Peter Joshi

Honorary Fellow

Usher Institute
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Email: peter.joshi@ed.ac.uk
Web: Full details of Peter's research projects and outputs

Usher Institute

Street: Old Medical School
Teviot Place
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AG

Biography

Background

Peter Joshi is a tenured Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute. He completed his PhD in 2015, having focussed on the effect of parental relatedness of health related traits.

Runner Up Charles Epstein Award American Society of Human Genetics (2019)

Winner Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award European Society of Human Genetics (2015)

Qualifications

BSc (1987 Mathematics, Edinburgh)

Diploma (1988, Actuarial Science, Heriot-Watt)

Fellow of Faculty of Actuaries (1990)

MSc (2011 Quantitative Genetics, Edinburgh)

PhD (2015, Complex Trait Genetics, Edinburgh)

Teaching & PhD supervision

Current PhD students supervised

Erin Macdonald Dunlop : https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/erin-macdonald-dunlop

Past PhD students supervised

Paul Timmers: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/paul-rhj-timmers

Katie Barnes: Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis in the Northern Isles of Scotland

Katherine Kentistou: The genetic underpinnings of adiposity: from GWAS discovery to functional characterisation

Research

Research summary

He now specialises in genomic analysis of complex traits, especially lifespan, building on his expertise as an actuary. He recently ran a consortium of 24 cohorts analysing over 1 million lifespans. His second research strand focuses multi-omic analysis of aging traits and their possible reversal. His publications are listed here.

Past research interests

I previously specialised in determining the effect of parental relatedness on complex traits, in humans, using runs of homozygosity.

Publications

Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations (4 pages) 23 Jul 2015 In: Nature, vol. 523, pp. 459-462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14618
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Variants near CHRNA3/5 and APOE have age- and sex-related effects on human lifespan (7 pages) 31 Mar 2016 In: Nature Communications, vol. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11174
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity (6 pages) 22 Nov 2016 In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 113, pp. 13366-13371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605334113
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Bayesian association scan reveals loci associated with human lifespan and linked biomarkers 27 Jul 2017 In: Nature Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15842
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity (13 pages) 13 Oct 2017 In: Nature Communications, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00934-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
GWAS for male-pattern baldness identifies 71 susceptibility loci explaining 38% of the risk 17 Nov 2017 In: Nature Communications, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01490-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Genomics of 1 million parent lifespans implicates novel pathways and common diseases and distinguishes survival chances 15 Jan 2019 In: eLIFE, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.39856
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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This article was published on 27 May, 2023