Studying how the environment impacts human health
The Exposome Moonshot Forum in Washington DC on the 12th – 15th of May 2025 saw an international network of stakeholders gather for a four day event at the John Hopkin’s Bloomberg Centre for a series of plenary and small working group discussions to develop plans for future exposome…
We were delighted to host this year’s Human Ecosystems Retreat at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI. The retreat brought together our service and research teams to share recent work, explore new collaborations, and plan our next steps in identifying gene x environment interactions…
Insect populations are declining globally, and the drivers of this trend are complex and interconnected. Among these, sublethal effects of pesticides—often overlooked in standard environmental risk assessment methods—plays a significant role. The impact of pesticides on human health is also a…
The GWAS Catalog The GWAS Catalog provides an archival and search service for detailed and richly-annotated data from human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These data can be searched, browsed, visualised and downloaded on the website (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The Catalog includes…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) focusing on common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) have advanced our understanding of the genetic causes of many traits and diseases. However, for some conditions, this method is reaching its limits. To better understand the genetic basis of diseases,…