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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

Pregnancy Nutrition: a protocol for the development of a Core Outcome Set (PRENCOS)
Sarah Louise Killeen, Eileen C. O'Brien, Chandni Maria Jacob, Sharleen O'Reilly, Mark Hanson & Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, 2019, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 147(2), 134-139
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.12953
Type: article
The FIGO Pregnancy and Obesity Initiative (PONI)
Mark Hanson, Chandni Maria Jacob, Moshe Hod, Sarah Louise Killeen & Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, 2019, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 147(2), 131-133
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.12950
Type: letterEditorial
Maternal obesity during pregnancy alters daily activity and feeding cycles, and hypothalamic clock gene expression in adult male mouse offspring
Jane Cleal, Kimberley D. Bruce, Jasmine L. Shearer, Hugh Thomas, Jack Plume, Louise Gregory, James Shepard, Kerry Spiers-Fitzgerald, Ravi Mani, Rohan Lewis, Karen Lillycrop, Mark Hanson, Christopher Byrne & Felino Cagampang, 2019, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(21), 1-19
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20215408
Type: article
Myo-inositol alters C-labelled fatty acid metabolism in human placental explants
Oliver C. Watkins, Mohammed Omedul Islam, Preben Selvam, Reshma Appukuttan Pillai, Amaury Cazenave-Gassiot, Anne K. Bendt, Neerja Karmani, Keith Godfrey, Rohan Lewis, Markus R. Wenk & Shiao-Yng Chan, 2019, Journal of Endocrinology, 243(1), 73-84
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-19-0267
Type: article
Niche modification, human cultural evolution and the anthropocene
Felicia M. Low, Peter D. Gluckman & Mark Hanson, 2019, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(10), 883-885
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.07.005
Type: letterEditorial