The University of Essex has made a strategic expansion into genetics and epigenetics. We now have seven faculty members forming the nucleus of a cluster of excellence in this area, with brand new laboratory and computing infrastructure. See our recent papers.
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 Prof Leonard C Schalkwyk Psychiatric and Environmental Epigenomics  Dr Jordi Paps Montserrat Evolutionary Genomics  Dr MM Pradeepa Chromatin, Gene-regulation |
 Dr Radu N Zabet Functional Genomics  Dr Vladimir Teif Chromatin and Epigenetics  Dr Antonio Marco Evolutionary Genetics |
 Dr Giovanni Stracquadanio Biological Big Data  Prof Meena Kumari Biological and Social Epidemiology  Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz Chromatin and Epigenetics |
| 20 Most Recent Publications | |||
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| 1. | Paps, J and Holland, PWH (2018) 'Reconstruction of the ancestral metazoan genome reveals an increase in genomic novelty.' Nature Communications, 9 (1). ISSN 2041-1723 (In Press) |
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| 2. | Bottani, S and Zabet, NR and Wendel, JF and Veitia, RA (2018) 'Gene Expression Dominance in Allopolyploids: Hypotheses and Models.' Trends in Plant Science, 23 (5). 393 - 402. ISSN 1360-1385 Item availability may be restricted. |
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| 3. | Rutten, BPF and Vermetten, E and Vinkers, CH and Ursini, G and Daskalakis, NP and Pishva, E and de Nijs, L and Houtepen, LC and Eijssen, L and Jaffe, AE and Kenis, G and Viechtbauer, W and van den Hove, D and Schraut, KG and Lesch, K-P and Kleinman, JE and Hyde, TM and Weinberger, DR and Schalkwyk, L and Lunnon, K and Mill, J and Cohen, H and Yehuda, R and Baker, DG and Maihofer, AX and Nievergelt, CM and Geuze, E and Boks, MPM (2018) 'Longitudinal analyses of the DNA methylome in deployed military servicemen identify susceptibility loci for post-traumatic stress disorder.' Mol Psychiatry, 23 (5). 1145 - 1156. ISSN 1476-5578 |
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| 4. | Marco, Antonio (2018) 'SeedVicious: Analysis of microRNA target and near-target sites.' PLoS ONE, 13 (4). ISSN 1932-6203 |
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| 5. | Pascual-Anaya, Juan and Sato, Iori and Sugahara, Fumiaki and Higuchi, Shinnosuke and Paps, Jordi and Ren, Yandong and Takagi, Wataru and Ruiz-Villalba, Adrián and Ota, Kinya G and Wang, Wen and Kuratani, Shigeru (2018) 'Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conservation of temporal colinearity in vertebrates.' Nature Ecology & Evolution. ISSN 2397-334X Item availability may be restricted. |
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| 6. | Paps Montserrat, J (2018) Would standing on the first butterfly really change the history of evolution? The Conversation. Item not available from this repository. | ||
| 7. | Smith, RG and Hannon, E and De Jager, PL and Chibnik, L and Lott, SJ and Condliffe, D and Smith, AR and Haroutunian, V and Troakes, C and Al-Sarraj, S and Bennett, DA and Powell, J and Lovestone, S and Schalkwyk, L and Mill, J and Lunnon, K (2018) 'Elevated DNA methylation across a 48-kb region spanning the HOXA gene cluster is associated with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology.' Alzheimer's and Dementia. ISSN 1552-5260 |
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| 8. | Chandola, Tarani and Rouxel, Patrick and Marmot, Michael G and Kumari, Meena (2018) 'Retirement and Socioeconomic Differences in Diurnal Cortisol: Longitudinal Evidence From a Cohort of British Civil Servants.' The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73 (3). 447 - 456. ISSN 1079-5014 |
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| 9. | Amin, V and Böckerman, P and Viinikainen, J and Smart, MC and Bao, Y and Kumari, M and Pitkänen, N and Lehtimäki, T and Raitakari, O and Pehkonen, J (2017) 'Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: Evidence from the UK and Finland.' Social Science and Medicine, 195. 12 - 16. ISSN 0277-9536 Item not available from this repository. | ||
| 10. | Marin, R and Cortez, D and Lamanna, F and Pradeepa, MM and Leushkin, E and Julien, P and Liechti, A and Halbert, J and Brüning, T and Mössinger, K and Trefzer, T and Conrad, C and Kerver, HN and Wade, J and Tschopp, P and Kaessmann, H (2017) 'Convergent origination of a Drosophila-like dosage compensation mechanism in a reptile lineage.' Genome Research, 27 (12). 1974 - 1987. ISSN 1054-9803 |
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| 11. | Skaaby, T and Taylor, AE and Jacobsen, RK and Paternoster, L and Thuesen, BH and Ahluwalia, TS and Larsen, SC and Zhou, A and Wong, A and Gabrielsen, ME and Bjørngaard, JH and Flexeder, C and Männistö, S and Hardy, R and Kuh, D and Barry, SJ and Møllehave, LT and Cerqueira, C and Friedrich, N and Bonten, TN and Noordam, R and Mook-Kanamori, DO and Taube, C and Jessen, LE and McConnachie, A and Sattar, N and Upton, MN and McSharry, C and Bønnelykke, K and Bisgaard, H and Schulz, H and Strauch, K and Meitinger, T and Peters, A and Grallert, H and Nohr, EA and Kivimaki, M and Kumari, M and Völker, U and Nauck, M and Völzke, H and Power, C and Hyppönen, E and Hansen, T and Jørgensen, T and Pedersen, O and Salomaa, V and Grarup, N and Langhammer, A and Romundstad, PR and Skorpen, F and Kaprio, J and Munafò, MR and Linneberg, A (2017) 'Investigating the causal effect of smoking on hay fever and asthma: A Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA consortium.' Scientific Reports, 7 (1). ISSN 2045-2322 |
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| 12. | Sanchez, D and Gaubert, H and Drost, HG and Zabet, NR and Paszkowski, J (2017) 'High-frequency recombination between members of an LTR retrotransposon family during transposition bursts.' Nature Communications, 8. ISSN 2041-1723 |
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| 13. | Hughes, A and Kumari, M (2017) 'Associations of C-reactive protein and psychological distress are modified by antidepressants, supporting an inflammatory depression subtype: Findings from UKHLS.' Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 66. 89 - 93. ISSN 0889-1591 |
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| 14. | Maddock, J and Zhou, A and Cavadino, A and Kuźma, E and Bao, Y and Smart, MC and Saum, KU and Schöttker, B and Engmann, J and Kjærgaard, M and Karhunen, V and Zhan, Y and Lehtimäki, T and Rovio, SP and Byberg, L and Lahti, J and Marques-Vidal, P and Sen, A and Perna, L and Schirmer, H and Singh-Manoux, A and Auvinen, J and Hutri-Kähönen, N and Kähönen, M and Kilander, L and Räikkönen, K and Melhus, H and Ingelsson, E and Guessous, I and Petrovic, KE and Schmidt, H and Schmidt, R and Vollenweider, P and Lind, L and Eriksson, JG and Michaëlsson, K and Raitakari, OT and Hägg, S and Pedersen, NL and Herzig, KH and Järvelin, MR and Veijola, J and Kivimaki, M and Jorde, R and Brenner, H and Kumari, M and Power, C and Llewellyn, DJ and Hyppönen, E (2017) 'Vitamin D and cognitive function: A Mendelian randomisation study.' Scientific Reports, 7 (1). ISSN 2045-2322 |
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| 15. | Dunwell, TL and Paps, J and Holland, PWH (2017) 'Novel and divergent genes in the evolution of placental mammals.' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1864). ISSN 0962-8452 |
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| 16. | Hughes, A and Kumari, M (2017) 'Age modification of the relationship between C-reactive protein and fatigue: findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS).' Psychological Medicine. ISSN 0033-2917 |
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| 17. | Spiers, H and Hannon, E and Schalkwyk, LC and Bray, NJ and Mill, J (2017) '5-hydroxymethylcytosine is highly dynamic across human fetal brain development.' BMC Genomics, 18 (1). ISSN 1471-2164 |
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| 18. | Marco, A (2017) 'The Origin and Evolution of Maternal Genes.' In: Kloc, M, (ed.) Oocytes. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 63 . Springer, 483 - 494. ISBN 978-3-319-60854-9 Item not available from this repository. | ||
| 19. | Hughes, A and Kumari, M and McMunn, A and Bartley, M (2017) 'Unemployment and inflammatory markers in England, Wales and Scotland, 1998–2012: Meta-analysis of results from 12 studies.' Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 64. 91 - 102. ISSN 0889-1591 |
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| 20. | Holzinger, ER and Verma, SS and Moore, CB and Hall, M and De, R and Gilbert-Diamond, D and Lanktree, MB and Pankratz, N and Amuzu, A and Burt, A and Dale, C and Dudek, S and Furlong, CE and Gaunt, TR and Kim, DS and Riess, H and Sivapalaratnam, S and Tragante, V and Van Iperen, EPA and Brautbar, A and Carrell, DS and Crosslin, DR and Jarvik, GP and Kuivaniemi, H and Kullo, IJ and Larson, EB and Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ and Tromp, G and Baumert, J and Cruickshanks, KJ and Farrall, M and Hingorani, AD and Hovingh, GK and Kleber, ME and Klein, BE and Klein, R and Koenig, W and Lange, LA and MOrz, W and North, KE and Charlotte Onland-Moret, N and Reiner, AP and Talmud, PJ and Van Der Schouw, YT and Wilson, JG and Kivimaki, M and Kumari, M and Moore, JH and Drenos, F and Asselbergs, FW and Keating, BJ and Ritchie, MD (2017) 'Discovery and replication of SNP-SNP interactions for quantitative lipid traits in over 60,000 individuals.' BioData Mining, 10 (1). ISSN 1756-0381 |
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