Lifelines Cohort Study

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
meta-analysis 2026
Nature human behaviour ·doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02476-7

Anxiety is heritable and exists on a continuum, with symptoms ranging from adaptive threat response to clinical disorder. Here we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of generalized anxiety symptom severity in 693,869 individua…

other 2025
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences ·doi:10.1101/2025.07.10.25331321

We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of generalised anxiety symptom severity in 696,563 individuals of European ancestry from 14 cohorts. We identified 82 independent genome-wide significant variants within 76 loci, 41 of wh…

observational 2023
Nature human behaviour ·doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01528-6

Identifying genetic determinants of reproductive success may highlight mechanisms underlying fertility and identify alleles under present-day selection. Using data in 785,604 individuals of European ancestry, we identified 43 genomic loci a…

other 2016
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.3698

The genetic architecture of human reproductive behavior-age at first birth (AFB) and number of children ever born (NEB)-has a strong relationship with fitness, human development, infertility and risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, …

meta-analysis 2015
Nature ·doi:10.1038/nature14132

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links…