Caroline L. Relton

45.5k citations

252 papers · 15.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 61

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
Genetics top 0.1%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health top 0.1%
Physiology top 1%
Epidemiology top 2%

Co-authors: George Davey Smith Tom R. Gaunt Gibran Hemani Philip Haycock Kaitlin H. Wade Richard M. Martin Stephen Burgess Ryan Langdon
Topics: Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (139 papers)Birth, Development, and Health (91 papers)Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (72 papers)
Cited by: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health Genetics Obstetrics and Gynecology
Journals: JAMA Nature CommunicationsSHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Caroline L. Relton

247 papers receiving 15.3k citations

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The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

2018 4.4k citations Gibran Hemani, Jie Zheng et al. profile →
Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the design, analysis, and interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies

2016 356 citations Philip Haycock, Kaitlin H. Wade et al. profile →
Systematic identification of genetic influences on methylation across the human life course

2016 351 citations Tom R. Gaunt, Hashem A. Shihab et al. profile →

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1	Role of DNA methylation in the relationship between glioma risk factors and glioma incidence: a two-step Mendelian randomization study 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·Amy Howell,Caroline L. Relton,Richard M. Martin,Jie Zheng,Kathreena M. Kurian	5
2	Investigating causality in the association between DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes using bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomisation 2023 ·Diabetologia ·(unknown),Gemma C. Sharp,Eleanor Sanderson,Caroline L. Relton,Hannah R. Elliott	12
3	Epigenetic profiling of social communication trajectories and co-occurring mental health problems: a prospective, methylome-wide association study 2021 ·Development and Psychopathology ·Jolien Rijlaarsdam,Charlotte A. M. Cecil,Caroline L. Relton,Edward D. Barker	9
4	Do Mass Spectrometry-Derived Metabolomics Improve the Prediction of Pregnancy-Related Disorders? Findings from a UK Birth Cohort with Independent Validation 2021 ·Metabolites ·Nancy McBride,Paul Yousefi,Ulla Sovio,Kurt Taylor,Yassaman Vafai,Tiffany Yang,Bo Hou,Matthew Suderman,Caroline L. Relton,Gordon C. S. Smith,Debbie A. Lawlor	8
5	DNA methylation of blood cells is associated with prevalent type 2 diabetes in a meta-analysis of four European cohorts 2021 ·Clinical Epigenetics ·(unknown),Riccardo E. Marioni,Carolina Ochoa‐Rosales,Tom C. Russ,Ian J. Deary,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Trudy Voortman,Marie‐France Hivert,Gemma C. Sharp,Caroline L. Relton,Hannah R. Elliott	41
6	Cleft lip/palate and educational attainment: cause, consequence or correlation? A Mendelian randomization study 2020 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Christina Dardani,Laurence J Howe,Nandita Mukhopadhyay,Evie Stergiakouli,Yvonne Wren,(unknown),Amy Davies,Karen Ho,Seth M. Weinberg,Mary L. Marazita,Elisabeth Mangold,Kerstin U. Ludwig,Caroline L. Relton,George Davey Smith,Sarah J. Lewis,Jonathan Sandy,Neil M Davies,Gemma C. Sharp	23
7	Epigenomics of being bullied: changes in DNA methylation following bullying exposure 2020 ·Epigenetics ·Rosa H. Mulder,Esther Walton,Alexander Neumann,Lotte C. Houtepen,Janine F. Felix,Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg,Matthew Suderman,Henning Tiemeier,Marinus H. van IJzendoorn,Caroline L. Relton,Charlotte A. M. Cecil	15
8	Association between Breastfeeding and DNA Methylation over the Life Course: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) 2020 ·Nutrients ·Fernando Pires Hartwig,George Davey Smith,Andrew J. Simpkin,César G. Victora,Caroline L. Relton,Doretta Caramaschi	13
9	Epigenome-wide association study of seizures in childhood and adolescence 2020 ·Clinical Epigenetics ·Doretta Caramaschi,Charlie Hatcher,Rosa H. Mulder,Janine F. Felix,Charlotte A. M. Cecil,Caroline L. Relton,Esther Walton	9
