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From groundbreaking discoveries in basic science to innovative clinical insights, our publications showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place at the UK DRI. 

Nat Genet
Published

Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

Authors
Evangelos Evangelou, Helen R Warren, David Mosen-Ansorena, Borbala Mifsud, Raha Pazoki, He Gao, Georgios Ntritsos, Niki Dimou, Claudia P Cabrera, Ibrahim Karaman, Fu Liang Ng, Marina Evangelou, Katarzyna Witkowska, Evan Tzanis, Jacklyn N Hellwege, Ayush Giri, Digna R Velez Edwards, Yan V Sun, Kelly Cho, J Michael Gaziano, Peter W F Wilson, Philip S Tsao, Csaba P Kovesdy, Tonu Esko, Reedik Mägi, Lili Milani, Peter Almgren, Thibaud Boutin, Stéphanie Debette, Jun Ding, Franco Giulianini, Elizabeth G Holliday, Anne U Jackson, Ruifang Li-Gao, Wei-Yu Lin, Jian'an Luan, Massimo Mangino, Christopher Oldmeadow, Bram Peter Prins, Yong Qian, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Nabi Shah, Praveen Surendran, Sébastien Thériault, Niek Verweij, Sara M Willems, Jing-Hua Zhao, Philippe Amouyel, John Connell, Renée de Mutsert, Alex S F Doney, Martin Farrall, Cristina Menni, Andrew D Morris, Raymond Noordam, Guillaume Paré, Neil R Poulter, Denis C Shields, Alice Stanton, Simon Thom, Gonçalo Abecasis, Najaf Amin, Dan E Arking, Kristin L Ayers, Caterina M Barbieri, Chiara Batini, Joshua C Bis, Tineka Blake, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Erwin P Bottinger, Peter S Braund, Marco Brumat, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Aravinda Chakravarti, John C Chambers, Ganesh Chauhan, Marina Ciullo, Massimiliano Cocca, Francis Collins, Heather J Cordell, Gail Davies, Martin H de Borst, Eco J de Geus, Ian J Deary, Joris Deelen, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, Marcus Dörr, Georg B Ehret, Roberto Elosua, Stefan Enroth, A Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Ferreira, Mattias Frånberg, Oscar H Franco, Ilaria Gandin, Paolo Gasparini, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Christian Gieger, Giorgia Girotto, Anuj Goel, Alan J Gow, Vilmundur Gudnason, Xiuqing Guo, Ulf Gyllensten, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Sarah E Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Aki S Havulinna, Andrew A Hicks, Edith Hofer, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Shih-Jen Hwang, Erik Ingelsson, Alan James, Rick Jansen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Roby Joehanes, Åsa Johansson, Andrew D Johnson, Peter K Joshi, Pekka Jousilahti, J Wouter Jukema, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Sekar Kathiresan, Bernard D Keavney, Kay-Tee Khaw, Paul Knekt, Joanne Knight, Ivana Kolcic, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Kati Kristiansson, Zoltan Kutalik, Maris Laan, Marty Larson, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Terho Lehtimäki, David C M Liewald, Li Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, YongMei Liu, Ruth J F Loos, Lorna M Lopez, Yingchang Lu, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Jaume Marrugat, Jonathan Marten, Yuri Milaneschi, Anna Morgan, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Peter J Munson, Mike A Nalls, Priyanka Nandakumar, Christopher P Nelson, Teemu Niiranen, Ilja M Nolte, Teresa Nutile, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Paul F O'Reilly, Elin Org, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Walter Palmas, Aarno Palotie, Alison Pattie, Brenda W J H Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Peter P Pramstaller, Quang Tri Nguyen, Olli T Raitakari, Meixia Ren, Rainer Rettig, Kenneth Rice, Paul M Ridker, Janina S Ried, Harriëtte Riese, Samuli Ripatti, Antonietta Robino, Lynda M Rose, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Daniela Ruggiero, Yasaman Saba, Cinzia F Sala, Veikko Salomaa, Nilesh J Samani, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Nick Shrine, David Siscovick, Albert V Smith, Harold Snieder, Siim Sõber, Rossella Sorice, John M Starr, David J Stott, David P Strachan, Rona J Strawbridge, Johan Sundström, Morris A Swertz, Kent D Taylor, Alexander Teumer, Martin D Tobin, Maciej Tomaszewski, Daniela Toniolo, Michela Traglia, Stella Trompet, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Christophe Tzourio, André G Uitterlinden, Ahmad Vaez, Peter J van der Most, Cornelia M van Duijn, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Germaine C Verwoert, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Dragana Vuckovic, Hugh Watkins, Sarah H Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, James F Wilson, Alan F Wright, Jie Yao, Tatijana Zemunik, Weihua Zhang, John R Attia, Adam S Butterworth, Daniel I Chasman, David Conen, Francesco Cucca, John Danesh, Caroline Hayward, Joanna M M Howson, Markku Laakso, Edward G Lakatta, Claudia Langenberg, Olle Melander, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Colin N A Palmer, Lorenz Risch, Robert A Scott, Rodney J Scott, Peter Sever, Tim D Spector, Pim van der Harst, Nicholas J Wareham, Eleftheria Zeggini, Daniel Levy, Patricia B Munroe, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Morris J Brown, Andres Metspalu, Adriana M Hung, Christopher J O'Donnell, Todd L Edwards, Bruce M Psaty, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Michael R Barnes, Louise V Wain, Paul Elliott, Mark J Caulfield,
Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.
Nat Genet
Published

Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease.

Authors
Julien Bryois, Nathan G Skene, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Lisette J A Kogelman, Hunna J Watson, Zijing Liu, , , , Leo Brueggeman, Gerome Breen, Cynthia M Bulik, Ernest Arenas, Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Patrick F Sullivan
Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease.
Nat Genet
Published

Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia.

Authors
Nathan G Skene, Julien Bryois, Trygve E Bakken, Gerome Breen, James J Crowley, Héléna A Gaspar, Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Rebecca D Hodge, Jeremy A Miller, Ana B Muñoz-Manchado, Michael C O'Donovan, Michael J Owen, Antonio F Pardiñas, Jesper Ryge, James T R Walters, Sten Linnarsson, Ed S Lein, , Patrick F Sullivan, Jens Hjerling-Leffler
Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia.
Nat Neurosci
Published

Central nervous system regeneration is driven by microglia necroptosis and repopulation.

Authors
Amy F Lloyd, Claire L Davies, Rebecca K Holloway, Yasmine Labrak, Graeme Ireland, Dario Carradori, Alessandra Dillenburg, Eva Borger, Daniel Soong, Jill C Richardson, Tanja Kuhlmann, Anna Williams, Jeffrey W Pollard, Anne des Rieux, Josef Priller, Veronique E Miron
Central nervous system regeneration is driven by microglia necroptosis and repopulation.
Nature
Published

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution.

Authors
Takahiro Masuda, Roman Sankowski, Ori Staszewski, Chotima Böttcher, Lukas Amann, Sagar, Christian Scheiwe, Stefan Nessler, Patrik Kunz, Geert van Loo, Volker Arnd Coenen, Peter Christoph Reinacher, Anna Michel, Ulrich Sure, Ralf Gold, Dominic Grün, Josef Priller, Christine Stadelmann, Marco Prinz
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution.
Nat Neurosci
Published

Human microglia regional heterogeneity and phenotypes determined by multiplexed single-cell mass cytometry.

Authors
Chotima Böttcher, Stephan Schlickeiser, Marjolein A M Sneeboer, Desiree Kunkel, Anniki Knop, Evdokia Paza, Pawel Fidzinski, Larissa Kraus, Gijsje J L Snijders, René S Kahn, Axel R Schulz, Henrik E Mei, , Elly M Hol, Britta Siegmund, Rainer Glauben, Eike J Spruth, Lot D de Witte, Josef Priller
Human microglia regional heterogeneity and phenotypes determined by multiplexed single-cell mass cytometry.
Acta Neuropathol
Published

Biallelic mutations in NRROS cause an early onset lethal microgliopathy.

Authors
Colin Smith, Barry W McColl, Anirudh Patir, Jack Barrington, Jeremy Armishaw, Antonia Clarke, Jenny Eaton, Vivienne Hobbs, Sahar Mansour, Melinda Nolan, Gillian I Rice, Mathieu P Rodero, Luis Seabra, Carolina Uggenti, John H Livingston, Leslie R Bridges, Iona J M Jeffrey, Yanick J Crow
Biallelic mutations in NRROS cause an early onset lethal microgliopathy.