Health & Traits Publications

Beaumont RN, Flatley C et al.

Nat Genet

A well-functioning placenta is essential for fetal and maternal health throughout pregnancy. Using p...

Placental weight (fetal genotype, adjusted for sex and gestational age)

Li L, Zhao G et al.

Menopause

Objective: Both environmental and genetic risk factors contribute to pelvic organ prolapse (POP). No...

Pelvic organ prolapse

Solé-Navais P, Flatley C et al.

Nat Genet

The timing of parturition is crucial for neonatal survival and infant health. Yet, its genetic basis...

Preterm delivery

Wu Y, Zhong X et al.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Marginal effect estimates in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are mixtures of direct and indir...

Educational attainment (direct effects)

Beck JJ, Pool R et al.

Hum Mol Genet

Birth weight (BW) is an important predictor of newborn survival and health and has associations with...

Birth weight

Vogelezang S, Bradfield JP et al.

PLoS Genet

The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the well-known as...

Childhood body mass index

Yang XL, Zhang SY et al.

Front Genet

As an important trait at birth, infant head circumference (HC) is associated with a variety of intel...

Birth weight (MTAG)

Plotnikov D, Williams C et al.

Br J Ophthalmol

Pathological myopia is one of the leading causes of blindness globally. Lower birth weight (BW) with...

Birth weight

Warrington NM, Beaumont RN et al.

Nat Genet

Birth weight variation is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors, and has ...

Offspring birth weight

Tekola-Ayele F, Lee A et al.

Sci Rep

Before implementing therapeutic genomic interventions for optimizing health in early life, comprehen...

Birth weight or body mass index (pleiotropy)

Beaumont RN, Warrington NM et al.

Hum Mol Genet

Genome-wide association studies of birth weight have focused on fetal genetics, whereas relatively l...

Offspring birth weight

Horikoshi M, Beaumont RN et al.

Nature

Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in observat...

Birth weight