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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

Are socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence of small-for-gestational-age birth narrowing? Findings from a population-based cohort in the South of England
Sam Wilding, Nida Ziauddeen, Paul Roderick, Dianna Smith, Debbie Chase, Nicholas Macklon, Nuala Mcgrath, Mark Hanson & Nisreen Alwan, 2019, BMJ Open, 9(7)
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026998
Type: article
Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: an individual participant data meta-analysis of Europe, North American and Australian cohorts
Susana G. Santos, Ellis Voerman, Pilar Amiano, Henrique Barros, Lawrence J Beilin, Anna Bergström, Marie-Aline Charles, Leda Chatzi, Cecile Chevrier, George P. Chrousos, Eva Corpeleijn, Olga Costa, Nathalie Costet, Sarah Crozier, Graham Devereux, Myriam Doyon, Merete Eggesbø, Maria Pia Fantini, Sara Farchi, Francesco Forastiere, Vagelis Georgiu, Keith Godfrey, Davide Gori, Veit Grote, Wojciech Hanke, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Barbara Heude, Marie-France Hivert, Daniel O. Hryhorczuk, Rae-Chi Huang, Hazel Inskip, Anne M. Karvonen, Louise C. Kenny, Berthold Koletzko, Leanne K. Küpers, Hanna Lagstrom, Irina Lehmann, Per Magnus, Renata Majewska, Johanna Makela, Yannis Manios, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Sheila W. McDonald, John Mehegan, Erik Melén, Monique Mommers, Camilla S Morgen, George Moschonis, Deirdre Murray, Carol Ni Chaoimh, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Emily Oken, Adriette J J M. Oostvogels, Agnieszka Pac, Eleni Papadopoulou, Juha Pekkanen, Costanza Pizzi, Kinga Polanska, Daniela Porta, Lorenzo Richiardi, Sheryl L. Rifas-shiman, Nel Roeleveld, Luca Ronfani, Ana C. Santos, Marie Standl, Hein Stigum, Camilla Stoltenberg, Elisabeth Thiering, Carel Thijs, Maties Torrent, Suzanne C. Tough, Tomas Trnovec, Steve Turner, Marleen M. H. J. van Gelder, Lenie van Rossem, Andrea von Berg, Martine Vrijheid, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte & Jane West, 2019, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 126(8), 984-995
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.15661
Type: article
Relationships of maternal body mass index and plasma biomarkers with childhood body mass index and adiposity at 6 years; the Children of SCOPE study
Kathryn Dalrymple, Shahina Begum, John M.D. Thompson, Wayne Cutfield, Ying Huang, Paul T. Seed, Andrew N. Shelling, Clare R. Wall, Robyn North, Lesley M.E. McCowan, Lucilla Poston, Keith Godfrey & Edwin A. Mitchell, 2019, Pediatric Obesity
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12537
Type: article
Preconception health in England: a proposal for annual reporting with core metrics
Mark Hanson, Christina Vogel, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Keith Godfrey & Mary Barker, 2019, The Lancet, 393(10187), 2262-2271
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30954-7
Type: article
DOHaD - the challenge of translating science into policy
M. A. Hanson, L. Poston & P. D. Gluckman, 2019, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 10(3), 263-267
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174419000205
Type: letterEditorial