Professor Caroline Relton
BSc, PGCE, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Epigenetic Epidemiology and MRC Investigator
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
COVID-19 Mapping and Mitigation in Schools (CoMMinS) : MR/V028545/1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2020 to 31/03/2022
Mapping and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Schools
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2020 to 31/08/2021
8073 MRC IEU - E.Jamieson Studentship consumables - linked to Prog 5
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 31/05/2023
8073 MRC IEU - T.Sharp Studentship consumables linked to Prog 1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 30/05/2020
Thesis supervisions
The use of aspirin for primary and secondary prevention of colorectal cancer
Supervisors
Appraising the causal relationship between DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes
Supervisors
An Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Eczema
Supervisors
Identifying new drugs and re-purposing old drugs for the treatment of glioma
Supervisors
Genetic and epigenetic data as a tool to augment understanding of oropharyngeal cancer
Supervisors
Applying ‘omics to understand and predict juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Supervisors
Multi-omics analyses to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation and stroke disease
Supervisors
Utilising multi-omic epidemiology approaches to better understand the molecular pathways underpinning glioma onset.
Supervisors
Pathways to obesity
Supervisors
Molecular prediction of pregnancy-related disorders
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/09/2023Chromosome 18 Loss of Heterozygosity in Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumours
Neuroendocrinology
Design and quality control of large-scale two-sample Mendelian randomization studies
International Journal of Epidemiology
DNA methylation at the suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) gene influences height in childhood
Nature Communications
Epigenetic clocks and research implications of the lack of data on whom they have been developed
Environmental Epigenetics
Evaluation and deployment of isotype-specific salivary antibody assays for detecting previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults
Communications Medicine
Related people
Professor George Davey Smith
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Hannah Elliott
Research Fellow in Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Matthew Suderman
Associate Professor in Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Gemma Sharp
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Gibran Hemani
Associate Professor in Statistical Genetics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)