B3028 - Puberty timing and physical activity in adolescents and adults findings from the ALSPAC and UK Biobank cohorts - 10/01/2018
B number:
B3028
Principal applicant name:
Ahmed Elhakeem | MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at University of Bristol
Co-applicants:
Prof Debbie Lawlor
Title of project:
Puberty timing and physical activity in adolescents and adults: findings from the ALSPAC and UK Biobank cohorts
Proposal summary:
Studies suggest that the timing of puberty may be associated with physical activity (PA) in adolescence and with a range of health outcomes in adulthood. The aim of our study is examine associations between markers of puberty timing and accelerometer-measured PA in adolescents from ALSPAC and adults from the large UK Biobank cohort. In ALSPAC, we will make use of repeated measures of PA at ages 11, 13 and 15 to examine how puberty timing associates with PA across adolescence, and in both cohorts we will examine how genetic markers of puberty timing might relate to accelerometer-measured PA.
Date proposal received:
Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
Date proposal approved:
Tuesday, 9 January, 2018
Keywords:
Epidemiology, Genetics - e.g. epigenetics, mendelian randomisation, UK10K, sequencing, etc., Methods - e.g. cross cohort analysis, data mining, mendelian randomisation, etc., Physical - activity, fitness, function, Puberty