Dr Raquel Granell
B.Sc.(Valencia), M.Sc.(Bristol), PhD (Bristol), M.Sc.
Current positions
Research Fellow in Primary Care
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Following an undergraduate degree in Math and Statistics in Spain, Raquel completed her PhD in Medical Statistics in Bristol in 2007 on Structural Equations Modelling. Her first post-doctoral research focused on modelling longitudinal patterns of childhood wheeze in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC); This work culminated with the identification of six wheezing phenotypes from birth to 7 years published in Thorax in 2008, a paper that has been cited over 300 times. In 2010 Raquel was awarded a 4-year MRC population Health Scientist Fellowship to continue her research on phenotypes of asthma. In 2011, she published a follow up paper on the replication/validation of the wheezing phenotypes in an independent cohort (JACI 2011) and more recently the extended wheezing phenotypes from birth till adolescence (JACI 2016). Raquel has also been involved in a number of genetic association studies for asthma, allergic sensitization, asthma and hay fever, allergic rhinitis and lung function. In 2016 Raquel completed a master’s degree in Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics by Cardiff University. She is currently working with STELAR UK cohorts (ALSPAC, MAAS, IoW, Ashford and SEATON) to identify more stable and consistent wheezing phenotypes and to investigate how these phenotypes differ genetically.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNICORN (Unified Cohorts Research Network) - Disaggregating asthma
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2020 to 29/02/2024
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
22/09/2023A history of asthma may be associated with grandparents' exposures to stress and cigarette smoking.
Frontiers in Toxicology
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of childhood wheezing phenotypes identifies ANXA1 as a susceptibility locus for persistent wheezing
eLife
Lung function and cognitive ability in children: a UK birth cohort study
BMJ Open Respiratory Research
TNS1 and NRXN1 Genes Interacting With Early-Life Smoking Exposure in Asthma-Plus-Eczema Susceptibility
Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research
Dog ownership in infancy is protective for persistent wheeze in 17q21 asthma-risk carriers
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology