Dr Robin Walters
Robin Walters
MA, PhD, PgDip
Senior Scientist
Dr Robin Walters completed degrees in Natural Sciences (Cambridge) and in Genetics (Liverpool) before working for 17 years on the biophysics, biochemistry and genetics of plant photosynthesis, first in Sheffield and then in Oxford. He then held a post as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, before moving to CTSU in June 2012.
Dr Walters’s recent research has focussed on investigating the contribution of structural variation in the human genome to disease risk and phenotypic variation, with a particular focus on diabetes and obesity. He played a leading role in work identifying the highly penetrant obesity phenotype associated with a deletion on chromosome 16p, and the reciprocal effects of a duplication at the same locus.
He continues to have an interest in the development of novel methodologies for the identification and analysis of genomic structural variants. His current role is to plan and lead the genetic analysis of stroke risk in the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Recent publications
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Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals.
Hatzikotoulas K. et al, (2025), Nature
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Causal relevance of Lp(a) for coronary heart disease and stroke types in East Asian and European ancestry populations: a Mendelian randomization study
CHEN Z. et al, (2025), Circulation
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Comparative studies of 2168 plasma proteins measured by two affinity-based platforms in 4000 Chinese adults.
Wang B. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
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Associations Between Snoring, Body Mass Index and Coronary Artery Diseases: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Study in Asia.
Zhu Y. et al, (2025), Respirology
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Polygenic risk scores for pan-cancer risk prediction in the Chinese population: A population-based cohort study based on the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Zhu M. et al, (2025), PLoS Med, 22