Beben Benyamin

APrf Beben Benyamin

Associate Professor

School of Public Health

College of Health

A/Prof Beben Benyamin is a Professorial Lead at the Allied Health and Human Performance Unit and co-leader of genetics and genomics theme at the Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. He uses statistics applied to large-scale ‘omics’ data to dissect the genetic mechanisms underlying human complex traits and diseases.
He graduated from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) Indonesia (BSc, 2000), University of Sydney, Australia (M.Agr, 2002) and University of Edinburgh, UK (PhD, 2007). He did his postdoctoral training at the Genetic Epidemiology Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (2007-2011). Prior to joining University of South Australia, he worked as Research Fellow at the Program in Complex Trait Genomics, the University of Queensland (2012-2017). He was an NHMRC Peter Doherty Training Fellow (2009-2012) and an NHMRC R.D. Wright Career Development Fellow (2015-2018). Some of his research has been published in Nature, Nature Genetics and Nature Communications.
His current interests are in the application of statistical genomic methods to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases, such as motor neuron disease and schizophrenia. He is also interested in trans-ethnic genomic analyses to dissect the transferability of genomic findings in European samples on other populations, such as Asians.
He also teaches biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, and research methods.
A/Prof Benyamin has supervised and mentored research students and is currently available to supervise new research students to study in the exciting areas of applied statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology, big health data and genomics of complex diseases.

  1. B Benyamin, MAR Ferreira, G Willemsen, S Gordon, RPS Middelberg, ...(2009) Common variants in TMPRSS6 are associated with iron status and erythrocyte volume. Nature genetics 41 (11), 1173-1175
  2. TJC Polderman, B Benyamin, CA De Leeuw, PF Sullivan, ...(2015) Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies. Nature genetics 47 (7), 702-709
  3. B Benyamin, BS Pourcain, OS Davis, G Davies, NK Hansell, MJA Brion, ...(2014) Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L. Molecular psychiatry 19 (2), 253-258
  4. B Benyamin, JS Ried, A Radhakrishnan, SH Vermeulen, ...(2014) Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosisTE. Nature communications 5, 4926
  5. B Benyamin, J He, Q Zhao, J Gratten, F Garton, PJ Leo, Z Liu, ...(2017) Cross-ethnic meta-analysis identifies association of the GPX3-TNIP1 locus with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nature Communications 8 (1), 611

Year Citation
2026 Geleta, L. A., Doyle, C., Garton, F. C., Fowler, M., Carr, J. M., Akkari, P. A., . . . Benyamin, B. (2026). The roles of human endogenous retrovirus in neurodegenerative diseases: A systematic review. Brain Behavior and Immunity, 132, 106201.
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2025 Harsono, I. W., Ariani, Y., Benyamin, B., Fadilah, F., Pujianto, D. A., Hafifah, C. N., & Prawitasari, T. (2025). Clinical phenotype and trio whole exome sequencing data from a patient with glycogen storage disease IV in Indonesia. Data in Brief, 58, 9 pages.
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2025 Byrne, S., Hypponen, E., Benyamin, B., & Boyle, T. (2025). Greater adherence to lifestyle recommendations after cancer diagnosis is associated with lower mortality in the UK Biobank. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 34(5), 669-675.
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2025 Stacey, D., Gaziano, L., Eldi, P., Toben, C., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., & Hyppönen, E. (2025). A Transcriptome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study in Isolated Human Immune Cells Highlights Risk Genes Involved in Viral Infections and Potential Drug Repurposing Opportunities for Schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 198(6), 19-31.
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2025 Jayasinghe, D., Pham, V. V. H., Beckmann, K., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2025). Analyzing complex traits and diseases using GxE PRS: genotype-environment interaction in polygenic risk score models. Journal of Human Genetics, 70(11), 547-556.
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2025 Dewau, R., Byrne, S., Hyppönen, E., Lee, S. H., & Benyamin, B. (2025). Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Child Height in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 37(9), e70134.
