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Melanie Waldenberger

Helmholtz Munich

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Epigenomic embedding of childhood adversity links to disease risk and chronic immune changes

Darina Czamara, Dave Laurence Juntilla, Aayah Nounu, Annemarie Luise Weihs, Mira Erhart, Lisa Maier, Miriam Leskien, Johanna Tuhkanen, Aline Doreen Scherff, Natan Yusupov, Jonas Hagenberg, Anna Sophie Fröhlich, Vera N Karlbauer, Sandra Van der Auwera, Tanja Maria Brückl, , Elisabeth B. Binder

The paper identifies contmeQTLs linking childhood adversity to epigenetic changes in immune cells, which are associated with disease risk and inflammatory profiles.

Biological Psychiatry · Apr 25, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Theobromine is Associated with Slower Epigenetic Ageing

Ramy Saad, Ricardo Costeira, Pamela R. Matías‐García, Sergio Villicaña, Christian Gieger, Karsten Suhre, Annette Peters, Gabi Kastenmüller, Ana Rodriguez‐Mateos, Cristina Dias, Cristina Menni, Melanie Waldenberger, Jordana T. Bell

The paper finds that higher serum theobromine levels are associated with slower epigenetic ageing in humans, as measured by GrimAge and DNAmTL.

Aging · Dec 10, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics

Inbreeding and gallbladder cancer risk: Homozygosity associations adjusted for indigenous American ancestry, BMI and genetic risk of gallstone disease

Francisco C. Ceballos, Felix Boekstegers, Dominique Scherer, Carol Barahona Ponce, Katherine Marcelain, Valentina Gárate‐Calderón, Melanie Waldenberger, Erik Morales, Armando Rojas, César Munoz, Javier Retamales, Gonzalo de Toro, Allan Vera Kortmann, Barajas Olga, María Teresa Rivera, , Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

This study investigates the association between inbreeding, gallbladder cancer risk, and genetic factors in Chileans, finding sex- and age-specific interactions between homozygosity and gallstone disease risk.

Cancers · Dec 17, 2024Peer-reviewedGenetics

Evaluation of the causal effect of fibrinogen on incident coronary heart disease via Mendelian randomization

Cavin K Ward-Caviness, Paul S. de Vries, Kerri L. Wiggins, Jennifer E. Huffman, Lisa R. Yanek, Lawrence F. Bielak, Franco Giulianini, Xiuqing Guo, Marcus Edi Kleber, Tim Kacprowski, Astrid Petersman, George Davey Smith, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Jack Bowden, Gibran Hemani, , Alanna C. Morrison

This paper evaluates the causal effect of fibrinogen on coronary heart disease using Mendelian randomization, finding a small effect with multi-variant methods but not with single variant approaches.

PLoS ONE · May 10, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics

Atrial Fibrillation Genetic Risk Differentiates Cardioembolic Stroke from other Stroke Subtypes

Sara L. Pulit, Lu-Chen C Weng, Patrick F. McArdle, Ludovic Trinquart, Seung Hoan Choi, Braxton D. Mitchell, Jonathan M. Rosand, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Emelia J. Benjamin, Patrick T. Ellinor, Steven J. Kittner, Steven A. Lubitz, Christopher D. Anderson, Ingrid E. Christophersen, Michiel Rienstra, , Eric Boerwinkle

The paper assesses if genetic risk for atrial fibrillation explains cardioembolic stroke risk using genome-wide data from the Stroke Genetics Network.

Neurology Genetics · Dec 1, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics