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2021

Journal Article

Fetal alleles predisposing to metabolically favourable adiposity are associated with higher birth weight

Thompson, William D., Beaumont, Robin N., Kuang, Alan, Warrington, Nicole M., Ji, Yingjie, Tyrrell, Jess, Wood, Andrew R., Scholtens, Denise, Knight, Bridget A., Evans, David M., Lowe, Bill L., Santorelli, Gillian, Azad, Raq, Mason, Dan, Hattersley, Andrew T., Frayling, Timothy M., Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Borges, Maria-Carolina, Lawlor, Deborah A. and Freathy, Rachel M. (2021). Fetal alleles predisposing to metabolically favourable adiposity are associated with higher birth weight. Human Molecular Genetics, 31 (11), 1762-1775. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab356

Fetal alleles predisposing to metabolically favourable adiposity are associated with higher birth weight

2021

Conference Publication

Methods for Enabling and Improving the Power of Mendelian Randomization Studies of Parental Environmental Exposures and Offspring Outcomes

Moen, Gunn-Helen, Bhatta, Laxmi, Asvold, Bjorn Olav, Brumpton, Ben, Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2021). Methods for Enabling and Improving the Power of Mendelian Randomization Studies of Parental Environmental Exposures and Offspring Outcomes. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.

Methods for Enabling and Improving the Power of Mendelian Randomization Studies of Parental Environmental Exposures and Offspring Outcomes

2021

Conference Publication

Investigating a potential causal relationship between maternal blood pressure during pregnancy and future offspring cardiometabolic health

Wang, Geng, Bhatta, Laxmi, Moen, Gunn-Helen, Hwang, Liang-Dar, Kemp, John P., Bond, Tom A., Asvold, Bjorn Olav, Brumpton, Ben, Evans, David M. and Warrington, Nicole M. (2021). Investigating a potential causal relationship between maternal blood pressure during pregnancy and future offspring cardiometabolic health. Behavior Genetics Association 51st Annual Meeting, Online (Zoom), 29 June 2021. New York, United States: Springer.

Investigating a potential causal relationship between maternal blood pressure during pregnancy and future offspring cardiometabolic health

2021

Journal Article

Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile

Thompson, William D., Beaumont, Robin N., Kuang, Alan, Warrington, Nicole M., Ji, Yingjie, Tyrrell, Jessica, Wood, Andrew R., Scholtens, Denise M., Knight, Bridget A., Evans, David M., Lowe, William L., Santorelli, Gillian, Azad, Rafaq, Mason, Dan, Hattersley, Andrew T., Frayling, Timothy M., Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Borges, Maria Carolina, Lawlor, Deborah A. and Freathy, Rachel M. (2021). Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile. Diabetologia, 64 (12), 2790-2802. doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05570-9

Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile

2021

Journal Article

Estimating direct and indirect genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using genome-wide summary results data

Warrington, Nicole M., Hwang, Liang-Dar, Nivard, Michel G. and Evans, David M. (2021). Estimating direct and indirect genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using genome-wide summary results data. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 5420, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25723-z

Estimating direct and indirect genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using genome-wide summary results data

2020

Journal Article

Investigating the causal effect of maternal vitamin B12 and folate levels on offspring birthweight

Moen, Gunn-Helen, Beaumont, Robin N., Grarup, Niels, Sommer, Christine, Shields, Beverley M., Lawlor, Deborah A., Freathy, Rachel M., Evans, David M. and Warrington, Nicole M. (2020). Investigating the causal effect of maternal vitamin B12 and folate levels on offspring birthweight. International Journal of Epidemiology, 50 (1), 179-189. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa256

Investigating the causal effect of maternal vitamin B12 and folate levels on offspring birthweight

2020

Journal Article

A cautionary note on using Mendelian randomization to examine the Barker hypothesis and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

D'Urso, Shannon, Wang, Geng, Hwang, Liang-Dar, Moen, Gunn-Helen, Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2020). A cautionary note on using Mendelian randomization to examine the Barker hypothesis and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 12 (5) PII S2040174420001105, 1-6. doi: 10.1017/S2040174420001105

A cautionary note on using Mendelian randomization to examine the Barker hypothesis and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

2020

Conference Publication

Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study using the OpenMx software

Moen, Gunn-Helen, Brumpton, Ben, Willer, Cristen, Asvold, Bjorn Olav, Birkeland, Kare, Neale, Michael C., Freathy, Rachel M., Smith, George Davey, Lawlor, Deborah A., Kirkpatrick, Robert M., Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2020). Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study using the OpenMx software. 50th Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association (BGA), Electr Network, Jun 26, 2020. NEW YORK: SPRINGER.

Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study using the OpenMx software

2020

Journal Article

Estimating indirect parental genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using virtual parental genotypes derived from sibling and half sibling pairs

Hwang, Liang-Dar, Tubbs, Justin D., Luong, Justin, Lundberg, Mischa, Moen, Gunn-Helen, Wang, Geng, Warrington, Nicole M., Sham, Pak C., Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel and Evans, David M. (2020). Estimating indirect parental genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using virtual parental genotypes derived from sibling and half sibling pairs. PLoS Genetics, 16 (10) e1009154, e1009154. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009154

Estimating indirect parental genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using virtual parental genotypes derived from sibling and half sibling pairs

2020

Journal Article

Mendelian randomization study of maternal influences on birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk in the HUNT cohort

Moen, Gunn-Helen, Brumpton, Ben, Willer, Cristen, Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Birkeland, Kåre I., Wang, Geng, Neale, Michael C., Freathy, Rachel M., Smith, George Davey, Lawlor, Deborah A., Kirkpatrick, Robert M., Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2020). Mendelian randomization study of maternal influences on birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk in the HUNT cohort. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 5404, 5404. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19257-z

Mendelian randomization study of maternal influences on birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk in the HUNT cohort

2020

Journal Article

Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness

Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Tung, Joyce Y., Eriksson, Nicholas, Albrecht, Eva, Aliev, Fazil, Andreassen, Ole A., Barroso, Inês, Beckmann, Jacques S., Boks, Marco P., Boomsma, Dorret I., Boyd, Heather A., Breteler, Monique M. B., Campbell, Harry, Chasman, Daniel I., Cherkas, Lynn F., Davies, Gail, de Geus, Eco J. C., Deary, Ian J., Deloukas, Panos, Dick, Danielle M., Duffy, David L., Eriksson, Johan G., Esko, Tõnu, Feenstra, Bjarke, Geller, Frank, Gieger, Christian, Giegling, Ina, Gordon, Scott D., Han, Jiali ... Medland, Sarah E. (2020). Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (1), 59-70. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-00956-y

Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness

2020

Other Outputs

Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study

Moen, Gunn-Helen, Brumpton, Ben, Willer, Cristen, Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Birkeland, Kåre, Neale, Michael C, Freathy, Rachel M, Smith, George Davey, Lawlor, Deborah A, Kirkpatrick, Robert M, Warrington, Nicole M and Evans, David M (2020). Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.04.20091173

Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study

2020

Journal Article

The effect of plasma lipids and lipid-lowering interventions on bone mineral density: a Mendelian randomization study

Zheng, Jie, Brion, Marie-Jo, Kemp, John P., Warrington, Nicole M., Borges, Maria-Carolina, Hemani, Gibran, Richardson, Tom G., Rasheed, Humaira, Qiao, Zhen, Haycock, Philip, Ala-Korpela, Mika, Davey Smith, George, Tobias, Jon H. and Evans, David M. (2020). The effect of plasma lipids and lipid-lowering interventions on bone mineral density: a Mendelian randomization study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 35 (7) jbmr.3989, 1224-1235. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3989

The effect of plasma lipids and lipid-lowering interventions on bone mineral density: a Mendelian randomization study

2020

Journal Article

Integrating family-based and Mendelian randomization designs

Hwang, Liang-Dar, Davies, Neil M., Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2020). Integrating family-based and Mendelian randomization designs. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 11 (3) a039503, 1-15. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a039503

Integrating family-based and Mendelian randomization designs

2019

Journal Article

Introducing M-GCTA a software package to estimate maternal (or paternal) genetic effects on offspring phenotypes

Qiao, Zhen, Zheng, Jie, Helgeland, Øyvind, Vaudel, Marc, Johansson, Stefan, Njølstad, Pål R., Smith, George Davey, Warrington, Nicole M. and Evans, David M. (2019). Introducing M-GCTA a software package to estimate maternal (or paternal) genetic effects on offspring phenotypes. Behavior Genetics, 50 (1), 51-66. doi: 10.1007/s10519-019-09969-4

