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  1. DNA methylation signature of passive smoke exposure is less pronounced than active smoking: the Understanding Society study

    Paige M. Hulls, Frank de Vocht, Yanchun Bao, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Households
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  2. Understanding Society at 10 years

    Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Research
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Surveys
    10. Sociology
    11. Biology
    12. Genetics
    13. Covid 19

  3. Using biomarkers to predict healthcare costs: evidence from a UK household panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  4. Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  5. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

    Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  6. Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

    A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, MengZhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  7. Fertility history and biomarkers using prospective data: evidence from the 1958 National Child Development Study

    Maria Sironi, George B. Ploubidis, and Emily Grundy

    1. Demography
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Biology

  8. Circulating fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: individual participant data meta-analysis in up to 16 126 participants

    Maria Carolina Borges, Amand Floriaan Schmidt, Barbara Jefferis, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  9. International comparisons of social differences in inflammatory markers: different patterns, same drivers?

    Meena Kumari

    1. Social Groups
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  10. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Biology

  11. Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  12. Systematic underestimation of the epigenetic clock and age acceleration in older subjects

    Louis Y. El Khoury, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  13. Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9

    Amand F. Schmidt, Michael V. Holmes, David Preiss, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  14. Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes

    David W. Clark, Yukinori Okada, Kristjan H.S. Moore, et al.

    1. Childbearing: Fertility
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  15. The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

    Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Nikita Telkar, Theresa Reiker, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Demography
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Health
    5. Biology
    6. Genetics

  16. Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Tarani Chandola, Cara L. Booker, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Sociology Of Labour
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Biology

  17. Early-life inequalities and biological ageing: a multisystem Biological Health Score approach in Understanding Society

    Maryam Karimi, Raphaële Castagné, Cyrille Delpierre, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology

  18. The association between self-rated health and underlying biomarker levels is modified by age, gender, and household income: evidence from Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    M. Pia Chaparro, Amanda Hughes, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Demography
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Biology

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

    Valérie Turcot, Yingchang Lu, Heather M. Highland, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  20. Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

    Ayush Giri, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Jacob M. Keaton, et al.

    1. Ethnic Groups
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  21. Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive capability at older ages: individual participant meta-analysis of five cohorts

    Michael Gardner, Stafford Lightman, Diana Kuh, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  22. Assessing the robustness of sisVIVE in a Mendelian randomization study to estimate the causal effect of body mass index on income using multiple SNPs from Understanding Society

    Yanchun Bao, Paul Clarke, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Income Dynamics
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  23. Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures yield new insights into human sleep behaviour

    Samuel E. Jones, Vincent T. van Hees, Diego R. Mazzotti, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  24. Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals

    Victoria Garfield, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Caroline Dale, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  25. Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, Dmitry Prokopenko, Maxime Lamontagne, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  26. New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

    Nick Shrine, Anna L. Guyatt, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  27. Social support and trajectories of body mass index and waist to hip ratio from mid-adulthood to old age

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Meena Kumari, Rachel Batterham, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  28. Informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol: results from the Whitehall II cohort study

    Jesper Mortensen, Nadya Dich, Alice Jessie Clark, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Caregiving
    3. Biology

  29. The authors reply

    Amanda Hughes, Yanchun Bao, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  30. Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity

    Fernando Riveros-McKay, Vanisha Mistry, Rebecca Bounds, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

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