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Dr Fotios Drenos
Reader in Genetic Epidemiology

Ahmed, A., Amin, H., Drenos, F., Sattar, N. and Yaghootkar, H. (2023) 'Genetic Evidence Strongly Supports Managing Weight and Blood Pressure in Addition to Glycemic Control in Preventing Vascular Complications in People With Type 2 Diabetes'. Diabetes Care, 46 (10). pp. 1783 - 1791. ISSN: 0149-5992

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Schmidt, AF., Joshi, R., Gordillo-Marañón, M., Drenos, F., Charoen, P., Giambartolomei, C., et al. (2023) 'Biomedical consequences of elevated cholesterol-containing lipoproteins and apolipoproteins on cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular outcomes'. Communications Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 2730-664X

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Amin, HA. and Drenos, F. (2021) 'No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: A Mendelian randomisation study of open data'. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, 4 (1). pp. 42 - 48. ISSN: 2516-5542

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Surendran, P., Feofanova, EV., Lahrouchi, N., Ntalla, I., Karthikeyan, S., Cook, J., et al. (2020) 'Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals'. Nature Genetics, 52 (12). pp. 1314 - 1332. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Kyrou, I., Karteris, E., Robbins, T., Chatha, K., Drenos, F. and Randeva, HS. (2020) 'Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and COVID-19: an overlooked female patient population at potentially higher risk during the COVID-19 pandemic'. BMC medicine, 18 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1741-7015

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Deelen, J., Kettunen, J., Fischer, K., van der Spek, A., Trompet, S., Kastenmüller, G., et al. (2019) 'A metabolic profile of all-cause mortality risk identified in an observational study of 44,168 individuals'. Nature Communications, 10 (1). pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 2041-1723

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Justice, AE., Karaderi, T., Highland, HM., Young, KL., Graff, M., Lu, Y., et al. (2019) 'Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution'. Nature Genetics, 51 (3). pp. 452 - 469. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Turcot, V., Lu, Y., Highland, HM., Schurmann, C., Justice, AE., Fine, RS., et al. (2018) 'Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity'. Nature Genetics, 50 (1). pp. 26 - 35. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Marouli, E., Graff, M., Medina-Gomez, C., Lo, KS., Wood, AR., Kjaer, TR., et al. (2017) 'Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height'. Nature, 542 (7640). pp. 186 - 190. ISSN: 0028-0836

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Warren, HR., Evangelou, E., Cabrera, CP., Gao, H., Ren, M., Mifsud, B., et al. (2017) 'Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk'. Nature Genetics, 49 (3). pp. 403 - 415. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Liu, C., Kraja, AT., Smith, JA., Brody, JA., Franceschini, N., Bis, JC., et al. (2016) 'Meta-analysis identifies common and rare variants influencing blood pressure and overlapping with metabolic trait loci'. Nature Genetics, 48 (10). pp. 1162 - 1170. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Surendran, P., Drenos, F., Young, R., Warren, H., Cook, JP., Manning, AK., et al. (2016) 'Trans-ancestry meta-analyses identify rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension'. NATURE GENETICS, 48 (10). pp. 1151 - 1161. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Ehret, GB., Ferreira, T., Chasman, DI., Jackson, AU., Schmidt, EM., Johnson, T., et al. (2016) 'The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals'. Nature Genetics, 48 (10). pp. 1171 - 1184. ISSN: 1061-4036

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Swerdlow, DI., Preiss, D., Kuchenbaecker, KB., Holmes, MV., Engmann, JEL., Shah, T., et al. (2015) 'HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: Evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials'. The Lancet, 385 (9965). pp. 351 - 361. ISSN: 0140-6736

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Holmes, MV., Asselbergs, FW., Palmer, TM., Drenos, F., Lanktree, MB., Nelson, CP., et al. (2014) 'Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease'. European Heart Journal, 36 (9). pp. 539 - 550. ISSN: 0195-668X

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Talmud, PJ., Shah, S., Whittall, R., Futema, M., Howard, P., Cooper, JA., et al. (2013) 'Use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol gene score to distinguish patients with polygenic and monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia: A case-control study'. The Lancet, 381 (9874). pp. 1293 - 1301. ISSN: 0140-6736

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Swerdlow, DI., Holmes, MV., Kuchenbaecker, KB., Engmann, JEL., Shah, T., Sofat, R., et al. (2012) 'The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: A mendelian randomisation analysis'. The Lancet, 379 (9822). pp. 1214 - 1224. ISSN: 0140-6736

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