Introducing M-GCTA a software package to estimate maternal (or paternal) genetic effects on offspring phenotypes

2019

Journal Article

GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI

Couto Alves, Alexessander, De Silva, N. Maneka G., Karhunen, Ville, Sovio, Ulla, Das, Shikta, Taal, H. Rob, Warrington, Nicole M., Lewin, Alexandra M., Kaakinen, Marika, Cousminer, Diana L., Thiering, Elisabeth, Timpson, Nicholas J., Bond, Tom A., Lowry, Estelle, Brown, Christopher D., Estivill, Xavier, Lindi, Virpi, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Geller, Frank, Speed, Doug, Coin, Lachlan J. M., Loh, Marie, Barton, Sheila J., Beilin, Lawrence J., Bisgaard, Hans, Bønnelykke, Klaus, Alili, Rohia, Hatoum, Ida J., Schramm, Katharina ... Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium (2019). GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI. Science Advances, 5 (9) eaaw3095, eaaw3095. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3095

GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI

2019

Journal Article

Using a two-sample Mendelian randomization design to investigate a possible causal effect of maternal lipid concentrations on offspring birth weight

Hwang, Liang-Dar, Lawlor, Deborah A., Freathy, Rachel M., Evans, David M. and Warrington, Nicole M. (2019). Using a two-sample Mendelian randomization design to investigate a possible causal effect of maternal lipid concentrations on offspring birth weight. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48 (5), 1457-1467. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz160

Using a two-sample Mendelian randomization design to investigate a possible causal effect of maternal lipid concentrations on offspring birth weight

2019

Journal Article

Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

Warrington, Nicole M., Beaumont, Robin N., Horikoshi, Momoko, Day, Felix R., Helgeland, Øyvind, Laurin, Charles, Bacelis, Jonas, Peng, Shouneng, Hao, Ke, Feenstra, Bjarke, Wood, Andrew R., Mahajan, Anubha, Tyrrell, Jessica, Robertson, Neil R., Rayner, N. William, Qiao, Zhen, Moen, Gunn-Helen, Vaudel, Marc, Marsit, Carmen J., Chen, Jia, Nodzenski, Michael, Schnurr, Theresia M., Zafarmand, Mohammad H., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Grarup, Niels, Kooijman, Marjolein N., Li-Gao, Ruifang, Geller, Frank, Paternoster, Lavinia ... Freathy, Rachel M. (2019). Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors. Nature Genetics, 51 (5), 804-814. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0403-1

Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

2019

Journal Article

Elucidating the role of maternal environmental exposures on offspring health and disease using two-sample Mendelian randomization

Evans, David M., Moen, Gunn-Helen, Hwang, Liang-Dar, Lawlor, Debbie A. and Warrington, Nicole M. (2019). Elucidating the role of maternal environmental exposures on offspring health and disease using two-sample Mendelian randomization. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48 (3), 861-875. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz019

Elucidating the role of maternal environmental exposures on offspring health and disease using two-sample Mendelian randomization

2019

Journal Article

Effect modification of FADS2 polymorphisms on the association between breastfeeding and intelligence: results from a collaborative meta-analysis

Hartwig, Fernando Pires, Davies, Neil Martin, Horta, Bernardo Lessa, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Bisgaard, Hans, Bønnelykke, Klaus, Caspi, Avshalom, Moffitt, Terrie E., Poulton, Richie, Sajjad, Ayesha, Tiemeier, Henning W., Dalmau-Bueno, Albert, Guxens, Mònica, Bustamante, Mariona, Santa-Marina, Loreto, Parker, Nadine, Paus, Tomáš, Pausova, Zdenka, Lauritzen, Lotte, Schnurr, Theresia M., Michaelsen, Kim F., Hansen, Torben, Oddy, Wendy, Pennell, Craig E., Warrington, Nicole M., Davey Smith, George and Victora, Cesar Gomes (2019). Effect modification of FADS2 polymorphisms on the association between breastfeeding and intelligence: results from a collaborative meta-analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48 (1), 45-57. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy273

Effect modification of FADS2 polymorphisms on the association between breastfeeding and intelligence: results from a collaborative meta-analysis