Associate Professor Beben Benyamin

Associate Professor UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

email Beben.Benyamin@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

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... Read more

UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

Focused on shaping community wellbeing, UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance educates future health professionals and delivers solutions-based research that addresses global health needs.

Tweets by @UniversitySA

About me

In the media

Date	Title
30/06/2019	https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325593.php, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325593.php

Research

Research focus

Clinical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences
Genetics
Biological Sciences
Neurosciences

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 outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
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, online.
2025	Dewau, R, Boomsma, A, Doyle, C, Byrne, S, Hyppönen, E, Lee, SH & Benyamin, B 2025, 'Meta-analysis of the heritability of childhood height from 560 000 pairs of relatives born between 1929 and 2004', American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 37, no. 1, article no. e24188, pp. 1-15. 11
2025	Harsono, IW, Ariani, Y, Benyamin, B, Fadilah, F, Pujianto, DA, Hafifah, CN & Prawitasari, T 2025, 'Clinical phenotype and trio whole exome sequencing data from a patient with glycogen storage disease IV in Indonesia', Data in Brief, vol. 58, pp. 1-9. Open access
2025	Stacey, D, Gaziano, L, Eldi, P, Toben, C, Benyamin, B, Lee, SH & Hyppönen, E 2025, '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, online, pp. 1-13. Open access
2024	Allara, E, Bell, S, Smith, R, Keene, SJ, Benyamin, B & Di Angelantonio, E and 66 other authors and 2 consortia 2024, 'Novel loci and biomedical consequences of iron homoeostasis variation', Communications Biology, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-17. Open access 1 7
2024	Beyene, MB, Visvanathan, R, Ahmed, M, Benyamin, B, Beard, JR & Amare, AT 2024, 'Development and validation of an intrinsic capacity score in the UK Biobank study', Maturitas, vol. 185, article no. 107976, pp. 1-10. Open access 7 6 6
2024	Byrne, S, Boyle, T, Ahmed, M, Lee, SH, 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', International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 53, no. 1, article no. dyae009, pp. 1-2. 1 1 1
2024	Duko, B, Mengistu, TS, Stacey, D, Moran, LJ, Tessema, G, Pereira, G, Bedaso, A, Gebremedhin, AT, Alati, R, Ayonrinde, OT, Benyamin, B, Lee, SH & 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, vol. 342, article no. 116149, pp. 1-20. Open access 2 175
2024	Eshetie, S, Choi, KW, Hypponen, E, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2024, 'Integrative multi-omics analysis to gain new insights into COVID-19', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no.1, article no. 29803, pp. 1-14. Open access 1 1 13
2024	Harsono, IW, Ariani, Y, Benyamin, B, Fadilah, F, Pujianto, DA & Hafifah, CN 2024, 'IDeRare: a lightweight and extensible open-source phenotype and exome analysis pipeline for germline rare disease diagnosis', JAMIA Open, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-10. Open access 1 1
2024	Jayasinghe, D, Eshetie, S, Beckmann, K, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2024, 'Advancements and limitations in polygenic risk score methods for genomic prediction: a scoping review', Human Genetics, vol. 143, pp. 1401-1431. 2 2 5
2024	Jayasinghe, D, Momin, MM, Beckmann, K, Hyppönen, E, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2024, 'Mitigating type 1 error inflation and power loss in GxE PRS: Genotype-environment interaction in polygenic risk score models', Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 85-100. Open access 1 1 5
2024	Momin, MM, Zhou, X, Hyppönen, E, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2024, 'Cross-ancestry genetic architecture and prediction for cholesterol traits', Human Genetics, vol. 143, pp. 635-648. Open access 1 2 1
2024	Stacey, D, Benyamin, B, Lee, SH & 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, vol. 96, no 6, pp. P455-462. Open access 8 277
2024	Stacey, D, Suppiah, V, Benyamin, B, Lee, SH & 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, vol. 358, pp. 416-421. Open access 2 2
2023	Byrne, S, Boyle, T, Ahmed, M, Lee, SH, Benyamin, B & Hyppoenen, E 2023, 'Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types', International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 817-826. Open access 52 45 12
2023	Eshetie, S, Jullian, P, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2023, 'Host genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Reviews in Medical Virology, vol. 33, no. 5, article no. e2466, pp. 1-12. Open access 4 4
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, vol. 13, no. 1, article no. 14440, pp. 1-11. Open access 9 8 24
2023	Lagou, V, Jiang, L, Ulrich, A, Zudina, L, Benyamin, B & van Duijn, CM and 92 other authors and 2 consortia 2023, 'GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification', Nature Genetics, vol. 55, pp. 1448-1461. Open access 30 34 197
2023	Momin, MM, Shin, J, Lee, S, Truong, B, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2023, 'A method for an unbiased estimate of cross-ancestry genetic correlation using individual-level data', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, article no. 722, pp. 1-13. Open access 9 10 37
2022	Jami, ES, Hammerschlag, AR, Ip, HF, Allegrini, AG, Benyamin, B, Zhou, A, Hypponen, E & Middeldorp, CM and 86 other authors 2022, 'Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms', Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 934-945. Open access 32 26 119
2022	Neumann, A, Nolte, IM, Pappa, I, Ahluwalia, TS, Benyamin, B, Zhou, A, Hyppönen, E & Tiemeier, H 2022, 'A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores', PLoS One, vol. 17, no. 8, article no. e0273116, pp. 1-23. Open access 13 14 13
