Dr Beben Benyamin

Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics School of Health Sciences

email Beben.Benyamin@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Dr Beben Benyamin is Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Australian Centre for Precision Health, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and an Honorary Senior Fellow at Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the University of Queensland. 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 (2000), University of Sydney, Australia (2002) and University of Edinburgh, UK (2007) under the supervision of Prof Peter Visscher FRS. He did his postdoctoral training at the... Read more

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Research

Research themes

An age friendly world
Healthy futures

Research focus

Medical and Health Sciences
Clinical Sciences
Biological Sciences
Genetics
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Highlights

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
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
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
B Benyamin, JS Ried, A Radhakrishnan, SH Vermeulen, ...(2014) Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosisTE. Nature... Read more

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Eirich, A, Biermann, T, Müller, CP, Kornhuber, J, Benyamin, B, Hulse, GK, Wildenauer, DB & Schwab, SG 2019, 'Association of CamK2A genetic variants with transition time from occasional to regular heroin use in a sample of heroin-dependent individuals', Psychiatric genetics, vol 29. no 1, pp. 18-25.
2017	Benyamin, B, He, J, Zhao, Q, Gratten, J & Fan, D and 59 other authors 2017, 'Cross-ethnic meta-analysis identifies association of the GPX3-TNIP1 locus with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', Nature communications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-7. Open access 5 5 43
2017	Benyamin, B, Maihofer, A X, Schork, AJ, Hamilton, BA, Rao, F, Schmid-Schönbein, GW, Zhang, K, Mahata, M, Stridsberg, M, Schork, NJ, Biswas, N, Hook, VY, Wei, Z, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG, Nievergelt, CM, Whitfield, JB & O'Connor, DT 2017, 'Identification of novel loci affecting circulating chromogranins and related peptides', Human molecular genetics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 233-242. 3 2 1
2017	Del Greco, FM, Foco, L, Pichler, I, Eller, P, Eller, K, Benyamin, B, Whitfield, JB, Pramstaller, PP, Thompson, JR, Pattaro, C & Minelli, C and 2 consortia 2017, 'Serum iron level and kidney function: a Mendelian randomization study', Nephrology dialysis transplantation, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 273-278. 7 6 6
2017	Gratten, J, Zhao, Q, Benyamin, B, Garton, F & Fan, D and 33 other authors 2017, 'Whole-exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis suggests NEK1 is a risk gene in Chinese', Genome medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-9. Open access 2 1 13
2017	Lupton, MK, Benyamin, B, Proitsi, P, Nyholt, DR & Whitfield, JB and 15 other authors and 1 consortia 2017, 'No genetic overlap between circulating Iron Levels and Alzheimer's disease', Journal of Alzheimer's disease, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 85-99. 2 2 14
2017	Mills, NT, Maier, R, Whitfield, JB, Wright, MJ, Colodro-Conde, L, Byrne, EM, Scott, JG, Byrne, GJ, Hansell, NK, Vinkhuyzen, AA, CouvyDuchesne, B, Montgomery, GW, Henders, AK, Martin, NG, Wray, NR & Benyamin, B 2017, 'Investigating the relationship between iron and depression', Journal of psychiatric research, vol. 94, pp. 148-155. 10
2017	Willems, SM, Wright, DJ, Day, FR, Trajanoska, K, Benyamin, B & Scott, RA and 70 other authors and 1 consortia 2017, 'Large-scale GWAS identifies multiple loci for hand grip strength providing biological insights into muscular fitness', Nature communications, vol. 8, article number 16015, pp. 1-12. Open access 15 15 177
2016	Chen, G, Lee, S, Zhu, Z, Benyamin, B & Robinson, M 2016, 'EigenGWAS: finding loci under selection through genome-wide association studies of eigenvectors in structured populations', Heredity, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 51-61. 16 17 19
2015	Bui, M, Benyamin, B, Shah, S, Henders, AK, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW & McRae, AF 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, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 680-685. 3 2 9
