Last updated Nov 9, 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 Scott Delp, Big Data for Mobility Research
Dr Robert Wojciechowski, Genetic and environment studies of myopia and refractive error in the UK Biobank
Professor Andre Franke, Identification of genetic susceptibility loci for haemorrhoids disease
Miss Woori Kim, Gene-by-Environment Interactions on Pulmonary Function and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Dr Kerstin Ritter, Studying mental health via research domain criteria, neuroimaging and convolutional neural networks
Dr Johannes Soeding, Developing a Bayesian methodology for identifying disease-associated dysregulation of genes and gene subnetworks by integration of GWAS and eQTL data, with application to cardiovascular diseases
Dr Claire McEvoy, Diet, body fat and brain health: a multi-organ imaging study in the UK Biobank
Professor Velandai Srikanth, Cardiometabolic and genetic determinants of brain structure and function – a focus on obesity, type 2 diabetes and associated factors
Professor Maciej Tomaszewski: Numerical abnormalities and structural rearrangements of the Y and X chromosomes and predisposition to complex diseases
Dr Fadil Hannan: Biochemical evaluation of secondary osteoporosis: A UK Biobank study
Professor Jiang Qiu: Neural Correlates of Vulnerability to Depression using Brain Functional and Structural Imaging Data
Dr Sachin Banker: Genetic Determinants of Healthy Decision Making
Mr Jayendra Bhalodiya, Computational Modelling of Human Heart using MR Images
Dr Devanshi Seth, Genetics of alcoholic liver cirrhosis
Assistant Professor Philip Gehrman, Sleep Duration and Cognitive Function in the Population
Dr Carl Anderson, Genetic association study of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and a comparison with related phenotypes.
Professor Christopher Hammond, Genetic contribution to vision loss and disability: The UK Biobank Eye & Vision Consortium
Dr Fumihiko Takeuchi, Replication study of genetic association with cervical cancer susceptibility
Dr Claire Palles, Genetics of Barrett’s esophagus and Esophageal adenocarcinoma
Professor Pim van der Harst, Genetic dissection of cardiovascular risk factors and their relation to disease to establish causality and identify novel targets of therapy
Professor Gaolang Gong, Identifying the healthy aging pattern of topological asymmetry of human brain networks and the underlying pathway between gene, brain asymmetry and cognitive
Dr. Thomas Drake, Unravelling environmental and genetic drivers of gallstone disease
Dr Sang Hong Lee, Whole-genome approaches for dissecting (shared) genetic architecture and individual risk prediction of complex traits in human populations
Dr Gesche Huebner, Temperatures and health – Using accelerometer data to understand experienced temperatures and their relationship to sleep, mental and physical health
Dr Cecilia Lindgren, Dissection of the Genetic Susceptibility of Obesity Traits and their Comorbidities
Dr Kyle Pattinson, Brain mechanisms underlying symptom perception in asthma
Dr Gemma Cadby, Understanding the genetics of malignant mesothelioma susceptibility and prognosis
Associate Professor Sarah Medland, Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis
Dr. Vinicius Tragante do O, On the quest for tissue-specific contributions to disease
Assistant Professor Evangelos Evangelou, Multivariate approaches for the identification of novel environmental and genetic risk factors for neuropsychiatric disorders, skin cancers and bone-related outcomes
Dr William Astle,The Genetics of Extreme Blood Indices by Whole Genome Sequencing
Tags: 9616, featured, genetics, haematology, haematopoiesis, regenerative medicine, Sequencing
January 2018
Dr David Hugh-Jones, Assortative mating in the UK population
Associate Professor Åsa Johansson, Using Mendelian randomization to evaluate the causal effect of disease related biomarkers on clinical outcomes
Professor Andrew Tinker, Understanding genetic influences in the response of the cardiac electrical system to exercise
Professor Ian Jackson, The MC1R Gene: Red Hair and Other Characteristics
Professor Kenneth Muir, Development and validation of risk prediction model for breast and ovarian cancers
Dr Michael Daly, Fuelling health equity? The impact of the Winter Fuel Payment on the health of UK households.
Dr Thomas Burgoine, Associations between neighbourhood takeaway food environments, consumption of takeaway food and body weight.
Dr Sara Lindstroem, Genome-wide association and interaction studies of breast cancer
Professor Jonathan Flint, Clinical heterogeneity in depression
Dr James Wilson, Quantitative and population genetics in UK Biobank
Dr Andrew Johnson, Investigation of genetic factors underlying cardiovascular diseases and their factors
Dr Kay Poulton, HLA Class I and II Associations with Renal Dysfunction in an Aging Population
Dr Kimberley Smith, Assessing risk for type 2 diabetes using UK Biobank
Dr. Jordan Smoller, Vitamin D and Major Depression: understanding the causal relationship and shared genetic influences
Dr. Kristen Fortney, Overlap in aging-related phenotypes, genome and epigenome: toward a general factor of aging
Assistant Professor Rohan Palmer, Integrative Prioritization of Loci for Alcohol Use Disorders and Associated Complex Traits
Dr Catherine Egan, Macular Telangiectasia (Mactel type 2) – Systemic, Genetic and Ocular associations
Dr Elizabeth Yanik, Evaluation of genetic and non-genetic risk factors for degenerative rotator cuff disease.
