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2017

Journal Article

Association of body mass index with DNA methylation and gene expression in blood cells and relations to cardiometabolic disease: a Mendelian randomization approach

Mendelson, Michael M., Marioni, Riccardo E., Joehanes, Roby, Liu, Chunyu, Hedman, Åsa K., Aslibekyan, Stella, Demerath, Ellen W., Guan, Weihua, Zhi, Degui, Yao, Chen, Huan, Tianxiao, Willinger, Christine, Chen, Brian, Courchesne, Paul, Multhaup, Michael, Irvin, Marguerite R., Cohain, Ariella, Schadt, Eric E., Grove, Megan L., Bressler, Jan, North, Kari, Sundstrom, Johan, Gustafsson, Stefan, Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., Harris, Sarah E., Gibson, Jude, Redmond, Paul, Corley, Janie ... Deary, Ian J. (2017). Association of body mass index with DNA methylation and gene expression in blood cells and relations to cardiometabolic disease: a Mendelian randomization approach. PLoS Medicine, 14 (1) e1002215, e1002215. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002215

Association of body mass index with DNA methylation and gene expression in blood cells and relations to cardiometabolic disease: a Mendelian randomization approach

2016

Journal Article

DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases

Ligthart, Symen, Marzi, Carola, Aslibekyan, Stella, Mendelson, Michael M., Conneely, Karen N., Tanaka, Toshiko, Colicino, Elena, Waite, Lindsay L., Joehanes, Roby, Guan, Weihua, Brody, Jennifer A., Elks, Cathy, Marioni, Riccardo, Jhun, Min A., Agha, Golareh, Bressler, Jan, Ward-Caviness, Cavin K., Chen, Brian H., Huan, Tianxiao, Bakulski, Kelly, Salfati, Elias L., Fiorito, Giovanni, Wahl, Simone, Schramm, Katharina, Sha, Jin, Hernandez, Dena G., Just, Allan C., Smith, Jennifer A., Sotoodehnia, Nona ... Dehghan, Abbas (2016). DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases. Genome Biology, 17 (1) 255, 255-255. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-1119-5

DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases

2016

Journal Article

A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption

Liu, C., Marioni, R. E., Hedman, K., Pfeiffer, L., Tsai, P. -C., Reynolds, L. M., Just, A. C., Duan, Q., Boer, C. G., Tanaka, T., Elks, C. E., Aslibekyan, S., Brody, J. A., Kuhnel, B., Herder, C., Almli, L. M., Zhi, D., Wang, Y., Huan, T., Yao, C., Mendelson, M. M., Joehanes, R., Liang, L., Love, S. -A., Guan, W., Shah, S., McRae, A. F., Kretschmer, A., Prokisch, H. ... Levy, D. (2016). A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. Molecular Psychiatry, 23 (2), 422-433. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.192

A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption

2016

Journal Article

Epigenetic signatures of cigarette smoking

Joehanes, Roby, Just, Allan C., Marioni, Riccardo E., Pilling, Luke C., Reynolds, Lindsay M., Mandaviya, Pooja R., Guan, Weihua, Xu, Tao, Elks, Cathy E., Aslibekyan, Stella, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Smith, Jennifer A., Brody, Jennifer A., Dhingra, Radhika, Yousefi, Paul, Pankow, James S., Kunze, Sonja, Shah, Sonia H., McRae, Allan F., Lohman, Kurt, Sha, Jin, Absher, Devin M., Ferrucci, Luigi, Zhao, Wei, Demerath, Ellen W., Bressler, Jan, Grove, Megan L., Huan, Tianxiao, Liu, Chunyu ... London, Stephanie J. (2016). Epigenetic signatures of cigarette smoking. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, 9 (5), 436-447. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.116.001506

Epigenetic signatures of cigarette smoking

2016

Journal Article

Selecting instruments for Mendelian randomization in the wake of genome-wide association studies