2015	Fall, T, Hägg, S, Ploner, A, Mägi, R, Benyamin, B & Ingelsson, E and 81 other authors and 1 consortia 2015, 'Age- and sex-specific causal effects of adiposity on cardiovascular risk factors', Diabetes, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 1841-1852. 22 21 25
2015	Galesloot, TE, Janss, LL, Burgess, S, Kiemeney, LA, den Heijer, M, de Graaf, J, Holewijn, S, Benyamin, B, Whitfield, JB, Swinkels, DW & Vermeulen, SH 2015, 'Iron and hepcidin as risk factors in atherosclerosis: what do the genes say?', BMC genetics, vol. 16, no. 1, article no. 79, pp. 1-12. Open access 12 9 6
2015	He, J, Tang, L, Benyamin, B, Shah, S, Hemani, G, Liu, R, Ye, S, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Zhang, H, Cremin, K, Leo, P, Wray, NR, Visscher, PM, Xu, H, Brown, MA, Bartlett, PF, Mangelsdorf, M & Fan, D 2015, 'C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', Neurobiology of aging, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 2260.e1- 2660.e8. 25 20 13
2015	Hägg, S, Fall, T, Ploner, A, Mägi, R, Benyamin, B & Ingelsson, E and 57 other authors and 1 consortia 2015, 'Adiposity as a cause of cardiovascular disease: a Mendelian randomization study', International journal of epidemiology, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 578-586. 55 53 20
2015	Polderman, TJ, Benyamin, B, De Leeuw, CA, Sullivan, PF, Van Bochoven, A, Visscher, PM & Posthuma, D 2015, 'Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies', Nature genetics, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 702-709. 395 351 1465
2014	Benyamin, B, Esko, T, Ried, JS, Radhakrishnan, A & Whitfield, JB and 63 other authors and 1 consortia 2014, 'Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis', Nature communications, vol. 5, article number 5926, pp. 1-10. Open access 39 42 5
2014	Benyamin, B, Pourcain, B, Davis, O, Davies, G & Visscher, P and 38 other authors and 1 consortia 2014, 'Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L', Molecular psychiatry, vol. 19, no. 2,. 111 92 209
2014	Brion, MJA, Benyamin, B, Visscher, PM & Smith, GD 2014, 'Beyond the single SNP: emerging developments in Mendelian randomization in the 'omics' era', Current epidemiological reports, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 228-236.
2014	Hoggart, CJ, Venturini, G, Mangino, M, Gomez, F, Benyamin, B & Kutalik, Z and 75 other authors and 2 consortia 2014, 'Novel approach identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with evidence for parent-of-origin effect on body mass index', PLoS genetics, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1-12. Open access 29 31 12
2014	Rietveld, CA, Esko, T, Davies, G, Pers, TH, Benyamin, B & Koellinger, PD and 53 other authors 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, vol. 111, no. 38, pp. 13790-13794. 94 91 330
2013	Fall, T, Hagg, S, Magi, R, Ploner, A, Benyamin, B, Hypponen, ET & Pokoppenko, I and 116 other authors and 2 consortia 2013, 'The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis', PLoS medicine, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1-16. Open access 99 88 89
2013	Pichler, I, Del Greco M, F, Gögele, M, Lill, CM, Benyamin, B & Minelli, C and 11 other authors and 4 consortia 2013, 'Serum iron levels and the risk of Parkinson Disease: a Mendelian randomization study', PLoS medicine, vol. 10, no. 6, article no. e1001462 pp. 1-13. Open access 55 53 59
2013	Schwab, SG, Kusumawardhani, AA, Dai, N, Qin, WW, Benyamin, B & Wildenauer, DB and 22 other authors and 1 consortia 2013, 'Association of rs1344706 in the ZNF804A gene with schizophrenia in a case/control sample from Indonesia', Schizophrenia research, vol. 147, no. 1, pp. 46-52. 22 19
2013	Verweij, KJ, Vinkhuyzen, AA, Benyamin, B, Lynskey, MT, Quaye, L, Agrawal, A, Gordon, SD, Montgomery, GW, Madden, PA, Heath, AC, Spector, TD, Martin, NG & Medland, SE 2013, 'The genetic aetiology of cannabis use initiation: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies and a SNP-based heritability estimation', Addiction biology, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 846-850. 25 23 5
2012	Middelberg, RP, Benyamin, B, de Moor, MH, Warrington, NM & Whitfield, JB and 16 other authors 2012, 'Loci affecting gamma-glutamyl transferase in adults and adolescents show age × SNP interaction and cardiometabolic disease associations', Human molecular genetics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 446-455. 19 17 2
