Alexander Neumann

The paper examines the relationship between infant muscle tone and cerebellar morphology in adolescence, finding specific cerebellar volume associations but no mediation of autistic traits.

This study integrates prenatal exposures and genetics to predict DNA methylation at birth, finding that the exposome explains additional variation beyond genetic factors.

The paper investigates genetic variants and oral contraceptive use interactions on depression risk in the UK Biobank, finding no genome-wide significant interactions.

This paper develops a miRNA-based gestational age clock (miRClock-GA) using cord blood plasma miRNA data and validates it in an independent cohort, showing associations with birthweight and childhood BMI.

This study investigates whether genetic birthweight predisposition, through direct or indirect effects, is associated with DNA methylation at birth and identifies six methylation sites linked to maternal indirect effects.

This study identifies 52 genetic variants associated with adolescent-onset depression through a large GWAS, revealing age-specific mechanisms and potential drug targets.

This study uses genome-wide meta-regression to analyze social behavior across different contexts, ages, and reporters, identifying six genetic loci and showing modest heritability.

The paper develops a DNAm reference panel called UniLIFE to estimate immune cell fractions in blood tissue across the lifespan, identifying biomarkers for type-1 diabetes in infants and children.

The paper characterizes the developmental trajectories of adult epigenetic clock sites using longitudinal cohort data, finding divergent patterns, early individual variation, and enrichment for genetic and prenatal environmental factors.

This study uses longitudinal meta-regression to examine how DNA methylation effects on child health outcomes vary by timing, finding larger effects in childhood but noisier associations and time-specific signals.

The paper estimates the variance explained by DNA methylation at birth for childhood phenotypes using GREML, finding moderate to large contributions for gestational age and birth weight but near-zero for BMI, IQ, and ADHD symptoms.

This study examines DNA methylation at birth and its association with childhood cognitive skills, finding weak single CpG site associations and one region near DUSP22 linked to non-verbal cognition.

This study conducts a genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood aggression across multiple raters, instruments, and ages, identifying genetic correlations with various traits but no genome-wide significant SNPs.

The paper analyzes DNA methylation changes across birth to late adolescence in two cohorts, finding widespread nonlinear changes and sex-specific patterns.

This study identifies DNA methylation sites at birth associated with ADHD symptoms later in childhood, but finds no such associations at school age.

This study identifies 12 genetic loci associated with loneliness and finds genetic correlations with 34 health outcomes, including cardiovascular and psychiatric disorders.