Swerdlow, Daniel I., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Shah, Sonia, Sofat, Reecha, Holmes, Michael V., White, Jon, Mindell, Jennifer S., Kivimaki, Mika, Brunner, Eric J., Whittaker, John C., Casas, Juan P. and Hingorani, Aroon D. (2016). Selecting instruments for Mendelian randomization in the wake of genome-wide association studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45 (5), 1600-1616. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw088

Selecting instruments for Mendelian randomization in the wake of genome-wide association studies

2016

Journal Article

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

Ehret, G.B., Ferreira, T., Chasman, D.I., Jackson, A.U., Schmidt, E.M., Johnson, T., Thorleifsson, G., Luan, J., Donnelly, L.A., Kanoni, S., Petersen, A.-K., Pihur, V., Strawbridge, R.J., Shungin, D., Hughes, M.F., Meirelles, O., Kaakinen, M., Bouatia-Naji, N., Kristiansson, K., Shah, S., Kleber, M.E., Guo, X., Lyytikainen, L.-P., Fava, C., Eriksson, N., Nolte, I.M., Magnusson, P.K., Salfati, E.L., Rallidis, L.S. ... Munroe, P.B. (2016). The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals. Nature Genetics, 48 (10), 1171-1184. doi: 10.1038/ng.3667

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

2016

Journal Article

Replication and characterization of association between ABO SNPs and red blood cell traits by meta-analysis in Europeans

McLachlan, Stela, Giambartolomei, Claudia, White, Jon, Charoen, Pimphen, Wong, Andrew, Finan, Chris, Engmann, Jorgen, Shah, Tina, Hersch, Micha, Podmore, Clara, Cavadino, Alana, Jefferis, Barbara J., Dale, Caroline E., Hypponen, Elina, Morris, Richard W., Casas, Juan P., Kumari, Meena, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Gaunt, Tom R., Drenos, Fotios, Langenberg, Claudia, Kuh, Diana, Kivimaki, Mika, Rueedi, Rico, Waeber, Gerard, Hingorani, Aroon D., Price, Jacqueline F., Walker, Ann P., Cooper, Jackie ... Zabaneh, Delilah (2016). Replication and characterization of association between ABO SNPs and red blood cell traits by meta-analysis in Europeans. PLoS ONE, 11 (6) e0156914, e0156914. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156914

Replication and characterization of association between ABO SNPs and red blood cell traits by meta-analysis in Europeans

2016

Journal Article

Corrigendum: The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality [Int J Epidemiol., 45, 2, (424-432)(2016)] DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw041

Marioni, Riccardo E., Harris, Sarah E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., von Zglinicki, Thomas, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M. and Deary, Ian J. (2016). Corrigendum: The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality [Int J Epidemiol., 45, 2, (424-432)(2016)] DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw041. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47 (1) dyx217, 356-356. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx233

Corrigendum: The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality [Int J Epidemiol., 45, 2, (424-432)(2016)] DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw041

2016

Journal Article

The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality

Marioni, Riccardo E., Harris, Sarah E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., von Zglinicki, Thomas, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M. and Deary, Ian J. (2016). The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45 (2), 424-432. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw041

The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality

2016

Journal Article

Plasma urate concentration and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

White, Jon, Sofat, Reecho, Hemani, Gibran, Shah, Tina, Engmann, Jorgen, Dale, Caroline, Shah, Sonia, Kruger, Felix A., Giambartolomei, Claudio, Swerdlow, Daniel I., Palmer, Tom, McLachlan, Stela, Langenberg, Claudia, Zabaneh, Delilah, Lovering, Ruth, Cavadino, Alana, Jefferis, Barbara, Finan, Chris, Wong, Andrew, Amuzu, Antoinette, Ong, Ken, Gaunt, Tom R., Warren, Helen, Davies, Teri-Louise, Drenos, Fotios, Cooper, Jackie, Ebrahim, Shah, Lawlor, Debbie A., Talmud, Philippa J. ... Hingorani, Aroon D. (2016). Plasma urate concentration and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomisation analysis. The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 4 (4), 327-336. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00386-1

Plasma urate concentration and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

