The University of Essex has made a strategic expansion into genetics and epigenetics. We now have a number of 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  Dr Metodi Metodiev Cell & Molecular Biology  Dr Nicola Barban Genetics of Human Reproduction |
| 20 Most Recent Publications | |||
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| 1. | Hughes, Amanda and Kumari, Meena (2019) 'Testosterone, risk, and socioeconomic position in British men: Exploring causal directionality.' Social Science and Medicine, 220. 129 - 140. ISSN 0277-9536 (In Press) |
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| 2. | Garfield, Victoria and Fatemifar, Ghazaleh and Dale, Caroline and Smart, Melissa and Bao, Yanchun and Llewellyn, Clare H and Steptoe, Andrew and Zabaneh, Delilah and Kumari, Meena (2018) 'Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals.' Genetic Epidemiology. ISSN 0741-0395 |
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| 3. | O’Brien, Heath E and Hannon, Eilis and Hill, Matthew J and Toste, Carolina C and Robertson, Matthew J and Morgan, Joanne E and McLaughlin, Gemma and Lewis, Cathryn M and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Hall, Lynsey S and Pardiñas, Antonio F and Owen, Michael J and O’Donovan, Michael C and Mill, Jonathan and Bray, Nicholas J (2018) 'Expression quantitative trait loci in the developing human brain and their enrichment in neuropsychiatric disorders.' Genome Biology, 19. ISSN 1465-6906 |
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| 4. | Hannon, Ellis and Gorrie-Stone, Tyler J and Smart, Melissa C and Burrage, Joe and Hughes, Amanda and Bao, Yanchun and Kumari, Meena and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Mill, Jonathan (2018) 'Leveraging DNA-Methylation Quantitative-Trait Loci to Characterize the Relationship between Methylomic Variation, Gene Expression, and Complex Traits.' The American Journal of Human Genetics, 103 (5). 654 - 665. ISSN 0002-9297 |
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| 5. | Paps, J (2018) 'What makes an animal? The molecular quest for the origin of the Animal Kingdom.' Integrative and Comparative Biology, 58 (4). 654 - 665. ISSN 0003-1569 Item availability may be restricted. |
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| 6. | Mortensen, J and Dich, N and Clark, AJ and Ramlau-Hansen, CH and Head, J and Kivimäki, M and Kumari, M and Rod, NH (2018) 'Informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol: results from the Whitehall II cohort study.' Psychoneuroendocrinology. ISSN 0306-4530 Item availability may be restricted. |
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| 7. | Gorrie-Stone, TJ and Smart, MC and Saffari, A and Malki, K and Hannon, E and Burrage, J and Mill, J and Kumari, M and Schalkwyk, LC (2018) 'Bigmelon: tools for analysing large DNA methylation datasets.' Bioinformatics. ISSN 1367-4803 |
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| 8. | Pavlaki, I and Docquier, F and Chernukhin, I and Kita, G and Gretton, S and Clarkson, CT and Teif, VB and Klenova, E (2018) 'Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation associated changes in CTCF-chromatin binding and gene expression in breast cells.' Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1861 (8). 781 - 730. ISSN 1874-9399 |
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| 9. | Lee, James J and Wedow, Robbee and Okbay, Aysu and Kong, Edward and Maghzian, Omeed and Zacher, Meghan and Nguyen-Viet, Tuan Anh and Bowers, Peter and Sidorenko, Julia and Karlsson Linnér, Richard and Fontana, Mark Alan and Kundu, Tushar and Lee, Chanwook and Li, Hui and Li, Ruoxi and Royer, Rebecca and Timshel, Pascal N and Walters, Raymond K and Willoughby, Emily A and Yengo, Loïc and Alver, Maris and Bao, Yanchun and Clark, David W and Day, Felix R and Furlotte, Nicholas A and Joshi, Peter K and Kemper, Kathryn E and Kleinman, Aaron and Langenberg, Claudia and Mägi, Reedik and Trampush, Joey W and Verma, Shefali Setia and Wu, Yang and Lam, Max and Zhao, Jing Hua and Zheng, Zhili and Boardman, Jason D and Campbell, Harry and Freese, Jeremy and Harris, Kathleen Mullan and Hayward, Caroline and Herd, Pamela and Kumari, Meena and Lencz, Todd and Luan, Jian an and Malhotra, Anil K and Metspalu, Andres and Milani, Lili and Ong, Ken K and Perry, John RB and Porteous, David J and Ritchie, Marylyn D and Smart, Melissa C and Smith, Blair H and Tung, Joyce Y and Wareham, Nicholas J and Wilson, James F and Beauchamp, Jonathan P and Conley, Dalton C and Esko, Tõnu and Lehrer, Steven F and Magnusson, Patrik KE and Oskarsson, Sven and Pers, Tune H and Robinson, Matthew R and Thom, Kevin and Watson, Chelsea and Chabris, Christopher F and Meyer, Michelle N and Laibson, David I and Yang, Jian and Johannesson, Magnus and Koellinger, Philipp D and Turley, Patrick and Visscher, Peter M and Benjamin, Daniel J and Cesarini, David (2018) 'Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.' Nature Genetics, 50. 1112 - 1121. ISSN 1061-4036 Item availability may be restricted. |
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| 10. | Hughes, Amanda and Smart, Melissa and Gorrie-Stone, Tyler and Hannon, Eilis and Mill, Jonathan and Bao, Yanchun and Burrage, Joe and Schalkwyk, Leo and Kumari, Meena (2018) 'Socioeconomic Position and DNA Methylation Age Acceleration across the Lifecourse.' American Journal of Epidemiology. ISSN 0002-9262 |
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| 11. | Catoni, M and Tsang, JMF and Greco, AP and Zabet, NR (2018) 'DMRcaller: a versatile R/Bioconductor package for detection and visualization of differentially methylated regions in CpG and non-CpG contexts.' Nucleic Acids Research. ISSN 0305-1048 |
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| 12. | López-Escardó, David and Paps, Jordi and de Vargas, Colomban and Massana, Ramon and Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki and del Campo, Javier (2018) 'Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity.' Scientific Reports, 8 (1). ISSN 2045-2322 |
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| 13. | 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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| 14. | 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, KP 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.' Molecular Psychiatry, 23 (5). 1145 - 1156. ISSN 1359-4184 |
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| 15. | Paps, Jordi and Holland, Peter WH (2018) 'Reconstruction of the ancestral metazoan genome reveals an increase in genomic novelty.' Nature Communications, 9. ISSN 2041-1723 |
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| 16. | Marco, Antonio (2018) 'SeedVicious: Analysis of microRNA target and near-target sites.' PLoS ONE, 13 (4). ISSN 1932-6203 |
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| 17. | Mills, MC and Barban, N and Tropf, FC (2018) 'The Sociogenomics of Polygenic Scores of Reproductive Behavior and Their Relationship to Other Fertility Traits.' The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4 (4). 122 - 136. ISSN 2377-8253 |
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| 18. | 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 |
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| 19. | Paps Montserrat, J (2018) Would standing on the first butterfly really change the history of evolution? The Conversation. Item not available from this repository. | ||
| 20. | 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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