William L. Lowe

The paper conducts a multi-ancestry, trans-generational GWAS meta-analysis of gestational diabetes and glycemic traits, identifying novel loci and highlighting limited pregnancy-specific genetic effects.

The paper tests associations between maternal KIR haplotypes and fetal HLA-C alleles with birth weight in a large sample, finding no significant interactions or replication of previous findings.

This study examines how genetic variants linked to gestational diabetes affect maternal glucose levels during and after pregnancy, finding consistent associations with fasting glucose but varying effects on postprandial glucose.

This study identifies genetic loci associated with gestational duration and preterm delivery, showing maternal and fetal genetic effects and antagonistic pleiotropy with birth weight.

The paper examines the effect of fetal genetic predispositions to metabolically favourable adult adiposity and BMI on birth weight and other anthropometric traits, finding stronger associations with birth weight for the adiposity alleles.

This study uses Mendelian Randomisation to show that maternal metabolically favourable adiposity is associated with lower offspring birth weight compared to general adiposity indexed by BMI.

The paper examines how different glucose thresholds for gestational diabetes identify women with higher genetic risk for type 2 diabetes using genetic scores.

This study identifies a fetal genome-wide association signal near pro-inflammatory cytokine genes on 2q13 linked to gestational duration and preterm/postterm birth.

This study identifies maternal genetic variants associated with offspring birth weight using GWAS and SEM, showing independent effects from fetal genetics.

This study investigates the genetic contributions to gestational weight gain, finding that maternal common variants explain about 20% of variability, while fetal variants have a minor role.