Last updated on May 31st, 2017
Recently approved research (2016-2017) with the UK Biobank resource is listed below by month of data release. Please click on the chart to enlarge it. You can search by keyword or year. You can also enter locations and researcher names into the search box to find the results you are looking for.
Approved Research
Dr Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Serum lipid and glucose measurements and risk of prostate cancer
Tags: 10088, cholesterol, cholesterol_metabolism, diabetes, lipid_metabolism, prostate_cancer
June 2017
Dr Thomas Yates, Diet type/pattern association with mortality and associations with physical activity/functional status
Dr Melanie Luhrmann, Do childhood nutrition and health environments influence later life health outcomes?
Dr Stephen Chanock, Pituitary Tumor GWAS: Discovery of Susceptibility Alleles
Dr Laura Gray, Using the UK Biobank to validate and refine two diabetes risk prediction tools
Dr Janis Baird, The relationship between the food environment and cardiovascular outcomes
Professor Christopher O’Donnell, A genome-wide and Pheno-wide association study of common diseases on 900,000 individuals from US and UK.
Dr Salman Siddiqui, Phenotyping Airways Dysfunction in the General Population: A UK Biobank Evaluation
Dr Marcus Kaiser, Development of structural and functional brain connectivity during normal and pathological ageing
Professor Gordon Proctor, Salivary biomarkers of a healthy diet and development of type 2 diabetes
Assistant Professor Avram Holmes, Structural genetic contributions brain function and behavior
Dr Manuel Rivas, Generating effective therapeutic hypotheses from genomic and hospital linkage data
Professor Maciej Tomaszewski, The contribution of PAR1 and PAR2 on the sex chromosomes to disease
Professor Deborah Lawlor, A three-way bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of diabetes, chronic kidney disease and coronary heart disease
Professor Claes Ohlsson, Mendelian randomization analysis to examine for a causal effect of common risk factors on osteoarthritis
Professor Kari Stefansson, Genetics of lumbar disc disease and associated sciatica
Dr Marilyn Cornelis, Metabolomics and Genomics of habitual coffee intake and health
Ms Kate Mason, The local built environment, obesity and diabetes in the UK: investigating interactions with genetic susceptibility and other individual-level characteristics
Prof Danilo Bzdok, Evaluation of New Semisupervised Estimators for Personalized Psychiatry
Prof. Iris Heid, Genome-wide searches for gene x life-style interaction for obesity phenotypes
Dr Brent Richards, Genetic Association to Phenotypic Variance and its Role in Human Health
Professor Claes Ohlsson, The association between sex hormone-related genetic markers and sex hormone-related disorders
Dr. Gordon Waiter, Template Based Automatic Analysis of Age Related White Matter Change
Dr Michael Cho, Genome-wide integrative and network-based approaches to obstructive lung diseases and their comorbidities
Dr Angela Wood, Alcohol consumption and the risk of vascular outcomes
Professor Hongtu Zhu, The joint analysis of imaging data and genetic data for early tumor detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment
Prof Nathan Pankratz, A phenome-wide association study of copy number variation
Prof. Dr. Hildo Lamb, Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Obesity in Relation to Cardiovascular, Renal, Cerebral and Metabolic Health & Functioning.
Dr Lu Zhao, Neuroimaging based phenome-wide association study (PheWAS)
Dr Tim Wilkinson, Predicting dementia outcomes using simple, non-invasive assessments
Professor Elaine Dennison, Are individuals with inflammatory arthritis at higher risk of falling, and do they have poorer bone health, as assessed by heel ultrasound and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scanning?
