Sociology, genetics, and the coming of age of sociogenomics

MC Mills, FC Tropf - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic
data. We chronicle the history of genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide …

Genetics of female and male reproductive traits and their relationship with health, longevity and consequences for offspring

S Benonisdottir, VJ Straub, A Kong, MC Mills - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Substantial shifts in reproductive behaviors have recently taken place in many high-income
countries including earlier age at menarche, advanced age at childbearing, rising …

The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer

PC Haycock, MC Borges, K Burrows, RN Lemaitre… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The causal relevance of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for risk of site-
specific cancers remains uncertain. Methods Using a Mendelian randomization (MR) …

Genetic determinants of micronucleus formation in vivo

DJ Adams, B Barlas, RE McIntyre, I Salguero… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic instability arising from defective responses to DNA damage or mitotic
chromosomal imbalances can lead to the sequestration of DNA in aberrant extranuclear …

Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women

A Liu, ET Akimova, X Ding, S Jukarainen… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
The percentage of people without children over their lifetime is approximately 25% in men
and 20% in women. Individual diseases have been linked to childlessness, mostly in …

The relationships between women's reproductive factors: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

C Prince, GC Sharp, LD Howe, A Fraser, RC Richmond - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Women's reproductive factors include their age at menarche and menopause,
the age at which they start and stop having children and the number of children they have …

The impact of reproductive factors on the metabolic profile of females from menarche to menopause

GL Clayton, MC Borges, DA Lawlor - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
We explore the relation between age at menarche, parity and age at natural menopause
with 249 metabolic traits in over 65,000 UK Biobank women using multivariable regression …

Estimating direct and indirect genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using genome-wide summary results data

NM Warrington, LD Hwang, MG Nivard… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Estimation of direct and indirect (ie parental and/or sibling) genetic effects on phenotypes is
becoming increasingly important. We compare several multivariate methods that utilize …

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori

E Tourrette, RC Torres, SL Svensson, T Matsumoto… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Helicobacter pylori disturbs the stomach lining during long-term colonization of its human
host, with sequelae including ulcers and gastric cancer,. Numerous H. pylori virulence …

tstrait: a quantitative trait simulator for ancestral recombination graphs

D Tagami, G Bisschop, J Kelleher - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) encode the ensemble of correlated genealogical
trees arising from recombination in a compact and efficient structure, and are of fundamental …