Genomics at the University of Essex

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.

News!
09-10-2018. From Tuesday 30 July to Friday 2 August 2019, IADS summer school will give an introduction to R. This course will be directed by Dr. Zabet assisted by Tyler Gorrie-Stone.

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

Chaparro, M Pia and Hughes, Amanda and Kumari, Meena and Benzeval, Michaela (2019) 'The association between self-rated health and underlying biomarker levels is modified by age, gender, and household income: Evidence from Understanding Society – The UK Household Longitudinal Study.' SSM - Population Health, 8. ISSN 2352-8273

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Marco, Antonio (2019) 'Comment on “microRNAs in the Same Clusters Evolve to Coordinately Regulate Functionally Related Genes”.' Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36 (8). 1843 - 1843. ISSN 0737-4038

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Helmy, Mohab and Hatlen, Andrea and Marco, Antonio (2019) 'The Impact of Population Variation in the Analysis of microRNA Target Sites.' Non-Coding RNA, 5 (2). ISSN 2311-553X

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Mansell, Georgina and Gorrie-Stone, Tyler J and Bao, Yanchun and Kumari, Meena and Schalkwyk, Leonard S and Mill, Jonathan and Hannon, Eilis (2019) 'Guidance for DNA methylation studies: statistical insights from the Illumina EPIC array.' BMC Genomics, 20 (1). ISSN 1471-2164

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Wiehle, Laura and Thorn, Graeme and Raddatz, Günter and Clarkson, Christopher and Rippe, Karsten and Lyko, Frank and Breiling, Achim and Teif, Vladimir (2019) 'DNA (de)methylation in embryonic stem cells controls CTCF-dependent chromatin boundaries.' Genome Research, 29 (5). 750 - 761. ISSN 1054-9803

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Mallm, Jan Philipp and Iskar, Murat and Ishaque, Naveed and Klett, Lara C and Kugler, Sabrina J and Muino, Jose M and Teif, Vladimir B and Poos, Alexandra M and Großmann, Sebastian and Erdel, Fabian and Tavernari, Daniele and Koser, Sandra D and Schumacher, Sabrina and Brors, Benedikt and König, Rainer and Remondini, Daniel and Vingron, Martin and Stilgenbauer, Stephan and Lichter, Peter and Zapatka, Marc and Mertens, Daniel and Rippe, Karsten (2019) 'Linking aberrant chromatin features in chronic lymphocytic leukemia to transcription factor networks.' Molecular Systems Biology, 15 (5). ISSN 1744-4292

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Gregson, Benjamin H and Metodieva, Gergana and Metodiev, Metodi V and McKew, Boyd A (2019) 'Differential protein expression during growth on linear versus branched alkanes in the obligate marine hydrocarbon‐degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2T.' Environmental Microbiology. ISSN 1462-2912

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Chandola, Tarani and Booker, Cara L and Kumari, Meena and Benzeval, Michaela (2019) 'Are Flexible Work Arrangements Associated with Lower Levels of Chronic Stress-Related Biomarkers? A Study of 6025 Employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study.' Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385

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Hannon, Eilis and Marzi, Sarah J and Schalkwyk, Leonard S and Mill, Jonathan (2019) 'Genetic risk variants for brain disorders are enriched in cortical H3K27ac domains.' Molecular Brain, 12 (1). ISSN 1756-6606

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Adams, Hannah R and Krewson, Callie and Vardanega, Jenny E and Fujii, Sotaro and Moreno-Chicano, Tadeo and Sambongi, Yoshihiro and Svistunenko, Dimitri and Paps, Jordi and Andrew, Colin R and Hough, Michael A (2019) 'One fold, two functions: cytochrome P460 and cytochrome c′-β from the methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath).' Chemical Science, 10. 3031 - 3041. ISSN 2041-6539

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Baselmans, Bart ML and Jansen, Rick and Ip, Hill F and van Dongen, Jenny and Abdellaoui, Abdel and van de Weijer, Margot P and Bao, Yanchun and Smart, Melissa and Kumari, Meena and Willemsen, Gonneke and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Boomsma, Dorret I and de Geus, Eco JC and Nivard, Michel G and Bartels, Meike (2019) 'Multivariate genome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum.' Nature Genetics. ISSN 1061-4036