2012	Rao, F, Chiron, S, Wei, Z, Fung, MM, Chen, Y, Wen, G, Khandrika, S, Ziegler, MG, Benyamin, B, Montgomery, G, Whitfield, JB, Martin, NG, Waalen, J, Hamilton, BA, Mahata, SK & O'Connor, DT 2012, 'Genetic variation within a metabolic motif in the chromogranin a promoter: pleiotropic influence on cardiometabolic risk traits in twins', American journal of hypertension, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 29-40. 3 3
2012	Tielbeek, JJ, Medland, SE, Benyamin, B, Byrne, EM, Heath, AC, Madden, PA, Martin, NG, Wray, NR & Verweij, KJ 2012, 'Unraveling the genetic etiology of adult antisocial behavior: a genome-wide association study', PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1-7. Open access 38 34 18
2012	Van Der Harst, P, Zhang, W, Mateo Leach, I, Rendon, A, Benyamin, B & Chambers, JC and 189 other authors 2012, 'Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell', Nature, vol. 492, no. 7429, pp. 369-375. 166 163 32
2011	Benyamin, B, Middelberg, RP, Lind, PA, Valle, AM, Gordon, S, Nyholt, DR, Medland, SE, Henders, AK, Heath, AC, Madden, PA, Visscher, PM, O'Connor, DT, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG & Whitfield, JB 2011, 'GWAS of butyrylcholinesterase activity identifies four novel loci, independent effects within BCHE and secondary associations with metabolic risk factors', Human molecular genetics, vol. 20, no. 22, pp. 4504-4514. 28 28 1
2011	Kutalik, Z, Benyamin, B, Bergmann, S, Mooser, V, Waeber, G, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG, Madden, PA, Heath, AC, Beckmann, JS, Vollenweider, P, Marques-Vidal, P & Whitfield, JB 2011, 'Genome-wide association study identifies two loci strongly affecting transferrin glycosylation', Human molecular genetics, vol. 20, no. 18, pp. 3710-3717. 18 16 3
2011	Martin, NW, Benyamin, B, Hansell, NK, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG, Wright, MJ & Bates, TC 2011, 'Cognitive function in adolescence: testing for interactions between breast-feeding and FADS2 polymorphisms', Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 55-62. 22 19 16
2010	Verweij, KJ, Zietsch, BP, Medland, SE, Gordon, SD, Benyamin, B, Nyholt, DR, McEvoy, BP, Sullivan, PF, Heath, AC, Madden, PA, Henders, AK, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG & Wray, NR 2010, 'A genome-wide association study of Cloninger's temperament scales: implications for the evolutionary genetics of personality', Biological psychology, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 306-317. 70 60 42
2010	Yang, J, Benyamin, B, McEvoy, BP, Gordon, S, Henders, AK, Nyholt, DR, Madden, PA, Heath, AC, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW, Goddard, ME & Visscher, PM 2010, 'Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height', Nature genetics, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 565-569. 1915 1824 150
2009	Benyamin, B, Ferreira, MA, Willemsen, G, Gordon, S, Middelberg, RP, McEvoy, BP, Hottenga, J-J, Henders, AK, Campbell, MJ, Wallace, L, Frazer, IH, Heath, AC, de Geus, EJ, Nyholt, DR, Visscher, PM, Penninx, BW, Boomsma, D I, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW & Whitfield, JB 2009, 'Common variants in TMPRSS6 are associated with iron status and erythrocyte volume', Nature genetics, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1173-1175. 138 135 18
2009	Benyamin, B, McRae, AF, Zhu, G, Gordon, S, Henders, AK, Palotie, A, Peltonen, L, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW, Whitfield, JB & Visscher, PM 2009, 'Variants in TF and HFE explain ∼40% of genetic variation in serum-transferrin levels', American journal of human genetics, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 60-65. 106 101 9
2009	Benyamin, B, Visscher, PM & McRae, AF 2009, 'Family-based genome-wide association studies', Pharmacogenomics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 181-190. 40 40
2009	Kettunen, J, Perola, M, Martin, N, Cornes, B, 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, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1235-1242. 15 13
2008	Benyamin, B, Perola, M, Cornes, BK, Madden, PA, Palotie, A, Nyholt, DR, Montgomery, GW, Peltonen, L, Martin, NG & Visscher, PM 2008, 'Within-family outliers: segregating alleles or environmental effects? A linkage analysis of height from 5815 sibling pairs', European journal of human genetics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 516-524. 11 11
2008	Hasselbalch, AL, Benyamin, B, Visscher, PM, Heitmann, BL, Kyvik, KO & Sørensen, TI 2008, 'Common genetic components of obesity traits and serum leptin', Obesity, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 2723-2729. 15 18