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2025 Beyene, M. B., Visvanathan, R., Alemu, R., Benyamin, B., Bhattacharjee, R., Beyene, H. B., . . . Amare, A. T. (2025). A genome-wide association study identified 10 novel genomic loci associated with intrinsic capacity. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 80(11), glaf196-1-glaf196-14.
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2024 Allara, E., Bell, S., Smith, R., Keene, S. J., Gill, D., Gaziano, L., . . . Niemi, M. (2024). Novel loci and biomedical consequences of iron homoeostasis variation. Communications Biology, 7(1), 17 pages.
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2024 Jayasinghe, D., Eshetie, S., Beckmann, K., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Advancements and limitations in polygenic risk score methods for genomic prediction: a scoping review. Human Genetics, 143(12), 1401-1431.
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2024 Jayasinghe, D., Momin, M. M., Beckmann, K., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Mitigating type 1 error inflation and power loss in GxE PRS: Genotype–environment interaction in polygenic risk score models. Genetic Epidemiology, 48(2), 85-100.
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2024 Duko, B., Mengistu, T. S., Stacey, D., Moran, L. J., Tessema, G., Pereira, G., . . . Hyppönen, E. (2024). Associations between maternal preconception and pregnancy adiposity and neuropsychiatric and behavioral outcomes in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research, 342(116149), 1-20.
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2024 Dewau, R., Boomsma, A., Doyle, C., Byrne, S., Hyppönen, E., Lee, S. H., & Benyamin, B. (2024). Meta-Analysis of the Heritability of Childhood Height From 560 000 Pairs of Relatives Born Between 1929 and 2004. American Journal of Human Biology, 37(1), e24188-1-e24188-15.
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2024 Byrne, S., Boyle, T., Ahmed, M., Lee, S. H., Benyamin, B., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank.. Int J Epidemiol, 53(1), 1-2.
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2024 Beyene, M. B., Visvanathan, R., Ahmed, M., Benyamin, B., Beard, J. R., & Amare, A. T. (2024). Development and validation of an intrinsic capacity score in the UK Biobank study. Maturitas, 185(107976), 107976-1-107976-10.
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2024 Stacey, D., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). A metabolome-wide Mendelian randomization study identifies dysregulated arachidonic acid synthesis as a potential causal risk factor for bipolar disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 96(6), 455-462.
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2024 Stacey, D., Suppiah, V., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). In-silico functional analyses identify TMPRSS15-mediated intestinal absorption of lithium as a modulator of lithium response in bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 358, 416-421.
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2024 Eshetie, S., Choi, K. W., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Integrative multi-omics analysis to gain new insights into COVID-19. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 14 pages.
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2024 Harsono, I. W., Ariani, Y., Benyamin, B., Fadilah, F., Pujianto, D. A., & Hafifah, C. N. (2024). IDeRare: a lightweight and extensible open-source phenotype and exome analysis pipeline for germline rare disease diagnosis. JAMIA Open, 7(2), 10 pages.
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2024 Momin, M. M., Zhou, X., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Cross-ancestry genetic architecture and prediction for cholesterol traits. Human Genetics, 143(5), 635-648.
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2023 Eshetie, S., Jullian, P., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2023). Host genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Reviews in Medical Virology, 33(5), 12 pages.
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2023 Momin, M. M., Shin, J., Lee, S., Truong, B., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2023). A method for an unbiased estimate of cross-ancestry genetic correlation using individual-level data. Nature Communications, 14(1), 13 pages.
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2023 Byrne, S., Boyle, T., Ahmed, M., Lee, S. H., Benyamin, B., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types.. International journal of epidemiology, 52(3), 817-826.
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2023 Hill, G., Johnson, F., Uy, J., Serrada, I., Benyamin, B., Van Den Berg, M., & Hordacre, B. (2023). Moderate intensity aerobic exercise may enhance neuroplasticity of the contralesional hemisphere after stroke: a randomised controlled study.. Scientific reports, 13(1), 1-11.
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2023 Lagou, V., Jiang, L., Ulrich, A., Zudina, L., González, K. S. G., Balkhiyarova, Z., . . . Prokopenko, I. (2023). GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification. Nature Genetics, 55(9), 1448-1461.
