Mariona Bustamante

The paper investigates mercury resistance in gut microbiota of children, finding high prevalence of Hg-resistant bacteria and strong taxonomic structuring of resistance genes.

This study constructs a high-resolution placental mQTL resource and investigates how placental DNA methylation relates to early- and later-life traits and their shared vulnerability.

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 identifies placental DNA methylation (DNAm) as a potential mediator of genetic risk for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder using mQTL and GWAS data.

This study identifies genetic variants associated with urinary phthalate metabolite levels in children through GWAS and CNV analysis.

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.

This study conducts a genome-wide association analysis of blood mercury levels in pregnant women and children, identifying suggestive genetic variants but lacking replication across populations.

This study identifies 40 genetic loci associated with placental weight using GWAS in 179,025 children and parents, revealing shared and distinct genetic influences with fetal growth.

This paper identifies 39,749 autosomal cis-eQTMs in children's blood using HELIX data, showing most are near genes and many have genetic variants associated with methylation and expression.

This study identifies placental DNA methylation changes linked to maternal smoking during pregnancy and their associations with birth outcomes using data from the PACE consortium.

The paper identifies novel long non-coding RNAs and circular RNAs in hematopoietic cells using BLUEPRINT consortium data, highlighting their cell type specificity.

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 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.