10	A Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study of Pancreatic Cancer Using Summary Genetic Data 2019 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Ryan Langdon,Rebecca C. Richmond,Gibran Hemani,Jie Zheng,Kaitlin H. Wade,Robert Carreras‐Torres,Mattias Johansson,Paul Brennan,Robyn E. Wootton,Marcus R. Munafò,George Davey Smith,Caroline L. Relton,Emma E. Vincent,Richard M. Martin,Philip Haycock	16
11	Deriving the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score in Women from Seven Pregnancy Cohorts from the European ALPHABET Consortium 2019 ·Nutrients ·Adrien M. Aubert,Anne Forhan,Blandine de Lauzon‐Guillain,Ling‐Wei Chen,Kinga Polańska,Wojciech Hanke,Agnieszka Jankowska,Sara M. Mensink‐Bout,Liesbeth Duijts,Matthew Suderman,Caroline L. Relton,Sarah Crozier,Nicholas C. Harvey,Cyrus Cooper,Fionnuala M. McAuliffe,Cecily Kelleher,Catherine M. Phillips,Barbara Heude,Jonathan Y. Bernard	24
12	Using Openly Accessible Resources to Strengthen Causal Inference in Epigenetic Epidemiology of Neurodevelopment and Mental Health 2019 ·Genes ·Esther Walton,Caroline L. Relton,Doretta Caramaschi	13
13	Longitudinal investigation of DNA methylation changes preceding adolescent psychotic experiences 2019 ·Translational Psychiatry ·Susanna Roberts,Matthew Suderman,Stanley Zammit,Sarah Watkins,Eilís Hannon,Jonathan Mill,Caroline L. Relton,Louise Arseneault,Chloe C. Y. Wong,Helen L. Fisher	12
14	Causal Inference in Cancer Epidemiology: What Is the Role of Mendelian Randomization? 2018 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·James Yarmolinsky,Kaitlin H. Wade,Rebecca C. Richmond,Ryan Langdon,Caroline J. Bull,Kate Tilling,Caroline L. Relton,Sarah J. Lewis,George Davey Smith,Richard M. Martin	105
15	Associations of sex hormone-binding globulin and testosterone with genome-wide DNA methylation 2018 ·BMC Genetics ·Ryan Arathimos,Gemma C. Sharp,Raquel Granell,Kate Tilling,Caroline L. Relton	16
16	Sex discordance in asthma and wheeze prevalence in two longitudinal cohorts 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Ryan Arathimos,Raquel Granell,John Henderson,Caroline L. Relton,Kate Tilling	26
17	Epigenome-wide association study of asthma and wheeze in childhood and adolescence 2017 ·Clinical Epigenetics ·Ryan Arathimos,Matthew Suderman,Gemma C. Sharp,Kimberley Burrows,Raquel Granell,Kate Tilling,Tom R. Gaunt,John Henderson,Susan M. Ring,Rebecca C. Richmond,Caroline L. Relton	52
18	A Methylome-Wide Association Study of Trajectories of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors and Biological Overlap With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 2017 ·Child Development ·Edward D. Barker,Esther Walton,Charlotte A. M. Cecil,Richard Rowe,Sara R. Jaffee,Barbara Maughan,Thomas G. O’Connor,Argyris Stringaris,Alan J. Meehan,Wendy L. McArdle,Caroline L. Relton,Tom R. Gaunt	17
19	LD hub and MR-base: online platforms for preforming LD score regression and Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data 2016 ·Behavior Genetics ·Jie Zheng,Philip Haycock,Gibran Hemani,Benjamin Elsworth,Hashem A. Shihab,Charles Laurin,A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu,Laurence J Howe,Kaitlin H. Wade,Nicole M. Warrington,Hilary K. Finucane,Alkes L. Price,Verneri Anttila,Lavinia Paternoster,Richard M. Martin,Caroline L. Relton,Tom R. Gaunt,George Davey Smith,Benjamin M. Neale,David M. Evans	5
20	DNA methylation, cardio metabolic risk and type 2 diabetes in south Asians and Europeans 2013 ·Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Hannah R. Elliott,Therese Tillin,Nish Chaturvedi,Alun D. Hughes,Wendy L. McArdle,George Davey Smith,Timothy M. Frayling,S Ebrahim,Caroline L. Relton	1

About Caroline L. Relton

Caroline L. Relton is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Molecular Biology, having authored 252 papers that have together received 15.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (139 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (91 papers) and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (72 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (3.7k citations), Genetics (4.6k citations) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (1.0k citations). Caroline L. Relton has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include George Davey Smith, Tom R. Gaunt, Gibran Hemani, Philip Haycock, Kaitlin H. Wade, Richard M. Martin, Stephen Burgess, Ryan Langdon, Jack Bowden and Nicholas J. Timpson. Their work appears in journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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