2016

Journal Article

DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

Chen, Brian H., Marioni, Riccardo E., Colicino, Elena, Peters, Marjolein J., Ward-Caviness, Cavin K., Tsai, Pei-Chien, Roetker, Nicholas S., Just, Allan C., Demerath, Ellen W., Guan, Weihua, Bressler, Jan, Fornage, Myriam, Studenski, Stephanie, Vandiver, Amy R., Moore, Ann Zenobia, Tanaka, Toshiko, Kiel, Douglas P., Liang, Liming, Vokonas, Pantel, Schwartz, Joel, Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murabito, Joanne M., Bandinelli, Stefania, Hernandez, Dena G., Melzer, David, Nalls, Michael, Pilling, Luke C., Price, Timothy R., Singleton, Andrew B. ... Horvath, Steve (2016). DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death. Aging, 8 (9), 1844-1865. doi: 10.18632/aging.101020

DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

2015

Journal Article

Sharing a placenta is associated with a greater similarity in DNA methylation in monochorionic versus dichorionic twin pars in blood at age 14

Bui, Masato, Benyamin, Beben, Shah, Sonia, Henders, Anjali K., Martin, Nicholas G., Montgomery, Grant W. and McRae, Allan F. (2015). Sharing a placenta is associated with a greater similarity in DNA methylation in monochorionic versus dichorionic twin pars in blood at age 14. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 18 (6), 680-685. doi: 10.1017/thg.2015.87

Sharing a placenta is associated with a greater similarity in DNA methylation in monochorionic versus dichorionic twin pars in blood at age 14

2015

Journal Article

The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Marioni, Riccardo E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., Ritchie, Stuart J., Muniz-Terrera, Graciela, Harris, Sarah E., Gibson, Jude, Redmond, Paul, Cox, Simon R., Pattie, Alison, Corley, Janie, Taylor, Adele, Murphy, Lee, Starr, John M., Horvath, Steve, Visscher, Peter M., Wray, Naomi R. and Deary, Ian J. (2015). The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. International Journal of Epidemiology, 44 (4), 1388-1396. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu277

The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

2015

Journal Article

Sex-Specific Effects of Adiponectin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Incident Cardiovascular Disease

Persson, Jonas, Strawbridge, Rona J., McLeod, Olga, Gertow, Karl, Silveira, Angela, Baldassarre, Damiano, Van Zuydam, Natalie, Shah, Sonia, Fava, Cristiano, Gustafsson, Stefan, Veglia, Fabrizio, Sennblad, Bengt, Larsson, Malin, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Leander, Karin, Gigante, Bruna, Tabak, Adam, Kivimaki, Mika, Kauhanen, Jussi, Rauramaa, Rainer, Smit, Andries J., Mannarino, Elmo, Giral, Philippe, Humphries, Steve E., Tremoli, Elena, de Faire, Ulf, Lind, Lars, Ingelsson, Erik, Hedblad, Bo ... Soderberg, Stefan (2015). Sex-Specific Effects of Adiponectin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Incident Cardiovascular Disease. Journal of the American Heart Association, 4 (8) e001853, 1-13. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.115.001853

Sex-Specific Effects of Adiponectin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Incident Cardiovascular Disease

2015

Journal Article

Improving phenotypic prediction by combining genetic and epigenetic associations

Shah, Sonia, Bonder, Marc J., Marioni, Riccardo E., Zhu, Zhihong, McRae, Allan F., Zhernakova, Alexandra, Harris, Sarah E., Liewald, Dave, Henders, Anjali K., Mendelson, Michael M., Liu, Chunyu, Joehanes, Roby, Liang, Liming, Levy, Daniel, Martin, Nicholas G., Starr, John M., Wijmenga, Cisca, Wray, Naomi R., Yang, Jian, Montgomery, Grant W., Franke, Luke, Deary, Ian J., Visscher, Peter M. and BIOS Consortium (2015). Improving phenotypic prediction by combining genetic and epigenetic associations. American Journal of Human Genetics, 97 (1), 75-85. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.05.014