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2022 Shin, J., Zhou, X., Tan, J. T. M., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2022). Lifestyle Modifies the Diabetes-Related Metabolic Risk, Conditional on Individual Genetic Differences. Frontiers in Genetics, 13(759309), 759309-1-759309-10.
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2022 Trubetskoy, V., Pardiñas, A. F., Qi, T., Panagiotaropoulou, G., Benyamin, B., & O'Donovan, M. C. (2022). Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia. Nature, 604(7906), 502-508.
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2022 Neumann, A., Nolte, I. M., Pappa, I., Ahluwalia, T. S., Pettersson, E., Rodriguez, A., . . . Tiemeier, H. (2022). A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores. Plos One, 17(8 August), 23 pages.
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2022 Jami, E. S., Hammerschlag, A. R., Ip, H. F., Allegrini, A. G., Benyamin, B., Border, R., . . . Middeldorp, C. M. (2022). Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(7), 934-945.
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2022 van Rheenen, W., van der Spek, R. A. A., Bakker, M. K., van Vugt, J. J. F. A., Hop, P. J., Zwamborn, R. A. J., . . . Kraft, J. (2022). Author Correction: Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 12, (1636-1648), 10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1). Nature Genetics, 54(3), 361.
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2022 Shepheard, S. R., Karnaros, V., Benyamin, B., Schultz, D. W., Dubowsky, M., Wuu, J., . . . Rogers, M. L. (2022). Urinary neopterin: A novel biomarker of disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European Journal of Neurology, 29(4), 990-999.
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2022 Restuadi, R., Garton, F. C., Benyamin, B., Lin, T., Williams, K. L., Vinkhuyzen, A., . . . McRae, A. F. (2022). Polygenic risk score analysis for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis leveraging cognitive performance, educational attainment and schizophrenia. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30(5), 532-539.
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2021 Julián-Serrano, S., Yuan, F., Wheeler, W., Benyamin, B., Machiela, M. J., Arslan, A. A., . . . Stolzenberg-Solomon, R. Z. (2021). Hepcidin-regulating iron metabolism genes and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 114(4), 1408-1417.
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2021 van Rheenen, W., van der Spek, R. A. A., Bakker, M. K., van Vugt, J. J. F. A., Hop, P. J., Zwamborn, R. A. J., . . . Kraft, J. (2021). Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology. Nature Genetics, 53(12), 1636-1648.
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2021 Byrne, S., Boyle, T., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., Ahmed, M., & Hypponen, E. (2021). Do associations between a healthy lifestyle and incidence of cancer differ by genetic risk?. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 50(Supplement_1), 40.
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2020 Shin, J., Zhou, X., Tan, J., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, H. (2020). Lifestyle modifies the diabetes-related metabolic risk, conditional on individual genetic differences.
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2020 Nabais, M. F., Lin, T., Benyamin, B., Williams, K. L., & Wray, N. R. (2020). Significant out-of-sample classification from methylation profile scoring for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. npj Genomic Medicine, 5(1), 1-9.
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2019 Tarr, I. S., McCann, E. P., Benyamin, B., Peters, T. J., Twine, N. A., Zhang, K. Y., . . . Williams, K. L. (2019). Monozygotic twins and triplets discordant for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis display differential methylation and gene expression. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 17 pages.
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2019 Gill, D., Benyamin, B., Moore, L. S. P., Monori, G., Zhou, A., Koskeridis, F., . . . Tzoulaki, I. (2019). Associations of genetically determined iron status across the phenome: a mendelian randomization study. PLOS medicine, 16(6, article no. e1002833), 1-16.
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2019 Lam, M., Chen, C. Y., Li, Z., Martin, A. R., Benyamin, B., & Huang, H. (2019). Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations. Nature Genetics, 51(12), 1670-1678.
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2019 Eirich, A., Biermann, T., Müller, C. P., Kornhuber, J., Benyamin, B., Hulse, G. K., . . . Schwab, S. G. (2019). Association of CamK2A genetic variants with transition time from occasional to regular heroin use in a sample of heroin-dependent individuals. Psychiatric genetics, 29(1), 18-25.
