Research project

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

Research groups:

Plants and Food Security
Lead researcher:

Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson
Other researchers:

Professor Cyrus Cooper,

Professor Keith Godfrey,

Professor Karen Lillycrop,

Emeritus Professor Hazel Inskip
Research funder:

British Heart Foundation
Status:

Not active

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

Nutritional interventions or exposures in infants and children aged up to three years and their effects on subsequent risk of overweight, obesity, and body fat: A systematic review of systematic reviews

B. Patro-Golab, B.M. Zalewski, M. Kolodziej, S. Kouwenhoven, L. Poston, K,M. Godfrey, B. Koletzko, J.B. van Goudoever & H. Szajewska, 2016, Obesity Reviews, 17(12), 1245-1257

DOI: 10.1111/obr.12476

Type: article

Life course approach to the prevention of childhood obesity

Regien Biesma & Mark Hanson, 2016

DOI: 10.1201/9781315370958

Type: bookChapter

Commentary: Developing the future: life course epidemiology, DOHaD and evolutionary medicine

Mark Hanson & Peter Gluckman, 2016, International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(4), 993-996

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw105

Type: article

DNA methylation at birth within the promoter of ANRIL predicts markers of cardiovascular risk at 9 years

Robert Murray, Jennifer Bryant, Philip Titcombe, Sheila Barton, Hazel Inskip, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Karen Lillycrop, Mark Hanson & Keith Godfrey, 2016, Clinical Epigenetics, 8(90), 1-6