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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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A novel rare CUBN variant and three additional genes identified in Europeans with and without diabetes: results from an exome-wide association study of albuminuria.
Journal article
Ahluwalia TS. et al, (2018), Diabetologia
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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)
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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
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Barbeira AN. et al, (2018), Nature Communications, 9
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Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria.
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Day F. et al, (2018), PLoS Genet, 14
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Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent.
Journal article
Takeuchi F. et al, (2018), Nat Commun, 9
ORCID
0000-0002-4393-0510