Markers of kidney function, genetic variation related to cognitive function, and cognitive performance in the UK Biobank

EL Richard, LK McEvoy, IJ Deary, G Davies, SY Cao… - BMC nephrology, 2022 - Springer
… causal effects of these kidney function markers. Using genetic data from the UK Biobank,
we recently carried out a one-sample MR study examining the causal effects of eGFRcys, …

New Horizons: the value of UK Biobank to research on endocrine and metabolic disorders

J Bešević, B Lacey, M Conroy… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
impact on our understanding of the genetic … of thyroid disorders in relation to regional brain
volumes, with an association found between hypothyroidism and reduced gray matter volume

Genetic influences on the shape of brain ventricular and subcortical structures

B Zhao, T Li, X Yang, J Shu, X Wang, T Luo, Y Yang… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
… For regional brain volumes, we found associations for volumeshypothyroidism had also
been linked to changes of brain … This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank

Hippocampal volume is decreased in adults with hypothyroidism

GE Cooke, S Mullally, N Correia, SM O'Mara, J Gibney - Thyroid, 2014 - liebertpub.com
brain volume was not altered, indicating that perinatal hypothyroidism irreversibly reduces
brain volume … The aim of the present study was to determine for the first time the effects of adult…

Sex is a defining feature of neuroimaging phenotypes in major brain disorders

LE Salminen, MA Tubi, J Bright… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… in the UK Biobank cohort by examining the impact of oral … how sex differences in brain size
can be explained by differences … an important index of maximal brain size across the lifespan, …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of Body Mass Index on Brain Structures in the Elderly: Longitudinal Analyses

H Takeuchi, R Kawashima - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Additionally, in this study, we used the UK Biobank data, which is rich in both sample size
and type, to evaluate whether higher BMI is associated with lower subsequent cognitive …

Controlled Antenatal Thyroid Screening Study III: Effects of gestational thyroid status on adolescent brain morphology

A Scholz, CB McNabb, L Bloomfield… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… TSH with gray matter volume in their study was only … effect of maternal thyroid status on 5
child brain volume may therefore have been missed in our study due to the slightly later thyroid

Analysis of predicted loss-of-function variants in UK Biobank identifies variants protective for disease

CA Emdin, AV Khera, M Chaffin, D Klarin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… transcript and direction of biological effect. In >400,000 UK Biobank participants, we conduct
… , is associated with a reduced risk of hypothyroidism in UK Biobank participants (OR 0.77 CI …

Genome-wide analysis in UK Biobank identifies four loci associated with mood instability and genetic correlation with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder and …

J Ward, RJ Strawbridge, MES Bailey, N Graham… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
… Furthermore, general population twin studies suggest that additive genetic effects account
for 40% of the variance in measures of affect intensity and 25% of the variance in affective …

Causal effects of atrial fibrillation on brain white and gray matter volume: a Mendelian randomization study

S Park, S Lee, Y Kim, S Cho, K Kim, YC Kim, SS Han… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
… causal effect of atrial fibrillation on brain volume phenotypes … solely consisted of the UK
Biobank cohort, we intentionally … thyroid disorder in the abovementioned 337,138 white British …