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Vaher, K., Blesa Cabez, M., Lusarreta Parga, P., Binkowska, J., Van Beveren, G.J., Odendaal, M.-L., Sullivan, G., Stoye, D.Q., Corrigan, A., Quigley, A.J., Thrippleton, M.J., Bastin, M.E., Bogaert, D., Boardman, J.P., 2024. The neonatal gut microbiota: A role in the encephalopathy of prematurity. Cell Reports Med. 5, 101845. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101845
Vaher, K., Neal, S.R., Blesa Cabez, M., Jimenez-Sanchez, L., Corrigan, A., Stoye, D.Q., Turner, H.L., Smikle, R., Cruickshank, H., Rudnicka, M., Bastin, M.E., Thrippleton, M.J., Reynolds, R.M., Boardman, J.P., 2024. Neonatal amygdala microstructure and structural connectivity are associated with autistic traits at 2 years of age. medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.11.29.24318196
Mckinnon, K., Conole, E.L.S., Vaher, K., Hillary, R.F., Gadd, D.A., Binkowska, J., Sullivan, G., Stevenson, A.J., Corrigan, A., Murphy, L., Whalley, H.C., Richardson, H., Marioni, R.E., Cox, S.R., Boardman, J.P., 2024. Epigenetic scores derived in saliva are associated with gestational age at birth. Clin. Epigenetics 2024 161 16, 1–14. doi: 10.1186/s13148-024-01701-2
Blesa Cábez, M.*, Vaher, K.*, York, E.N., Galdi, P., Sullivan, G., Stoye, D.Q., Hall, J., Corrigan, A.E., Quigley, A.J., Waldman, A.D., Bastin, M.E., Thrippleton, M.J., Boardman, J.P., affiliations, A., 2023. Characterisation of the neonatal brain using myelin-sensitive magnetisation transfer imaging. Imaging Neurosci. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00017. *co-first authors
Conole, E.L.S., Vaher, K., Cabez, M.B., Sullivan, G., Stevenson, A.J., Hall, J., Murphy, L., Thrippleton, M.J., Quigley, A.J., Bastin, M.E., Miron, V.E., Whalley, H.C., Marioni, R.E., Boardman, J.P., Cox, S.R., 2023. Immuno-epigenetic signature derived in saliva associates with the encephalopathy of prematurity and perinatal inflammatory disorders. Brain. Behav. Immun. 110, 322–338. doi: 10.1016/J.BBI.2023.03.011
Mckinnon, K., Galdi, P., Blesa-Cábez, M., Sullivan, G., Vaher, K., Corrigan, A., Hall, J., Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Thrippleton, M., Bastin, M.E., Quigley, A.J., Valavani, E., Tsanas, A., Richardson, H., Boardman, J.P., 2023. Association of Preterm Birth and Socioeconomic Status With Neonatal Brain Structure. JAMA Netw. Open 6, e2316067–e2316067. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.16067
Vaher, K., Bogaert, D., Richardson, H., & Boardman, J. P., 2022. Microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain development, cognition and behavior during infancy and early childhood. Developmental Review, 66, 101038. doi: 10.1016/J.DR.2022.101038.
Vaher, K., Galdi, P., Blesa Cabez, M., Sullivan, G., Stoye, D.Q., Quigley, A.J., Thrippleton, M.J., Bogaert, D., Bastin, M.E., Cox, S.R., Boardman, J.P., 2022. General factors of white matter microstructure from DTI and NODDI in the developing brain. Neuroimage 254, 119169. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119169.
Sullivan, G., Vaher, K., Blesa, M., Galdi, P., Stoye, D.Q., Quigley, A.J., Thrippleton, M.J., Norrie, J., Bastin, M.E., Boardman, J.P., 2022. Breast milk exposure is associated with cortical maturation in preterm infants. Ann. Neurol. doi: 10.1002/ana.26559
Galdi, P., Cabez, M.B., Farrugia, C., Vaher, K., Williams, L.Z., Sullivan, G., Stoye, D.Q., Quigley, A.J., Makropoulos, A., Thrippleton, M.J., Bastin, M.E., Richardson, H., Whalley, H., Edwards, A.D., Bajada, C.J., Robinson, E.C., Boardman, J.P., 2022. Feature similarity gradients detect alterations in the neonatal cortex associated with preterm birth. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.09.15.508133
Bøstrand, S.M.K.*, Vaher, K.*, De Nooij, L., Harris, M.A., Cole, J.H., Cox, S.R., Marioni, R.E., Mccartney, D.L., Walker, R.M., Mcintosh, A.M., Evans, K.L., Whalley, H.C., Wootton, R.E., Clarke, T.-K., 2021. Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing. Addiction Biology; e13100. doi: 10.1111/adb.13100. *co-first authors
Walker, R.M., Vaher, K., Bermingham, M.L., Morris, S.W., Bretherick, A.D., Zeng, Y., Rawlik, K., Amador, C., Campbell, A., Haley, C.S., Hayward, C., Porteous, D.J., McIntosh, A.M., Marioni, R.E., Evans, K.L., 2021. Identification of epigenome-wide DNA methylation differences between carriers of APOE ε4 and APOE ε2 alleles. Genome Medicine; 13:1. doi: 10.1186/s13073-020-00808-4.