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2017 Benyamin, B., Maihofer, A. X., Schork, A. J., Hamilton, B. A., Rao, F., Schmid Schönbein, G. W., . . . O'Connor, D. T. (2017). Identification of novel loci affecting circulating chromogranins and related peptides. Human molecular genetics, 26(1), 233-242.
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2017 Del Greco, F. M., Foco, L., Pichler, I., Eller, P., Eller, K., Benyamin, B., . . . Minelli, C. (2017). Serum iron level and kidney function: a Mendelian randomization study. Nephrology dialysis transplantation, 32(2), 273-278.
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2017 Mills, N., Maier, R., Whitfield, J., Wright, M., Colodro-Conde, L., Byrne, E., . . . Benyamin, B. (2017). Investigating the relationship between iron and depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 94, 148-155.
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2017 Lupton, M. K., Benyamin, B., Proitsi, P., Nyholt, D. R., & Whitfield, J. B. (2017). No genetic overlap between circulating Iron Levels and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 59(1), 85-99.
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2017 Willems, S. M., Wright, D. J., Day, F. R., Trajanoska, K., Benyamin, B., & Scott, R. A. (2017). Large-scale GWAS identifies multiple loci for hand grip strength providing biological insights into muscular fitness. Nature communications, 8(16015), 1-12.
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2017 Gratten, J., Zhao, Q., Benyamin, B., Garton, F., & Fan, D. (2017). Whole-exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis suggests NEK1 is a risk gene in Chinese. Genome medicine, 9(1), 1-9.
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2017 Benyamin, B., He, J., Zhao, Q., Gratten, J., & Fan, D. (2017). Cross-ethnic meta-analysis identifies association of the GPX3-TNIP1 locus with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nature communications, 8(1), 1-7.
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2017 Benyamin, B., & Kasbawati. (2017). Preface: Symposium on Biomathematics 2016. Aip Conference Proceedings, 1825, 010001.
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2017 Garton, F. C., Benyamin, B., Zhao, Q., Liu, Z., Gratten, J., Henders, A. K., . . . McCombe, P. A. (2017). Whole exome sequencing and DNA methylation analysis in a clinical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohort. Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine, 5(4), 418-428.
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2016 Chen, G. B., Lee, S. H., Zhu, Z. X., Benyamin, B., & Robinson, M. R. (2016). EigenGWAS: finding loci under selection through genome-wide association studies of eigenvectors in structured populations. Heredity, 117(1), 51-61.
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2015 Polderman, T. J. C., Benyamin, B., De Leeuw, C. A., Sullivan, P. F., Van Bochoven, A., Visscher, P. M., & Posthuma, D. (2015). Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies. Nature genetics, 47(7), 702-709.
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2015 Fall, T., Hägg, S., Ploner, A., Mägi, R., Benyamin, B., & Ingelsson, E. (2015). Age- and sex-specific causal effects of adiposity on cardiovascular risk factors. Diabetes, 64(5), 1841-1852.
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2015 Hägg, S., Fall, T., Ploner, A., Mägi, R., Benyamin, B., & Ingelsson, E. (2015). Adiposity as a cause of cardiovascular disease: a Mendelian randomization study. International journal of epidemiology, 44(2), 578-586.
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2015 He, J., Tang, L., Benyamin, B., Shah, S., Hemani, G., Liu, R., . . . Fan, D. (2015). C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of aging, 36(9), 1-8.
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2015 Galesloot, T. E., Janss, L. L., Burgess, S., Kiemeney, L. A. L. M., den Heijer, M., de Graaf, J., . . . Vermeulen, S. H. (2015). Iron and hepcidin as risk factors in atherosclerosis: what do the genes say?. BMC genetics, 16(1, article no. 79), 1-12.
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2015 Bui, M., Benyamin, B., Shah, S., Henders, A. K., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., & McRae, A. F. (2015). Sharing a placenta is associated with a greater similarity in DNA methylation in monochorionic versus dichorionic twin pars in blood at age 14. Twin research and human genetics, 18(6), 680-685.