2022	Restuadi, R, Garton, FC, Benyamin, B, Lin, T & McRae, AF and 21 other authors 2022, 'Polygenic risk score analysis for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis leveraging cognitive performance, educational attainment and schizophrenia', European Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 532-539. 19 18 3
2022	Shepheard, SR, Karnaros, V, Benyamin, B, Schultz, DW, Dubowsky, M, Wuu, J, Chataway, T, Malaspina, A, Benatar, M & Rogers, ML 2022, 'Urinary neopterin: A novel biomarker of disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', European Journal of Neurology, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 990-999. Open access 21 22 31
2022	Shin, J, Zhou, X, Tan, JT, Hyppönen, E, Benyamin, B & Lee, SH 2022, 'Lifestyle modifies the diabetes-related metabolic risk, conditional on individual genetic differences', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 13, article no. 759309. Open access 6 6 1
2022	Trubetskoy, V, Pardiñas, AF, Qi, T, Panagiotaropoulou, G, Benyamin, B & O'Donovan, MC and 429 other authors and 1 Consortium 2022, 'Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia', Nature, vol. 604, no. 7906, pp. 502-508. Open access 1293 1237 577
2021	Julián-Serrano, S, Yuan, F, Wheeler, W, Benyamin, B & Stolzenberg-Solomon, RZ 2021, 'Hepcidin-regulating iron metabolism genes and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 114, no. 4, pp. 1408-1417. Open access 13 11 9
2021	van Rheenen, W, van der Spek, RA, Bakker, MK, van Vugt, JJ, Benyamin, B & Veldink, JH and 186 other authors 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, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1636-1648. Open access 269 268 160
2020	Nabais, MF, Lin, T, Benyamin, B, Williams, KL & Wray, NR 2020, 'Significant out-of-sample classification from methylation profile scoring for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', npj Genomic Medicine, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-9. Open access 25 24 22
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. Open access 4 3 1
2019	Gill, D, Benyamin, B, Moore, LS, Monori, G, Zhou, A, Koskeridis, F, Evangelou, E, Laffan, M, Walker, AP, Tsilidis, KK, Dehghan, A, Elliot, P, Hypponen, E, Tzoulaki, I & Rahimi, K 2019, 'Associations of genetically determined iron status across the phenome: a mendelian randomization study', PLoS Medicine, vol. 16, no. 6, article no. e1002833, pp. 1-16. Open access 50 46 122
2019	Lam, M, Chen, C-Y, Li, Z, Martin, AR, Benyamin, B & Huang, H and 50 other authors and 3 consortia 2019, 'Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations', Nature Genetics, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 1670-1678. Open access 449 416 141
2019	Tarr, I, McCann, E, Benyamin, B, Peters, T, Twine, N, Zhang, K, Zhao, Q, Zhang, Z, Rowe, D, Nicholson, G, Bauer, D, Clark, S, Blair, I & Williams, K 2019, 'Monozygotic twins and triplets discordant for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis display differential methylation and gene expression', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, article no. 8254, pp. 1-17. Open access 39 36 22
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 71 71 41
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. Open access 14 14
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. Open access 34 31 5
2017	Garton, F, Benyamin, B, Zhao, Q, Liu, Z & McCombe, P and 18 other authors 2017, 'Whole exome sequencing and DNA methylation analysis in a clinical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohort', Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 418-428. Open access 13 13 10
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: Medicine in the Post-Genomic Era, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-9. Open access 25 24 15
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. Open access 11 11 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 8 23
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 151 139 178
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. Open access 60 62 17
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. Open access 6 5 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. Open access 58 57 21
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 28 27 4
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. Open access 51 47 15
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. Open access 124 110 21
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. Open access 1544 1419 2376
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 212 215
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,. Open access 195 177
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. Open access
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 52 50
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 USA, vol. 111, no. 38, pp. 13790-13794. 191 179
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 172 153
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 133 128
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. 30 28
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. Open access 44 41
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. Open access 26 24
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. Open access 5 6
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 71 54
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. Open access 258 254
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. Open access 51 47
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. Open access 32 28
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. 29 24
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. Open access 89 77
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. Open access 3193 3047
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. Open access 215 205
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. Open access 146 136
2009	Benyamin, B, Visscher, PM & McRae, AF 2009, 'Family-based genome-wide association studies', Pharmacogenomics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 181-190. Open access 62 58
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. Open access 19 20
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. Open access 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. Open access 26 25

