Publications

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Examining maternal health literacy as a mediator of the relationship between social vulnerability and caregiving practices for improving infant development

Lauren Stuart, Claire Hart, Rachana Desai, Shane A. Norris, Fiona Bennin, Helene Theunissen & Alessandra Prioreschi, 2025, BMC Public Health

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25756-9

Type: article

When more is not worse: genetic subtypes of obesity challenge conventional risk paradigms

Hanieh Yaghootkar, 2025, Cell Metabolism, 37(11), 2099-2101

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2025.10.002

Type: letterEditorial

Maternal age and parity influences on health outcomes: a multivariable regression analysis of mothers and infants

Stephanie Alcock, Michelle Leal, Johanna Beukes, Lukhanyo H. Nyati, Ulridge Thompson & Shane A. Norris, 2025, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 25(1)

DOI: 10.1186/s12884-025-08194-8

Type: article

Genetic determinants of fatty acid composition in subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue

Altayeb Ahmed, Afreen Naz, Marjola Thanaj, Elena P. Sorokin, Brandon Whitcher, Jimmy D. Bell, E. Louise Thomas, Madeleine Cule & Hanieh Yaghootkar, 2025, Obesity, 33(12), 2406-2415

DOI: 10.1002/oby.70045

Type: article

Understanding attrition in the South African integrated intervention for diabetes risk after gestational diabetes (IINDIAGO) study: a qualitative study of postpartum lifestyle intervention disengagement

Irene M. Masuluke, Andrea Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Jean Claude Mutabazi, Christina Zarowsky, Shane A. Norris, Naomi Levitt & Lisa J. Ware, 2025, Reproductive, Female & Child Health, 4(3)

DOI: 10.1002/rfc2.70038

Type: article

The feasibility and acceptability of an app-based intervention aimed at improving maternal health literacy regarding infant play and development: mixed methods study

Fiona Bennin, Shane A. Norris & Alessandra Prioreschi, 2025, JMIR Formative Research , 9

DOI: 10.2196/76517

Type: article

A systematic analysis of contemporary whole exome sequencing capture kits to optimise high-coverage capture of CCDS regions

Fernando Vazquez Lopez, James J. Ashton, Guo Cheng & Sarah Ennis, 2025, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 7(3)

DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqaf115

Type: article