Professor Gibran Hemani
Current positions
Professor in Statistical Genetics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8073 MRC IEU - Daniel Searby RTSG
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2024 to 31/01/2028
Making sense of the varying methylome and varying disease patterns
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical SchoolDates
04/10/2023
Lifecourse GWAS Consortium
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
Acute, chronic, and recurring, adverse health conditions that emerge in later life are often shaped by processes experienced throughout life. Gaining a better understanding of how exposures at different stages…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2023 to 31/10/2028
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
09/01/2025Unidirectional and bidirectional causation between smoking and blood DNA methylation: evidence from twin-based Mendelian randomisation.
European Journal of Epidemiology
Use of genetic correlations to examine selection bias
Genetic Epidemiology
Genetics impact risk of Alzheimer’s disease through mechanisms modulating structural brain morphology in late life
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
No Evidence of Interaction Between FADS2 Genotype and Breastfeeding on Cognitive or Other Traits in the UK Biobank
Behavior Genetics
PheWAS-based clustering of Mendelian Randomisation instruments reveals distinct mechanism-specific causal effects between obesity and educational attainment
Nature Communications
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