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Karlsson Linnér, Richard and Biroli, Pietro and Kong, Edward and Meddens, S Fleur W and Wedow, Robbee and Fontana, Mark Alan and Lebreton, Maël and Tino, Stephen P and Abdellaoui, Abdel and Hammerschlag, Anke R and Nivard, Michel G and Okbay, Aysu and Rietveld, Cornelius A and Timshel, Pascal N and Trzaskowski, Maciej and Vlaming, Ronald de and Zünd, Christian L and Bao, Yanchun and Buzdugan, Laura and Caplin, Ann H and Chen, Chia-Yen and Eibich, Peter and Fontanillas, Pierre and Gonzalez, Juan R and Joshi, Peter K and Karhunen, Ville and Kleinman, Aaron and Levin, Remy Z and Lill, Christina M and Meddens, Gerardus A and Muntané, Gerard and Sanchez-Roige, Sandra and Rooij, Frank J van and Taskesen, Erdogan and Wu, Yang and Zhang, Futao and Auton, Adam and Boardman, Jason D and Clark, David W and Conlin, Andrew and Dolan, Conor C and Fischbacher, Urs and Groenen, Patrick JF and Harris, Kathleen Mullan and Hasler, Gregor and Hofman, Albert and Ikram, Mohammad A and Jain, Sonia and Karlsson, Robert and Kessler, Ronald C and Kooyman, Maarten and MacKillop, James and Männikkö, Minna and Morcillo-Suarez, Carlos and McQueen, Matthew B and Schmidt, Klaus M and Smart, Melissa C and Sutter, Matthias and Thurik, A Roy and Uitterlinden, André G and White, Jon and Wit, Harriet de and Yang, Jian and Bertram, Lars and Boomsma, Dorret I and Esko, Tõnu and Fehr, Ernst and Hinds, David A and Johannesson, Magnus and Kumari, Meena and Laibson, David and Magnusson, Patrik KE and Meyer, Michelle N and Navarro, Arcadi and Palmer, Abraham A and Pers, Tune H and Posthuma, Danielle and Schunk, Daniel and Stein, Murray B and Svento, Rauli and Tiemeier, Henning and Timmers, Paul RHJ and Turley, Patrick and Ursano, Robert J and Wagner, Gert G and Wilson, James F and Gratten, Jacob and Lee, James J and Cesarini, David and Benjamin, Daniel J and Koellinger, Philipp D and Beauchamp, Jonathan P (2019) 'Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences.' Nature Genomics.

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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

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Bao, Yanchun and Clarke, Paul S and Smart, Melissa and Kumari, Meena (2018) 'Assessing the robustness of sisVIVE in a Mendelian randomization study to estimate the causal effect of body mass index on income using multiple SNPs from understanding society.' Statistics in Medicine. ISSN 0277-6715

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Gregson, Benjamin H and Metodieva, Gergana and Metodiev, Metodi V and Golyshin, Peter N and McKew, Boyd A (2018) 'Differential Protein Expression During Growth on Medium Versus Long-Chain Alkanes in the Obligate Marine Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium Thalassolituus oleivorans MIL-1.' Frontiers in Microbiology, 9. ISSN 1664-302X

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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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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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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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Marzi, Sarah J and Leung, Szi Kay and Ribarska, Teodora and Hannon, Eilis and Smith, Adam R and Pishva, Ehsan and Poschmann, Jeremie and Moore, Karen and Troakes, Claire and Al-Sarraj, Safa and Beck, Stephan and Newman, Stuart and Lunnon, Katie and Schalkwyk, Leonard C and Mill, Jonathan (2018) 'A histone acetylome-wide association study of Alzheimer’s disease identifies disease-associated H3K27ac differences in the entorhinal cortex.' Nature Neuroscience, 21 (11). 1618 - 1627. ISSN 1097-6256

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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

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You can view a full list on the UoE repository here.