Epidemiology and Global Health

Epidemiology and Global Health

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Latest articles

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Leveraging mobility data to analyze persistent SARS-CoV-2 mutations and inform targeted genomic surveillance

    Riccardo Spott, Mathias W Pletz ... Christian Brandt
    Integrating mobile service and fine-granular sample data enhances SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, improving variant tracking, optimizing efficiency, and guiding targeted sampling strategies.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    A Sex-specific Mendelian Randomization-Phenome-Wide Association Study of Body Mass Index

    Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke, Io Ieong Chan ... C Mary Schooling
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution

    Felix Lankester, Tito J Kibona ... Sarah Cleaveland
    Livestock abortion surveillance can capture valuable information on important livestock pathogens, including those that are zoonotic and with epidemic potential, revealing importance of timely collection of diagnostic samples for attribution.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Systematic evaluation of multifactorial causal associations for Alzheimer’s disease and an interactive platform MRAD developed based on Mendelian randomization analysis

    Tianyu Zhao, Hui Li ... Li Chen
    A new online data analysis platform, Mendelian Randomization for Alzheimer’s Disease (MRAD), enables the identification of risk or protective factors for Alzheimer’s disease.

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