Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic
data. We chronicle the history of genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide …

Substantial shifts in reproductive behaviors have recently taken place in many high-income
countries including earlier age at menarche, advanced age at childbearing, rising …

Genomic instability arising from defective responses to DNA damage or mitotic
chromosomal imbalances can lead to the sequestration of DNA in aberrant extranuclear …

Background The causal relevance of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for risk of site-
specific cancers remains uncertain. Methods Using a Mendelian randomization (MR) …

The percentage of people without children over their lifetime is approximately 25% in men
and 20% in women. Individual diseases have been linked to childlessness, mostly in …

Helicobacter pylori disturbs the stomach lining during long-term colonization of its human
host, with sequelae including ulcers and gastric cancer,. Numerous H. pylori virulence …

We explore the relation between age at menarche, parity and age at natural menopause
with 249 metabolic traits in over 65,000 UK Biobank women using multivariable regression …

Background Women's reproductive factors include their age at menarche and menopause,
the age at which they start and stop having children and the number of children they have …

Estimation of direct and indirect (ie parental and/or sibling) genetic effects on phenotypes is
becoming increasingly important. We compare several multivariate methods that utilize …

Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) encode the ensemble of correlated genealogical
trees arising from recombination in a compact and efficient structure and are of fundamental …