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Cathryn Lewis

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics, King's College London
Verified email at kcl.ac.uk
Cited by 136740

Meta-analysis of the association between the level of cannabis use and risk of psychosis

A Marconi, M Di Forti, CM Lewis… - Schizophrenia …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cannabis use has been reported to induce long-lasting psychotic disorders and a dose-response
relationship has been observed. We performed a systematic review of studies that …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex disorders
have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify genetic …

Meta-analysis of the association of urbanicity with schizophrenia

…, RM Murray, DA Collier, CM Lewis - Schizophrenia …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The association between urbanicity and risk of schizophrenia is well established. The incidence
of schizophrenia has been observed to increase in line with rising levels of urbanicity, …

Localization of a Breast Cancer Susceptibility Gene, BRCA2, to Chromosome 13q12-13

…, PA Daly, W Ormiston, R McManus, C Pye, CM Lewis… - Science, 1994 - science.org
… was 9.58 at a location 5 cM proximal to D13S260. However, … two markers is estimated to be
6 cM (7), and these flanking … in an interval of approximately 6 cM, or closer flanking markers…

Sequence variants in the autophagy gene IRGM and multiple other replicating loci contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility

…, D Strachan, G Bethel, C Bryan, CM Lewis… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
A genome-wide association scan in individuals with Crohn's disease by the Wellcome Trust
Case Control Consortium detected strong association at four novel loci. We tested 37 SNPs …

Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

…, LJ Launer, JM Lee, R Lemmens, D Leys, CM Lewis… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown.
We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

…, PF Sullivan, NR Wray, G Breen, CM Lewis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

[PDF][PDF] Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part II: Schizophrenia

CM Lewis, DF Levinson, LH Wise, LE DeLisi… - The American Journal of …, 2003 - cell.com
… Each marker for each scan was assigned to 1 of 120 30-cM bins, with the bins ranked by
linkage scores (1 = most significant) and the ranks averaged across studies (R avg ) and then …

PRSice: polygenic risk score software

J Euesden, CM Lewis, PF O'reilly - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A polygenic risk score (PRS) is a sum of trait-associated alleles across many genetic loci,
typically weighted by effect sizes estimated from a genome-wide association study. The …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study

…, L De Haan, PC Sham, J Van Os, CM Lewis… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of later psychotic disorder but
whether it affects incidence of the disorder remains unclear. We aimed to identify patterns of …