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2015 Benyamin, B., Esko, T., Ried, J. S., Radhakrishnan, A., Vermeulen, S. H., Traglia, M., . . . Whitfield, J. B. (2015). Corrigendum: Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis. Nature Communications, 6(1), 1 page.
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2015 Rietveld, C. A., Esko, T., Davies, G., Pers, T. H., Turley, P., Benyamin, B., . . . Koellinger, P. D. (2015). Erratum: Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2014) 111 (13790-13794) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404623111). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(4), e380.
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2014 Rietveld, C. A., Esko, T., Davies, G., Pers, T. H., Benyamin, B., & Koellinger, P. D. (2014). Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(38), 13790-13794.
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2014 Benyamin, B., Esko, T., Ried, J. S., Radhakrishnan, A., & Whitfield, J. B. (2014). Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis. Nature communications, 5(5926), 1-10.
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2014 Brion, M. J. A., Benyamin, B., Visscher, P. M., & Smith, G. D. (2014). Beyond the single SNP: emerging developments in Mendelian randomization in the 'omics' era. Current epidemiological reports, 1(4), 228-236.
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2014 Benyamin, B., St Pourcain, B., Davis, O., Davies, G., Hansell, N., Brion, M., . . . Visscher, P. (2014). Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L. Molecular Psychiatry, 19(2), 253-258.
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2014 Hoggart, C., Venturini, G., Mangino, M., Gomez, F., Ascari, G., Zhao, J., . . . Kutalik, Z. (2014). Novel approach identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with evidence for parent-of-origin effect on Body Mass Index. PLoS Genetics, 10(7), e1004508-1-e1004508-12.
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2013 Fall, T., Hagg, S., Magi, R., Ploner, A., Benyamin, B., Hypponen, E. T., & Pokoppenko, I. (2013). The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis. PLoS medicine, 10(6), 1-16.
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2013 Verweij, K. J. H., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Benyamin, B., Lynskey, M. T., Quaye, L., Agrawal, A., . . . Medland, S. E. (2013). The genetic aetiology of cannabis use initiation: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies and a SNP-based heritability estimation. Addiction biology, 18(5), 846-850.
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2013 Schwab, S. G., Kusumawardhani, A. A. A. A., Dai, N., Qin, W. W., Benyamin, B., & Wildenauer, D. B. (2013). Association of rs1344706 in the ZNF804A gene with schizophrenia in a case/control sample from Indonesia. Schizophrenia research, 147(1), 46-52.
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2013 Pichler, I., Del Greco M, F., Gögele, M., Lill, C. M., Benyamin, B., & Minelli, C. (2013). Serum iron levels and the risk of Parkinson Disease: a Mendelian randomization study. PLoS medicine, 10(6, article no. e1001462), 1-13.
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2013 Paul, D. S., Albers, C. A., Rendon, A., Voss, K., Stephens, J., HaemGen Consortium., . . . Deloukas, P. (2013). Maps of open chromatin highlight cell type-restricted patterns of regulatory sequence variation at hematological trait loci.. Genome research, 23(7), 1130-1141.
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2012 Rao, F., Chiron, S., Wei, Z., Fung, M. M., Chen, Y., Wen, G., . . . O'Connor, D. T. (2012). Genetic variation within a metabolic motif in the chromogranin a promoter: pleiotropic influence on cardiometabolic risk traits in twins. American journal of hypertension, 25(1), 29-40.
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2012 Tielbeek, J. J., Medland, S. E., Benyamin, B., Byrne, E. M., Heath, A. C., Madden, P. A. F., . . . Verweij, K. J. H. (2012). Unraveling the genetic etiology of adult antisocial behavior: a genome-wide association study. PLoS ONE, 7(10), 1-7.
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2012 Van Der Harst, P., Zhang, W., Mateo Leach, I., Rendon, A., Benyamin, B., & Chambers, J. C. (2012). Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell. Nature, 492(7429), 369-375.
