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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

  1. Valérie Turcot
  2. Yingchang Lu
  3. Heather M. Highland
  4. Claudia Schurmann
  5. Anne E. Justice
  6. , et al
Journal Article - July 15, 2019
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Genetics
  4. Medicine
  5. Science And Technology

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

  1. Richard Karlsson Linnér
  2. Pietro Biroli
  3. Edward Kong
  4. S. Fleur W. Meddens
  5. Robbee Wedow
  6. , et al
Journal Article - January 14, 2019
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Genetics
  4. Social Behaviour
  5. Drug/alcohol Abuse

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

  1. James J. Lee
  2. Robbee Wedow
  3. Aysu Okbay
  4. Edward Kong
  5. Omeed Maghzian
  6. , et al
Journal Article - July 15, 2018
  1. Education
  2. Biology
  3. Genetics

Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

  1. Valérie Turcot
  2. Yingchang Lu
  3. Heather M. Highland
  4. Claudia Schurmann
  5. Anne E. Justice
  6. , et al
Journal Article - January 15, 2018
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Genetics
  4. Medicine
  5. Science And Technology

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

  1. Georg B. Ehret
  2. Teresa Ferreira
  3. Daniel I. Chasman
  4. Anne U. Jackson
  5. Ellen M. Schmidt
  6. , et al
Journal Article - June 1, 2016
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Genetics
  4. Medicine
  5. Science And Technology

New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

  1. Yingchang Lu
  2. Felix R. Day
  3. Stefan Gustafsson
  4. Martin L. Buchkovich
  5. Jianbo Na
  6. , et al
Journal Article - February 1, 2016
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Medicine

The influence of age and sex on genetic associations with adult body size and shape: a large-scale genome-wide interaction study

  1. Thomas W. Winkler
  2. Anne E. Justice
  3. Mariaelisa Graff
  4. Llilda Barata
  5. Mary F. Feitosa
  6. , et al
Journal Article - October 15, 2015
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Research
  4. Medicine
  5. Science And Technology

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

  1. Adam E. Locke
  2. Bratati Kahali
  3. Sonja I. Berndt
  4. Anne E. Justice
  5. Tune H. Pers
  6. , et al
Journal Article - February 15, 2015
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Medicine

Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions

  1. Tune H. Pers
  2. Juha M. Karjalainen
  3. Yingleong Chan
  4. Harm-Jan Westra
  5. Andrew R. Wood
  6. , et al
Journal Article - January 15, 2015
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Medicine

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

  1. Andrew R. Wood
  2. Tonu Esko
  3. Jian Yang
  4. Sailaja Vedantam
  5. Tune H. Pers
  6. , et al
Journal Article - June 1, 2014
  1. Biology
  2. Medicine
  3. Science And Technology

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