Professor Gibran Hemani
Current positions
Professor in Statistical Genetics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Disentangling Early-Life Pathways to Breast Cancer: Investigating the Independent and Interactive Effects of Prepubertal Body Composition and Puberty Timing
Principal Investigator
Role
Manager
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2025 to 30/04/2027
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
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
25/04/2025Immunological Drivers and Potential Novel Drug Targets for Major Psychiatric, Neurodevelopmental, and Neurodegenerative Conditions
Molecular Psychiatry
Lifecourse Genome-Wide Association Study Meta-Analysis Refines the Critical Life Stages for the Influence of Adiposity on Breast Cancer
Science Advances
Role of Inflammation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Affect, and Cognition: Genetic and Non-Genetic Findings in the Lifelines Cohort Study.
Translational Psychiatry
Unidirectional 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
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