Christiana Kartsonaki, Derrick A. Bennett, Yiping Chen, Huaidong Du, Ling Yang, Daniel Avery, Dan Schmidt, Shixian Feng, , Iona Y. Millwood

This study examines polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depression in Chinese adults, finding associations with various traits and highlighting ancestry-specific genetic correlations.

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science · Dec 22, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Causal relevance of different blood pressure traits on risk of cardiovascular diseases: GWAS and Mendelian randomisation in 100,000 Chinese adults

Alfred Pozarickij, Wei Gan, Kuang Lin, Robert Clarke, Zammy Fairhurst-Hunter, Masaru Koido, Masahiro Kanai, Yukinori Okada, Yoichiro Kamatani, Derrick Bennett, Huaidong Du, Yiping Chen, Ling Yang, Daniel Avery, Canqing Yu, , China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

This study identifies 128 BP-associated loci in Chinese adults through GWAS and shows causal links between BP traits and CVD using Mendelian randomisation.

Nature Communications · Jul 24, 2024Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Genetic influences on alcohol flushing in East Asian populations

Yoonsu Cho, Kuang Lin, Su-Hyun Lee, Canqing Yu, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Avery, Jun Lv, Keum Ji Jung, Liming Li, George Davey Smith, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborativ, Dianjianyi Sun, Zhengming Chen, Iona Y. Millwood, Gibran Hemani, Robin G. Walters

This study identifies genetic variants associated with alcohol flushing in East Asian populations and suggests self-reported flushing can be used as an instrumental variable for alcohol intake.

BMC Genomics · Oct 24, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Genotyping and population structure of the China Kadoorie Biobank

Robin G. Walters, Iona Y. Millwood, Kuang Lin, Dan Schmidt, Pandora McDonnell, Alex Hacker, Daniel Avery, Ahmed Edris, Hannah Fry, Na Cai, Warren W. Kretzschmar, M. Azim Ansari, Paul Lyons, Rory Collins, Peter Donnelly, , Zhengming Chen

The paper reports genotyping and population structure findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank, revealing relatedness, consanguinity, and population movement patterns.

Cell Genomics · Jul 20, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine