Genomics at the University of Essex

The University of Essex made a strategic expansion into genetics and epigenetics in 2014. We are now one of the four pillars of the School of Life Sciences with strong links with the rest of the School and with CSEE and ISER. See our recent papers.

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Prof Leonard C Schalkwyk

Psychiatric and Environmental Epigenomics

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

Dr Metodi Metodiev

Cell & Molecular Biology

Dr Nicola Barban

Genetics of Human Reproduction

Dr Ben Skinner

Structural and Evolutionary Genetics

20 Most Recent Publications

Cucinotta, Christine E and Martin, Benjamin JE and Noé González, Melvin and Raman, Pravrutha and Teif, Vladimir B and Vlaming, Hanneke (2021) 'Strength is in engagement The rise of an online scientific community during the COVID‐19 pandemic.' EMBO Reports, 22 (5). ISSN 1469-221X

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Chandola, Tarani and Kumari, Meena and Booker, Cara L and Benzeval, Michaela (2020) 'The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK.' Psychological Medicine, Online. 1 - 10. ISSN 0033-2917

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Booker, Cara L and Andrews, Leanne and Green, Gillian and Kumari, Meena (2020) 'Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study.' SSM - Population Health, 12. ISSN 2352-8273

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Shireby, Gemma L and Davies, Jonathan P and Francis, Paul T and Burrage, Joe and Walker, Emma M and Neilson, Grant WA and Dahir, Aisha and Thomas, Alan J and Love, Seth and Smith, Rebecca G and Lunnon, Katie and Kumari, Meena and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Morgan, Kevin and Brookes, Keeley and Hannon, Eilis and Mill, Jonathan (2020) 'Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex.' Brain: a journal of neurology, 143 (12). 3763 - 3775. ISSN 0006-8950

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Martin, Patrick CN and Zabet, Nicolae Radu (2020) 'Dissecting the binding mechanisms of transcription factors to DNA using a statistical thermodynamics framework.' Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. ISSN 2001-0370

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Adisa, Olumide and Allen, Katherine and Kumari, Meena and Weir, Ruth and Bond, Emma (2020) Mapping the VAWG funding ecosystem in England and Wales. Project Report. Suffolk Institute for Social and Economic Research.

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Åsenius, Fredrika and Gorrie-Stone, Tyler J and Brew, Ama and Panchbhaya, Yasmin and Williamson, Elizabeth and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Rakyan, Vardhman K and Holland, Michelle L and Marzi, Sarah J and Williams, David J (2020) 'The DNA methylome of human sperm is distinct from blood with little evidence for tissue-consistent obesity associations.' PLoS Genetics, 16 (10). ISSN 1553-7390

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Hatlen, Andrea and Marco, Antonio (2020) 'Pervasive selection against microRNA target sites in human populations.' Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN 0737-4038

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Teif, Vladimir and Gould, Travis and Clarkson, Christopher and Boyd, Logan and Antwi, Enoch and Ishaque, Naveed and Olins, Ada and Olins, Donald (2020) 'Linker histone epitopes are hidden by in situ higher-order chromatin structure.' Epigenetics and Chromatin, 13. ISSN 1756-8935

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Gregson, Benjamin H and Metodieva, Gergana and Metodiev, Metodi V and Golyshin, Peter N and McKew, Boyd A (2020) 'Protein expression in the obligate hydrocarbon‐degrading psychrophile Oleispira antarctica RB‐8 during alkane degradation and cold tolerance.' Environmental Microbiology, 22 (5). 1870 - 1883. ISSN 1462-2912

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Teif, Vladimir (2020) 'Soft power of non-consensus protein-DNA binding.' Biophysical Journal, 118 (8). 1797 - 1798. ISSN 0006-3495

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Antwi, Enoch B and Olins, Ada and Teif, Vladimir B and Bieg, Matthias and Bauer, Tobias and Gu, Zuguang and Brors, Benedikt and Eils, Roland and Olins, Donald and Ishaque, Naveed (2020) 'Whole-genome fingerprint of the DNA methylome during chemically induced differentiation of the human AML cell line HL-60/S4.' Biology Open, 9 (2). ISSN 2046-6390

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Bowles, Alexander MC and Bechtold, Ulrike and Paps, Jordi (2020) 'The Origin of Land Plants Is Rooted in Two Bursts of Genomic Novelty.' Current Biology, 30 (3). 530 - 536.e2. ISSN 0960-9822

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Barban, N and de Luna, X and Lundholm, E and Svensson, I and Billari, FC (2020) 'Causal Effects of the Timing of Life-course Events: Age at Retirement and Subsequent Health.' Sociological Methods and Research, 49 (1). 216 - 249. ISSN 0049-1241

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Joshi, Roshni and Wannamethee, S Goya and Engmann, Jorgen and Gaunt, Tom and Lawlor, Deborah A and Price, Jackie and Papacosta, Olia and Shah, Tina and Tillin, Therese and Chaturvedi, Nishi and Kivimaki, Mika and Kuh, Diana and Kumari, Meena and Hughes, Alun D and Casas, Juan P and Humphries, Steve and Hingorani, Aroon D and Schmidt, A Floriaan (2020) 'Triglyceride-containing lipoprotein sub-fractions and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: A prospective analysis in 11,560 adults.' European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. ISSN 2047-4873

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El Khoury, Louis Y and Gorrie-Stone, Tyler J and Smart, Melissa and Hughes, Amanda and Bao, Yanchun and Andrayas, Alexandria and Burrage, Joe and Hannon, Eilis and Kumari, Meena and Mill, Jonathan and Schalkwyk, Leonard (2019) 'Systematic under-estimation of the epigenetic clock and age acceleration in older subjects.' Genome Biology, 20. ISSN 1474-7596

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Kumari, Meena (2019) 'International comparisons of social differences in inflammatory markers: Different patterns, same drivers?' Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591

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Ding, Xuejie and Barban, Nicola and Mills, Melinda C (2019) 'Educational attainment and allostatic load in later life: Evidence using genetic markers.' Preventive Medicine, 129. ISSN 0091-7435

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Bell, Christopher G and Lowe, Robert and Adams, Peter D and Baccarelli, Andrea A and Beck, Stephan and Bell, Jordana T and Christensen, Brock C and Gladyshev, Vadim N and Heijmans, Bastiaan T and Horvath, Steve and Ideker, Trey and Issa, Jean-Pierre J and Kelsey, Karl T and Marioni, Riccardo E and Reik, Wolf and Relton, Caroline L and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Teschendorff, Andrew E and Wagner, Wolfgang and Zhang, Kang and Rakyan, Vardhman K (2019) 'DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations.' Genome Biology, 20 (1). ISSN 1474-7596

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Verweij, Renske M and Mills, Melinda C and Stulp, Gert and Nolte, Ilja M and Barban, Nicola and Tropf, Felix C and Carrell, Douglas T and Aston, Kenneth I and Zondervan, Krina T and Rahmioglu, Nilufer and Dalgaard, Marlene and Skaarup, Carina and Hayes, M Geoffrey and Dunaif, Andrea and Guo, Guang and Snieder, Harold (2019) 'Using Polygenic Scores in Social Science Research: Unraveling Childlessness.' Frontiers in Sociology, 4. ISSN 2297-7775

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