Dr Robin Walters
Robin Walters
MA, PhD, PgDip
MRC PHRU Senior Scientist
Dr Robin Walters completed degrees in Natural Sciences (Cambridge) and in Genetics (Liverpool) before working for 17 years on the biophysics, biochemistry and genetics of plant photosynthesis, first in Sheffield and then in Oxford. He then held a post as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, before moving to CTSU in June 2012.
Dr Walters’s recent research has focussed on investigating the contribution of structural variation in the human genome to disease risk and phenotypic variation, with a particular focus on diabetes and obesity. He played a leading role in work identifying the highly penetrant obesity phenotype associated with a deletion on chromosome 16p, and the reciprocal effects of a duplication at the same locus.
He continues to have an interest in the development of novel methodologies for the identification and analysis of genomic structural variants. His current role is to plan and lead the genetic analysis of stroke risk in the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Recent publications
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Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes.
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Clark DW. et al, (2019), Nat Commun, 10
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The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts.
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Kuchenbaecker K. et al, (2019), Nat Commun, 10
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Vitamin D and cause-specific vascular disease and mortality: a Mendelian randomisation study involving 99,012 Chinese and 106,911 European adults.
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Huang T. et al, (2019), BMC Med, 17
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Physical activity, sedentary leisure time, circulating metabolic markers and risk of major vascular diseases
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Pang Y. et al, (2019), Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
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Genetic Predisposition to Type 2 Diabetes and Risk of Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases Among 160,000 Chinese adults.
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Gan W. et al, (2019), Diabetes