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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 46 in total

Current search: 'Genetics' and 'Journal Article'

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Bigmelon: tools for analysing large DNA methylation datasets

    Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, Ayden Saffari, et al.

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Computing
    3. Genetics

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. The authors reply

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

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

  10. Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity

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

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  11. Testosterone, risk, and socioeconomic position in British men: exploring causal directionality

    Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

    1. Social Stratification
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  12. Multivariate genome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum

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

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

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

    Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Behaviour
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  14. 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

  15. Exome chip meta-analysis fine maps causal variants and elucidates the genetic architecture of rare coding variants in smoking and alcohol use

    David M. Brazel, Yu Jiang, Jordan M. Hughey, et al.

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

  16. Socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration across the lifecourse

    Amanda Hughes, Melissa Smart, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, et al.

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

  17. Leveraging DNA-methylation quantitative-trait loci to characterize the relationship between methylomic variation, gene expression, and complex traits

    Eilis Hannon, Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

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

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

    James J. Lee, Robbee Wedow, Aysu Okbay, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  19. Meta-analysis of exome array data identifies six novel genetic loci for lung function [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

    Victoria E. Jackson, Jeanne C. Latourelle, Louise V. Wain, et al.

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

  20. Better governance, better access: practising responsible data sharing in the METADAC governance infrastructure

    Madeleine J. Murtagh, Mwenza T. Blell, Olly W. Butters, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Research
    4. Surveys
    5. Biology
    6. Genetics

  21. The sociogenomics of polygenic scores of reproductive behavior and their relationship to other fertility traits

    Melinda C. Mills, Nicola Barban, and Felix C. Tropf

    1. Childbearing: Fertility
    2. Genetics

  22. The effect of age and gender on the genetic regulation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D - the FIN-D2D population-based study

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

    1. Biology
    2. Genetics

  23. Leveraging DNA methylation quantitative trait loci to characterize the relationship between methylomic variation, gene expression and complex traits

    Eilis Hannon, Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

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

  24. Predicting gene expression from genome wide protein binding profiles

    Mohsina M. Ferdous, Yanchun Bao, Veronica Vinciotti, et al.

    1. Computing
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Research
    4. Genetics

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Vitamin D and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomisation study

    Jane Maddock, Ang Zhou, Alana Cavadino, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Genetics

  30. 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

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