William Thompson

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.

This study identifies 351 new genetic loci associated with chronotype using data from 697,828 individuals and links them to circadian biology and disease.

A common FGF21 allele is associated with lower body fat in the lower body, higher blood pressure, and increased carbohydrate intake in a large human cohort.