• Changes in parental smoking during pregnancy and risks of adverse birth outcomes and childhood overweight in Europe and North America: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 229,000 singleton births 

      Philips, Elise M.; Santos, Susana; Trasande, Leonardo; Aurrekoetxea, Juan J.; Barros, Henrique; von Berg, Andrea; Bergström, Anna; Bird, Philippa K.; Brescianini, Sonia; Chaoimh, Carol Ní; Charles, Marie-Aline; Chatzi, Leda; Chevrier, Cécile; Chrousos, George P.; Costet, Nathalie; Criswell, Rachel Louise; Crozier, Sarah; Eggesbø, Merete Åse; Fantini, Maria Pia; Farchi, Sara; Forastiere, Francesco; van Gelder, Marleen M.H.J.; Georgiu, Vagelis; Godfrey, Keith M.; Gori, Davide; Hanke, Wojciech; Heude, Barbara; Hryhorczuk, Daniel; Iñiguez, Carmen; Inskip, Hazel M.; Karvonen, Anne M.; Kenny, Louise C.; Kull, Inger; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Lehmann, Irina; Magnus, Per; Manios, Yannis; Melén, Erik; Mommers, Monique; Morgen, Camilla Schmidt; Moschonis, George; Murray, Deirdre; Nohr, Ellen A.; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie; Oken, Emily; Oostvogels, Adriëtte J.J.M.; Papadopoulou, Eleni Zoumpoulia; Pekkanen, Juha; Pizzi, Costanza; Polanska, Kinga; Porta, Daniela; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Roeleveld, Nel; Rusconi, Franca; Santos, Ana C.; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Standl, Marie; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Sunyer, Jordi; Thiering, Elisabeth; Thijs, Carel; Torrent, Maties; Vrijkotte, Tanja G.M.; Wright, John; Zvinchuk, Oleksandr; Gaillard, Romy; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Fetal smoke exposure is a common and key avoidable risk factor for birth complications and seems to influence later risk of overweight. It is unclear whether this increased risk is also present if mothers smoke ...
    • European and multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of atopic dermatitis highlights importance of systemic immune regulation 

      Budu-Aggrey, Ashley; Kilanowski, Anna; Sobczyk, Maria K.; Shringarpure, Suyash S.; Mitchell, Ruth; Reis, Kadri; Reigo, Anu; Mägi, Reedik; Nelis, Mari; Tanaka, Nao; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Thomas, Laurent Francois; Sole-Navais, Pol; Flatley, Christopher; Espuela-Ortiz, Antonio; Herrera-Luis, Esther; Lominchar, Jesus V. T.; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Marenholz, Ingo; Arnau-Soler, Aleix; Jeong, Ayoung; Fawcett, Katherine A.; Baurecht, Hansjorg; Rodriguez, Elke; Alves, Alexessander Couto; Kumar, Ashish; Sleiman, Patrick M.; Chang, Xiao; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Hu, Chen; Xu, Cheng-jian; Qi, Cancan; El-Heis, Sarah; Titcombe, Philip; Antoun, Elie; Fadista, João; Wang, Carol A.; Thiering, Elisabeth; Wu, Baojun; Kress, Sara; Kothalawala, Dilini M.; Kadalayil, Latha; Duan, Jiasong; Zhang, Hongmei; Hadebe, Sabelo; Hoffmann, Thomas; Jorgenson, Eric; Choquet, Hélène; Risch, Neil; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Andreassen, Ole; Johansson, Stefan; Almqvist, Catarina; Gong, Tong; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Karlsson, Robert; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Szwajda, Agnieszka; Burchard, Esteban G.; Thyssen, Jacob P.; Hansen, Torben; Kårhus, Line L.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; Jeanrenaud, Alexander C.S.N.; Ghauri, Ahla; Arnold, Andreas; Homuth, Georg; Lau, Susanne; Nöthen, Markus M.; Hübner, Norbert; Imboden, Medea; Visconti, Alessia; Falchi, Mario; Bataille, Veronique; Hysi, Pirro; Ballardini, Natalia; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Hottenga, Jouke J.; Müller-Nurasyid, Martina; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Stokholm, Jakob; Chawes, Bo; Schoos, Ann-Marie M.; Esplugues, Ana; Bustamante, Mariona; Raby, Benjamin; Arshad, Syed; German, Chris; Esko, Tõnu; Milani, Lili A.; Metspalu, Andres; Terao, Chikashi; Abuabara, Katrina; Løset, Mari; Hveem, Kristian; Jacobsson, Bo; Pino-Yanes, Maria; Strachan, David P.; Grarup, Niels; Linneberg, Allan; Lee, Young-Ae; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Weidinger, Stephan; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Melén, Erik; Hakonarson, Hakon; Irvine, Alan D.; Jarvis, Deborah; Nijsten, Tamar; Duijts, Liesbeth; Vonk, Judith M.; Koppelmann, Gerard H.; Godfrey, Keith M.; Barton, Sheila J.; Feenstra, Bjarke; Pennell, Craig E.; Sly, Peter D.; Holt, Patrick G.; Williams, L. Keoki; Bisgaard, Hans; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Curtin, John; Simpson, Angela; Murray, Clare; Schikowski, Tamara; Bunyavanich, Supinda; Weiss, Scott T.; Holloway, John W.; Min, Josine L.; Brown, Sara J.; Standl, Marie; Paternoster, Lavinia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory skin condition and prior genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 71 associated loci. In the current study we conducted the largest AD GWAS to date (discovery ...
    • Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms 

