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Lavinia Paternoster is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields, including Physiology, Genetics, Dermatology, Molecular Biology, and Rheumatology.

The scientist's research interests focus primarily on genetic associations and epidemiology, asthma and respiratory diseases, and dermatology and skin diseases. Additional topics of investigation include osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and psoriasis: treatment and pathogenesis.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Lavinia Paternoster are:

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Navigating sample overlap, winner's curse and weak instrument bias in Mendelian randomization studies using the UK Biobank (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Strategies to investigate and mitigate collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomisation studies of disease progression (2023), published in PLoS Genetics
  • Age-of-onset information helps identify 76 genetic variants associated with allergic disease (2020), published in PLoS Genetics
  • Using multivariable Mendelian randomization to estimate the causal effect of bone mineral density on osteoarthritis risk, independently of body mass index (2021), published in International Journal of Epidemiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sara Brown, with 16 joint publications
  • George Davey Smith, with 15 joint publications
  • April Hartley, with 14 joint publications
  • Ashley Budu-Aggrey, with 13 joint publications
  • Jonathan H. Tobias, with 12 joint publications

Lavinia Paternoster has published frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 17 publications
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 9 publications
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 4 publications
  • PLoS Genetics, 3 publications
  • British Journal of Dermatology, 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis

    Jie Zheng;Mesut A. Erzurumluoglu;Benjamin L. Elsworth;John P. Kemp

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Johannes Waage;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • A genome-wide association study identifies CDHR3 as a susceptibility locus for early childhood asthma with severe exacerbations

    Klaus Bønnelykke;Patrick Sleiman;Kasper Nielsen;Eskil Kreiner-Møller

  • Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

    Felix R. Day;Deborah J. Thompson;Hannes Helgason;Hannes Helgason;Daniel I. Chasman

  • Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

    Nicole M Warrington;Robin N Beaumont;Momoko Horikoshi;Felix R Day

  • Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

    Momoko Horikoshi;Robin N. Beaumont;Felix R. Day;Nicole M. Warrington;Nicole M. Warrington

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology

    Manuel A. Ferreira;Judith M. Vonk;Hansjörg Baurecht;Ingo Marenholz;Ingo Marenholz

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

    Day Fr;Thompson Dj;elgason H;Chasman Di

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

David Evans
David Evans University of Bristol
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia
Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia University of Copenhagen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore

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