Professor Gareth Bond, Pan-cancer Genetic Analysis
Dr. Wei Zheng, Adiposity measurements, types of body fat, weight change, and related genetic markers in relation to cancer risk
Professor Hulin Wu, Big Data Integration Methods and Applications to UK Biobank Data
Dr TienYu Owen Yang, Adult cancer risk among those who were breast-fed when they were babies
Professor Marie-Pierre Dube, Pharmacogenomic study using the UK Biobank data
Professor Chirag Patel, Causal relationships between infectious and non-communicable/ common disease
Dr. Roberto Toro, Understanding the patterns of neuroanatomical diversity
Dr. Ben Schöttker, Impact of non-potassium-sparing diuretics and regular laxative use on cardiovascular mortality of subjects receiving anti-hypertensive treatment
Dr. Sohini Ramachandran, Identifying gene networks underlying complex traits in the UK Biobank
Mr Vincent Frouin, Study of genes/SNPs association with the brain morphology, including in particular the sulci and the sulcal pits
Dr Stuart Reynolds, Machine Learning-Based Multivariate Health Assessment Given Health Risk Factor Data
Professor Melinda Mills, Genetic heterogeneity in morphological, behavioral and health outcomes
Dr Aris Baras, Large-Scale Sequencing in the UK Biobank to Facilitate Gene Discovery, Genome Sciences, and Precision Medicine
Prof Michal Linial, Novel machine-learning framework for improved inference in GWAS
Dr Sebastian Baumeister: Objectively assessed physical activity, physical fitness and risk of cancer
Prof. Dr. Jochen Hampe: Identification of Genetic Risk Factors for Colonic Diverticular Disease
Dr Marta Blangiardo: Using UK Biobank to integrate individual information on small area studies of environmental health effects
Dr. Hieab Adams: Genome-wide and brain-wide association studies
Professor Srijan Sen: Genes, personality and culture
Prof Helgi Schiöth: Sleep-related genes: lifestyle factors and neural connectivity: reciprocal interactions and influence on sleep modulation
Dr Lesley Anderson: Hormonal and reproductive factors and subsequent risk of haematological malignancies
Professor Jianfeng Feng: Identifying multi-level biomarkers and disease mechanisms for major mental disorders
Dr Brendan Zietsch: Direct test whether genetic factors predisposing to homosexuality increase mating success in heterosexuals
Prof. Meike Bartels: Well-being, Mood, Health and Psychosocial Status
Dr. Steven Lubitz: Understanding the Genetic Basis of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Dr Kostas Tsilidis: Investigating the associations between sex steroid hormone concentrations and risk of cancer development and survival
Dr Ritesh Maharaj: Trajectories for recovery after acute illness
Dr Stephen Chanock: Detection of large-scale copy-number and copy-neutral mosaic alterations in circulating leukocyte DNA of UK Biobank cancer cases and cancer-free controls
Mr Paul Nash: Developing a risk prediction model for chronic disease mortality using multi-level survival modelling
Dr Chinmoy Sarkar: Built Environment and Obstructive Lung Disease
Dr Elizabeth Soilleux: An epidemiological and genome-wide association approach to coeliac disease
Tags: 18532, CoeliacDisease, comorbidities, environment, genetics, IrritableBowelSyndrome, lifestyle
March 2017
Dr Rayjean Hung: Mediation and Mendelian Randomization analyses to investigate the causal relationship between genetic variants, lung function and lung cancer risk
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed: Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed: Genetic and non-genetic risk factors for NSAID-induced upper gastrointestinal ulceration
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen: Genetics of traits associated with autism
Dr Nicholas Timpson: A meta-analytic genome-wide association study for Vitamin D Levels
Assistant Professor Brandon Pierce: Study of aging, genes, and environment
Dr Xavier Caseras: Neurobiological and cognitive markers of genetic risk for mental disorders
Dr Maria Kyrgiou: Genome-wide association study for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer
Dr Martijn Spruit: Physical activity and prognosis in the general population: data from the UK Biobank
Dr Maria Teresa Landi: Genome-wide association study of cutaneous malignant melanoma
Professor Helgi Schiöth: Association of genetics, biomarkers, and environment with cognitive function and mental health
Dr Matti Pirinen: Fine-mapping genotype-phenotype associations
Tags: 22627
Professor Kazem Rahimi: Causes and consequences of valvular heart disease
Dr John Grogan: Hippocampal Subfields and Cognition
Dr Loes Rutten-Jacobs: Role of vascular risk factors, genes and lifestyle in the risk of cerebrovascular disease, cognitive decline and dementia.
Dr. Alexander Teumer: GWAS of kidney function related traits and kidney disease
Dr. Rogier Kievit: Modeling the determinants of age-related declines in cognitive abilities
Dr Eugene Melamud: Investigation of factors contributing to Healthy Aging
Dr Simon Williams: Copy-number variants in Cardiovascular and Neuropsychiatric disorders
Tags: 19056