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2012 Middelberg, R. P., Benyamin, B., de Moor, M. H. M., Warrington, N. M., & Whitfield, J. B. (2012). Loci affecting gamma-glutamyl transferase in adults and adolescents show age × SNP interaction and cardiometabolic disease associations. Human molecular genetics, 21(2), 446-455.
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2011 Benyamin, B., Middelberg, R. P., Lind, P. A., Valle, A. M., Gordon, S., Nyholt, D. R., . . . Whitfield, J. B. (2011). GWAS of butyrylcholinesterase activity identifies four novel loci, independent effects within BCHE and secondary associations with metabolic risk factors. Human molecular genetics, 20(22), 4504-4514.
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2011 Kutalik, Z., Benyamin, B., Bergmann, S., Mooser, V., Waeber, G., Montgomery, G. W., . . . Whitfield, J. B. (2011). Genome-wide association study identifies two loci strongly affecting transferrin glycosylation. Human molecular genetics, 20(18), 3710-3717.
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2011 Benyamin, B., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G., & Whitfield, J. B. (2011). Transferrin saturation and mortality. Clinical chemistry, 57(6), 921-923.
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2011 Martin, N. W., Benyamin, B., Hansell, N. K., Montgomery, G. W., Martin, N. G., Wright, M. J., & Bates, T. C. (2011). Cognitive function in adolescence: testing for interactions between breast-feeding and FADS2 polymorphisms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(1), 55-62.
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2010 Verweij, K. J. H., Zietsch, B. P., Medland, S. E., Gordon, S. D., Benyamin, B., Nyholt, D. R., . . . Wray, N. R. (2010). A genome-wide association study of Cloninger's temperament scales: implications for the evolutionary genetics of personality. Biological psychology, 85(2), 306-317.
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2010 Yang, J., Benyamin, B., McEvoy, B. P., Gordon, S., Henders, A. K., Nyholt, D. R., . . . Visscher, P. M. (2010). Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height. Nature genetics, 42(7), 565-569.
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2009 Benyamin, B., Visscher, P. M., & McRae, A. F. (2009). Family-based genome-wide association studies. Pharmacogenomics, 10(2), 181-190.
DOI Scopus63 WoS58 Europe PMC49
2009 Benyamin, B., Ferreira, M. A. R., Willemsen, G., Gordon, S., Middelberg, R. P. S., McEvoy, B. P., . . . Whitfield, J. B. (2009). Common variants in TMPRSS6 are associated with iron status and erythrocyte volume. Nature genetics, 41(11), 1173-1175.
DOI Scopus218 WoS207 Europe PMC188
2009 Benyamin, B., McRae, A. F., Zhu, G., Gordon, S., Henders, A. K., Palotie, A., . . . Visscher, P. M. (2009). Variants in TF and HFE explain ∼40% of genetic variation in serum-transferrin levels. American journal of human genetics, 84(1), 60-65.
DOI Scopus150 WoS140 Europe PMC128
2009 Kettunen, J., Perola, M., Martin, N. G., Cornes, B. K., Benyamin, B., & Peltonen, L. (2009). Multicenter dizygotic twin cohort study confirms two linkage susceptibility loci for body mass index at 3q29 and 7q36 and identifies three further potential novel loci. International journal of obesity, 33(11), 1235-1242.
DOI Scopus19 WoS20 Europe PMC16
2008 Benyamin, B., Perola, M., Cornes, B. K., Madden, P. A. F., Palotie, A., Nyholt, D. R., . . . Visscher, P. M. (2008). Within-family outliers: segregating alleles or environmental effects? A linkage analysis of height from 5815 sibling pairs. European journal of human genetics, 16(4), 516-524.
DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC8
2008 Hasselbalch, A. L., Benyamin, B., Visscher, P. M., Heitmann, B. L., Kyvik, K. O., & Sørensen, T. I. A. (2008). Common genetic components of obesity traits and serum leptin. Obesity, 16(12), 2723-2729.
DOI Scopus27 WoS26 Europe PMC25
2007 Perola, M., Sammalisto, S., Hiekkalinna, T., Martin, N. G., Visscher, P. M., Montgomery, G. W., . . . Peltonen, L. (2007). Combined genome scans for body stature in 6,602 European twins: Evidence for common caucasian loci. Plos Genetics, 3(6), 1019-1028.
