Kaitlin H. Wade

17.0k citations

55 papers · 6.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

Genetics top 0.2%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 21
Biological Psychiatry top 5%
Rheumatology top 2%
Physiology top 2%
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism top 2%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
- Birth, Development, and Health 17
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet 12
- Nutritional Studies and Diet 6
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging 6
Molecular Biology
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 6
- Gut microbiota and health 5
Statistics and Probability
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques 5

Co-authors: George Davey Smith Nicholas J. Timpson Caroline L. Relton Philip Haycock Jack Bowden Stephen Burgess Richard M. Martin Gibran Hemani
Cited by: Genetics Biological Psychiatry Rheumatology
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

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Kaitlin H. Wade

49 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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2019 Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories from Birth to Adulthood
2018 The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome
2016 Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the design, analysis, and interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies

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1	A systematic review of the applications of Mendelian randomization assessing the causal relevance of the gut microbiome in human health and disease Charlie Hatcher,A. McKinlay,Anna Bailward,Amy Dawes,David A. Hughes,Dimitri J. Pournaras,Laura J. Corbin,Lucy J. Goudswaard,Francesca Spiga,Kaitlin H. Wade	2025	0
2	Adiposity, metabolites and endometrial cancer risk: inference from combinations of Mendelian randomization and observational analyses Matthew A. Lee,Vanessa Y. Tan,Dimitri J. Pournaras,Sabrina E. Wang,Laure Dossus,Marc J. Gunter,Kaitlin H. Wade,Laura J. Corbin,Nicholas J. Timpson	2025	0
3	Polygenic risk scores associate with blood pressure traits across the lifespan Karsten Øvretveit,Emma Ingeström,Michail Spitieris,Vinicius Tragante,Kaitlin H. Wade,Laurent F. Thomas,Brooke N. Wolford,Ulrik Wisløff,Daníel F. Guðbjartsson,Hilma Hólm,Kāri Stefánsson,Ben Brumpton,Kristian Hveem	2023	4
4	Genetic Predictors for Fecal Propionate and Butyrate-Producing Microbiome Pathway Are Not Associated with Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis Yujia Lu,Yu Zhao,Jenny Chang‐Claude,Stephen B. Gruber,Andrea Gsur,Kenneth Offit,Ľudmila Vodičková,Michael O. Woods,Long H. Nguyen,Kaitlin H. Wade,Robert Carreras‐Torres,Vı́ctor Moreno,Daniel D. Buchanan,Michelle Cotterchio,Andrew T. Chan,Amanda I. Phipps,Ulrike Peters,Mingyang Song	2022	3
5	Body muscle gain and markers of cardiovascular disease susceptibility in young adulthood: A cohort study Joshua A. Bell,Kaitlin H. Wade,Linda M. O’Keeffe,David Carslake,Emma E. Vincent,Michael V. Holmes,Nicholas J. Timpson,George Davey Smith	2021	9
6	Education, intelligence and Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization study Emma L. Anderson,Laura D Howe,Kaitlin H. Wade,Yoav Ben‐Shlomo,W. David Hill,Ian J. Deary,Eleanor Sanderson,Jie Zheng,Roxanna Korologou‐Linden,Evie Stergiakouli,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Gibran Hemani	2020	95
7	Genome-wide associations of human gut microbiome variation and implications for causal inference analyses David A. Hughes,Rodrigo Bacigalupe,Jun Wang,Malte Rühlemann,Raúl Y. Tito,Gwen Falony,Marie Joossens,Sara Vieira‐Silva,Liesbet Henckaerts,Leen Rymenans,Chloë Verspecht,Susan M. Ring,André Franke,Kaitlin H. Wade,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jeroen Raes	2020	129
8	A Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study of Pancreatic Cancer Using Summary Genetic Data 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	2019	16
9	Apparent latent structure within the UK Biobank sample has implications for epidemiological analysis Simon Haworth,Ruth E. Mitchell,Laura J. Corbin,Kaitlin H. Wade,Tom Dudding,Ashley Budu‐Aggrey,David Carslake,Gibran Hemani,Lavinia Paternoster,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Daniel J. Lawson,Nicholas J. Timpson	2019	176
