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Dr. Clive Petry

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My research is involved in trying to understand the mechanisms and consequences of the link between altered fetal growth and the future development of diseases such as gestational and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, the metabolic syndrome and precocious pubarche. My strategy involves the phenotypic analysis of in vivo models and in vitro genetic association studies relating common polymorphic variation in DNA with markers of disease.


Recent Key Publications:

Petry CJ, Seear RV, Wingate DL, Manico L, Acerini CL, Ong KK, Hughes IA, Dunger DB. Associations between paternally transmitted fetal IGF2 variants and maternal circulating glucose concentrations in pregnancy. Diabetes 2011; in press.

Petry CJ, Seear RV, Wingate DL, Acerini CL, Ong KK, Hughes IA, Dunger DB. Maternally transmitted foetal H19 variants and associations with birth weight. Hum Genet 2011; in press.

Petry CJ. Gestational diabetes: risk factors and recent advances in its genetics and treatment. British Journal of Nutrition 2010; 104:775-787.

Petry CJ, Evans ML, Wingate DL, Ong KK, Reik W, Constância M, Dunger DB. Raised late pregnancy glucose concentrations in mice carrying pups with targeted disruption of H19Δ13. Diabetes 2010; 59:282-286.

Petry CJ, Ong KK, Dunger DB. Does the fetal genotype affect maternal physiology during pregnancy? Trends Molec Med 2007; 13:414-421.


Petry CJ*, Rayco-Solon P*, Fulford AJC*, Stead JDH, Wingate DL, Ong KK, Sirugo G, Prentice AMP, Dunger DB. Common polymorphic variation in the genetically diverse African insulin gene and its association with size at birth. Hum Genet 2009; 126:375-384.   *joint first authors


Dunger DB, Petry CJ, Ong KK. Genetics of size at birth. Diabetes Care 2007; 30 Suppl. 2:S150-5.



Other publications in Pubmed, listed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and in Publications List.



Forthcoming Book:

Gestational Diabetes: Origins, Complications and Treatment. Petry CJ (editor). To be published by CRC Press in late 2012.

 

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