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Displaying all 27 Publications

Current search: 'Biology', 'Journal Article' and '2017'

  1. Concordance of health states in couples: analysis of self-reported, nurse administered and blood-based biomarker data in the UK Understanding Society panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Medicine
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  2. Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: evidence from the UK and Finland

    Vikesh Amin, Petri Böckerman, Jutta Viinikainen, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  3. Metabolic profiling of adiponectin levels in adults Mendelian randomization analysis

    Maria Carolina Borges, Aluísio J.D. Barros, Diana L. Santos Ferreira, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  4. Associations of C-reactive protein and psychological distress are modified by antidepressants, supporting an inflammatory depression subtype: findings from UKHLS

    Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  5. New blood pressure–associated loci identified in meta-analyses of 475 000 individuals

    Aldi T. Kraja, James P. Cook, Helen R. Warren, et al.

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

  6. Genetic determinants of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes in the child

    Maija E. Miettinen, Melissa Smart, Leena Kinnunen, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Child Development
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Health
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  7. Long working hours as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation: a multi-cohort study

    Mika Kivimäki, Solja T. Nyberg, G. David Batty, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  8. Novel blood pressure locus and gene discovery using Genome-Wide Association Study and expression data sets from blood and the kidney

    Louise Wain, Ahmad Vaez, Rick Jansen, et al.

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

  9. Unemployment and inflammatory markers in England, Wales and Scotland, 1998–2012: meta-analysis of results from 12 studies

    Amanda Hughes, Meena Kumari, Anne McMunn, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  10. Evidence for large-scale gene-by-smoking interaction effects on pulmonary function

    H. Aschard, Martin D. Tobin, D. B. Hancock, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Health
    5. Biology
    6. Genetics

  11. Identifying low density lipoprotein cholesterol associated variants in the Annexin A2 (ANXA2) gene

    Roaa Hani Fairoozy, Jackie Cooper, Jon White, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  12. Causal associations of adiposity and body fat distribution with coronary heart disease, stroke subtypes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a Mendelian randomization analysis

    Caroline E. Dale, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Tom M. Palmer, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology

  13. Rare variant analysis of human and rodent obesity genes in individuals with severe childhood obesity

    Audrey E. Hendricks, Elena G. Bochukova, Gaëlle Marenne, et al.

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

  14. Whole-genome sequencing coupled to imputation discovers genetic signals for anthropometric traits

    Ioanna Tachmazidou, Dániel Süveges, Josine L. Min, et al.

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

  15. Functional analysis of the coronary heart disease risk locus on chromosome 21q22

    Katherine E. Beaney, Andrew J. P. Smith, Lasse Folkersen, et al.

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

  16. Socio-economic inequalities in C-reactive protein and fibrinogen across the adult age span: findings from Understanding Society

    Apostolos Davillas, Michaela Benzeval, and Meena Kumari

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  17. Investigating the causal effect of smoking on hay fever and asthma: a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA consortium

    Tea Skaaby, Amy E. Taylor, Rikke K. Jacobsen, et al.

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

  18. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity ― a meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

    Mariaelisa Graff, Robert A. Scott, Anne E. Justice, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Sport
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  19. Genome-wide analysis of health-related biomarkers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study reveals novel associations

    Bram P. Prins, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Yanchun Bao, et al.

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

  20. Religion and the public ethics of stem-cell research: attitudes in Europe, Canada and the United States

    Nick Allum, Agnes Allansdottir, George Gaskell, et al.

    1. Public Opinion
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Religion
    5. Research
    6. Biology

  21. Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations

    Felix C. Tropf, S. Hong Lee, Renske M. Verweij, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Sociology
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  22. Multivariate genome-wide and integrated transcriptome and epigenome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum

    Bart M. L. Baselmans, Rick Jansen, Hill Fung Ip, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  23. Unemployment, underweight, and obesity: findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS)

    Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  24. Novel blood pressure locus and gene discovery using GWAS and expression datasets from blood and the kidney

    Louise Wain, Ahmad Vaez, Rick Jansen, et al.

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

  25. PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study

    Amand F. Schmidt, Daniel I. Swerdlow, Michael V. Holmes, et al.

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

  26. Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets

    Louise V. Wain, Nick Shrine, María Soler Artigas, et al.

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

  27. Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

    Helen R. Warren, Evangelos Evangelou, Claudia P. Cabrera, et al.

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

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