Stefania Benónísdóttir

The paper investigates sex-specific penetrance in PILBOS, showing male overrepresentation and androgen-mediated sexual dimorphism through genetic and mouse model studies.

Family-based GWAS meta-analysis of 34 phenotypes shows standard GWAS effects carry sizeable confounding uncorrelated with direct genetic effects, while assortative mating likely inflates SNP heritability and genetic correlations.

The paper identifies genetic factors influencing participation in genetic studies by analyzing allele frequency differences in related individuals from the UK Biobank.

The paper develops a method to impute parental genotypes from sibling data to estimate direct and indirect genetic effects, finding that standard GWAS underestimates direct effects for several traits.

This study uses Mendelian randomisation to investigate the causal effects of obesity on female reproductive conditions, finding that central obesity and metabolic hormones mediate these associations.

The paper introduces mendelian imputation to disentangle genotype-phenotype associations by leveraging family data, showing improved predictive power for educational attainment.

The paper shows that non-transmitted parental alleles affect a child's traits through their impact on parents and relatives, termed genetic nurture, with significant effects on educational attainment and other traits.