Professor Caroline Relton
BSc, PGCE, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Epigenetic Epidemiology and MRC Investigator
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
COVID-19 Mapping and Mitigation in Schools (CoMMinS) : MR/V028545/1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2020 to 31/03/2022
Mapping and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Schools
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2020 to 31/08/2021
8073 MRC IEU - E.Jamieson Studentship consumables - linked to Prog 5
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 31/05/2023
8073 MRC IEU - T.Sharp Studentship consumables linked to Prog 1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 30/05/2020
Thesis supervisions
The use of aspirin for primary and secondary prevention of colorectal cancer
Supervisors
Appraising the causal relationship between DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes
Supervisors
An Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Eczema
Supervisors
Identifying new drugs and re-purposing old drugs for the treatment of glioma
Supervisors
Genetic and epigenetic data as a tool to augment understanding of oropharyngeal cancer
Supervisors
Applying ‘omics to understand and predict juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Supervisors
Interrogating causality in the association of molecular and lifestyle factors with prostate and ovarian cancer risk
Supervisors
Multi-omics analyses to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation and stroke disease
Supervisors
Utilising multi-omic epidemiology approaches to better understand the molecular pathways underpinning glioma onset.
Supervisors
Pathways to obesity
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
09/05/2024Acute and long-term outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in school-aged children in England: Study protocol for the joint analysis of the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey (SIS) and the COVID-19 Mapping and Mitigation in Schools (CoMMinS) Study
PLoS ONE
Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of chronic low-grade inflammation across diverse population cohorts
Cell Genomics
Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA- Barshi)
International Journal of Epidemiology
Association between the timing of childhood adversity and epigenetic patterns across childhood and adolescence
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health