10	Variation of all-cause and cause-specific mortality with body mass index in one million Swedish parent-son pairs: An instrumental variable analysis Kaitlin H. Wade,David Carslake,Per Tynelius,George Davey Smith,Richard M. Martin	2019	12
11	Determinants of Intima-Media Thickness in the Young Scott T. Chiesa,Marietta Charakida,Georgios Georgiopoulos,Frida Dangardt,Kaitlin H. Wade,Alicja Rapala,Devina Bhowruth,Helen Nguyen,Vivek Muthurangu,Rukshana Shroff,George Davey Smith,Debbie A. Lawlor,Naveed Sattar,Nicholas J. Timpson,Alun D. Hughes,John Deanfield	2019	50
12	Assessing the Causal Role of Body Mass Index on Cardiovascular Health in Young Adults Kaitlin H. Wade,Scott T. Chiesa,Alun D. Hughes,Nish Chaturvedi,Marietta Charakida,Alicja Rapala,Vivek Muthurangu,Tauseef Khan,Nick Finer,Naveed Sattar,Laura D Howe,Abigail Fraser,Debbie A. Lawlor,George Davey Smith,John Deanfield,Nicholas J. Timpson	2018	55
13	Causal Inference in Cancer Epidemiology: What Is the Role of Mendelian Randomization? 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	2018	105
14	Influence of puberty timing on adiposity and cardiometabolic traits: A Mendelian randomisation study Joshua A. Bell,David Carslake,Kaitlin H. Wade,Rebecca C. Richmond,Ryan Langdon,Emma E. Vincent,Michael V. Holmes,Nicholas J. Timpson,George Davey Smith	2018	75
15	Exploring the utility of alcohol flushing as an instrumental variable for alcohol intake in Koreans Yoonsu Cho,Soyoung Kwak,Sarah J. Lewis,Kaitlin H. Wade,Caroline L. Relton,George Davey Smith,Min‐Jeong Shin	2018	15
16	Assessing the causal role of adiposity on disordered eating in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood: a Mendelian randomization analysis Zoe E. Reed,Nadia Micali,Cynthia M. Bulik,George Davey Smith,Kaitlin H. Wade	2017	36
17	LD hub and MR-base: online platforms for preforming LD score regression and Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data 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	2016	5
18	Effects of promoting longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding on childhood eating attitudes: a cluster-randomized trial Oleg Skugarevsky,Kaitlin H. Wade,Rebecca C. Richmond,Richard M. Martin,Kate Tilling,Rita Patel,Konstantin Vilchuck,Natalia Bogdanovich,Natalia Sergeichick,George Davey Smith,Matthew W. Gillman,Emily Oken,Michael S. Kramer	2014	14
19	Variation in the SLC23A1 gene does not influence cardiometabolic outcomes to the extent expected given its association with l-ascorbic acid Kaitlin H. Wade,Nita G. Forouhi,Derek G. Cook,P. Johnson,Alex McConnachie,Richard Morris,Santiago Rodrı́guez,Zheng Ye,Shah Ebrahim,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Graham Watt,K. Richard Bruckdorfer,Nicholas J. Wareham,Peter H. Whincup,Stephen Chanock,Naveed Sattar,Debbie A. Lawlor,George Davey Smith,Nicholas J. Timpson	2014	11
20	Prospective associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, maternal satisfaction, and parental and childhood body mass index at 6.5 years with later problematic eating attitudes Kaitlin H. Wade,Oleg Skugarevsky,Michael S. Kramer,Rita Patel,Natalia Bogdanovich,Konstantin Vilchuck,Natalia Sergeichick,Rebecca C. Richmond,Tom Palmer,George Davey Smith,Matthew W. Gillman,Emily Oken,Richard M. Martin	2014	21

About Kaitlin H. Wade

Kaitlin H. Wade is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics and Statistics and Probability, having authored 55 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (21 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (17 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers), Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (6 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (5 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (3.2k citations), Biological Psychiatry (109 citations) and Rheumatology (580 citations). Kaitlin H. Wade has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include George Davey Smith, Nicholas J. Timpson, Caroline L. Relton, Philip Haycock, Jack Bowden, Stephen Burgess, Richard M. Martin, Gibran Hemani, Ryan Langdon and James Yarmolinsky.

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