Bristol is one of the most popular and successful universities in the UK and was ranked within the top 5% of universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2019. The MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MRC IEU) at the university conducts some of the UK’s most advanced population health science research. The MRC IEU uses genetics, population data and experimental interventions to look for the underlying causes of chronic disease. MRC IEU exploits the latest advances in genetic and epigenetic technologies, developing new analysis methods to improve understanding of how our family background, behaviours and genes work together. It uses these to investigate how people develop and remain healthy or become ill. The MRC IEU also hosts the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as the Children of the 90s, which is the most detailed study of its kind in the world.
Role in LongITools
The University of Bristol led work package 5, which examined the effects of exposome trajectories on growth, adiposity, metabolic and cardiovascular health in adolescents and young adults.