Super excited to share our latest work on the genetics of birth weight: nature.com/articles/s4158…. This wouldn't have been possible without the brilliant minds of david_mf_evans Rachel Freathy @rnbeaumont1 Mark McCarthy John Perry and our collaborators. Happy reading!

Thank you to everyone who has supported the #WearItPurpleDay fundraiser so far - morning tea is going fast! Special thanks to @tenealestewart and Nicole Warrington for organising this event!

We are holding a one day beginner's workshop at UQDI on November the 6th. Please forward on to those who might be interested! di.uq.edu.au/event/session/…

Enjoying a brilliant talk on pub bias of maternal effects from @ammegandchips in a packed room at #DOHaD2019

Sifting through 500k genetic profiles would seem a laborious task for many, but #UQDI statistician Dr Nicole Warrington is taking on the challenge to find out why babies with a lower birth weight are more likely to develop cardiometabolic diseases. bit.ly/NicoleWarringt…

Our new review paper on family-based Mendelian randomization is published today! We describe three family-based study designs that can be used to control for potential biases david_mf_evans Nicole Warrington @nm_davies doi.org/10.1101/cshper…

Looking forward to hearing inspiring talks for #IWD2020 #EachforEqual Translational Research Institute UQ Medicine UQ News Blumenthal Lab Geoff McColl @ProfGabBelz A/Prof Maree Toombs @plantdevel

New preprint! bit.ly/3eqr0Dg From the great William D. Thompson woodnot 's PhD: Study suggests that same amount of body fat in mums may cause higher or lower baby growth depending on where the fat is stored. Potential consequences for future targeted antenatal care.

According to new #UQResearch, genetics are responsible for the link between lower birthweight and increased risk of heart and metabolic diseases Read more: bit.ly/37OXXth @Momsemat Nicole Warrington david_mf_evans

It's official... #investigatorgrant recipient 🥳 still feeling shocked and very humbled. It's been a long journey and I'm extremely grateful to all of my fab colleagues for helping me get here. Can't wait to begin the next 5 years of #genetics research.

Interested in finding genes that make kids grow fast? Keen to know when growth starts influencing CVD risk? Want an excuse to move to sunny Aus? I have PostDoc and PhD positions open to join my group: tinyurl.com/2csc64b3; tinyurl.com/zett5r7x

Check out our recent paper published on JDOHaD investigating the relationship between birth weight and cardiometabolic risk factors in twins from the UK Biobank. david_mf_evans Nicole Warrington Tom Bond bit.ly/3RTvhT3

Our method, #DINGO (Direct and INdirect analysis of Genetic lOci), named after Australian wild dog 🐕, now in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… DINGO meta-analyzes maternal and fetal #GWAS to enhance statistical power for genetic loci discovery 🧬💡 david_mf_evans Institute for Molecular Bioscience