[HTML][HTML] The impact of obesity and sexual behavior on prostate cancer risk is mediated by testosterone levels: a mendelian randomization study and mediation …

H Di, Y Wen, J Wang, J Wang, Y Wang, Y Li, F Sun - Prostate International, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The relationship between obesity, sexual behavior, and prostate cancer (PCa)
has been widely debated, contributing to a lack of understanding of its potential mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic basis of STEM occupational choice and regional economic performance: a UK biobank genome-wide association study

C Zhu, Q Zhao, J He, P Böckerman, S Luo, Q Chen - Human Genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals are
regarded as the highly skilled labor force that fosters economic productivity, enterprise …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income

WD Hill, NM Davies, SJ Ritchie, NG Skene… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a multi-dimensional construct reflecting (and influencing)
multiple socio-cultural, physical, and environmental factors. In a sample of 286,301 …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond apples and pears: sex-specific genetics of body fat percentage

D Roshandel, T Lu, AD Paterson, S Dash - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Biological sex influences both overall adiposity and fat distribution. Further,
testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) influence adiposity and metabolic …

Polygenic predictions of occupational status GWAS elucidate genetic and environmental interplay for intergenerational status transmission, careers, and health

ET Akimova, T Wolfram, X Ding, FC Tropf, MC Mills - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Socioeconomic status (SES) stratifies society and impacts our health and life course. We
conducted the first sociologically informed GWAS on occupational status and prestige …

[HTML][HTML] Putative causal inference for the relationship between obesity and sex hormones in males: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

B Wan, N Ma, Z Zhou, C Lv - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Background Obesity is a chronic disease with a high prevalence rate and is an established
risk factor for human health. Body mass index (BMI) is a common and primary indicator used …

[HTML][HTML] Using latent class analysis to develop a model of the relationship between socioeconomic position and ethnicity: cross-sectional analyses from a multi-ethnic …

L Fairley, B Cabieses, N Small, ES Petherick… - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background Almost all studies in health research control or investigate socioeconomic
position (SEP) as exposure or confounder. Different measures of SEP capture different …

Sexual orientation‐based disparities in bone health: Evidence of reduced bone mineral density and mineral content among sexual minority men but not women in …

JK Gibb, EC Shattuck - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Sexual minority (SM) people experience significant stress associated with
stigma, contributing to a higher rate of adverse health outcomes. Several known factors (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Testosterone levels are negatively associated with childlessness in males, but positively related to offspring count in fathers

TV Pollet, KD Cobey, L van der Meij - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Variation in testosterone (T) is thought to affect the allocation of effort between reproductive
and parenting strategies. Here, using a large sample of elderly American men (n= 754) and …

Low total testosterone is associated with increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in men: results from the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)

S Schipf, R Haring, N Friedrich, M Nauck, K Lau… - The Aging …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. There is increasing evidence suggesting that low total testosterone concentration
is associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in men. The aim of this study was …