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Genetics

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Inês Barroso is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a significant focus on genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, producing a substantial body of work related to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of study that Inês Barroso has contributed to are:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Surgery
  • Epidemiology

The main topics explored in their work cover a range of areas, prominently featuring genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as detailed studies in plant and animal genetic diversity. Additional focal topics include RNA modifications and cancer, nutrition, genetics and disease, metabolism, diabetes and cancer, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Eleanor Wheeler
  • Claudia Langenberg
  • I. Sadaf Farooqi
  • Nicholas J. Wareham
  • Daniel Stow

Inês Barroso has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Nature Communications
  • Diabetologia

Selected recent papers by Inês Barroso include:

  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Associations Between Glycemic Traits and Colorectal Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis (2022, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute)
  • Obesity-Associated GNAS Mutations and the Melanocortin Pathway (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification (2023, Nature Genetics)

Best Publications

  • A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity

    Timothy M. Frayling;Nicholas J. Timpson;Michael N. Weedon;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • The Obesity-Associated FTO Gene Encodes a 2-Oxoglutarate–Dependent Nucleic Acid Demethylase

    Thomas Gerken;Christophe A. Girard;Yi-Chun Loraine Tung;Celia J. Webby

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Dominant negative mutations in human PPARγ associated with severe insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus and hypertension

    I. Barroso;M. Gurnell;V. E. F. Crowley;M. Agostini

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    K Walter;J L Min;J Huang

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Jian'an Luan
Jian'an Luan University of Cambridge
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London

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