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Research project

Hanson RG/15/17/31749 Epigenetic Biomarkers and Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk in Children

Staff

Lead researcher

Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson

Connect with Mark

Email: M.Hanson@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology

Research interests

  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture in late adulthood
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone mineral accrual in childhood
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Karen Lillycrop

Professor of Epigenetics

Research interests

  • Epigenetics
  • Human Disease
Connect with Karen

Email: K.A.Lillycrop@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Hazel Inskip MSc, PhD, FFPH

Connect with Hazel

Email: hmi@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Plants and Food Security

We study the response of plants to the environment at the molecular, whole plant and ecological levels. This includes interactions with nematodes, insects and microbes.

Research outputs

A scoping review of nutritional interventions and policy guidelines in the interconception period for prevention of non-communicable diseases
Daniella Watson, Chandni Maria Jacob, Gareth Giles, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Keith Godfrey & Mark Hanson, 2022, Reproductive, Female & Child Health
DOI: 10.1002/rfc2.8
Type: article
Association of plasma kynurenine pathway metabolite concentrations with metabolic health risk in pre-pubertal Asian children
Karen Mei Ling Tan, Mya Thway Tint, Narasimhan Kothandaraman, Fabian Yap, Keith Godfrey, Yung Seng Lee, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap Seng Chong, Mary F.F. Chong, Johan G. Eriksson & David Cameron-Smith, 2022, International Journal of Obesity, 46(6), 1128-1137
DOI: 10.1038/s41366-022-01085-4
Type: article
Maternal weight and gestational diabetes impacts on child health
Kathryn V. Dalrymple, Sarah El-Heis & Keith Godfrey, 2022, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 25(3), 203-208
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000826
Type: review
Measuring early life adversity: a dimensional approach
Ilana S. Berman, Katie A. McLaughlin, Nim Tottenham, Keith Godfrey, Teresa Seeman, Eric Loucks, Stephen Suomi, Andrea Danese & Margaret A. Sheridan, 2022, Development and Psychopathology, 34(2), 499-511
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579421001826
Type: article
Children born during the hunger season are at a higher risk of severe acute malnutrition: findings from a Guinea Sahelian ecological zone in Northern Ghana.
Englebert A. Nonterah, Paul Welaga, Samuel T. Chatio, Sarah Kehoe, Winfred Ofosu, Kate Ward, Keith Godfrey, Abraham R. Oduro & Marie-Louise Newell, 2022, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 18(2)
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13313
Type: article