      Jami, Eshim S.; Hammerschlag, Anke R.; Ip, Hill F.; Allegrini, Andrea G.; Benyamin, Beben; Border, Richard; Diemer, Elizabeth W.; Jiang, Chang; Karhunen, Ville; Lu, Yi; Lu, Qing; Mallard, Travis T.; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Palviainen, Teemu; Peterson, Roseann E.; Sallis, Hannah M.; Shabalin, Andrey A.; Tate, Ashley E.; Thiering, Elisabeth; Vilor-Tejedor, Natàlia; Wang, Carol; Zhou, Ang; Adkins, Daniel E.; Alemany, Silvia; Ask, Helga; Chen, Qi; Corley, Robin P.; Ehli, Erik A.; Evans, Luke M.; Havdahl, Alexandra; Hagenbeek, Fiona A.; Hakulinen, Christian; Henders, Anjali K.; Hottenga, Jouke Jan; Korhonen, Tellervo; Mamun, Abdullah; Marrington, Shelby; Neumann, Alexander; Rimfeld, Kaili; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Silberg, Judy L.; van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E.; Vuoksimaa, Eero; Whipp, Alyce M.; Tong, Xiaoran; Andreassen, Ole; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Brown, Sandra A.; Burt, S. Alexandra; Copeland, William; Dick, Danielle M.; Harden, K. Paige; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Hartman, Catharina A.; Heinrich, Joachim; Hewitt, John K.; Hopfer, Christian; Hypponen, Elina; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Kaprio, Jaakko; Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa; Klump, Kelly L.; Krauter, Kenneth; Kuja-Halkola, Ralf; Larsson, Henrik; Lehtimäki, Terho; Lichtenstein, Paul; Lundström, Sebastian; Maes, Hermine H.; Magnus, Per Minor; Munafò, Marcus R.; Najman, Jake M.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Pennell, Craig E.; Plomin, Robert; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Reynolds, Chandra; Rose, Richard J.; Smolen, Andrew; Snieder, Harold; Stallings, Michael; Standl, Marie; Sunyer, Jordi; Tiemeier, Henning; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Wall, Tamara L.; Whitehouse, Andrew J.O.; Williams, Gail M.; Ystrøm, Eivind; Nivard, Michel G.; Bartels, Meike; Middeldorp, Christel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective: To investigate the genetic architecture of internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence. Method: In 22 cohorts, multiple univariate genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were performed using repeated ...
    • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits 