Other outputs

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

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

2019-2021: NHMRC Ideas Grant Review Panel (GRP) member

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Aarhus University	DENMARK
Boston Children's Hospital	UNITED STATES
Cardiff University	UNITED KINGDOM
Charite - Medical University of Berlin	GERMANY
Columbia University	UNITED STATES
Copenhagen University Hospital	DENMARK
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam	NETHERLANDS
Erasmus University Medical Centre	NETHERLANDS
Erasmus University Rotterdam	NETHERLANDS
Flinders Medical Centre	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Free University of Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)	GERMANY
Garvan Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
GlaxoSmithKline	AUSTRALIA
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health	UNITED STATES
Harvard University	UNITED STATES
Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen	GERMANY
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UNITED KINGDOM
Information Management Services	UNITED STATES
J. Craig Venter Institute	UNITED STATES
Karolinska Institute	SWEDEN
King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM
Lausanne University Hospital	FRANCE
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Massachusetts General Hospital	UNITED STATES
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics	GERMANY
Medical University of Graz	AUSTRIA
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami	UNITED STATES
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
National Cancer Institute	UNITED STATES
National Institute for Health and Welfare	FINLAND
National Institute of Animal Science	UNITED STATES
National Institute of Public Health of Quebec	CANADA
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
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHINA
SPLUS Game	UNITED STATES
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	SWITZERLAND
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	UNITED KINGDOM
Universitas Indonesia	INDONESIA
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Bristol	UNITED KINGDOM
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of California San Diego	UNITED STATES
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Copenhagen	DENMARK
University of Edinburgh	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	GERMANY
University of Granada	SPAIN
University of Groningen	NETHERLANDS
University of Helsinki	FINLAND
University of Indonesia	INDONESIA
University of Ioannina	GREECE
University of Lausanne	SWITZERLAND
University of Leicester	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Lubeck	GERMANY
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNITED STATES
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern Denmark	DENMARK
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Tartu	ESTONIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA
Uppsala University	SWEDEN
Utrecht University	NETHERLANDS
VU Medical Centre	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 Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2021
Invited Lecture Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia	2021
Invited Lecture Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Indonesia	2021
Invited Speaker 52nd Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference	2021
Invited Speaker Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya Covid-19 Seminar	2021
Invited Speaker 3rd International Conference ofÂ BrawijayaÂ Dentistry 2021	2021
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2020
Enhancing Cooperation Between Australian and Indonesian Higher Education Embassy of Republic of Indonesia, Australia	2020
Foundation Member of the Health Analytics Research Collaborative (HARC) Expert Reference Panel Health Translation SA	2020
Invited Lecture Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia	2020
Invited Lecture IPB University	2020
Invited Lecture University of Jember, Indonesia	2020
Invited Lecture Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia	2020
Invited Lecture Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS)	2020
Invited Lecture The University of Brawijawa	2020
NHMRC Ideas Grant Review Panel (GRP) Member National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)	2020
Editorial Board Member Tropical Animal Science Journal	2019
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)	2019
Foundation Member of the Health Analytics Research Collaborative (HARC) Expert Reference Panel Health Translation SA	2019
Invited Lecture The South Australian Branch of the Statistical Society	2019
Invited Lecture Department of Statistics Lecture Program	2019
Invited Lecture University of Airlangga Staff Inbound Program	2019
NHMRC Ideas Grant Review Panel (GRP) Member National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)	2019
Editorial Board Member Amerta Nutrition	2018
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
Indonesian Academics and Researchers Network Australia South Australia Coordinator	2018
Invited Delegate World Class Scholars Symposium, Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education	2018
Invited Speaker University of Airlangga, Indonesia	2018
Invited Speaker 3rd International Conference on Chemistry, Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember	2018
Invited Speaker University of Adelaide	2018
Invited Speaker College Medicine and Public Health Seminar, Flinders University	2018
Invited Speaker Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, 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 Indonesian Science Fund	2017
Grant Reviewer Wellcome Trust	2017
Grant Reviewer National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)	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 Faculty of Medicine, Macquarie University	2016
Invited Speaker Department of Statistics, Bogor Agricultural University	2016
Invited Speaker Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology	2016
Keynote Speaker International Symposium on Bioinformatics, Chemometrics and Metabolomics, Indonesia	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 The international symposium on current progress in mathematics and sciences	2015
Keynote Speaker 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

