Andrew Morris
Chair of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Nine Edinburgh BioQuarter,
9 Little France Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Professor Morris is Vice-Principal of Data Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Responsibilities & affiliations
In his role as Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Directorate, Andrew supports and promotes high quality research aimed at improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of services offered by NHS Scotland and securing lasting improvements to the health of the people of Scotland.
He is the Director of the Farr Institute in Scotland which is funded by the MRC and a consortium of nine others. He also acts as Convenor of the UK Health Informatics Research Network, representing a £39M investment in health informatics research.
Andrew advises senior University management on international data science decisions that impact on the work of the University. He also collaborates with the Vice-Principal for High Performance Computing to develop Edinburgh Data Science.
Project activity
Andrew's projects include work with Health Informatics and the Scottish eHealth Informatics Research Centre.
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Publisher Correction : Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity
In:
Nature Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0447-2
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Publisher Correction : Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity
In:
Nature Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0447-2
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Pharmacogenomics of statin-related myopathy : Meta-analysis of rare variants from whole-exome sequencing
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. e0218115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218115
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Author Correction : New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries
In:
Nature Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0438-3
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene–smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 636-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0378-y
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Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations
(14 pages)
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 494-+
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0342-2
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Disentangling the genetics of lean mass
In:
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy272
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Genetic analysis of over one million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 50, pp. 1412-1425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0205-x
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Lp-PLA activity is associated with increased risk of diabetic retinopathy : a longitudinal disease progression study
In:
Diabetologia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-018-4601-7
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RESPIRE: The National Institute for Health Research's (NIHR) Global Respiratory Health Unit
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 020314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.08.020101
Contribution to journal › Editorial (Published)