Publications

Scientific studies take a very long time before results are available due to the complexity and detail that goes into publishing research.

The findings from these projects are usually published in scientific journals, where they are written using technical language and packed with scientific details.

However, we make an effort to provide simplified summaries of these papers for those who are not experts in the field. We share these summaries here, through social media, and at community events.

Research in Progress

Scientists who want to use Genes & Health must apply to us, so we can make sure that the research they will do is about health and will eventually benefit the communities that have generously volunteered for the study.

Acknowledgements and Funders

Hundreds of scientists have utilised data from Genes & Health for various purposes across diverse areas of health, all united by the shared goal of enhancing our collective understanding of how genetics affect our health.
Last updated: 5 Feb 2025

Authorship Policy

We introduced an authorship and acknowledgments policy in Sept 2020 for research using Genes & Health
We request that publications using Genes & Health data, including summary data freely available on this website and via EBI-EGA, adhere to the following authorship policy:

Include named co-authors making a major contribution, if appropriate.
Include ‘Genes & Health Research Team’ as a consortium author, in most instances.
Include an Acknowledgment/Funding Statement, always.
Send a link to your published article to Genes & Health so that we can share the results with our volunteers and the wider scientific community.
If required, the Genes & Health Executive Committee can provide advice on the most appropriate co-authors.

Funding Statement

Genes & Health is/has recently been core-funded by Wellcome (WT102627, WT210561), the Medical Research Council (UK) (M009017, MR/X009777/1, MR/X009920/1), Higher Education Funding Council for England Catalyst, Barts Charity (845/1796), Health Data Research UK (for London substantive site), and research delivery support from the NHS National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (North Thames).

Genes & Health is/has recently been funded by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Genomics PLC; and a Life Sciences Industry Consortium of AstraZeneca PLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development Limited, Maze Therapeutics Inc, Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Novo Nordisk A/S, Pfizer Inc, Takeda Development Centre Americas Inc.

We thank Social Action for Health, Centre of The Cell, members of our Community Advisory Group, and staff who have recruited and collected data from volunteers. We thank the NIHR National Biosample Centre (UK Biocentre), the Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (King’s College London), Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Broad Institute for sample processing, genotyping, sequencing and variant annotation. This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. This research utilised Queen Mary University of London’s Apocrita HPC facility, supported by QMUL Research-IT, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.438045

We thank: Barts Health NHS Trust, NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (City and Hackney, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham), East London NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Public Health England (especially David Wyllie), Discovery Data Service/Endeavour Health Charitable Trust (especially David Stables), Voror Health Technologies Ltd (especially Sophie Don), NHS England (for what was NHS Digital) - for GDPR-compliant data sharing backed by individual written informed consent.

Most of all we thank all of the volunteers participating in Genes & Health.

A favourable ethical opinion for the main Genes & Health research study was granted by NRES Committee London - South East (reference 14/LO/1240) on 16 Sept 2014. Queen Mary University of London is the Sponsor.

Genes & Health Research Team

This list comprises team members who have made significant contributions and have been active for more than six months, as well as former team members who have departed within the last year. It is suitable for submitting to journals for PubMed citation.

Genes & Health Research Team list