Dr Sarah Floud, Social isolation and loneliness in relation to cardiovascular and cancer morbidity and mortality
Dr. Mehrdad Rezaee, Prediction of cardiovascular disease using risk engines and calculators from Precision Wellness
Dr Robert Hoehndorf, Explanatory epidemiological models from genotype to phenotype
Dr. Constantinos Parisinos, Exploring liver disease cause & effect through Mendelian randomisation.
Dr Gareth McKay,Retinal assessment of microvascular dysfunction and chronic disease in UK Biobank
Dr Jonathan Mitchell, Physical Activity and Adult Bone Health: Percentile Rank and Gene Interaction Analyses
Dr. Thomas Rohan, Association between serum sex steroid hormones and ductal carcinoma in situ among UK women
Dr Oliver Davis, Integrating social, environmental, genetic and geographical variation to infer aetiological and causal influences on health
Mr Marcos Machado Fragua, Food consumption (coffee, dairy products and soft drinks), Mediterranean dietary pattern and risk of falls or hearing loss in the elderly.
Professor Gunter Schumann,
Dr. Jose Bras, Identifying traits associated with parkinsonism and dementia hits from genome-wide association studies
Dr Lu Qi,Study of gene-environment interaction and Mendelian randomization of obesity and cardiometabolic risk
Dr Claire Churchhouse, Methodological extensions to estimate genetic heritability and shared risk factors for phenotypes of the UK Biobank
Dr Guy Leschziner, Analysis of sleep phenotypes, genotypes and associated conditions
Dr Joel Hirschhorn, Genetic studies of anthropometric traits and methods for analysis of multiple phenotypes
Dr Cedric Manlhiot, Predictive analytics for heart failure: enabling individualization of care and patient education through improved prognostication
Prof. Chiara Sabatti, Statistical Methods for Large Scale Genetic Studies
Dr Jari Laukkanen, Exercise testing and electrocardiogram in the prediction of cardiovascular diseases
Ms. Yasmmyn Salinas, Identification of pleiotropic loci for asthma and obesity
Mr David Nicholson, Fine-scale ancestry in the UK Biobank samples
Senior Scientist Nicholas Furlotte, The effect of gene-by-environment interactions on obesity and cardiovascular disease risk
Tags: 25706, risk prediction GxE CVD
Professor Jacinta Tan, Eating Disorders in Biobank
Dr Padraig Dixon,Mendelian Randomization analysis of the causal effect of obesity and coronary artery disease on healthcare costs
Dr Jason Wong, Evaluating the biological mechanisms underlying occupational and environmental exposures on risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mortality
Professor Mauro D’Amato, FunDysGWAS: GWAS studies of functional dyspepsia
Ms Hayley Lewthwaite, Associations between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease measures and time use
Dr Melissa Russell, The impact of physical activity on COPD, asthma and lung function
Dr. Christopher Kabrhel, Genome-wide association and interaction studies of venous thromboembolism
Dr Julian Homburger, Identifying correlations between genetic ancestry and clinically relevant phenotypes.
Professor Rasmus Nielsen, Association Studies of Infertility, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Type 2 Diabetes
Professor Matthew Brown, Genetics of ankylosing spondylitis
Dr Xiaowei Zhan, Elucidate the causal roles of smoking on human diseases using large genetic datasets linked with health records
Assistant Professor Jong-Min Lee, Impacts of huntingtin CAG repeats and modifiers of neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease on human phenotypes
Professor Dame Janet Thornton, Using UK Biobank for ageing and disease relationship studies.
Professor Pim van der Harst, Determinants of human cardiac structure and function and relation with outcome
Dr Paul O’Reilly, Epidemiological and genetic prediction of major morbidity and all-cause mortality
Prof Elizabeth Speliotes, Identifying causes of obesity and liver disease using population genetics
Assistant Professor Auriel Willette, 25057 – SIM-BIO-CIS (pronounced Symbiosis) Signalling, Imaging and Metabolic Biobank Composition at Iowa State
Professor Jonathan Marchini, Population structure in the UK Biobank samples
Dr Raya Khanin, Study of the effect of genetic variants in vitamin and mineral metabolic pathways on health outcomes
Dr. Ira Hall, MGI Center for Common Disease Genomics
Tags: 27047, Complex human diseases
Assistant Professor Jin Liu, Novel Methods to Jointly Analyze Pleiotropic Genetic Effects on Multiple Traits Integrating Epigenomics and Genomics
Mrs Maria Borges, Causal effect of maternal vitamin D levels and body mass index on pregnancy-related outcomes
Dr Celia Greenwood, Unravelling environmental and genetic drivers of gallstone disease
Tags: 30349, cardiovascular disease, Cholecodolithiasis, Cholelithiasis, featured, Gallbladder, Gallstones
September 2017