DOI Scopus153 WoS145 Europe PMC122
2007 Benyamin, B., Martin, I. C. A., Cheung, C. C., Buckley, M. F., Thomson, P. C., Visscher, P. M., & Moran, C. (2007). Bodyweight QTL on mouse chromosomes 4 and 11 by selective genotyping: Regression v. maximum likelihood. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 47(6), 677-682.
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2007 Fenger, M., Schousboe, K., Sorensen, T. I. A., & Kyvik, K. O. (2007). Variance decomposition of apolipoproteins and lipids in Danish twins. ATHEROSCLEROSIS, 191(1), 40-47.
DOI WoS20 Europe PMC15
2007 Visscher, P. M., Macgregor, S., Benyamin, B., Zhu, G., Gordon, S., Medland, S., . . . Martin, N. G. (2007). Genome partitioning of genetic variation for height from 11,214 sibling pairs. American Journal of Human Genetics, 81(5), 1104-1110.
DOI Scopus117 WoS112 Europe PMC107
2007 Benyamin, B., Sørensen, T. I. A., Schousboe, K., Fenger, M., Visscher, P. M., & Kyvik, K. O. (2007). Are there common genetic and environmental factors behind the endophenotypes associated with the metabolic syndrome?. Diabetologia, 50(9), 1880-1888.
DOI Scopus98 WoS99 Europe PMC86
2006 Benyamin, B., Deary, I. J., & Visscher, P. M. (2006). Precision and bias of a normal finite mixture distribution model to analyze twin data when zygosity is unknown: simulations and application to IQ phenotypes on a large sample of twin pairs.. Behavior Genetics, 36(6), 935-946.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9 Europe PMC10
2005 Benyamin, B., Wilson, V., Whalley, L. J., Visscher, P. M., & Deary, I. J. (2005). Large, consistent estimates of the heritability of cognitive ability in two entire populations of 11-year-old twins from Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947. Behavior Genetics, 35(5), 525-534.
DOI Scopus31 WoS34 Europe PMC27
2004 Visscher, P. M., Benyamin, B., & White, I. (2004). The use of linear mixed models to estimate variance components from data on twin pairs by maximum likelihood. Twin Research, 7(6), 670-674.
DOI Scopus35 WoS35 Europe PMC35

Year Citation
2020 Julian-Serrano, S., Yuan, F., Benyamin, B., Wheeler, W., Amundadottir, L., Jacobs, E., . . . Stolzenberg-Solomon, R. (2020). Hepcidin-regulating Iron-metabolism Genes and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies. In CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION Vol. 29 (pp. 692). AZ, Tucson: AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH.
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2017 Posthuma, D., Benyamin, B., de Leeuw, C., Sullivan, P., van Bochoven, A., Polderman, T., & Visscher, P. (2017). FIFTY YEARS OF TWIN STUDIES ON PSYCHIATRIC TRAITS SHOW THAT FOR THE MAJORITY OF TRAITS GENETIC VARIATION IS MOSTLY ADDITIVE. In EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY Vol. 27 (pp. S285). CANADA, Toronto: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV.
2016 Brion, M. -J., Benyamin, B., Smith, G. D., McGrath, J., & Evans, D. (2016). Can Mendelian randomization inform drug development research for neurobehavioural conditions? A study of Alzheimer's disease. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS Vol. 46 (pp. 774-775). AUSTRALIA, Brisbane: SPRINGER.
2015 Posthuma, D., Benyamin, B., De Leeuw, C., Bochoven, A., Sullivan, P., Visscher, P., & Polderman, T. (2015). 50 years of twin studies: a meta-analysis of all human traits. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS Vol. 45 (pp. 681). CA, San Diego: SPRINGER.
2015 Polderman, T., Benyamin, B., De Leeuw, C., Sullivan, P., Bochoven, A., Visscher, P., & Posthuma, D. (2015). Fifty years of twin studies on psychiatric traits. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS Vol. 45 (pp. 680-681). CA, San Diego: SPRINGER.
