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Research groups
Colleges
DPhil Supervisor Profile
Mark McCarthy
MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP, FRSB, FMedSci
Robert Turner Professor of Diabetic Medicine
My group brings together large-scale genetic, genomic and clinical data relevant to type 2 diabetes and related conditions, and then uses it to explore mechanisms.
Key publications
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Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease.
Journal article
Horikoshi M. et al, (2016), Nature, 538, 248 - 252
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The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.
Journal article
Fuchsberger C. et al, (2016), Nature, 536, 41 - 47
Recent publications
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Erratum to: Telomerecat: A ploidy-agnostic method for estimating telomere length from whole genome sequencing data (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (1300), 10.1038/s41598-017-14403-y)
Journal article
Farmery JHR. et al, (2018), Scientific reports, 8
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Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics
Journal article
Barbeira AN. et al, (2018), Nature communications, 9
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Plasma Fucosylated Glycans and C-Reactive Protein As Biomarkers of HNF1A-MODY in Young Adult-Onset Nonautoimmune Diabetes.
Journal article
Juszczak A. et al, (2018), Diabetes care
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Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic disease
Conference paper
Beaumont RN. et al, (2018), Genetic epidemiology, 42, 688 - 688
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Author Correction: Regulatory variants at KLF14 influence type 2 diabetes risk via a female-specific effect on adipocyte size and body composition.
Journal article
Small KS. et al, (2018), Nat genet, 50
ORCID
0000-0002-4393-0510