Rebecca Claire Richmond

The paper infers circadian phase from blood biomarkers in UK Biobank using machine learning and defines a new construct, circadian acceleration, with genetic and environmental associations.

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 shows that adolescent sleep restriction increases adult alcohol consumption by promoting risky behavior, using both human epidemiological data and preclinical experiments.

This study uses Mendelian randomization to assess the causal effect of obesity and related metabolic traits on oral and oropharyngeal cancer risk, finding limited evidence of a direct causal link.

This study identifies epigenetic markers associated with night shift work, showing links to BMI, education, smoking, and accelerated biological aging.

This study uses Mendelian randomization to assess the causal effect of sexual behavior on oropharyngeal cancer risk, finding attenuated associations after adjusting for confounders.

Multivariable and two-step Mendelian randomisation recovered direct and indirect effects with little bias in simulations with confounding or measurement error, conditions that biased phenotypic regression mediation.

This study identifies 137 genome-wide significant loci associated with DNA methylation biomarkers of ageing using DNAm and SNP data from over 41,000 individuals.

This study uses Mendelian randomization to investigate causal relationships between smoking-associated DNA methylation and lung function, identifying 18 CpGs with potential causal effects on FEV1.

This study identifies 42 genetic loci associated with excessive daytime sleepiness and links them to phenotypic subgroups and related traits.

This study identifies genetic effects on birth weight and their impact on cardio-metabolic traits, distinguishing fetal and maternal contributions.

The paper identifies 57 genomic regions associated with insomnia symptoms, linking them to phototransduction, ubiquitination, and potential causal relationships with coronary heart disease and depression.

This study estimates SNP heritability of educational attainment and value-added measures using UK birth cohort data, finding increasing heritability with age and genetic contributions to some value-added measures.

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.