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Paul McKeigue is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Other notable subfields include genetics, infectious diseases, oncology, and surgery.

The scientist's main research topics encompass diabetes and associated disorders, COVID-19 clinical research, diabetes management and research, and diabetes treatment and management. Additional areas of interest include COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and pancreatic function related to diabetes.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • Risk of hospital admission with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: nationwide linkage cohort study (2020, BMJ)
  • Risks of and risk factors for COVID-19 disease in people with diabetes: a cohort study of the total population of Scotland (2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • Rituximab versus tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis: synovial biopsy-based biomarker analysis of the phase 4 R4RA randomized trial (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • Effect of Vaccination on Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Clinical Impact of Residual C-Peptide Secretion in Type 1 Diabetes on Glycemia and Microvascular Complications (2020, Diabetes Care)

Co-authors frequently collaborating with McKeigue include Helen M. Colhoun, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A. K. Blackbourn, David McAllister, and Chris Robertson. These collaborations have contributed to numerous publications, reflecting interdisciplinary and collaborative research efforts.

McKeigue publishes regularly in several venues with high frequency, particularly:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diabetes Care
  • Diabetologia
  • Diabetes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Relation of central obesity and insulin resistance with high diabetes prevalence and cardiovascular risk in South Asians.

    P.M. McKeigue;B. Shah;M.G. Marmot

  • Problems of reporting genetic associations with complex outcomes.

    Helen M Colhoun;Paul M McKeigue;George Davey Smith

  • SLC24A5, a Putative Cation Exchanger, Affects Pigmentation in Zebrafish and Humans

    Rebecca L. Lamason;Manzoor Ali P.K. Mohideen;Manzoor Ali P.K. Mohideen;Jason R. Mest;Andrew C. Wong;Andrew C. Wong

  • Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: cohort study of 15 000 Swedish men and women born 1915-29

    David A Leon;Hans O Lithell;Denny Vågerö;Ilona Koupilová

  • SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout

    Veronique Vitart;Igor Rudan;Igor Rudan;Caroline Hayward;Nicola K Gray;Nicola K Gray

  • Relation of size at birth to non-insulin dependent diabetes and insulin concentrations in men aged 50-60 years

    Hans O Lithell;Paul M McKeigue;Lars Berglund;Rawya Mohsen

  • Cardiovascular disease in women with polycystic ovary syndrome at long-term follow-up: a retrospective cohort study

    Sarah Wild;Tracey Pierpoint;Paul McKeigue;Howard Jacobs

  • Mortality of women with polycystic ovary syndrome at long-term follow-up.

    T. Pierpoint;P.M. McKeigue;A.J. Isaacs;S.H. Wild

  • Epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases

    David Clayton;Paul M McKeigue

  • Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping

    Mark D. Shriver;Esteban J. Parra;Esteban J. Parra;Sonia Dios;Carolina Bonilla

  • Genomic Runs of Homozygosity Record Population History and Consanguinity

    Mirna Kirin;Ruth McQuillan;Christopher S. Franklin;Harry Campbell

  • Abundant pleiotropy in human complex diseases and traits.

    Shanya Sivakumaran;Felix Agakov;Evropi Theodoratou;James G. Prendergast

  • Control of Confounding of Genetic Associations in Stratified Populations

    Clive J. Hoggart;Esteban J. Parra;Mark D. Shriver;Carolina Bonilla

  • Cross sectional analysis of mortality by country of birth in England and Wales, 1970-92.

    Sarah Wild;Paul Mckeigue

  • Failure to realise growth potential in utero and adult obesity in relation to blood pressure in 50 year old Swedish men.

    David A Leon;Ilona Koupilova;Hans O Lithell;Lars Berglund

  • Relation of C-reactive protein to body fat distribution and features of the metabolic syndrome in Europeans and South Asians.

    NG Forouhi;N Sattar;PM McKeigue

  • Genetic Evidence for the Convergent Evolution of Light Skin in Europeans and East Asians

    Heather L. Norton;Heather L. Norton;Rick A. Kittles;Esteban Parra;Paul McKeigue

  • Loci Associated with N-Glycosylation of Human Immunoglobulin G Show Pleiotropy with Autoimmune Diseases and Haematological Cancers

    Gordan Lauc;Jennifer E. Huffman;Maja Pučić;Lina Zgaga;Lina Zgaga

  • The protocols for the 10/66 dementia research group population-based research programme

    Martin J. Prince;Cleusa P. Ferri;Daisy Acosta;Emiliano Albanese

  • Fetal origins of coronary heart disease

    E.F. Hall;P.M. McKeigue

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen M. Colhoun
Helen M. Colhoun University of Edinburgh
Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar University of Glasgow
Sarah H. Wild
Sarah H. Wild University of Edinburgh
Esteban J. Parra
Esteban J. Parra University of Toronto
Mark D. Shriver
Mark D. Shriver Pennsylvania State University
Colin N. A. Palmer
Colin N. A. Palmer University of Dundee
Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Nish Chaturvedi
Nish Chaturvedi University College London
Lina Zgaga
Lina Zgaga Trinity College Dublin

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