Jessica D. Faul

Research interests

Publications

• Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

  Nature · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05477-4

• A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

  Nature · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05275-y

• Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention

  Nature Genetics · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01165-1

• Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03779-7

• The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3

• Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

  Nature Genetics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0307-5

• Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04362-x

• Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature21039

• Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity ― A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

  PLoS Genetics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006528

• Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

  Nature Genetics · 2016 · 10.1038/ng.3552

• Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature17671

• Meta-analysis identifies common and rare variants influencing blood pressure and overlapping with metabolic trait loci

  Nature Genetics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3660

• Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3412

• Loci associated with ischaemic stroke and its subtypes (SiGN): a genome-wide association study

  The Lancet Neurology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422(15)00338-5

• Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14177

• Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53 949)

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2014.188

• Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14618

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