Psychosocial and educational outcomes of weight faltering in infancy in ALSPAC [PDF]
ObjectivesTo investigate whether infants with weight faltering have impaired psychosocial and educational outcomes in later childhood.DesignFollow-up of infants with weight faltering in a large UK cohort study.SettingThe Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).Participants11 534 term infants from ALSPAC with complete weight records ...
Holme, Amelia +2 more
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Inflammation proteomics datasets in the ALSPAC cohort
Proteomics is the identification, detection and quantification of proteins within a biological sample. The complete set of proteins expressed by an organism is known as the proteome. The availability of new high-throughput proteomic technologies, such as Olink Proteomic Proximity Extension Assay (PEA) technology has enabled ...
Neil Goulding +9 more
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Residential exposure to radon and DNA methylation across the lifecourse: an exploratory study in the ALSPAC birth ...
Frank de Vocht
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ALSPAC Data Linkage Consent Campaign 2025
Copies of the correspondence and Participant Information Sheets (PIS) sent to ALSPAC participants about ALSPAC, data linkage and consent, in particular the choice of consent through an opt-out model.
Mark Mumme
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Maternal reports of morbidity during the index ALSPAC pregnancy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Within the ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) resource, information concerning the health of the mother during pregnancy is available from three sources: (i) computerised data collected by midwives after the birth of the baby, known
Kate Northstone +4 more
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ALSPAC–The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
ALSPAC (The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, formerly the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood) was specifically designed to determine ways in which the individual’s genotype combines with environmental pressures to influence health and development. To date, there are comprehensive data on approximately 10 000 children and
null Golding +3 more
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Investigating the toll of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on adolescent mental health in three UK cohorts. [PDF]
Abstract Background Low socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood is robustly associated with adolescent mental health difficulties, yet this relationship is changing over time due to contextual and conceptual differences in these constructs. Consistent SEP and mental health data from different cohorts are required to understand changes over time ...
Rawers C +3 more
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The Complex Dynamics of Healthism in Birth Cohort Studies: Comparative Perspectives From the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Brazil and Portugal. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Longitudinal birth cohort studies are an under‐examined context for considering the dynamics of healthism. This article presents a comparative perspective from the ‘Biosocial Lives of Birth Cohorts’ study, which takes birth cohorts as an ethnographic object of knowledge‐making, social practice and participation in the Netherlands, Brazil ...
Gibbon S, Tize C, Riley T, Muniz T.
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Gestation at completion of prenatal questionnaires in ALSPAC [PDF]
Enrolling a cohort in pregnancy can be methodologically difficult in terms of structuring data collection. For example, some exposures of interest may be time-critical while other (often retrospective) data can be collected at any point during pregnancy.
Yasmin Iles-Caven +2 more
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The role of rare copy number variants in early-onset depression. [PDF]
Abstract Background Depression is a highly heterogeneous condition. Depression with an onset in childhood and early adolescence has a worse clinical course, is more heritable, and shows a lower genetic correlation with other depression subtypes, than does later‐onset depression.
Dennison CA +12 more
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