Chronotype, health and family: The role of biology, socio- and natural environment and their interaction

Project Information

CHRONO

Grant agreement ID: 835079

DOI 10.3030/835079

EC signature date 25 July 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 499 811,00

EU contribution € 2 499 811,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries.

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto; Jonas Schöley; Ilya Kashnitsky; Luyin Zhang; Charles Rahal; Trifon I. Missov; Melinda Mills; Jennifer Beam Dowd; Ridhi Kashyap
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab207

Within-sibship GWAS of 25 phenotypes improve estimates of direct genetic effects

Author(s): Howe, L.J et al, M.C. Mills
Published in: Nature Genetics, 2022, ISSN 1061-4036
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01062-7

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors

Author(s): Razai, M.S. et al., M.C.Mills
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2021, ISSN 0141-0768
Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine
DOI: 10.1177/01410768211018951

Gender, nonstandard schedules, and partnership quality in the UK: Exploring heterogeneous effects through a quasi-experiment.

Author(s): Riley Taiji
Published in: Social Science Research, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 0049-089X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102370

Gender differences in sleep disruption during COVID-19: cross-sectional analyses from two UK nationally representative surveys

Author(s): Ding, X., Brazel, D.M. & M.C. Mills
Published in: BMJ Open, 2022, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055792

The challenges of distributing COVID-19 vaccinations.

Author(s): Melinda Mills; David Salisbury
Published in: EClinicalMedicine, Vol 31, Iss , Pp 100674- (2021), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2589-5370
Publisher: The Lancet
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100674

Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives

Author(s): Pamela Herd, Melinda C. Mills, Jennifer Beam Dowd
Published in: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2021, Page(s) 002214652110186, ISSN 0022-1465
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00221465211018682

The effect of mandatory COVID-19 certificates on vaccine uptake: synthetic-control modelling of six countries

Author(s): Melinda C Mills; Tobias Rüttenauer
Published in: The Lancet. Public Health, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2468-2667
Publisher: The Lancet
DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00273-5

Lack of Trust, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Social Media Use Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Author(s): Jennings, W. et al, M.C.Mills
Published in: Vaccines, 2021, ISSN 2076-393X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9060593

Reply to Nepomuceno et al.: A renewed call for detailed social and demographic COVID-19 data from all countries

Author(s): Jennifer Beam Dowd, Liliana Andriano, David M. Brazel, Valentina Rotondi, Per Block, Xuejie Ding, Melinda C. Mills
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/25, 2020, Page(s) 13884-13885, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009408117

Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

Author(s): Jennifer Beam Dowd, Liliana Andriano, David M. Brazel, Valentina Rotondi, Per Block, Xuejie Ding, Yan Liu, Melinda C. Mills
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/18, 2020, Page(s) 9696-9698, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004911117

The GWAS Diversity Monitor tracks diversity by disease in real time

Author(s): Melinda C. Mills, Charles Rahal
Published in: Nature Genetics, Issue 52/3, 2020, Page(s) 242-243, ISSN 1061-4036
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0580-y

Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world

Author(s): Per Block, Marion Hoffman, Isabel J. Raabe, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Charles Rahal, Ridhi Kashyap, Melinda C. Mills
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 4/6, 2020, Page(s) 588-596, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0898-6

Non-standard Schedules, Work–Family Conflict, and the Moderating Role of National Labour Context: Evidence from 32 European Countries

Author(s): Riley Taiji, Melinda C Mills
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue 36/2, 2019, Page(s) 179-197, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcz048

Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales

Author(s): Mark D. Verhagen, David M. Brazel, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Ilya Kashnitsky, Melinda C. Mills
Published in: BMC Medicine, Issue 18/1, 2020, ISSN 1741-7015
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01646-2

Sociology, Genetics, and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics

Author(s): Melinda C. Mills, Felix C. Tropf
Published in: Annual Review of Sociology, Issue 46/1, 2020, Page(s) 553-581, ISSN 0360-0572
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054756

Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis.

Author(s): Aburto, Jose Manuel; Kashyap, Ridhi; Schöley, Jonas; Angus, Colin; Ermisch, John; Mills, Melinda C; Dowd, Jennifer Beam
Published in: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0143-005X
Publisher: British Medical Association
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2020-215505

Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be criminalised?

Author(s): Mills, M.C. and J. Sivelä
Published in: British Medical Journal, 2021, ISSN 1759-2151
Publisher: British Medical Association
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n272

Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour

Author(s): Melinda C. Mills, Felix C. Tropf, David M. Brazel, Natalie van Zuydam, Ahmad Vaez, Mawussé Agbessi, Habibul Ahsan, Isabel Alves, Anand Kumar Andiappan, Wibowo Arindrarto, Philip Awadalla, Alexis Battle, Frank Beutner, Marc Jan Bonder, Dorret I. Boomsma, Mark W. Christiansen, Annique Claringbould, Patrick Deelen, Tõnu Esko, Marie-Julie Favé, Lude Franke, Timothy Frayling, Sina A. Gharib, Greg Gi
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2021, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01135-3

Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores

Author(s): Evelina T. Akimova, Richard Breen, David M. Brazel, Melinda C. Mills
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89020-x

The challenge of detecting recent natural selection in human populations

Author(s): Mills, M.C. & I. Mathieson
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203237119

Monographic books (1)

An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis

Author(s): Melinda C. Mills, Nicola Barban, Felix C. Tropf
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9780-262538381
Publisher: MIT Press

Book chapters (1)

Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular genetics into sociological thinking

Author(s): Mills, M.C.
Published in: Handbook of Sociological Science: Contributions to Rigorous Sociology, 2022, ISBN 9781789909425
Publisher: Edward Elgar
DOI: 10.4337/9781789909432.00022