2013 Lagou, V., Magi, R., Marullo, L., Fischer, K., Thorleifsson, G., Benyamin, B., . . . Prokopenko, I. (2013). Large-Scale Multi-Phenotype Meta-Analysis Evaluates Pleiotropic Effects on Cardiometabolic Factors and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) at FTO, FADS1 and GIPR Loci. In DIABETES Vol. 62 (pp. A427-A428). AMER DIABETES ASSOC.
2006 Benyamin, B., Deary, I. J., & Visscher, P. M. (2006). Precision and bias of a mixture distribution model to analyse twin data when zygosity is unknown: simulations and application to IQ phenotypes on a large sample of twin pairs. In BEHAVIOR GENETICS Vol. 36 (pp. 955). CT, Storrs: SPRINGER.
2005 Kyvik, K. O., Benyamin, B., Schousboe, K., Fenger, M., Sorensen, T. I. A., & Visscher, P. (2005). Multivariate genetic analyses of phenotypes related to the metabolic syndrome. In DIABETOLOGIA Vol. 48 (pp. A139). GREECE, Athens: SPRINGER.

Year Citation
2025 Beyene, M. B., Visvanathan, R., Alemu, R., Theou, O., Benyamin, B., Cesari, M., . . . Amare, A. (2025). Associations and Interaction Effects of Socioeconomic, Lifestyle, and Genetic Factors on Intrinsic Capacity.
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2024 Beyene, M. B., Visvanathan, R., Ahmed, M., Benyamin, B., Beard, J., & Amare, A. (2024). Development and Validation of an Intrinsic Capacity Score in the UK Biobank Study.
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2024 Stacey, D., Suppiah, V., Benyamin, B., Lee, H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). In-silico functional analyses identify<i>TMPRSS15</i>-mediated intestinal absorption of lithium as a modulator of lithium response in bipolar disorder.
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2024 Stacey, D., Benyamin, B., Lee, H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). A metabolome-wide Mendelian randomization study identifies dysregulated arachidonic acid synthesis as a potential causal risk factor for bipolar disorder.
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2024 Stacey, D., Gaziano, L., Eldi, P., Toben, C., Benyamin, B., Lee, H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). A transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization study in isolated human immune cells highlights risk genes involved in viral infections and potential drug repurposing opportunities for schizophrenia.
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2023 Jayasinghe, D., Momin, M. M., Beckmann, K., Hypponen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, H. (2023). GxE PRS: Genotype-environment interaction in polygenic risk score models for quantitative and binary traits.
DOI Europe PMC1
2021 Lagou, V., Jiang, L., Ulrich, A., Zudina, L., González, K. S. G., Balkhiyarova, Z., . . . Prokopenko, I. (2021). Random glucose GWAS in 493,036 individuals provides insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification.
DOI Europe PMC1
2021 Rheenen, W. V., van der Spek, R. A. A., Bakker, M., Vugt, J. J. F. A. V., Hop, P., Zwamborn, R. A. J., . . . Veldink, J. (2021). Common and rare variant association analyses in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology.
DOI Europe PMC2
2020 Neumann, A., Nolte, I., Pappa, I., Ahluwalia, T., Pettersson, E., Rodriguez, A., . . . Tiemeier, H. (2020). A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores.
DOI Europe PMC2
2020 Jami, E., Hammerschlag, A., Ip, H., Allegrini, A., Benyamin, B., Border, R., . . . Middeldorp, C. (2020). Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalising symptoms.
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  • Assessing the feasibility and laying the groundwork for applying the ‘recall by genotype’ design in MS research, Multiple Sclerosis Australia, 01/08/2025 - 31/07/2026

  • Novel Epidemiological Methods to Infer the Causal Effects of Risk Factors on Neuropsychiatric and Cardiovascular Disorders, NHMRC - Project Grant, 27/11/2017 - 31/12/2018

  • An Integrated Genomic and Epigenomic Approach to Dissect the Aetiology of Motor Neuron Disease, NHMRC - Career Development Fellowship, 27/11/2017 - 31/12/2018

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