Other outputs

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beben_Benyamin

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Aarhus University	DENMARK
Boston Children's Hospital	UNITED STATES
Copenhagen University Hospital	DENMARK
Erasmus University Rotterdam	NETHERLANDS
Garvan Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
GlaxoSmithKline	AUSTRALIA
Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen	GERMANY
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UNITED KINGDOM
J Craig Venter Institute	UNITED STATES
Karolinska Institute	SWEDEN
King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM
Lausanne University Hospital	FRANCE
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics	GERMANY
Medical University of Graz	AUSTRIA
National Institute for Health and Welfare	FINLAND
National Institute of Public Health	MEXICO
Peking University	CHINA
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institut	AUSTRALIA
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	AUSTRALIA
Queensland Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Radboud Institute for Health Sciences	NETHERLANDS
Radboud University Nijmegen	NETHERLANDS
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Scripps Research Institute	UNITED STATES
Second Military Medical University	CHINA
SPLUS Game	UNITED STATES
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	SWITZERLAND
Universitas Indonesia	INDONESIA
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
University of Bristol	UNITED KINGDOM
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of California, San Diego	UNITED STATES
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Edinburgh	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	GERMANY
University of Groningen	NETHERLANDS
University of Helsinki	FINLAND
University of Lausanne	SWITZERLAND
University of Leicester	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Lübeck	GERMANY
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNITED STATES
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern Denmark	DENMARK
University of Tartu	ESTONIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA
Uppsala University	SWEDEN
VU Medical Centre	NETHERLANDS
VU University Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
VU University Medical Center	NETHERLANDS
Washington University	UNITED STATES
Washington University in St Louis	UNITED STATES
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	UNITED KINGDOM
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member Media Peternakan: Journal of Animal Science and Technology	2018
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2018
General Lecture University of Nusa Cendana	2018
Grant Reviewer European Research Council	2018
Invited as a delegate World Class Scholars Symposium, Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education	2018
Invited Speaker 3rd International Conference on Chemistry, Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember	2018
Invited Speaker College Medicine and Public Health Seminar, Flinders University	2018
Invited Speaker University of Adelaide	2018
Invited Speaker Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia	2018
Invited Speaker University of Airlangga, Indonesia	2018
Op-Ed Article in Precision Medicine (in Indonesian) Koran SINDO Newspaper	2018
Senior Research Fellow South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute	2018
Editor Media Peternakan: Journal of Animal Science and Technology	2017
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2017
Grant Reviewer National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)	2017
Grant Reviewer Indonesian Science Fund	2017
Grant Reviewer Wellcome Trust	2017
Grant Reviewer Wellcome Trust	2017
Member American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)	2017
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2017
Project grant reviewer National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)	2017
Review Editor Frontiers in Genetics	2017
Reviewer Indonesian Science Fund	2017
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2016
Invited Speaker Department of Statistics, Bogor Agricultural University	2016
Invited Speaker Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology	2016
Invited Speaker Faculty of Medicine, Macquarie University	2016
Keynote Speaker International Symposium on Bioinformatics, Chemometrics and Metabolomics, Indonesia	2016
Keynote Speaker Symposium on biomathematics	2016
Keynote Speaker Symposium on Biomathematics, Indonesia	2016
Nina Buscombe Award Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Victoria	2016
Visiting Scientist QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	2016
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2015
Invited Speaker Indonesian student seminar Dialogue with Indonesian high achievers in Brisbane, The University of Queensland	2015
Keynote Speaker International Symposium on Current Progress in Mathematics and Sciences	2015
Keynote Speaker The international symposium on current progress in mathematics and sciences	2015
Visiting Professor Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia	2015
Visiting Scientist QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	2015
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2014
Visiting Scientist QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	2014
Indonesia Partnership Award The University of Queensland	2013
Visiting Scientist QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	2013
Visiting Scientist QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	2012
Finalist, Queensland Health & Medical Research Award (Postdoctoral Researcher Category) Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2010
Panel Member Iron Overload Conference The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	2009

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Dr Beben Benyamin

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