      Vogelezang, Suzanne; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Curtin, John A.; Lakka, Timo A.; Grarup, Niels; Scholz, Markus; van der Most, Peter J.; Monnereau, Claire; Stergiakouli, Evie; Heiskala, Anni; Horikoshi, Momoko; Fedko, Iryna O.; Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia; Cousminer, Diana L.; Standl, Marie; Wang, Carol A.; Viikari, Jorma; Geller, Frank; Íñiguez, Carmen; Pitkänen, Niina; Chesi, Alessandra; Bacelis, Jonas; Yengo, Loic; Torrent, Maties; Ntalla, Ioanna; Helgeland, Øyvind; Selzam, Saskia; Vonk, Judith M.; Zafarmand, Mohammed H.; Heude, Barbara; Farooqi, Ismaa Sadaf; Alyass, Akram; Beaumont, Robin N.; Have, Christian T.; Rzehak, Peter; Bilbao, Jose Ramon; Schnurr, Theresia M.; Barroso, Inês; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Beilin, Lawrence J.; Carstensen, Lisbeth; Charles, Marie-Aline; Chawes, Bo; Clément, Karine; Closa-Monasterolo, Ricardo; Custovic, Adnan; Eriksson, Johan G.; Vaudel, Marc; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared genetic factors, are largely unknown. We performed ...
    • Outdoor air pollution and hormone-assessed pubertal development in children: Results from the GINIplus and LISA birth cohorts 

      Zhao, Tianyu; Triebner, Kai Philipp; Markevych, Iana; Standl, Marie; Altug, Hicran; de Hoogh, Kees; Schikowski, Tamara; Berdel, Dietrich; Koletzko, Sibylle; Bauer, Carl-Peter; von Berg, Andrea; Nowak, Dennis; Heinrich, Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Air pollution is hypothesized to affect pubertal development. However, the few studies on this topic yielded overall mixed results. These studies did not consider important pollutants like ozone, and none of ...
    • A trans-ancestral meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies reveals loci associated with childhood obesity 

      Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Vogelezang, Suzanne; Felix, Janine F.; Chesi, Alessandra; Helgeland, Øyvind; Horikoshi, Momoko; Karhunen, Ville; Lowry, Estelle; Cousminer, Diana L.; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Thiering, Elisabeth; Boh, Eileen Tai-Hui; Zafarmand, Mohammad H.; Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia; Wang, Carol A.; Joro, Raimo; Chen, Zhanghua; Gauderman, William J.; Pitkänen, Niina; Parra, Esteban J.; Fernandez-Rhodes, Lindsay; Alyass, Akram; Monnereau, Claire; Curtin, John A.; Have, Christian T.; McCormack, Shana E.; Hollensted, Mette; Frithioff-Bøjsøe, Christine; Valladares-Salgado, Adan; Peralta-Romero, Jesus; Teo, Yik-Ying; Standl, Marie; Leinonen, Jaakko T.; Holm, Jens-Christian; Peters, Triinu; Vioque, Jesus; Vrijheid, Martine; Simpson, Angela; Custovic, Adnan; Vaudel, Marc; Canouil, Mickaël; Lindi, Virpi; Atalay, Mustafa; Kahonen, Mika; Raitakari, Olli T.; van Schaik, Barbera D.C.; Berkowitz, Robert I.; Cole, Shelley A.; Voruganti, V. Saroja; Wang, Yujie; Highland, Heather M.; Comuzzie, Anthony G.; Butte, Nancy F.; Justice, Anne E.; Gahagan, Sheila; Blanco, Estela; Lehtimäki, Terho; Lakka, Timo A.; Hebebrand, Johannes; Bonnefond, Amélie; Grarup, Niels; Froguel, Philippe; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Cruz, Miguel; Kobes, Sayuko; Hanson, Robert L.; Zemel, Babette S.; Hinney, Anke; Teo, Koon K.; Meyre, David; North, Kari E.; Gilliland, Frank D.; Bisgaard, Hans; Bustamante, Mariona; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Pennell, Craig E.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Uitterlinden, André G.; Baier, Leslie J.; Vrijkotte, Tanja G.M.; Heinrich, Joachim; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Saw, Seang-Mei; Pedersen, Oluf; Hansen, Torben; Eriksson, Johan; Widén, Elisabeth; McCarthy, Mark I.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Power, Christine; Hyppönen, Elina; Sebert, Sylvain; Brown, Christopher D.; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Johansson, Stefan; Hakonarson, Hakon; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Although hundreds of genome-wide association studies-implicated loci have been reported for adult obesity-related traits, less is known about the genetics specific for early-onset obesity and with only a few studies conducted ...