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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study (2022)
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Clarke, S. L., Jones, H. J., Sharp, G. C., Easey, K. E., Hughes, A. D., Ramanan, A. V., & Relton, C. L. (2022). Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study. Pediatric Rheumatology, 20(1), 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12969-022-00760-0

Background: There is growing concern about the long-term cardiovascular health of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). In this study we assessed the association between JIA polygenic risk and cardiovascular phenotypes (cardiovascular ri... Read More about Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study.

The impact of paternal alcohol, tobacco, caffeine use and physical activity on offspring mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
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Easey, K. E., & Sharp, G. C. (2021). The impact of paternal alcohol, tobacco, caffeine use and physical activity on offspring mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Reproductive Health, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01266-w

Background: There is some evidence that paternal health behaviours during and around pregnancy could be associated with offspring health outcomes. However, the impact that paternal health behaviours during pregnancy can have on offspring mental healt... Read More about The impact of paternal alcohol, tobacco, caffeine use and physical activity on offspring mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Schizophrenia-associated variation at ZNF804A correlates with altered experience-dependent dynamics of sleep slow waves and spindles in healthy young adults (2021)
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Bartsch, U., Corbin, L. J., Hellmich, C., Taylor, M., Easey, K. E., Durant, C., …Jones, M. W. (2021). Schizophrenia-associated variation at ZNF804A correlates with altered experience-dependent dynamics of sleep slow waves and spindles in healthy young adults. SLEEP, 44(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab191

The rs1344706 polymorphism in ZNF804A is robustly associated with schizophrenia and schizophrenia is, in turn, associated with abnormal non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep neurophysiology. To examine whether rs1344706 is associated with intermediate... Read More about Schizophrenia-associated variation at ZNF804A correlates with altered experience-dependent dynamics of sleep slow waves and spindles in healthy young adults.

Maternal and child genetic liability for smoking and caffeine consumption and child mental health: An intergenerational genetic risk score analysis in the ALSPAC cohort (2021)
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Schellhas, L., Haan, E., Easey, K. E., Wootton, R. E., Sallis, H. M., Sharp, G. C., …Zuccolo, L. (2021). Maternal and child genetic liability for smoking and caffeine consumption and child mental health: An intergenerational genetic risk score analysis in the ALSPAC cohort. Addiction, 116(11), 3153-3166. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15521

Background and aims: Previous studies suggest an association between maternal tobacco and caffeine consumption during and outside of pregnancy and offspring mental health. We aimed to separate effects of the maternal environment (intrauterine or post... Read More about Maternal and child genetic liability for smoking and caffeine consumption and child mental health: An intergenerational genetic risk score analysis in the ALSPAC cohort.

Characterization of alcohol polygenic risk scores in the context of mental health outcomes: Within-individual and intergenerational analyses in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (2021)
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Easey, K. E., Wootton, R. E., Sallis, H. M., Haan, E., Schellhas, L., Munafò, M. R., …Zuccolo, L. (2021). Characterization of alcohol polygenic risk scores in the context of mental health outcomes: Within-individual and intergenerational analyses in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 221(8), 108654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108654

Background: Heavy alcohol consumption often co-occurs with mental health problems; this could be due to confounding, shared biological mechanisms, or causal effects. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for alcohol use can be used to explore this association... Read More about Characterization of alcohol polygenic risk scores in the context of mental health outcomes: Within-individual and intergenerational analyses in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

Association of prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring depression: A negative control analysis of maternal and partner consumption (2020)
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Easey, K. E., Timpson, N. J., & Munafò, M. R. (2020). Association of prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring depression: A negative control analysis of maternal and partner consumption. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44(5), 1132-1140. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14324

Background: Previous research has suggested that intrauterine alcohol exposure is associated with a variety of adverse outcomes in offspring. However, few studies have investigated its association with offspring internalizing disorders in late adoles... Read More about Association of prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring depression: A negative control analysis of maternal and partner consumption.

Associations of child and adolescent anxiety with later alcohol use and disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies (2019)
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Dyer, M. L., Easey, K. E., Heron, J., Hickman, M., & Munafò, M. R. (2019). Associations of child and adolescent anxiety with later alcohol use and disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Addiction, 114(6), 968-982. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14575

Background and Aims: Despite a wealth of literature, the relationship between anxiety and alcohol use remains unclear. We examined whether (a) child and adolescent anxiety is positively or negatively associated with later alcohol use and disorders an... Read More about Associations of child and adolescent anxiety with later alcohol use and disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring mental health: A systematic review (2019)
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Easey, K. E., Dyer, M. L., Timpson, N. J., & Munafò, M. R. (2019). Prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring mental health: A systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 197, 344-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.01.007

Background: High levels of alcohol use in pregnancy have been shown to be associated with negative physical health consequences in offspring. However, the literature is less clear on the association of alcohol use in pregnancy and offspring mental he... Read More about Prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring mental health: A systematic review.

Association of birth order with adolescent mental health and suicide attempts: A population-based longitudinal study (2019)
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Easey, K. E., Mars, B., Pearson, R., Heron, J., & Gunnell, D. (2019). Association of birth order with adolescent mental health and suicide attempts: A population-based longitudinal study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(8), 1079-1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1266-1

Previous cohort studies have observed higher birth order to be associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviour. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children... Read More about Association of birth order with adolescent mental health and suicide attempts: A population-based longitudinal study.

Nicotine preloading for smoking cessation: The preloading RCT (2018)
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Aveyard, P., Lindson, N., Tearne, S., Adams, R., Ahmed, K., Alekna, R., …Pokhrel, S. (2018). Nicotine preloading for smoking cessation: The preloading RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 22(41), vii-84. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22410

Background: Nicotine preloading means using nicotine replacement therapy prior to a quit date while smoking normally. The aim is to reduce the drive to smoke, thereby reducing cravings for smoking after quit day, which are the main cause of early rel... Read More about Nicotine preloading for smoking cessation: The preloading RCT.

State anxiety and information processing: A 7.5% carbon dioxide challenge study (2018)
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Easey, K. E., Catling, J. C., Kent, C., Crouch, C., Jackson, S., Munafò, M. R., & Attwood, A. S. (2018). State anxiety and information processing: A 7.5% carbon dioxide challenge study. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25(2), 732-738. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1413-6

We used the 7.5% carbon dioxide model of anxiety induction to investigate the effects of state anxiety on simple information processing. In both high- and low-anxious states, participants (n = 36) completed an auditory–visual matching task and a visu... Read More about State anxiety and information processing: A 7.5% carbon dioxide challenge study.

State anxiety and emotional face recognition in healthy volunteers (2017)
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Attwood, A. S., Easey, K. E., Dalili, M. N., Skinner, A. L., Woods, A., Crick, L., …Munafò, M. R. (2017). State anxiety and emotional face recognition in healthy volunteers. Royal Society Open Science, 4(5), 160855. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160855

High trait anxiety has been associated with detriments in emotional face processing. By contrast, relatively little is known about the effects of state anxiety on emotional face processing. We investigated the effects of state anxiety on recognition... Read More about State anxiety and emotional face recognition in healthy volunteers.

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science (2015)
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Aarts, A. A., Anderson, J. E., Anderson, C. J., Attridge, P. R., Attwood, A., Axt, J., …Zuni, K. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered... Read More about Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.