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National Ranking
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Overview

Jordana T. Bell is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant work also situated within Medicine. Within these broader disciplines, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's main topics of investigation cover several areas such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Gut Microbiota and Health, RNA Modifications and Cancer, Diet and Metabolism Studies, and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Among their recent papers are the following publications:

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging (2021, Genome biology)
  • Arrhythmic Gut Microbiome Signatures Predict Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • Colonic microbiota is associated with inflammation and host epigenomic alterations in inflammatory bowel disease (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives (2021, Genome biology)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Ricardo Costeira
  • Juan Castillo-Fernandez
  • Tim D. Spector
  • Annette Peters
  • Colette Christiansen

Jordana T. Bell's work appears regularly in several publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Genome biology

Best Publications

  • Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

    Julia K. Goodrich;Jillian L. Waters;Angela C. Poole;Jessica L. Sutter

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

  • DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

    Brian H. Chen;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Elena Colicino;Marjolein J. Peters

  • Genetic Determinants of the Gut Microbiome in UK Twins

    Julia K. Goodrich;Emily R. Davenport;Michelle Beaumont;Matthew A. Jackson

  • DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines.

    Jordana T Bell;Jordana T Bell;Athma A Pai;Joseph K Pickrell;Daniel J Gaffney;Daniel J Gaffney

  • Mapping cis - and trans -regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins

    E Grundberg;K S Small;K S Small;Å K Hedman;A C Nica

  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

    Simone Wahl;Alexander Drong;Benjamin Lehne;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh

  • Proton pump inhibitors alter the composition of the gut microbiota

    Matthew A. Jackson;Julia K. Goodrich;Maria Emanuela Maxan;Daniel E. Freedberg

  • Epigenome-Wide Scans Identify Differentially Methylated Regions for Age and Age-Related Phenotypes in a Healthy Ageing Population

    Jordana T. Bell;Pei-Chien Tsai;Tsun-Po Yang;Ruth Pidsley

  • DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

    Christopher G Bell;Robert Lowe;Peter D Adams;Peter D Adams;Andrea A Baccarelli

  • Obesity accelerates epigenetic aging of human liver

    Steve Horvath;Wiebke Erhart;Mario Brosch;Ole Ammerpohl

  • Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites

    Ran Blekhman;Julia K. Goodrich;Katherine Huang;Qi Sun

  • The fecal metabolome as a functional readout of the gut microbiome.

    Jonas Zierer;Jonas Zierer;Matthew A. Jackson;Gabi Kastenmüller;Massimo Mangino;Massimo Mangino

  • Interplay between the human gut microbiome and host metabolism.

    Alessia Visconti;Caroline I. Le Roy;Fabio Rosa;Niccolò Rossi;Niccolò Rossi

  • The architecture of gene regulatory variation across multiple human tissues: the MuTHER study

    Alexandra C. Nica;Alexandra C. Nica;Leopold Parts;Daniel Glass;James Nisbet

  • Gut microbiota associations with common diseases and prescription medications in a population-based cohort

    Matthew A. Jackson;Matthew A. Jackson;Serena Verdi;Maria Emanuela Maxan;Cheol Min Shin;Cheol Min Shin

  • Biomarkers for type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose using a nontargeted metabolomics approach

    Cristina Menni;Eric Fauman;Idil Erte;John R.B. Perry

  • GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia

    Joëlle A. Pasman;Karin J. H. Verweij;Karin J. H. Verweij;Zachary Gerring;Sven Stringer

  • A twin approach to unraveling epigenetics

    Jordana T. Bell;Tim D. Spector

  • Signatures of early frailty in the gut microbiota.

    Matthew A. Jackson;Ian B. Jeffery;Michelle Beaumont;Jordana T. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Kerrin S. Small
Kerrin S. Small King's College London
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Elin Grundberg
Elin Grundberg Children's Mercy Hospital
Riccardo E. Marioni
Riccardo E. Marioni University of Edinburgh
Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley Max Planck Society
Scott G. Wilson
Scott G. Wilson University of Western Australia
Cristina Menni
Cristina Menni King's College London

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