Improving phenotypic prediction by combining genetic and epigenetic associations

2015

Journal Article

C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

He, Ji, Tang, Lu, Benyamin, Beben, Shah, Sonia, Hemani, Gib, Liu, Rong, Ye, Shan, Liu, Xiaolu, Ma, Yan, Zhang, Huagang, Cremin, Katie, Leo, Paul, Wray, Naomi R., Visscher, Peter M., Xu, Huji, Brown, Matthew A., Bartlett, Perry F., Mangelsdorf, Marie and Fan, Dongsheng (2015). C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging, 36 (9) 2660.e1, 2660.e1-2660.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.06.002

C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

2015

Journal Article

Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

Holmes, Michael V., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Palmer, Tom M., Drenos, Fotios, Lanktree, Matthew B., Nelson, Christopher P., Dale, Caroline E., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Finan, Chris, Swerdlow, Daniel I., Tragante, Vinicius, van Iperen, Erik P. A., Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Shah, Sonia, Elbers, Clara C., Shah, Tina, Engmann, Jorgen, Giambartolomei, Claudia, White, Jon, Zabaneh, Delilah, Sofat, Reecha, McLachlan, Stela, Doevendans, Pieter A., Balmforth, Anthony J., Hall, Alistair S., North, Kari E., Almoguera, Berta, Hoogeveen, Ron C., Cushman, Mary ... Casas, Juan P. (2015). Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease. European Heart Journal, 36 (9), 539-550. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht571

Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

2015

Journal Article

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

Shungin, Dmitry, Winkler, Thomas W, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Ferreira, Teresa, Locke, Adam E, Magi, Reedik, Strawbridge, Rona J, Pers, Tune H, Fischer, Krista, Justice, Anne E, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Wu, Joseph M.W, Buchkovich, Martin L, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Roman, Tamara S, Drong, Alexander W, Song, Ci, Gustafsson, Stefan, Day, Felix R, Esko, Tonu, Fall, Tove, Kutalik, Zoltan, Luan, Jian'an, Randall, Joshua C, Scherag, Andre, Vedantam, Sailaja, Wood, Andrew R, Chen, Jin, Fehrmann, Rudolf ... Shah, Sonia (2015). New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution. Nature, 518 (7538), 187-196. doi: 10.1038/nature14132

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

2015

Journal Article

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

Locke, Adam E., Kahali, Bratati, Berndt, Sonja I., Justice, Anne E., Pers, Tune H., Day, Felix R., Powell, Corey, Vedantam, Sailaja, Buchkovich, Martin L., Yang, Jian, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C., Esko, Tonu, Fall, Tove, Ferreira, Teresa, Gustafsson, Stefan, Kutalik, Zoltán, Luan, Jian'an, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua C., Winkler, Thomas W., Wood, Andrew R., Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Faul, Jessica D., Smith, Jennifer A., Zhao, Jing Hua, Zhao, Wei, Chen, Jin, Fehrmann, Rudolf, Hedman, Asa K. ... Shah, Sonia (2015). Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature, 518 (7538), 197-206. doi: 10.1038/nature14177

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

2015

Journal Article

DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life

Marioni, Riccardo E., Shah, Sonia, McRae, Allan F., Chen, Brian H., Colicino, Elena, Harris, Sarah E., Gibson, Jude, Henders, Anjali K., Redmond, Paul, Cox, Simon R., Pattie, Alison, Corley, Janie, Murphy, Lee, Martin, Nicholas G., Montgomery, Grant W., Feinberg, Andrew P., Fallin, M. Daniele, Multhaup, Michael L., Jaffe, Andrew E., Joehanes, Roby, Schwartz, Joel, Just, Allan C., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murabito, Joanne M., Starr, John M., Horvath, Steve, Baccarelli, Andrea A., Levy, Daniel, Visscher, Peter M. ... Deary, Ian J. (2015). DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life. Genome Biology, 16 (1) 25, 25.1-25.12. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0584-6

DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life