Genetic epidemiology
Mission
To investigate the genetic and environmental influences on the etiology, prediction, and prognosis of cardiometabolic, renal, and other common chronic complex diseases.
Content
The unit plays a key role in teaching and in the genetic data analysis of all the major cohort studies in the UMCG. Our training activities include involvement in Epidemiology B registration, and providing introductory and advanced courses in genetic epidemiology, and introductory courses in R and how to handle Lifelines data on the high performance computer cluster. We coordinate the genetic studies performed in the Lifelines, TRAILS and GECKO cohorts. The unit staff are active members, leaders or co-leaders of consortia performing (epi)genome-wide association studies on blood pressure, kidney function, inflammatory factors, heart rate variability, fertility and birthweight.
| Senior staff | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Function/collaboration | e-mail address | Topic |
| Harold Snieder |
Full professor, head unit |
h.snieder umcg.nl | Genetic Epidemiology of cardiometabolic disease |
| Judith Vonk | Assistant professor | j.m.vonk umcg.nl | Longitudinal data analysis; Etiology and course of asthma and COPD; Lifelines |
| Maaike de Vries | Assistant professor | m.de.vries04 umcg.nl |
(Epi)genetics of COPD and ageing |
| Ilja Nolte | Senior researcher | i.m.nolte umcg.nl | Statistical Genetics |
| Peter v.d. Most | Post-doc | p.j.van.der.most umcg.nl | Psychiatry, Nephrology |
| Post-doc |
c.h.l.thio umcg.nl |
Causal inference modeling | |
| Ahmad Vaez | Post-doc | a.vaez umcg.nl | Bioinformatics and Post-GWAS analyses |
| Tian Xie | Post-doc | t.xie umcg.nl | Genetic epidemiology of psychiatric and cardiometabolic disease |
| PhD fellows | |||
| Alireza Ani | University of Isfahan, Iran | a.ani umcg.nl | Boiinformatics tools and pipelines for genome-wide data analysis |
| Anna Argoty | Nephrology; UNAM, Mexico | a.d.argoty.pantoja umcg.nl | Gene-environment interaction of hypertension |
| Martje Bos | Psychiatry | m.bos03 umcg.nl | Genetic epidemiology of functional disorders |
| Zekai Chen |
|
z.chen umcg.nl | Genetic epidemoilogy of cardiometabolic disease |
| Yeliz Eski | Lifestyle medicine | y.eski umcg.nl | Genetic epidemology of physical activity |
| Zhen He | Shantou University, China | z.he umcg.nl | Risk factors for new onset hypertension in perimenopausal women |
| Zoha Kamali | University of Isfahan, Iran |
z.kamali umcg.nl |
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| Yiran Li | Psychiatry | y.li umcg.nl | Genetic Epidemoilogy of autism spectrum disorder |
| Wei Liu | Ophthalmology | w.liu umcg.nl | Glaucoma and kidney disease |
| Xueling Lu | Endocrinology | x.lu umcg.nl |
Association between (epi)genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes and body burden of endocrine disruption chemicals. |
| Parinaz Poursafa | University of Isfahan, Iran | p.poursafa umcg.nl | Metabolic syndrome: the neglected role of airpollution |
| Felix Reichelt | Gene-stress interaction in cardiometabolic health | f.reichelt umcg.nl | VU Amsterdam, Erasmus MC |
| Rima Triatin | Genetic epidemiology of type 2 diabetes risk | r.d.triatin umcg.nl | |
| Rujia Wang | Shared genetic and environmental influences on major depressive disorder, anciety disorder, obesity and substance use disorder | r.wang umcg.nl | Psychiatry |
| Siqi Wang | Mendelian Randomization and drug target prioritization in CVD | s.wang01 umcg.nl | Cardiology |
| Qihua Wang | Gene-diet interaction in BMI and blood pressure | q.wang umcg.nl | Lifestyle medicine |
| Jia Zhang | Risk factors of kidney and cardiometabolic disease | j.zhang umcg.nl | Psychiatry |
| Wenbo Zhang | Prediction models in the critically ill | w.zhang01 umcg.nl |
Intensive care, Medical statistics |
| Last modified: | 26 June 2023 2.57 p.m. |