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Capturing life in the UK in the 21st century Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal household panel study of its kind and provides vital evidence on life changes and stability

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Loneliness and the cost to the NHS

Loneliness linked to worse health and around £850 a year healthcare costs per person

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Which policies can both boost growth and help people on low incomes?

Traditionally, reducing labour market insecurities has been pursued as a separate goal. But five policy areas could boost both productivity and equality

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Autumn Budget 2025 supports ‘most vulnerable’

Living standards think tank used our data to assess government economic policy

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Registration now open – Biosocial Conference 2026: combining biological and social data

Understanding Society is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its Biosocial Conference 2026.

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Causal effects of genetically predicted type 2 diabetes mellitus on blood lipid profiles and concentration of particle-size-determined lipoprotein subclasses: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

  1. Ken Chen
  2. Jilin Zheng
  3. Chunli Shao
  4. Qing Zhou
  5. Jie Yang
  6. Tao Huang
  7. Yi-Da Tang

Bigmelon: tools for analysing large DNA methylation datasets

  1. Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone
  2. Melissa Smart
  3. Ayden Saffari
  4. Karim Malki
  5. Eilis Hannon
  6. Joe Burrage
  7. Jonathan Mill
  8. Meena Kumari
  9. Leonard C. Schalkwyk

Identification of new therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis through genome-wide analyses of UK Biobank data

  1. Ioanna Tachmazidou
  2. Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas
  3. Lorraine Southam
  4. Jorge Esparza-Gordillo
  5. Valeriia Haberland
  6. Jie Zheng
  7. Toby Johnson
  8. Mine Koprulu
  9. Eleni Zengini
  10. Julia Steinberg
  11. Jeremy M. Wilkinson
  12. Sahir Bhatnagar
  13. Joshua D. Hoffman
  14. Natalie Buchan
  15. Dániel Süveges
  16. Laura Yerges-Armstrong
  17. George Davey Smith
  18. Tom R. Gaunt
  19. Robert A. Scott
  20. Linda C. McCarthy
  21. Eleftheria Zeggini

Meta-analysis of exome array data identifies six novel genetic loci for lung function [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

  1. Victoria E. Jackson
  2. Jeanne C. Latourelle
  3. Louise V. Wain
  4. Albert V. Smith
  5. Megan L. Grove
  6. Traci M. Bartz
  7. Ma'en Obeidat
  8. Michael A. Province
  9. Wei Gao
  10. Beenish Qaiser
  11. David J. Porteous
  12. Patricia A. Cassano
  13. Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia
  14. Niels Grarup
  15. Jin Li
  16. Elisabeth Altmaier
  17. Jonathan Marten
  18. Sarah E. Harris
  19. Ani Manichaikul
  20. Tess D. Pottinger
  21. Ruifang Li-Gao
  22. Medea Imboden
  23. Alexander Teumer
  24. Bram Prins
  25. Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
  26. Gudny Eiriksdottir
  27. Nora Franceschini
  28. Colleen M. Sitlani
  29. Jennifer A. Brody
  30. Yohan Bossé
  31. Wim Timens
  32. Aldi Kraja
  33. Anu Loukola
  34. Wenbo Tang
  35. Yongmei Liu
  36. Jette Bork-Jensen
  37. Johanne M. Justesen
  38. Allan Linneberg
  39. Leslie A. Lange
  40. Rajesh Rawal
  41. Stefan Karrasch
  42. Jennifer E. Huffman
  43. Blair H. Smith
  44. Gail Davies
  45. Kristin M. Burkart
  46. Josyf C. Mychaleckyj
  47. Tobias N. Bonten
  48. Stefan Enroth
  49. Mika Kähönen
  50. Annah B. Wyss
  51. Bruce M. Psaty
  52. Susan R. Heckbert
  53. Ke Hao
  54. Taina Rantanen
  55. Stephen B. Kritchevsky
  56. Kurt Lohman
  57. Tea Skaaby
  58. Charlotta Pisinger
  59. Torben Hansen
  60. Holger Schulz
  61. Ozren Polasek
  62. Archie Campbell
  63. John M. Starr
  64. Stephen Rich
  65. Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori
  66. Åsa Johansson
  67. Erik Ingelsson
  68. André G. Uitterlinden
  69. Stefan Weiss
  70. Olli T. Raitakari
  71. Vilmundur Gudnason
  72. Kari E. North
  73. Sina A. Gharib
  74. Don D. Sin
  75. Kent D. Taylor
  76. George T. O'Connor
  77. Jaakko Kaprio
  78. Tamara B. Harris
  79. Oluf Pederson
  80. Henrik Vestergaard
  81. James G. Wilson
  82. Konstantin Strauch
  83. Caroline Hayward
  84. Shona Kerr
  85. Ian Deary
  86. R. Graham Barr
  87. Renée de Mutsert
  88. Ulf Gyllensten
  89. Andrew P. Morris
  90. M. Arfan Ikram
  91. Nicole Probst-Hensch
  92. Sven Gläser
  93. Eleftheria Zeggini
  94. Terho Lehtimäki
  95. David P. Strachan
  96. Josée Dupuis
  97. Alanna C. Morrison
  98. Ian P. Hall
  99. Martin D. Tobin
  100. Stephanie J. London
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