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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
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Overview

Nicholas J. Wareham is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on genetics and public health, environmental, and occupational health. The subfields they work in include physiology, molecular biology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including genetic associations and epidemiology, nutritional studies and diet, obesity, physical activity and diet, physical activity and health, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, and diet and metabolism studies.

Wareham has published extensively in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Medicine
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Frequent coauthors of Wareham include Claudia Langenberg, Nita G. Forouhi, Kay-Tee Khaw, Sören Brage, and Eleanor Wheeler, reflecting collaborations across a broad spectrum of research themes.

Some of the recent notable papers by Nicholas J. Wareham are:

  • Associations of type 1 and type 2 diabetes with COVID-19-related mortality in England: a whole-population study (2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • Risk factors for COVID-19-related mortality in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in England: a population-based cohort study (2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • Using human genetics to understand the disease impacts of testosterone in men and women (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Mapping the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases (2021, Science)
  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation (2021, Nature Genetics)

Throughout their career, Wareham has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • 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

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans

    C T Montague;I S Farooqi;J P Whitehead;M A Soos

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • International Expert Committee Report on the Role of the A1C Assay in the Diagnosis of Diabetes

    David M. Nathan;Beverly Balkau;Enzo Bonora;Knut Borch-Johnsen

  • 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

  • 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 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • 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 identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Robert Luben
Robert Luben University College London
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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