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
A novel statistical approach to tackle the current methodological problems associated with genotype-by-environment interactions	Current
Analyses of COVID-19 associated with multi-dimensional genetic and environmental risk factors	Current
Application of statistical genomic methods to tackle heterogeneity in psychiatric diseases	Current
Dissecting the genetic and environmental factors affecting stunting	Current
Genomics in motor neuron disease	Current
Investigating the causes for sex differences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	Current
Investigating the shared genetic architecture of the five factor model personality traits and their relationship to psychopathology	Current
Novel statistical analyses to reveal latent genetic architecture and to increase genomic prediction accuracy for complex diseases	Current
Estimating genetic and non-genetic risk for type 2 diabetes modulated by lifestyle using a whole-genome approach	Completed
Estimation of cross-ancestry genetic correlation and genomic prediction of complex traits using UK Biobank data	Completed

more less

Associate Professor Beben Benyamin

About me

About me

UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

About me

Professional Associations

In the media

Experience

Qualifications

Work history

Research

Research focus

Highlights

Projects

Outputs

Journal Articles

Other outputs

Current research & highlights

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Editorial Board Member

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Editorial Board Member

Enhancing Cooperation Between Australian and Indonesian Higher Education

Foundation Member of the Health Analytics Research Collaborative (HARC) Expert Reference Panel

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

NHMRC Ideas Grant Review Panel (GRP) Member

Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member

Foundation Member of the Health Analytics Research Collaborative (HARC) Expert Reference Panel

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture

NHMRC Ideas Grant Review Panel (GRP) Member

Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member

General Lecture

Grant Reviewer

Indonesian Academics and Researchers Network Australia

Invited Delegate

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Op-Ed Article in Precision Medicine (in Indonesian)

Senior Research Fellow

Editor

Editorial Board Member

Grant Reviewer

Grant Reviewer

Grant Reviewer

Grant Reviewer

Member

Member

Project Grant Reviewer

Review Editor

Reviewer

Editorial Board Member

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

Nina Buscombe Award

Visiting Scientist

Editorial Board Member